Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie- Matt Kibbe: 'Hostile Takeover of The GOP'

Source:Reason Magazine- interviewing the President of Freedom Works, Matt Kibbe.

"We understand that Republicans helped get us into this fix," says FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe, who has been instrumental in supporting Tea Party challengers within Republican primaries. "It's a little bit like Groundhog Day: I feel like we keep teaching Republicans the same lessons over and over again"

Kibbe's newest book, Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America, calls for a grassroots rebellion against the "upper management" of government.

"The phrase Hostile Takeover actually comes from an op-ed [former Rep.] Dick Armey and I wrote leading up the the 2010 election where we argued we had to beat the Republicans before we beat the Democrats."

Reason's Nick Gillespie caught up with Kibbe at FreedomFest to discuss the book, the power of the Tea Party, and the marquee races to watch in 2012.

 

Shot by Tracy Oppenhiemer and Alex Manning. Edited by Meredith Bragg. About 4:30 minutes.

 

Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by over 2,000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks." 

From Reason Magazine 

To sort of cut through the chase (if not bullshit) here: I think what Matt Kibbe is really arguing for is for a conservative-libertarian (or constitutional-conservative, if you prefer) takeover of the Republican Party. Where the establishment sort of Center-Right folks, including Progressive Republicans, but also the Christian-Right, populist wing of the Republican Party, would no longer be in charge of the Republican Party. 

If the Tea Party movement has two wings in it, it's the Christian-Right, populist wing from the 1980s and 90s, who push the cultural war issues over everything else that's going on in the country, versus the conservative-libertarian or constitutional conservative wing. 

I know enough about Matt Kibbe to know that he comes from the constitutionalist side of the Tea Party. Not the Christian-Populist and he's basically saying that his side of the Tea Party should take over the Republican Party. And we'll see if that's even possible this year.