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Tea Partiers Swallow Their Pride To Defeat Democrats In November
talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | 9/19/14 | Daniel Strauss

Posted on 09/19/2014 5:18:49 AM PDT by cotton1706

In the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R), wasn't exactly tea partiers' preferred candidate. But now some tea party organizations seem to be giving the nominee a quiet boost — or at least are still set on bashing Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC).

On Wednesday the Tea Party Express sent out an email calling on supporters to help "Defeat Harry Reid's Sinister Six." Hagan was listed alongside Sens. Mark Begich (D-AK), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Al Franken (D-MN), Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), the Democratic Senate candidate in his state. The Republican primaries in those states have been relatively mild with comparatively less or even no fighting between establishment and tea-party aligned candidates. North Carolina, by contrast, was one of the most heated Republican primaries in the 2014 cycle.

A day earlier the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund sent out a similar fundraising email targeting just Hagan.

"Barack Obama and his liberal Democrat allies are pouring money and campaign resources into North Carolina like crazy," Tea Party Patriots Chairman Jenny Beth Martin wrote in the email. "They are desperate to save leftist Senator Kay Hagan. Tea Party volunteers in North Carolina need our help to win this critical Senate seat."

Establishment-backed Tillis defeated Dr. Greg Brannon, another candidate in the primary, who was actually the favorite of the insurgent tea party wing of the Republican party.

In the general election the race has managed to stay competitive. The TPM Polltracker average currently gives her a 4.7 point lead over Tillis.

Rooting for an establishment candidate isn't ideal, but trying to get supporters to defeat Hagan is better than the alternative, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund communications director Kevin Broughton told TPM.

(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014issues; 2014midterms; elections; teaparty
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To: DiogenesLamp
This isn't about Harry Reid. This is about destroying traitors. McConnell is a traitor.

If the GOP takes the Senate and McConnell wins, then McConnell will be majority leader. If the Dems win, then Reid will run the Senate.

Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?

41 posted on 09/19/2014 8:18:00 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: cuban leaf

Not sure I could make myself go that far, but it’s your vote. I voted for Thomas Jefferson instead of Romney. How may of us can say that they’ve voted for him? ;-)

At this point, I’d say that McConnell has done far more to defeat the Tea Party than Grimes. In fact, he said he’d destroy us. Who’s the “lesser of two evils?” People need to wake up and realize that the color of their jersey doesn’t mean squat...


42 posted on 09/19/2014 8:26:43 AM PDT by NaturalScience
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To: Poison Pill
If the GOP takes the Senate and McConnell wins, then McConnell will be majority leader. If the Dems win, then Reid will run the Senate.

Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?

I see the bigger picture and the longer game. Nothing of consequence is going to get accomplished in this next Senate because Obama still has veto power and will have a veto proof minority.

What matters at this point is knocking in the head everyone on "our" side who is opposed to reform, and since McConnell represents that group, we need to take out the leader, same as a prison fight.

We take out McConnell, perhaps in two years we can actually get some reforms enacted. We leave McConnell in place, he continues to undermine the Tea Party, and the effort to reform continues to weaken.

43 posted on 09/19/2014 8:30:13 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Poison Pill

“If the GOP takes the Senate and McConnell wins, then McConnell will be majority leader. If the Dems win, then Reid will run the Senate.
Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?”

Neither if they refuse to show fealty to the party bosses instead of the ones who elected him. That’s what I’ve been saying. Is their loyalty to the people, or to the position and its accompanying perks (salary, fat pension, legalized insider stock trading, “inducements” from lobbyists)? For too long it’s been the latter, and that has to change. You can bet that change won’t come from those members of the pack greedily feeding at the trough. It’s going to have to come from the electorate, and it better be soon....


44 posted on 09/19/2014 8:34:28 AM PDT by Exeter (Thad Cochran, at 76 Mississippi's newest Democrat Senator...)
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To: DiogenesLamp
McConnell isn't blocking any of Obama's Judicial appointees.

Actually he was. That is why Reid went to the Nuclear Option to get them through.

Don't get me wrong that weasel McConnell started whining and said he would bring back the filibuster if he became Majority leader.

45 posted on 09/19/2014 8:42:52 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: cotton1706

Levin Rule, aka Common Sense.

Vote for YOUR preferred Candidate in the Primary.
Vote your Party’s Nominated Candidate in the General.

If you fail to convince enough people that YOUR Candidate was the preferred choice to be the Nominee in the General Election, that is no reason to reward the Democrat Party.

That is all.


46 posted on 09/19/2014 9:05:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
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To: cuban leaf

You might be better off casting a vote for David Patterson (the Libertarian) or Mike Maggard (Tea Party Write-In). That way you don’t have to violate your conscience with a vote for McConnell, but don’t have to feel dirty voting for an evil moonbat like Grimes.


