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Michael Reagan: Shut Up Tea Party, Your Candidates Are Kooks
http://www.westernjournalism.com ^ | april 10, 2014 | michael reagan

Posted on 04/11/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by lowbridge

The Tea Party zealots who haven’t learned from their mistakes in 2010 and 2012 are trying their best to screw up the GOP’s chances to win the Senate this fall.

Where does the Tea Party find these people to run in primaries? Most important, why do they offer them up as legitimate Republican candidates?

The Tea Party bosses have been listening to too much talk radio. They seem to think that what makes a good Republican candidate is someone who sounds like a talk radio host.

But talk radio is all about bombast and attracting callers, not about winning elections.

If Republicans are going to win general elections in 2014 and beyond, we’ve got to put up principled conservative candidates who sound like senators, congressmen, and governors — not kooks.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservativism; michaelreagan; reagan; teaparty
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1 posted on 04/11/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

MR jumped the shark a while back


2 posted on 04/11/2014 10:03:48 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: lowbridge
The only thing conservative about Michael Reagan is his last name.

4 posted on 04/11/2014 10:05:07 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: lowbridge

I’m really disappointed to hear MR talking like Rove.


5 posted on 04/11/2014 10:05:25 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: lowbridge

Okay Mike, who was the last PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE that the GOP put up?


6 posted on 04/11/2014 10:06:33 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: lowbridge

Another one bites the dust.


7 posted on 04/11/2014 10:06:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: lowbridge

Didn’t your mom visit fortune tellers?


8 posted on 04/11/2014 10:06:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: GeronL

MR jumped the shark a while back

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Apparently he has jumped the shark. I’m very disappointed that he has apparently been corrupted/misled into supporting the GOPe war on the Tea Party.


9 posted on 04/11/2014 10:06:59 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: BitWielder1

He’s been bought it would appear…either that or just been on the liberal west coast too long and has lost his way. He didn’t used to be like this….


10 posted on 04/11/2014 10:07:03 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: lowbridge

Then your dad was a kook as well.......................


11 posted on 04/11/2014 10:07:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: lowbridge

Well, some of them are.


12 posted on 04/11/2014 10:09:48 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: AppyPappy

His mother was Jane Wyman.


13 posted on 04/11/2014 10:10:31 AM PDT by scbison
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To: lowbridge

He hasn’t made any good points? Where are Senators Todd Akin and Christine O’Donnell?


14 posted on 04/11/2014 10:10:44 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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To: lowbridge

Is he dating Ann Coulter or something. Geeeeze.


15 posted on 04/11/2014 10:10:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: lowbridge

This is meaningless without naming names.


16 posted on 04/11/2014 10:10:56 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: lowbridge

He has a point. His dad’s nickname of the Great Communicator, undermines the crucial fact that Reagan was actually able to enact many of his policies. Many people can give a great speech and espouse all the right ideas - being able to implement them though is really what elections are all about.

I like Paul and Cruz, and would vote for either of them. But, I don’t see where either has a track record of making their ideas law.


17 posted on 04/11/2014 10:11:19 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: scbison

Adoptive mother


18 posted on 04/11/2014 10:11:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: lowbridge

Yeah I was watching a guy named Cruz on tv the other day and was laughing because he had the same mindset that I have, so I know he is a kook!

Wait a minute ... Ted Cruz is a Senator????

AND he might be the Republican nominee in 2016????

What a kooky world we conservatives live in.


19 posted on 04/11/2014 10:11:53 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: F15Eagle

in all fairness a few of these “tea party” candidates ARE kooks. It seems they are mostly opportunists who are not locked into reality.

We do not want to switch to a new fool just because they only slapped “tea party” on their resume.

We want THINKING brain active candidates who can not only walk the walk but have the brains to win an election.


20 posted on 04/11/2014 10:12:02 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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