Posted on 02/13/2010 7:59:34 AM PST by kingattax
The alliance between the South Carolina Republican Party and the state’s tea party organizations seems to have lasted less than a week, as grassroots groups chafed at the idea of being absorbed into the party apparatus.
The partnership announced Monday by state GOP Chairwoman Karen Floyd and Harry Kibler of the Upstate Coalition of Conservative Organizations, an umbrella group of tea party organizations, was intended to create liaisons between the state party and the grass roots and help the two work together to elect more conservative Republicans.
“This agreement is a start,” Kibler said Monday. “Having our groups work together will be of great benefit to the Republican Party and the state of South Carolina.”
But after getting calls from tea party groups across the country accusing the South Carolina organizations of selling out to the GOP, Kibler and the groups he represents are backing away from the state party.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Seems to me the rest of the country should take a wait and see attitude and let SC be an experiment...especially if they can get that damn Lindsey Graham out.
especially if they can get that damn Lindsey Graham out.
In 2014. That is when he is up again. I remember this site saying this back in 2005 but they still reelected him.
Tea Party components can not ally with South Carolina GOP as long as the GOP supports Lindsey Graham. He is antithetical to the Tea Party conservatism on too many issues - judges, amnesty, global cooling.
Smart move. The GOp hasn’t even booted that worthless RINO Steel, yet. What are the worth if all we can count on from them is a knife in the back?
Ping!
Keep them guessing, the rats I mean. The longer this divide lasts until the final moment the better. Real or not it’s a great game with one winner, the American public!
Thanks - I can’t believe the people I know in the Tea Party movement here at the beach would have agreed to the alliance.
If anything the OP(formerly the GOP) should accede to the Tea Party movement since has more support than the OP.
It has bothered me quite a bit when the MSM has tried to portray the the “Tea Party” as a party like the Democrat or Republican party.
The “Tea Party” needs to remain a movement, placing principles before personalities.
I would be dismayed if a “leader” was chosen.
And wasn’t it SC that was such a thorn in the side of Bush when he ran for president in 1999 ..?? I seem to remember some kind of dust-up with a southern state.
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