But the Campaign for Primary Accountability isn't your typical super-PAC, and its top donor, Houston construction magnate Leo Linbeck III, isn't your typical conservative sugar daddy. While groups like American Crossroads and Priorities USA have sprouted up in the last two years to boost specific values and candidates, the CFPA has a different goal entirely: electoral mayhem.
There is something both amusing and sad about this. The amusing part first: electoral mayhem. Intentionally seeking to mix things up by adding a little chaos to the mix. They research where there are incumbents that have made a career out of their position and have "lost touch with their constituency" and purposely overfund opponents in the primaries in order to oust them from office. Themselves (the super-PAC) are staunchly libertarian but support candidates on both sides, believing that areas should be represented by someone of the same political persuasion as the general area.
What's sad? It highlights the inefficiencies and failures of our political system: that we could have such a thing as career politicians out of touch with their constituency, that big money means big election, that tampering is easier than we probably want to believe.