Will Tea Party, GOP establishment be 'mending fences' to win Senate in November?

Fox News ^ | September 20, 2014

[Din Maker]

After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday dismissed the notion that party voters are not united behind their candidates. “Can you point to a race … ? It’s a false narrative,”

Kevin Broughton, spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots singled out a few races, particularly in Kansas and Mississippi, but suggested his troops will rally for the general election.

Broughton said they will focus on such grassroots efforts as get-out-the-vote, instead of buying TV or other media spots.

All six Republican senators who faced promising Tea Party-backed challenges won their primaries, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who in March boldly predicted he and the rest of the Washington establishment would “crush” far-right advocacy groups and their candidates.

“I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country,” the five-term Kentucky Republican told The New York Times.

The other wins came in Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Kansas, where the NRSC helped incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Roberts to victory with more than 40,000 phone calls in the final three weeks of his campaign.

In Mississippi, Tea Party-backed candidate Chris McDaniel forced GOP incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran -- who had strong inside-the-beltway financial and grassroots support -- into a runoff to retain his seat.

Politico described the contest as “a flashpoint in the GOP civil war.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

One thing to remember, and good: The GOP NO LONGER EXISTS! HELLO! The country is being run under a ONE PARTY SYSTEM. We have the Democrat party and the Democrat II party. The Democrat II party MAKES PRETEND it is against the Democrat I party but it is all BS. We NEED a NEW PARTY ASAP but it seems people are afraid that if that happens it will siphon votes off the GOP, but WHAT DOES IT MATTER?? You still end up with the same freakin party whether the GOP wins or not! All this talk of Republicans having to win the Senate, WHAT does it matter? It is STILL the same party even if they do. Does anyone believe for two seconds that Obamacare and “legalized” foreign invasion aka “Amnesty” will be tackled, repealed under a GOP Senate? Not a chance in hell. So the only option is to create a new party but nobody is doing shet.

[grumpygresh]

You mean to say that there is a GOP establishment? The establishment used to say that they didn’t really exist.

[nathanbedford]

Agreed.

Conservatives are at an inherent disadvantage in this contest with establishment Republicans for the soul of the party. We strive to save the Republic and they strive to protect their Rice bowls.

When this primary season ended we are faced with a bleak choice: We either blink, hold our nose and vote for Rinos or we witness one national travesty after another with Democrats in control, in this case of the Senate. Rinos are relatively unconcerned about who controls the Senate, their concern is with maintaining their place on the roster of players, the game itself is secondary to them. As long as the battle for control of the party occurs in primaries we are at a disadvantage in the general elections. We must either learn to win primaries or we must wrest control of the party in a different contest and we must gain control of the finances.

We conservatives, however, are rapidly approaching the inflection point at which the fate of the country no longer depends on saving the country from Democrats because Rinos in charge at best only delay the reckoning.

Soon, if not in this election, there will be no reason to vote establishment Republican because it simply won't matter.

[Nextrush]

The Republican Party hates conservatives in its heart and is a political machine only interested in power at any cost using smear tactics to defeat real conservative candidates in primaries who challenge the GOPe.

I’m going to vote for one Republican for one office and write-in names other than R’s and D’s for the rest this November.

I’m also waiting for a new force to emerge (third party) with leadership like that of Nigel Farage in the UK.

I’m not sure if people are ready for it yet, they may still repeat the insane process of electing Republicans into power who will turn around and betray them.

I’ll be patient and wait, but I won’t vote for most Republicans at all in any future elections.

[VerySadAmerican]

Mitch refers to conservatives as “they”. That speaks volumes.

[Iscool]

I quit the Republican party years ago...I’ll vote for who best represents the Constitution...Any Party...

[Din Maker]

It is VITAL that Thad is removed, or the RINOs will do it again, and they may do it again, anyway.

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Just felt that was worth repeating. If Cochran, Barbour and the GOPe get away with what they pulled in Mississippi, Conservatives are finished in the Republican Party. They will crap on us and rub our faces in it every chance they get.

NEVER FORGET MISSISSIPPI; NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!

[arthurus]

Gope candidates often would rather lose than have Tea Party support. Such support offends their delicate sensibilities.

[arthurus]

I won’t vote for a Gope and I won’t vote for anyone who has been more than one term.

[marron]

Good post.

Occasionally reality imposes itself in such a frightful manner that even the emptiest of suits awaken from their stupor long enough to do the right thing for a moment in time.

And go down in history as the Men of the Hour.

I’m not that hopeful this time out, I have no such faith in this current crop of suits. I fear that we are headed for a reckoning. My only solace is the knowledge that God likes me personally. Most everyone else is in deep trouble, though, if they are depending on these losers to see them through.

[GeronL]

It will be a national travesty with R’s or D’s. The best case scenario is a civil uprising

[Din Maker]

I suggest: “The Conservative Party of America” .

[arthurus]

The only difference that a Republican takeover of the Senate will make is the Total Democrat State will be a reality in full perhaps a year, maybe two years later. The slope will be less steep but it will not decline and will not become level.

[GeronL]

I wouldn’t expend the energy to spit on a Republican member of the Uniparty

[oldbrowser]

There is no benefit in spite.
At this point the conservative wing should negotiate a settlement with the GOPe.
They need us to come out strong to secure a majority in the senate. The question should be: what are we going to ask for if we come out strong for the republican party? This is our opportunity to secure a concession from the beltway boys.

The very nature of the conservatives is that we are not an organization as much a group of people who think alike. We don't have a leader but maybe we could get our heads together and suggest some of the things that might motivate us.

[GeronL]

and the GOPe will get even more brazenly anti-conservative if they win a majority in the Senate

[GeronL]

There is no benefit in spite

There is no benefit in voting for leftists of either party. McConnell made his absolute hatred of conservatives well known.

[Chgogal]

GOPe should not have trashed and then declare on the TEA Party. They have to earn our vote now.

[Terry L Smith]

It was THE GOP-E who tried to put a muzzle on Sarah Palin, and did, effectively, ‘pork the pooch’.

Now, with hat in hand, they want The Tea Party to play kissy face??????

Up their collective alimentary canal with that idea!

[mrsmith]

The GOPe really thinks the government should keep increasing it’s borrowing and it’s spending to support consumer spending. Like the Chamber of Commerce tells them they should do- and donates to them to do.
They’ve good intentions.

And they’re taking us to hell confident that they’re doing what’s best.
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