47 posted on 09/19/2014 9:09:47 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

They don’t have a chance unseating McConnel.

I’m not a progressive. My goal is not to “send a message”. My goal is to get rid of McConnel.


48 posted on 09/19/2014 9:13:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: stremba

It’s a choice. Grimes stands in front of you to fight, so the fight is on its merits. McConnell stands behind you with a knife, and you know that if you start winning the fight, McConnell will stab you in the back so the other side wins.

Conservatives have reached a point where they have had enough. The conclusion that McConnell behind us is *worse* than a Democrat freshman in front of us is a hard one to make, but it is really that bad.

McConnell has publicly stated that he wants to crush the Tea Party. He is a liberal Republican always willing to “reach out”, whether in the minority or in the majority.

Almost in the same breath he says that after 6 years of Democrats changing all the rules in the senate to make Republicans powerless, then doing HORRIBLE damage to America, that when he is again majority leader, he intends to give the Democrats back all the power they denied the Republicans, so they can *easily* BLOCK Republicans from fixing the disaster.

Is he insane? What compels him to this utter madness?

Anyone who votes for McConnell would hire a repeat, unrepentant, baby-murdering felon as a babysitter. What do you THINK will happen?

Nothing that Grimes can do would be a tenth as destructive to our country as what McConnell regularly does.

The man is a menace.


49 posted on 09/19/2014 9:17:42 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: cotton1706

All the Dems have to do is put an R next to their name and they will get a lot of so-called “conservative” support it seems.


50 posted on 09/19/2014 9:21:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cuban leaf

Grimes had a chance months ago after Bevin lost the primary, but she’s already tanked and has only herself to blame for being too much of an entitled moonbat and even more offensive than the incumbent. Personally, I’m just as disgusted with McConnell. If I lived in KY (I’m in TN, 2 counties away), I couldn’t vote for Mitch in good conscience. I won’t be voting for the execrable Lamar! in November, either.


51 posted on 09/19/2014 9:25:21 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Grimes had a chance months ago after Bevin lost the primary, but she’s already tanked and has only herself to blame for being too much of an entitled moonbat and even more offensive than the incumbent.


Which would leave me in stitches if she won. :-D


52 posted on 09/19/2014 9:31:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cotton1706
HELL NO!

What an IDIOT!

I'll take out(vote AGAINST) an "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN" every time I get an opportunity to, and that INCLUDES the GENERAL ELECTION.

You got it?

"ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS"SHALL NOT PASS !



It's SIMPLE.

53 posted on 09/19/2014 9:33:41 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: GeronL

“All the Dems have to do is put an R next to their name and they will get a lot of so-called “conservative” support it seems.”

Yeah, that about sums it up.


54 posted on 09/19/2014 9:34:19 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: painter

Bringing back the judicial filibuster is a good thing.

Right now Obama appointees get on the bench with 50 votes (Biden casting tie breakers if needed). In a GOP controlled Senate that still allows dpuchebags like McCain and Lindsay Graham to cross over and put Obama appointees on the bench for his last two years.

Bringing back the filibuster raises that to 60 (or is it 67?) votes.

We’ve lost important majorities on several circuit courts of appeal. Including the critical DC one. We need to stop the bleeding first.


55 posted on 09/19/2014 10:37:46 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: DiogenesLamp

The longer game looks at 2016 when there are a lot more GOP seats up than Dem.

It’s not enough to get to a majority this year. We need padding to protect that majority in 2016. Every seat counts, altho I’m willing to sacrifice one (which is an idea that Mark Levin proposed) to send a message. Given what happened in MS, that should IMHO be Cochrane. With the benefit that Childers appears to be a Conservative Dem in the mould of Zell Miller or Richard Shelby and will vote a lot with the GOP and might even be enticed to flip parties.


56 posted on 09/19/2014 10:42:29 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
It’s not enough to get to a majority this year. We need padding to protect that majority in 2016. Every seat counts, altho I’m willing to sacrifice one (which is an idea that Mark Levin proposed) to send a message. Given what happened in MS, that should IMHO be Cochrane. With the benefit that Childers appears to be a Conservative Dem in the mould of Zell Miller or Richard Shelby and will vote a lot with the GOP and might even be enticed to flip parties.

McConnell was behind that business in Mississippi. I'm willing to sacrifice both Cochran and McConnell. McConnell has deliberately made himself the face of the anti-Tea Party contingent of the GOPe.

I would like to get Miss Graham and Cornyn as well, but that's just going too far. McConnell needs to lose in Kentucky, and Cochran needs to lose in Mississippi. It will be bad enough that we have to put up with Graham and Cornyn.

57 posted on 09/19/2014 11:16:42 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: tanknetter
Bringing back the filibuster raises that to 60 (or is it 67?) votes.

60

58 posted on 09/19/2014 2:08:33 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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