Posted on 08/08/2014 5:21:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
It is time to get rid of the Tea Party.
They are an embarrassment. Worse, they are collaborating with Democrats to bring down Republicans and make it easier for Democrats to win general elections.
There was a story in yesterday’s Politico that pretty much laid in on the line:
“Tea party activists looking to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a GOP primary may get some help from an unlikely source: Democrats. Big Democratic donors, local liberal activists and a left-leaning super PAC in Kentucky are telling tea partiers that they are poised to throw financial and organizational support behind a right-wing candidate should one try to defeat the powerful GOP leader in a 2014 primary fight.”
This should come as no surprise.
The Tea Party has been a fifth column within the Republican Party, blowing up bridges, sabotaging supply lines, creating false controversies, wasting valuable party resources, and generally making it easier for Senate Democrats and Barack Obama to stay in power.
The Tea Party worked with Democrats to nominate Sharron Angle to run against Harry Reid. Reid had only once chance to win reelection, his popularity ratings being so low. And that was if the Republicans nominated Sharron Angle. He made sure that they did by funneling funds to her primary campaign.
The Tea Party worked with Democrats to nominate Christine O’Donnell. There was only one way that Mike Castle was not going to be elected to the Senate, and that was if he lost in a primary.
The Tea Party wanted Ken Buck. And guess who the Democrats wanted to win in Colorado. Ken Buck. Guess which side now controls that Colorado Senate seat? The Democrats.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefeeherytheory.com ...
Another FReeper said this was similar to John Boehner hiring Rebecca Tallent, John McCain's adviser.
We have thwarted the plans of these people, and the haven't liked it. So they went all out to defeat every incumbent challenger this year...and they succeeded, except we took out the House Majority Leader.
Scalise, McCarthy and Boehner need to be removed from their positions in November. While Feehery says in his essay that the Tea Party has assisted the democrats, the events of the past two years have demonstrated that it is the Establishment that is in an alliance with the democrats.
It was OK when Thaddeus Cochran conspired with Democrats though.
I imagine it felt good to write this, though.
“It was OK when Thaddeus Cochran conspired with Democrats though.”
Right. And when McConnell continually provided Reid with the cloture votes he needed. And when Lindsey Graham appeared before La Raza and praised Ted Kennedy. And on, and on.
Really? And here I thought it was a group of Republicans who still remember that conservative values need a voice in Washington and have the stones to say so, unlike the current GOP leadership.
Credibility killer, there Ace.
And THIS is an absolute gem.
Scalise is King Théoden in Lord of the Rings with Feehery acting as Grima Wormtongue. However, when Gandalf cures Théoden of Saruman’s curse, he becomes the true king not some sniveling RINO.
He’s channeling Mitch Turtleneck & Lamar Logging Shirt.
And revealing more than he realizes: this is proof that GOPe incumbents are about keeping their jobs, and beyond sweet talking voters into reelecting them, the public be d@mned.
Oh yes!
There is no place in the modern world for crazy Tea Party people who want to live in a country governed by the Constitution and where laws are honored and enforced.
What in the world is wrong with us to believe in such nonsense?
We are dangerous to both branches of the Big Government party.
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We're watering the tree of the Republican Party with the blood of milquetoasts and leftists.
If the RHINOs want to be rid of the Tea Party, they had better get their asses in gear and start being CONSERVATIVES, until then I will still support the Tea Party.
How do you crush an idea that were taxed enough already? We don’t have even a old out house for burning down. Were scattered through out the country like salt and we watch GOP politicians and when they get off the reservation and go establishment we get the word out. Steve Scalise would be better off brushing off the Constitution, He’s there to defend it. It’s the only reason for his seat.
Your not thwarting our plans or discouraging us. The party’s been trying to do that since you were but a twinkle in your daddy’s eye. Were what ya call long term focused. The waters warmer over on our side, come on over and see.
The GOP has been playing this bait & switch game for decades. Its vote for us & we’ll fight the liberals at election time, and backslapping in the cloakroom & tax tax tax spend spend spend once elected.
Yep and my husband and I have not given them a dime since 2004. Keep nominating “McCains”. NO MONEY! I missed my first ever primary this year. Why bother? I may not even bother showing up in November. I live in a red state, btw.
The tea party is rising from under their feet and they can’t stop it. A few years ago we elected a state representative from outside the establishment who went on to introduce the RTW bill that became law in Michigan.
The other day we nominated him to run for the state senate seat and in his place we nominated a farmer to run for state representative who speaks out in favor of rural people’s private property rights and against regulation of what they do with their property.
The GOPe is left to throw every dime at the US senate races while they’re being overwhelmed from below.
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