WHO CARES!?!?!?!
If Freedom Works has a list and want to encourage the Tea Party MOVEMENT to help, so be it...
The Tea Party Movement belongs to NO ONE.. It is a MOVEMENT...
I am sick of folks who claim to be conservatives attacking each other....
DO WHAT YOU CAN TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN DC.....but stop worrying about who else is fighting it differently than you....
As a good friend put it so eloquently...
WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY for DIVISION right now...
btw— YES— there are plenty of Pubbies that need to be challenged, and the PRIMARIES are the BEST Place to do it...
but to accuse Freedom Works of hypocrisy on FR just makes no sense to me....
so what am I missing?
“...I am sick of folks who claim to be conservatives attacking each other....”
Yes, yet there will always be some infighting. What is it about these Lefty pundits and pop sophistos lately that are pointing out that the Tea Party types are not a monolithic block?
We vary greatly and include Ron Paul types to Holy Rollers but most of us agree on the economic basics and don’t wish to remain silent while the gov spending spree continues to put our grandchildren in debt. We also don’t want to see layers and layers of more bureaucrats overseeing healthcare and hospitals and our medical choices. I think the real story is how unified we are on those basics.
You're going to have to get used to it. Some "conservatives" are also "one issue voters".
So a candidate can be everything you ever wanted, but be wobbly on one issue (illegals, abortion, etc.), and that automatically makes them the enemy.
There can be no incremental steps towards the right for some.
It's "all or nothing" and as we have seen for some time now, it is almost always "nothing" - followed by another left leaning, big government politician being elected.
What I do is try to ignore the "one issue voters' and not respond to them, except to say we disagree, and move on with no further discussion.
Look at the list again...see how many republican LEADERS voted FOR Medicare Part D (a $1 TRILLION entitlement) and didn't make republican leader Dick Armey's "Tea Party Target List." BIG GOVERNMENT is the problem and I see no candidate from either party paying anything other than lip service to drastically reducing the size of big government. How about some candidate coming out and saying..."if I'm elected, I intend to initiate legislation to reduce federal spending to pre-progressive era period of 5% of GDP." Very unlikely.