By Geoffrey Lysaught
Even before Democrat Terry McAuliffe narrowly defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the governor's race, lobbyists representing the business community were rethinking their relationship with the GOP and planning to challenge conservative incumbents in next year's primaries.
Their goal: to replace principled conservatives with candidates who will be more protective of Big Business interests. As U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue put it, his group will get involved in primary races to produce a "more governable Republican party."
Which is why the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which says it's strictly in "the wins business," is threatening more electoral intervention. "There's no rules," NRSC executive director Rob Collins said. "The path to getting a general election candidate who can win is the only thing we care about."
This shift will certainly surprise those who naively believed that the grassroots Tea Party movement was a creation of big business. But "Tea Party as a Wall Street front group" has been a popular belief among the left for years.
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