Posted on 08/08/2014 10:52:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
But that's total crap. The fact that they were able to ape conservatism means nothing. Hell, they do that half the time when they're NOT up against a TP opponent. Has no effect on the way they vote in the Senate. There's nobody more conservative than a backstabbing turncoat RINO during election year.
Does Alexander stand for anything at all?
What does he want to change in the country? He seems like an empty vessel politician who has no core belief system.
Open primarys and DemocRats were needed to win. These RINOs are in the crosshairs and they know it.
He stands for himself and his power, and using the Senate as a retirement home. That he massively outspent, out-organized, and was out-endorsed over his opponent and still couldn’t get above 50% of the vote in an election where Democrats routinely flood the open primary (with NO runoffs) was quite telling.
M O N E Y.
Someone complained they didn’t see a sign nor an ad up in the name of the conservative candidate. Was it Lamar in Tennessee, I can’t recall which senate race it was.
That Cochran deal in Mississippi should have caused a sweep against all incumbents whose races followed that.
The Tea Party is Dead! The Tea Party is Dead!
Ohhh, it’s not? Never mind.
To some extent. That’s been de rigeur for a long time though. No one more conservative than a RINO at election time. Many of them are way more liberal than their states/districts. Not sure why the voters don’t remember, but they seem to pull it off.
Oh, love your screen name BTW!
Now I did make my original post before reading the article, presuming that where they were going was that the GOPE-rs had been forced to be more conservative to win, which was what I was responding to. Then I read the article and got his statistical point which was obviously different than what I thought, and is indeed encouraging. You have to take seriously one of the few guys to call POTUS 12 correctly. Question is, will that trend manage to turn things around before some amnesty with citizenship puts it out of reach forever?
It would have been easier for me to make my primary ballot selections if it had been easier to determine a candidates support for or by the Tea Party. I thought they did better than I expected.
Thanks for noticing :)
Tea party activists are winning as vichy Republicans are declaring how Conservative they are when challenged. They must lie about that to eek out a win.
Chimeras...
The weakest Sen. Was Thad Cochran and they showed us just what they were willing to do...
Conservatives must close these primaries to keep out the Democrats. People should not be able to re register as a republican withing 60 days of a primary either.
I would also put in something that would make it tougher for so called libetarians to run like in VA. where McAllife won over Ken by inserting a stooge third party candidate without a background to match his party label.
This list could go on and on with Boss Hogg Barbour thinking up new ways to save senile Thad.
The biggest problem, I think, is the general inexperience of the TP candidates. Many want to go from never having held political office to being Senator, and while it can happen, it’s unusual and generally requires that they have achieved high visibility in something else first.
The other problem is the warring factions. Cochran was extremely weak and would have lost in the primary - if there had been only one TP candidate. But the whole reason for the run-off was that there were two or three TP candidates, and the vote was diluted. Then having the run-off gave Cochran and the incredibly corrupt Mississippi GOP the chance to come up with a strategy for crushing McDaniel.
Again, part of the reason there are so many candidates is inexperience, with candidates and their backers each insisting that their principles are more pure than the other and refusing to be realistic about their possibilities. And they’ve generally never had to try out those principles in a real situation of political responsibility.
Don’t forget that the “Tea Party” really doesn’t exist, and it’s just individual candidates who proclaim themselves as being conservative - but this does not provide the support or money of a party apparatus, which is what the regular GOP candidates have.
That’s a good article, I think the author is pretty much correct in what he says. And amazingly, it’s snark-free!
Thanks for posting it!
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