Top GOP Establishment member Scott Reed tells NY Times in 2011 they're trying to beat the Tea Party by co-opting, that fooling your opponent into thinking you're on his side is "the secret to politics"

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2011 NY Times seeks whereabouts of GOP, selects ideology-free Beltway lobbyists and parasites for answers. They assure the Times they're on the job co-opting elected representatives of the people.

10/16/2011, "Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?" NY Times Magazine, Matt Bai

"Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny. 

If that’s the case, then it now seems like only a matter of time before the Republican empire, overwhelmed by insurrection for much of the last two years, strikes back at last.

“I think it’s waning now,” Scott Reed, a veteran strategist and lobbyist, told me when we talked about the Tea Party’s influence last month. Efforts to gin up primaries next year against two sitting senators — Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Indiana’s Dick Lugar — have been slow to gain momentum, Reed said, and it’s notable that more than half of the 50-plus members of the Tea Party caucus in the House ultimately fell in line and voted with Speaker John Boehner on his debt-ceiling compromise.

Party leaders have managed to bleed some of the anti-establishment intensity out of the movement, Reed said,

by slyly embracing Tea Party sympathizers in Congress, rather than treating them as “those people.”

Did he mean to say that the party was slowly co-opting the Tea Partiers?

“Trying to,” Reed said. “And that’s the secret to politics:

trying to control a segment of people

without those people recognizing

that you’re trying to control them.”" (page 1)

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Comment: So you play the peoples' elected representatives for fools or wait til they inevitably succumb to Beltway riches. Forget about the country. The article doesn't address that half of America opposes today's government fusion racket but they don't have a political party to represent them. Democrats are allowed to have ideology but Republicans aren't. A healthy two party system is the only protection people have against dictatorship and massive theft that impoverishes so many countries. The US has only one functioning political party today, ie the Democrats. The GOP Establishment runs interference for it. This is extremely dangerous for the country but of no concern to the Times or those they interviewed. 

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"GOP" lobbyist Scott Reed quoted in Times article (p. 1) raises money that elects Democrats--not Republicans. Scott Reed and his Chamber of Commerce lost the 2012 presidential election in a landslide with their chosen candidate Mitt Romney. In 2012 Reed and GOP E also backed 10+ US Senate losses. Reed "managed" the pathetic Bob Dole's "presidential" campaign in 1996. Heavy.

Scott Reed is determined to elect a democrat president in 2016. 

10/31/2012, "3 Key Figures in Amassing GOP Funding," washingtonian, Peter Stone

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"These people keep a low profile—but are very influential in securing those seven-figure checks."

"Scott Reed"
 
"Since veteran political operative and lobbyist Scott Reed joined the US Chamber of Commerce as senior political strategist last year, he has helped the pro-business goliath amass a $50-million-plus war chest and helped oversee ad and direct mail blitzes to boost the GOP’s chances of winning the Senate and retaining its House majority.

Reed’s two decades of political experience made him an appealing catch to Chamber chieftain Tom Donohue: Reed served as executive director at the Republican National Committee in 1994, when the GOP won both houses of Congress, and managed Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996. 

After Reed came on board, the Chamber decided to launch its earliest campaign drive ever, pouring millions of dollars into issue ad attacks in more than half a dozen states such as Missouri, Montana, and Ohio to weaken incumbent Senate Democrats who were deemed vulnerable. A GOP operative close to the group stresses that the early ad blitzes were part of Reed’s plan to “set the terms of the debate” on key issues such as health care and energy where the Chamber backs more private sector and less government involvement.

In another first, the Chamber this summer ran ads directly endorsing GOP Senate candidates, a shift prompted by court rulings that otherwise would have forced the Chamber to reveal corporate donors who have long prized the anonymity its tax status as a business association afforded them.

A few weeks ago, the Chamber began its latest round of ads with a seven-figure buy in Ohio which is part of a multimillion-dollar drive to knock off Senator Sherrod Brown, whose liberal voting record has made him the group’s top target, according to GOP operatives close to the business group. The Chamber has also recently spent hundreds of thousands on direct mail in Massachusetts, where it’s trying to defeat Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren and boost Senator Scott Brown’s prospects.

Reed, 52, also participates in some of the Crossroads meetings and separately still runs his own lobbying shop, Chesapeake Enterprises, which represents energy, high-tech, and casino clients."

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7/10/14, "Turning Conservatism Into A Racket," Daily Surge, Roberto Escoban (A nom de plume of a longtime conservative activist)

"Eric Hoffer once said, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” For elements of the Republican Party and, unfortunately, some in the conservative movement, Hoffer’s statement has become a fact of life.

Some activists have expressed shock and dismay at the tactics taken by former Republican National Committee head Haley Barbour on behalf of the Thad Cochran campaign for Senate. They shouldn’t.

Barbour may have come to DC as part of a movement but turned it into a business and then became part of the racket parlaying his experience as a candidate for U.S. Senate, a White House aide and the head of the RNC into a multi-million dollar paycheck from the creation of his lobbying firm BGR."....

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July-Aug. 2010, "America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution," Angelo M. Codevilla, Spectator.org

"The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party -- and its vision is revolutionary." 

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2/20/13, "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned," Angelo Codevilla, Forbes

They "collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old."....(subhead 'Public Safety')
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"Washington Republican Party...more resembles a crime family." ...Craig Shirley

 2/17/14, "Pat Caddell Says Establishment Republicans 'Want the IRS to Go After' the Tea Party," Breitbart, Leahy 

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"John Boehner and his chosen band" have opted not "to use the constitutional power they have to refuse to appropriate money for Obamacare":

9/17/13, "The Obama-Boehner Project," Angelo M. Codevilla, libertylawsite.org 

"The Republican Party owes its majority in the House of Representatives – and John Boehner his speakership thereof – to the American people’s dislike of Obamacare. Because the US Constitution is explicit that the US government may expend only funds appropriated by Congress, Obamacare has existed strictly at the sufferance of the House leadership since that majority took office in January 2011. But John Boehner and his chosen band have thwarted the majority of Republican congressmen’s desire to use the constitutional power they have to refuse to appropriate money for Obamacare."...

"Angelo M. Codevilla: Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. He served as a U.S. Senate Staff member dealing with oversight of the intelligence services. His book Peace Among Ourselves and With All Nations is forthcoming from Hoover Institution Press."

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11/8/13, “The Sabotage Republicans,” By Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator

 "Say it again? That word is sabotage. Betrayal. The Establishment GOP goes out of its way to sabotage....

That is the Republican Party’s real problem. And it’s a big one....

The GOP Establishment will find a way — quietly or not so quietly — to sabotage the conservative nominee if there is a conservative nominee... This is what they do.".. 


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"Veteran GOP strategists" like loser Scott Reed work with Washington Post personnel to continually elect democrats:

8/2/14, "As Democrats avoid Obama, Romney is in demand on the midterm campaign trail," Washington Post, Robert Costa, Philip Rucker

"“There’s a pretty big void in the party right now for national leaders, and Romney’s in a unique position, having been around the track, to help fill that void,” said Scott Reed, a veteran GOP strategist who oversees the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s political operation."... 

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