"The RNC is a permanent entity, committed to the Republican Party without question. The Koch network is too independent from the party to be trusted with possession of the GOP's most valuable core assets."

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COMMENTS:
*  Also worth noting that the Kochs, the other .001% and the major multinational companies are actually uninterested in the healthy functioning of any individual nation-state. They have made it clear that they are dedicated to creating a de facto world capitalist state where they make the rules and garner all the benefits. In that sense, eliminating national political parties is simply getting rid of a irritating potential rival for power.
*  Prince Rebus is fine with the Kocks taking over the US government...but he draws the line at them taking over his little pity party.  Now let's move on to the real game changer today: Carly Sneed sez that the GOP needs to "re-claim" feminism from the liberals who have ruined it.  Re-claim. I do not think that word means what she thinks it means.  Whadda bunch of maroons.
    *  thats the case withthem all its ok for kochroaches to take from everyone else just not them
*  Exactly. Priebus and the RNC are to the GOP what Reagan was to his presidency, a figurehead. The individual campaigns, and now the PAC's run the show, RNC is just the emcee.
*  What I question is what happens if the Republican Party nominates a candidate that is not in the top three that the Kochs are willing to anoint as "the one"? Do they convince "the one" to run as an Independent with 980M backing them up and try to buy the White House? Or do they play nice with the Republican Party and back the R's candidate? I could see a third party forming founded by the Kochs - maybe not 2016 - but if Hillary gets in, 2020 could be the election in which the Kochs make their move.
*   Reductio ad absurdum is supposed to be a rhetorical technique to demonstrate the falsity of a proposition. Yet today we see the conservative movement embracing it in practice as part of their philosophy. Its like they are out to show how wrong their principles (I should say "myths") are by taking them to absurd extremes, but apparently, they are so wedded to their myths that no matter how absurd, unjust, or criminal the outcome, they embrace that absurd, unjust criminal end result, because it is the result of the application of their beloved myths.
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The Republican Party Is Screwed, Day 2

In which we learn that, if the GOP had a soul, they'd be fighting over it with the Kochs.

By Charles P. Pierce, June 12, 2015

It seems like just yesterday that we were discussing our modest proposal for the Republican party. Essentially, that the formal institution of the Republican party be converted into a kind of amiable logistical clearing-house from an actual political operation. Wait, it was just yesterday.

Anyway, it seems that obvious anagram Reince Priebus is not going gently into his inevitable obsolescence.

The fight between the RNC's chairman and the political operatives affiliated with Charles and David Koch over who controls the rich treasury of data on likely Republican voters has raised fundamental questions about what role the party's central committee — even under the best management — can hope to play in the age of super-PACs. And it raises an even more fundamental question of how you define a political party. Super-PACs emerged as a major new force in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling in 2010. They now populate a political landscape that has been radically changed, leaving political parties weaker than they have ever been.

Good luck, Mighty Mouse.

The core issue, from Priebus' point of view, is one of loyalty and allegiance. The RNC is a permanent entity, committed to the Republican Party without question. The Koch network is too independent from the party to be trusted with possession of the GOP's most valuable core assets. If the Kochs — whose political history is steeped more in libertarianism than it is in any loyalty to the Republican Party — decided next week to use their database to benefit only their massive multinational corporation, they could do so.

OK, I think the loyalty to "libertarianism" runs about a half-inch deep in the Kochs at this point. As long as they can go largely untaxed, and as long as they can continue to get rich pillaging the planet without being inconvenienced by the rest of us, I don't think they're going to go rogue on gay marriage or legal weed in any serious way. But if I have to pick sides, I'm lining up with the obvious anagram. At least, there's something vaguely small-d democratic about the way the formal structures of political parties are organized. The new complex of private empires sponsoring pet candidates who are beyond anyone else's control inevitably has a deforming effect on our elections, and on our political culture at large. (And, sooner or later, it's going to happen to the Democratic party as well.) If Reince Priebus wants to register a complaint, he can address it to A. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.
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