Posted on 07/29/2014 9:47:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
NASHVILLE — On the first day of July, Sen. Lamar Alexander delivered a moving eulogy at the funeral of his political mentor, Howard H. Baker Jr., the former Senate majority leader and godfather of the Tennessee Republican Party.
Baker, he said, had “more influence on my life than anyone outside my own family.”
Like Baker, Alexander (R-Tenn.) has had an exemplary career in public service. He was elected to two terms as governor of Tennessee and later served as president of the University of Tennessee and U.S. education secretary. Twice he sought his party’s nomination for president, though, like Baker, he was unsuccessful. In 2002, he won election to the Senate.
Throughout his career, Alexander has embodied Baker’s style of consensus-building politics — and largely for that reason he is now, at 74, facing tea party opposition in the Aug. 7 Republican primary. But the tea party activists are competing against more than just one sitting senator and a Republican establishment lined up behind him. They are running against Baker’s legacy — a culture of Republican politics that has married conservative principles with pragmatic attitudes about governing.
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They love to protect moderates, because they assist the democrats when they need votes to advance liberalism.
Lamar! has long since worn out his welcome. He’s 74 and he pledged “two terms and out !” in his book. Just another broken promise from a phony career politician and big government liberal.
The compliant media doesn’t want the cocktail party in DC disrupted.
It’s one big whorehouse.
World's largest circle jerk.
“consensus-building politics”
Translation: selling out by giving the Dims 85% of what they want. On the next sell out, the Dims will get the remaining 15% and a lot more.
Alexander has long been part of the problem. You can’t get to a solution by continuously sending sell outs like him back.
Death knell when the WAPO endorses a “republican”.....
Maybe we can pretend you are L-man, people that aren't paying attention or are high can mistake you for a conservative, but um Mark Kirk, Susie Collins, Princess Lisa of the frozen north, if they are conservatives, then I'm the GD tooth fairy.
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