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Tea Party Increasingly Unhappy with GOP Leadership
people-press.org ^ | Sept 11, 2013

Posted on 09/11/2013 11:55:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

As lawmakers return for what promises to be a busy fall session, GOP congressional leaders face mounting disapproval among Tea Party Republicans. Just 27% of Republicans and GOP leaners who agree with the Tea Party approve of the job Republican leaders in Congress are doing, compared with 71% who disapprove.

The job rating of GOP leaders among Tea Party Republicans has fallen 15 points since February, from 42% to 27%. Disapproval has risen from 54% to 71% over this period. There has been no similar decline among Republicans who do not agree with the Tea Party. Currently, 42% of non-Tea Party Republicans and Republican leaners approve of how GOP leaders in Congress are handling their job, which is little changed over the past year.

This internal dissent contributes to the lower job ratings Republican leaders receive from the public when compared with Democratic congressional leaders. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 4-8 among 1,506 adults, finds that just 24% of the public approves of Republican leaders’ job performance, while somewhat more (33%) approve of the job of Democratic congressional leaders.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gope; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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To: Free Vulcan

“Wow. A couple of meetings? Did you just expect them to hand it over to you?”

I have no desire to run anything. I attended out of curiosity. But the structure was set up to protect people who were already there.

I actually campaigned for individual candidates, but didn’t go to anymore party meetings. All of my candidates lost. But none of them got the GOP’s approval. They were, however, good conservatives as opposed to those who got the go-ahead.

I will continue to look for good candidates and try to help them through the primary process. But in my county has not voted for a republican in years. To be effective, I’d probably have to campaign elsewhere.


41 posted on 09/11/2013 1:06:21 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Jim Robinson

I don’t think you could increase my un-happiness with our current situation. I’m pretty pissed.


42 posted on 09/11/2013 1:11:07 PM PDT by The Public Eye
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To: Da Coyote

Good article on local government waste, with help from the feds.
http://www.ohio.com/news/bob-dyer-a-6-million-mistake-1.427652


43 posted on 09/11/2013 1:11:07 PM PDT by akronite
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To: Jim Robinson

Those million or so bikers that rolled into DC should rise up to form a Freedom-Tea Party coalition as a viable third party against the DC ruling class. That would put an end to the Reid-Pelosi-Boehner nonsense we’ve seen for so many years now.

Senator Cruz expects a tsunami uprising in 2014, let’s roll with the FREEDOM-TEA PARTY in 2014!


44 posted on 09/11/2013 1:15:49 PM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Free Vulcan

“Wow. A couple of meetings? Did you just expect them to hand it over to you? Are you a baby boomer? The Ron Paulers took over the Republican Party of Iowa in one year by controlling the convention. The social conservatives have been nominating and winning at the state legislative level for several years, and hence the Iowa GOP caucus is probably about as conservative as you will get. I’ve been on the front lines too long to know that is a load.”

This. People have to start running for precinct positions, county captains, county chair, vacancy committtes. You have to recruit for those positions (they are usually thankless) and then campaign to have good people elected. Then you have to help the good people elected keep their spine and do the right thing.

It doesn’t happen overnight—it can take years. But a hostile takeover of the Republican party is in process. That’s why the GOP-E is so apoplectic about Cruz, Paul, Lee and the Tea Party. The GOP-E’ers know what’s going on and the slime machines are out big time.

That means we are making serious progress.


45 posted on 09/11/2013 1:31:30 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Jim Robinson

A little bit of understatement here, I think.


46 posted on 09/11/2013 1:37:18 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: RedMDer

The GOP definitely has Leadership but it is Democrat who are leading the GOP.<br<The GOP should have been replaced a long time ago but the conservatives who are constantly shut down and compromised will never leave it and their ineffective show position in it.


47 posted on 09/11/2013 1:39:43 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well, to be fair, GOP leadership doesn’t like us either.


48 posted on 09/11/2013 1:51:28 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: ModelBreaker

You are correct. And now we’re even challenging guys like Boehner, McConnell, Graham, and McCain and having success, like taking out Lugar, even if Murdoch screwed up at the end.

