Comments on: Business groups are horrified by the Tea Party madness they helped create https://habitablezone.com/2013/08/20/business-groups-are-horrified-by-the-tea-party-madness-they-helped-create/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/08/20/business-groups-are-horrified-by-the-tea-party-madness-they-helped-create/#comment-26253 ER Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:34:04 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=36868#comment-26253 Either the TParty/Evangelical/Libertarian wing of the GOP takes over the Party, or the Daddy Warbucks/Big Business/Corporate Crime gang does--the third option is that the Republicans fracture into two separate political parties. Lets call them (for lack of a better term), the Conservative and Establishment wings. The Conservatives have the passion, but the Establishment has the money. Liberals may welcome this fratricide on the Right, but I see little good coming from it. Gang warfare rarely weakens both sides, the usual result is that the winner emerges stronger than ever; confident, hungry, and itching for new conquests. Stand by for heavy rolls, shipmates. Either the TParty/Evangelical/Libertarian wing of the GOP takes over the Party, or the Daddy Warbucks/Big Business/Corporate Crime gang does–the third option is that the Republicans fracture into two separate political parties. Lets call them (for lack of a better term), the Conservative and Establishment wings. The Conservatives have the passion, but the Establishment has the money.

Liberals may welcome this fratricide on the Right, but I see little good coming from it. Gang warfare rarely weakens both sides, the usual result is that the winner emerges stronger than ever; confident, hungry, and itching for new conquests.

Stand by for heavy rolls, shipmates.

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