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Tea Party Wants to Ambush More GOP Senators in 2012
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 7, 2010 | Janet Hook

Posted on 10/07/2010 2:11:59 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn

Tea-party activists, keen to build on their success toppling GOP incumbents in primaries this year, are already targeting more Republican veterans in the 2012 election. GOP senators like Bob Corker, above, have drawn criticism from tea-party activists for some of the positions they have taken over the years. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress, already has a conservative GOP primary opponent. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Indiana) have all drawn fire from the right wing of their party. Tea-party activists have put these and other incumbents on notice that the anti-establishment sentiment defining this year's politics will not end on Election Day 2010. It is too early to say if these incumbents will face serious peril when they are up for re-election in 2012, but they are already taking steps to burnish their conservative credentials. "The tea party is right," said Ms. Snowe, who is campaigning for a tea-party-backed gubernatorial candidate in Maine this fall. "We've lost our way on fiscal issues." The threat of a primary challenge may put more pressure on Republicans to steer clear of compromise with Democrats when Congress reconvenes. When the Senate recently voted on small-business tax breaks, the bill drew support from only two Republicans—both of whom are leaving office at the end of this term. Centrist efforts to compromise on an extension of expiring Bush-era tax cuts fizzled. Even Ms. Snowe, a perennial swing vote on taxes, resisted agreement with Democrats on the issue. Tea-party challenges to GOP establishment candidates in this year's primaries showed how committed conservative activists are to changing the party from within.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cino; corker; gop; hatch; rinopurge; rinos; senators; snowe; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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To: SC_Pete

Lugar, Hatch, Corker, Snowe, and McCain..what motivates them..easy..if not this time, then definitely in 2012, the GOP will ahve the majority in the Senate, and they want a last fling as chair..and since they won’t run again after this time..they are virtually unaccountable...we have no leverage on them..


21 posted on 10/07/2010 3:07:26 PM PDT by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: Brett66

2014.


22 posted on 10/07/2010 3:18:18 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I’d like to bounce both the bimbos in Maine.


23 posted on 10/07/2010 3:23:56 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: SharpRightTurn

Too right - Orin Hatch must be feeling his consertive Viagra as he pulls at his fantastic crisp shirt with the perfect tie and the Teddy Kennedy lapel pin.


24 posted on 10/07/2010 3:38:54 PM PDT by q_an_a (a)
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To: WWRD

That’s ok; they’re on notice. Get a good liberty-loving person to announce in mid-2011 (in Indiana) and Lugar will decide to retire. We won’t be so lucky in TN.


25 posted on 10/07/2010 3:41:17 PM PDT by rashley (Rashley)
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To: ken5050

If they screw this up again, it’s third party time.

Plank #1: TERM LIMITS


26 posted on 10/07/2010 3:48:43 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: q_an_a

That’s what happens to people who live in Washington too long. TERM LIMITS!!!!!!


27 posted on 10/07/2010 3:51:00 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: SharpRightTurn
We GOTTA get those guys in the primaries in 2012. MUST DO!!!!!!!

This thing stays long alive after Nov.3rd. It simply has to. The enemy (Lib Dems and RINOS) are going to redouble their efforts following their rout by conservatives. Bet on it. We better be ready for the next boxing jab.

28 posted on 10/07/2010 7:47:33 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Worldwide Press Spin, Nov. 3rd? "America is RACIST(sic)". Take that to the bank. Ink already ready.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Supporting an alternative candidate in a primary is an “ambush” now??

wow


29 posted on 10/07/2010 8:56:09 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Ambush? If they don’t perform, they’re gone. It’s that simple. Just because some have had a free ride for so long doesn’t make this an ambush.


30 posted on 10/07/2010 8:56:22 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: NOBO2

Has anyone been burning rhinos in effigy as a warning as part of the tea party events?

That would be a powerful symbolic gesture.


31 posted on 10/07/2010 8:58:36 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...

There won’t be as many around; either they’ll leave the party, or will retire, or will just read the wall. Thanks SharpRightTurn.


32 posted on 10/07/2010 9:00:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I can see why the fabian socialists would use an emblem of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They’ve played us for decades as dumb sheep.

If the GOP candidates doesn’t represent America and our concerns they deserve to go. Our political system has been hijacked for too long.


33 posted on 10/07/2010 9:01:53 PM PDT by swheats (We were born for such a time as this. Let's Roll! 11/2/10)
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To: nhwingut

Somehow I don’t see Brown being a target...


34 posted on 10/07/2010 9:02:44 PM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I hope they barbecue John Cornyn.


35 posted on 10/07/2010 9:03:41 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: MissMagnolia
Nothing this lousy traitor and her fellow idiot from Maine in the senate can do to save themselves from the GOP primary voters.

Don't shoot, let them burn

36 posted on 10/07/2010 9:08:16 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Zero tolerance for marxists in US government should be the policy.

Investigate and arrest members of the “Progressive Congressional Caucus”, send those red sons of bitches back underground.

All States right to work states, no forced union dues in order to work, defund the marxist trade and government worker unions, no one will pay union dues voluntarily.

Smash the left!


37 posted on 10/07/2010 9:16:03 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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