This Colorado win is yet another example. You can win with hard work and respectable money even if you are outspent. But you have to work and you have to be efficient and smarter than your opponent.


49 posted on 09/11/2013 1:53:18 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Loud Mime; SatinDoll
We need to reinstate our Constitution, and in particular, the federal structure designed by our framers.

We will never elect enough virtuous people to save us from ourselves. That was tried in the first decade after independence; it didn't secure our rights then and will certainly not do so now.

No party alone can restore freedom within the corrupted structure built by progressives these past hundred years.

Until the constitution is amended to, at a minimum, restore a senate of the states, very little can possibly change.

50 posted on 09/11/2013 2:08:04 PM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

Many of the so-called Progressive laws or legal decisions that have occurred within the nation should have been strictly enacted in the several States. That is the proper constitutional environment for social experimentation. Federal government should be small in scope and inexpensive.


51 posted on 09/11/2013 2:39:09 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OFCITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: Jim Robinson

The Republican leadership must ask themselves which was more fun, the 2010 election with huge Conservative and TEA Party support or the 2006, 2008 and 2012 elections when the “moderate” Republicans meowed?


52 posted on 09/11/2013 3:19:54 PM PDT by RJL (There's no greed like the greed of a liberal politician buying votes with your money.)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

What is lacking in today’s body politic is a philosophy that can be advanced BECAUSE of the veiled threats of doom by the opposition.

Without that “Damn the torpeodes! Full speed ahead!” philosophy, the meekest member of the opposition can turn us into sniveling, sobbing, cowards such as Boehner and McConnell.

For example, the manipulating, fear-mongering, threat of doom and gloom promoted by the supporters of Government harm to our Republic that a certain Republican action would “shutdown the Government” SHOULD be a clarion call for Republicans to shut down the Government to right the wrong that the Government is currently doing.

To not shut down the Government is to support continuation of the wrong that the Government is currently doing.

Whatever wrong is being protected by the supporters of Governmental wrong, SHOULD BE our signal that we should focus on undoing what they are trying to protect.

What is required to right the wrong is known to all Warriors: THE COURAGE OF ONE’S CONVICTIONS.

Instead, today in our sorry body politic, these are times of whimpering, timid, compromise-away-one’s-values in the false hope of achieving the equivalent of a 1960’s group hippie hug.

These are times when we wait silently for a larger than life, Warrior to swoop in on a white horse and make everything nicey-nice again.

These are times when the majority of people who vote choose politicians that promise pie-in-the-sky to them, and then these same politicians get put in charge of increasing the debt burden on our Grandchildren’s descendants.

Thus, we have a self-caused burden of a virtual cycle of debt to our descendants caused by promises that we choose to vote for.

These are the times when the obvious solution to these problems can be seen by “The Man in the Glass.”

________________

BTW, look up the above quoted poem for suggestions to improve one’s response-ability.


53 posted on 09/12/2013 8:39:37 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

The Man in the Glass

by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934
1895-1954

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the man staring back from the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum,
And think you’re a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear up to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may get what you want down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass.


54 posted on 09/12/2013 8:46:12 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Free Vulcan

“This Colorado win is yet another example. You can win with hard work and respectable money even if you are outspent. But you have to work and you have to be efficient and smarter than your opponent.”

And, you can’t get and exercise actual power outside one of the two major parties. Destroying the R party and starting over is much harder than a hostile takeover of the R party. That means working in the party aggressively and over a period of years.


55 posted on 09/14/2013 4:36:54 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Free Vulcan

“If there’s a goal the Tea Party should shoot for and organize around, that should be it. It does require though, alot of people getting off their lazy asses and working very hard to make it happen.”

I know CO seems hopeless from the outside. But inside the state, we have been working hard to get constitutional conservatives selected in the primaries. This year, we had by far the most liberty oriented Republican caucus in state history. And we are now one senator away from controlling the Senate. The GOP-E is pushing back hard. We just have to push back harder.


56 posted on 09/14/2013 4:41:12 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Same here in Iowa. Been working a long time to move up in the party and have networked with alot of conservatives doing the same thing.


57 posted on 09/14/2013 7:50:27 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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