Tea Party's Next Wave Rising in Alaska to Colorado

AP Foreign via The Guardian ^ | 7/4/2010 | Michael R. Blood

[Qbert]

Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller's will stand out.

The man who wants to turn a fellow Republican, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, out of office is a graduate of Yale Law School and West Point, a decorated combat veteran and former judge. Many tea partiers share his disdain for Washington, its political gridlock and mounting debt, but not his credentials.

The message he conveys, though, is straight from the tea party script: He fears the nation is veering toward socialism and insolvency. He says Murkowski is too liberal.

To Miller, Alaska's senior senator is complicit in the ballooning U.S. debt and spending and has a voting record that would make a Democrat proud. His agenda envisions a federal government with reduced limits. He would cut off federal dollars for the United Nations, gradually privatize Medicare and Social Security and disband federal departments that aren't spelled out in the Constitution, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Education Department.

[Qbert]

...Maybe the Tea Party Express should stop by Ohio and have a chat with the Republicans there, too. I know it's too late to change who will be running, but it shouldn't be too late to set their minds right.

[nj patriot]

All over Monmouth County NJ we are seeing “No Pallone Zone” signs. Anna Little the long shot opposition to one of the worst Representatives in US history is getting recognition. The Tea Party has supported Anna in a run off against a well financed GOP party favorite. Check out Anna Little and help any way you can. Pallone is a rubber stamp for Polosi; he needs to go.

[Recon Dad]

Good luck it sounds like NJ is finally beginning to turn toward the right.