The GOP Establishment has never liked the House Freedom Caucus. In fact, they have spent years slandering every iteration of the group as a cadre of nutcases cobbled together to cause chaos — and that’s to put it lightly.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 9:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights an interesting development among Republicans in Washington, D.C.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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And so it begins...
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 @ 8:42 am
By: LifeZette
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As seen through the eyes of an unbiased MSNBC show, the election is a all about who you don't like.
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2016 @ 3:33 am
By: Bobby Tony
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What do a billionaire and a socialist have in common?
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 3:59 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The John Birch Society looks at what political party loyalty has cost us. It looks at the hypocrisy of the GOP and its schemes to deprive the People of their candidate.
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 5:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) made a statement about voting no on the budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 3762
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 3:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Wayne Allyn Root explains why the media and politicians are doing ANYTHING THEY CAN to stop Donald Trump!
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 11:05 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Barry Obama likes it. Renee Ellmers likes it. John Boehner LOVES IT. So does Nancy Pelosi. (We should ALL be worried.)
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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People were calling in to Rush talking about "teaching a lesson" to The Establishment. Rush had an interesting response: The establishment is not 'teachable.'
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In this case, we hate being right. Some time back, we posted about efforts in the NCGOP platform drafting committee to remove a lot of the issues important to Tea Party activists.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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PACs associated with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) spent big to get Richard Hudson through the 2012 GOP primary and general elections. (Cantor, as you know, got upended last week in the Virginia primaries.)
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 2:32 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've come to realize there is A LOT of "theatre" in politics. Both sides holler about the other doing the little people wrong. Both sides claim to have the best interests of the people at heart - to be good stewards of their money.
Published: Friday, March 14th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Establishment folks are browbeating those of us in the grassroots to toe the party line. Send Kay Hagan home. That's what's important. Even if you have to hold your nose to do it.
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.)
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 1:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Carter Wrenn - Richard Morgan's pre-weight loss doppelganger - has surfaced like Captain Ahab's white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment's dirty work in a post on his low-traffic, lightly-read web site
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 5:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Beaufort County has become quite the microcosm for the civil war between the GOP establishment and The Tea Party. We've written extensively about some of the controversies there previously on this site.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We took a look at Thom Tillis’s money in a previous post. Now, let’s look at the financial doings of Charlotte pastor-turned-candidate Mark Harris.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 7:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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There's a revolution coming in this country. A growing majority of ordinary people (i.e., not the political elite) are simply fed up with government the way it has been operating the last few years, by both political parties.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Last Thursday, July 18, 2013, a rather large delegation of Beaufort County's very best Republicans sojourned to Raleigh to the NC GOP headquarters to meet with recently elected chairman Claude Pope about egregious improprieties foisted upon the local party by the state party.
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 10:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Claude Pope, Chairman of the N. C. Republican Party, embarrassed himself and the Republican Party last week in a press release in which he called for the termination of host D. G. Martin from WUNC-TV.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 4:33 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The GOP establishment is having a conniption over the audacity of Liz Cheney - daughter of the former VPOTUS - daring to challenge the renomination of a sitting GOP senator.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 11:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat got a lot of mileage out of The Who's classic "Won't Get Fooled Again" during his successful 2012 campaign against Walter Dalton.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 12:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For months, North Carolina's political establishment has been lying in wait for the state's new Republican leaders to act on their long-promised initiative...
Published: Friday, May 10th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An awful lot of the DC Republican establishment is lashing out at conservatives who were unwilling to go along with John Boehner and Eric Cantor's tail-tucking surrender on taxes and the "fiscal cliff."
Published: Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 @ 8:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The N&O is presenting the surprising, shocking news that the NC Association of Educators is upset with GOP gubernatorial nominee -- and general election frontrunner -- Pat McCrory.
Published: Monday, October 1st, 2012 @ 12:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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School choice in North Carolina recently hit a major roadblock when Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones barred a virtual charter school from operating in the state.
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The epicenter of the fight between the conservative grassroots and the Raleigh establishment is in The Outer Banks' House District 6.
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 @ 5:19 pm
By: Claudia Rodgers
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