Posted on 11/09/2014 9:28:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At first glance, the 2014 midterms look like a catastrophe for the Tea Party. Sarah Palin’s candidates lost in state after state, conservatives like Louisiana’s Rob Maness who proudly embraced the Tea Party label got walloped, and favorites of the so-called RINO surrender caucus—including Thom Tillis and incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander—sailed to wins in their primaries ahead of their victories last Tuesday.
But movement conservative and Tea Party Republicans see it differently. They argue that their strategy for this cycle worked out fairly well—at the very least, well enough for them to see no reason to shift strategy. Prominent conservative activists who backed upstart challengers like Maness and Chris McDaniel in Mississippi are eager to push back against the emerging narrative that GOP gains in the 2014 midterms were the result of establishment Republicans’ efforts to “kick out the crazies”—for lack of a better term. In retrospect, these activists feel little regret for how the 2014 midterms played out; if anything, they feel vindicated.
Conservatives’ biggest win came early in the cycle, in the Nebraska Republican primary between former Bush administration official Ben Sasse and former Nebraska treasurer Shane Osborn. The ideological differences between those two candidates were a tad inscrutable—the two weren’t identical, but they probably had more in common than any other top primary contenders....
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PALIN'S 2014 PICKS
http://www.sarahpac.com/candidates
Funny how people who believe in the classic principles of the Republican Party are “crazies”.
The GOPe needs to fix their $18T+ debt or they will be thrown out in 2016.
Some of them were nutty and simply unelectable. If you come off sounding like a kook, you’re toast.
If you have to defend controversial remarks before you can attract voters, you’ve been defined already in their minds.
Like it or not, the GOP establishment wanted none of it.
Also funny how they don’t mention at all, the massive number of Tea Partiers who won House seats this cycle.
America can not go on much longer with delusional leftists in charge. People will start realizing this. Eventually the Republicans will take conservative stances, like we are seeing with the younger senators. The reason there has not been open revolt, or a civil war is because the republicans walked off the traditional American path, and became leftists themselves. The GOP will become a truly conservative party , or it will dissolve and a hardline conservative party will emerge, or we’re witnessing the birth of a third major party in American politics.
However, as a more conservative stance is adopted by more and more Americans the gap will widen. Eventually there will be blood. Everything the Founders and great American patriots warned against has come to fruition, and one day, it will be up to us to take it all back. The only way to avoid it is a wholesale repentance of our decadence, greed, and vanity. 95% of the left would seriously have to abandon their entire lives for a conservative religious approach to life.
This is because the left will keep shoveling shit into the well, and eventually they will go too far. The difference is conservatives will fight for this country and everyone who died , bled, or sacrificed for it. The liberals will actively start fires, just to watch it burn.
Or, Islam could start a global survival war once their technology reaches a level that is =/= to the West.
The last few weeks have given me hope.
But seriously, they didn't even mention the House second in command getting beat?
Slate: the next best thing to visiting the DUmp.
The salvation of the Republican Party will be the Tea Party. In primaries that we can win and be competitive with the Democrat Party we need to defeat the Rino. In races where we are not, we must quietly support the Rino and hopefully primary him when we are competitive in the general election.
This is how the hard left socialists marxists have taken over the once respectable opposition that was the Democrat Party. They did it one primary at a time.
We in the Tea Party must do the same to the Republican Party. This will take years but it can be done.
the Democrat/Republican establishment never call their leftist base “crazies”...
While the primaries failed to knock out the RINO’s , Tea Party candidates won the open seats and knocked the RATS out. It was a deep victory as well. It went from the Senate to the House to the State houses as well. These RATS are either in a state of denial or hoping their lies will depress us.
Well said.
How does wanting lower taxes and a smaller government get called “crazy”?
It does seem that way. We're now in a transition period where the RINO backstabbing elite will try to turn the new members by getting them to compromise away their total commitment to constitutional conservative issues.
I don't think this will work because:
1. This new group is more grounded and more aware that constitutional conservatives can't be one issue
2. They see what happened when Marc Rubio, an excellent conservative who went off the ranch on the one issue where he's more lenient than conservatives will tolerate. He got played and marginalized by those who wanted to compromise and destroy him (McCain and Schumer)
3. The backstabbers such as Flake and Ayotte are pretty much despised by everyone.
Or we will become a communist dictatorship, or a government will come to power that will end morons and grifters voting.
Stay tuned.
Lamar Alexander “sailed” to a victory against unknown Joe Carr with less than 50% of the vote after massively outspending Carr. If you can call that”sailing.”
The TEA party candidate had a net gain of some 14 candidates, yes? That’s a pretty good record, imho.
Then Conservatives all got off work.
Steven Kraus’ win over Redfern “a major victory by the Ohio tea party movement.”
Chris Redfern WAS the Ohio Democrat party Chairman.
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