Just wait until 2014 and 2016, Honey.
Never was, never will be.
I’d call the GOP DC establishment the swindlers. 2012 was a racket by the beltway consultants, who showed no inclination to win despite all their fundraising. They just wanted to cash in their percentage of all the media buys.
I tend to avoid “folds” as they tend to breed nasty fungi and bacteria.
Tea Party PEAKED = Tea Party NOW IN DECLINE...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, so what’s so surprising here?
If Karl Rove and the GOPe’s, keep trashing conservatives, conservatives won’t just stay home
they will send a message to the GOPe’s in an extreme way, if you know
what I mean.
No suport for GOPe candidates going forward...
Ditch Mitch, by any means necessary.
>> Sometimes movements end
As did the article.
Now it’s time to wash the hands.
The GOPe and me are done for good.
I rather fight a known enemy than have to watch my back against an enemy who pretends to be my friend.
Milton Wolf, running against Pat Roberts in Kansas, is a moron.
Yes I want the true RINO types to pay with a primary challenge, but Wolf is wasting valuable time and money that Conservatives should spend elsewhere.
Not me.
Might have a degree of believability to it if the GOP was actually doing anything to attract voters, but this article wants you to believe conservatives are motivated by spineless ineptitude. Anyone who thought we would topple all the rinos in one cycle need to remove their rose colored glasses. If we remove one or two, we will be doing good, and the establishment will have to start paying attention. Especially when it is depleting a substantial amount of their coffers just to get to the general election. Wars are not one on a single battle, and we are going to have to wear down the GOPe over time.
The reason is that there is nowhere to go! (party-wise)
So how can they return to the fold? The idea was to work though the party, not to replace it.
Now one thing that may have changed is donations...I know that I have not been very loose with my cash insofar as the party is concerned and prefer to support individuals only.
So....I don't see anything reversing it's self...and Texas is not a State that is of or was of concern to tea party folks..
And beating one of those old dog repubs with fat war chests and connections is probably not likely to happen there in the great state of Texas, without a scandal or two..
The article seems to be saying that the tea party has lost influence and is nothing but swindlers.
This isn’t how I see things at all.
I see the tea party folks like Cruz as the only grownups in the room.
I think one of the important points is the description of some as inflexible. This idea of a single issue focused litmus test for tea party or conservative candidates is a major failing.
Take the pro life groups as an example. Their sole focus is abortion issues and unless a candidate follows their path lock-step, they take their ball, their money, their vote, and go home. A person could have great leadership skills and a whole host of other qualifications, but they are dismissed and not considered unless they meet this groups singular need. Even worse, their groupthink mindset shuns and shames others away, even those with similar political beliefs. You get labeled and dismissed as the opposition.
This behavior, actively in display here in FR, is stupid, childish, and cult-like. It is the path of an extremist and inevitability leads to isolation and political failure. Much of the Lefts success politically is owed to their ability to seize on issues like this and exploit their oppositions unyielding stance. Abortion, legalization of cannabis, and gay marriage are good examples of singular issues that keep zealot voters home and allow Democrats victory.
Just my take in it.
I want to know who these deep-pocketed TEA partners supposedly are. I don’t think they exist
Not this one.
That bridge has been burned.
The absolute last straw was last week when my heretofore good Congressman was bribed or blackmailed into being an amnesty supporter.
2DV, You know, the media ‘feels’ that they have power of persuasion over everyone, because they have that power over so many.
How utterly, annoyingly, maddeningly frustrated they must be, and will increasingly be, as the months and years go on to the two upcoming apices, the elections, where they will have zero nil zip nada impact on the 3 million and growing who would not and will not go the way of the media, Karl Rove, Mitch Romney, appeasement, apology, “oh, if I had only to do it again, I certainly would not have annoyed that blessed Elija Cummings, how wrong I was, oh anointed witch in disguise, Kelly, megan”
Blech Blech.
Every day we will read about the premature death of the Tea Party. They are messing with a group who has been so truthful and unimpressed with the media, their glamour, fabulous babes, emotional arguments, fawning over the libs, Hollywood, the utopian plans.
Impervious to the media, they do not live by the media and they, therefore, will not die by the media... ditto Karl Rove, the RNC and the C of C.
THE GOP-E HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA IS TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE IN LINE RIGHT NOW.
THE ‘REPUBLICAN’ CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE PASSED AND ‘REPUBLICAN’ GOVERNOR TOM CORBETT SIGNED A ‘TRANSPORTATION FUNDING BILL’ RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS LAST YEAR THAT RAISED FEES LIKE DRIVERS LICENSES AND SO ON BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY RAISED GASOLINE TAXES BY A WHOPPING 28 CENTS A GALLON.
NOW THEY EXPECT EVERYBODY TO MARCH IN LOCKSTEP WITH OUR GLORIOUS GOVERNOR WHO RUNS COMMERCIALS SUGGESTING HE DIDN’T RAISE TAXES AND HE’S FIXED THINGS IN HARRISBURG AND DONE THE RIGHT THING.
A TEA PARTY CANDIDATE IS CHALLENGING HIM IN THE GOP PRIMARY AND THERE WILL BE NUMEROUS LEGISLATIVE CHALLENGERS TO GOP INCUMBENTS ALSO IN THE MAY 20TH PRIMARY.
WE HAVE A SPECIAL STATE SENATE ELECTION IN MY COUNTY MARCH 18TH WITH A TEA PARTY WRITE-IN CANDIDATE TO FACE THE HAND PICKED CANDIDATE OF THE GOP MACHINE WHO VOTED FOR THE TAX INCREASE IN THE STATE HOUSE.
THE PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP IN THIS STATE WAS THERE TO OPPOSE WILLIAM TAFT FOR TEDDY R IN 1912, OPPOSE ROBERT TAFT IN FAVOR OF TOM DEWEY AND EISENHOWER, OPPOSE GOLDWATER FOR GOVERNOR SCRANTON IN 1964, OPPOSE REAGAN IN 1976 AND 1980.
AND THEY STILL HAVEN’T CHANGED THEIR STRIPES.....