Posted on 10/17/2013 6:53:27 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
This public bashing needs to stop.
Yesterday, I saw on television Ayotte still going at it talking about how this shutdown doesn't need to happen again. Maybe so, but enough of McCain, Graham, Ayotte, Corker, Peter King, etc, airing things out in public.
Cruz, last night talked in part abvout McCain dive-bombing House Republicans, how this disunified Republicans, and how non-unity in the House/Senate torpedoed any chance of delaying or altering parts of ObamaCare - and Hannity brought up other individuals.
But enough is enough.
If they have a problem with someone or something take it to them in private - but don't air it out in public ad nauseum.
They can get their invites to all of the DC/NYC/Martha's Vineyard special events, or notoreity, kicks, thrills - whatever - some other way, but not at the expense of the GOP and the Tea Party in public forums.
What say you?
Perhaps the GOP needs to be tossed aside, and the Tea Party take the lead.
Just saying...
Don’t think the Tea Partiers are the problem.
Time we all on here got calls to McCain, Ayotte and the other big mouths.
I’ve already called them and left them with a piece of my mind and hope all others on here do the same instead of just venting on here
It is one thing for individuals to walk up to elected Republicans and tell them how they feel, call them a RINO, etc -— but elected individuals (like MCcain, etc) publicly bashing conservatives/Tea Party people is something else.
Why can’t Ayotte just get a room for a threesome with Dingy and Juan?
IMO what your saying is the only course of action left at this point. To an extent, this is already starting to happen.
We can do our part to help accelerate the process.
Ayotte’s a big problem. She’s not up until 2016. If there’s a strong ‘Rat Pres candidate Ayotte will be swept out. If there’s a strong GOP pres candidate she will be coattailed back in - unless a relentless primary effort is pressed against her starting now.
They aren’t.
The Partiers are the ones who DONT want to do what the GOP did for decades - just going along to get along.
I would really like to hear Palin weigh in on Ms. Ayotte’s antics and publically give her some “constructive advice”.
Recommendation For true Conservatives: Primary everyone and if you lose the primary run in the general election to split the vote; it’s democracy. Having 46 Senator when 43 or them are no different than the Democrats isn’t a victory for the Republic. Its just petty politics as usual.
This war for the heart of the GOP has been a long time coming. Once in awhile you have to do a little blood letting and clear the decks. Better we are doing it now and get ready for 2016. If we even have an election in 2016.
Making calls to a bad politician is fine, but can feel ineffective. I don’t call the wacko bird leftist politicians in my state because I don’t have time to do something they ignore.
However, if you want to have an effect, get in touch with the people and organizations that donate to that politician. Then you can have an effect on politicians even if they completely ignore you. Locate the funding sources and communicate with them. Not angry rants — concise messages indicating why a shift in donations to a more sane politician will work better for everyone. Point out how damaging the politician has been to them and point out how a little favor from the politician does not make up for the damage they do to both the funding organization and the general citizenry on whom the funding organization depends for its livelihood.
Get to the sources of funding and you are going to where you can have the most effect.
That is what Murkowski did to Miller.
I like your idea. One good turn deserves another. Send a message...
If the tide should start to turn in favor of conservatives (because the economy tanks, people hate Obamacare, interest rates start to surge, etc.) watch Ayotte turn “Tea Party” again. She’s a poltical chameleon.
I say we take a page from the lefties, and start bashing McCain’s and McConnell’s biggest campaign donors.
Time for a RINO hunt!
Conservatives need long memories. But more importantly, we need to act on our convictions.
For example, people who would not support Mitt Romney because he represented the surrender wing of the Republican Party were attacked without mercy on this website in 2012. Now, the bandwagon isn’t big enough to hold everyone who says they’re jumping ship.
Now that the Boehner/McConnell/Romney wing of the Republican Party has once again capitulated to the Democrats, more and more base conservatives are rebelling against the GOP-E. These people need to be encouraged, so that constitutional conservatives can be nominated and elected from the ground up.
That starts here, on this conservative grass-roots website. No more talk of reform. We’ve been told to go to hell once again and we need to quit saying ‘thank you sir, may I have another’.
Absolutely right. Its all about the money, which is the lifeblood of politics. That’s where you hurt them.
A very astute post.
That said, I still like to vent my opinions to them when I can. :)
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