Posted on 12/29/2010 12:05:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385
(RTTNews) - A prominent Tea Party group sent a message to members on Monday identifying five current Republican Senators that they intend to target in 2012.
Tea Party Nation named Sens. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., as Republicans that need to be sent into retirement, accusing them of being Republicans In Name Only, or RINOs.
The message cited Lugar's vote against a ban on earmarks as well as a his votes in favor of the DREAM Act and the START Treaty. Hatch was also criticized for being a "pork king" and a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for certain young illegal immigrants.
Tea Party Nation blasted Snowe for her votes in favor of the health care reform bill, the START Treaty, and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," while the group called Brown " the biggest disappointment of the last year."
Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, said Corker is the group's top target, because he "has done many things to sell out the conservative Tennesseans who put him in office."
"The good news for 2012 is that so many liberals are up for reelection, Republicans are guaranteed control of the Senate and we do not have to pinch our noses this time and support a RINO to prevent liberal control of the Senate," Phillips said.
He added, "2012 will be a very good year for the Tea Party movement and RINO is on the menu!"
Tea Party members had success in a number of Republican Senate primaries in 2010, including in Utah, Florida, Nevada, and Delaware, although their results in the general election were more mixed.
Where is Lindsay Graham? That girl needs to be gone too
Patience. 2014 will come soon enough.
Patience. 2014 will come soon enough.
(Lindsay and her sister Johnnie Cornyn, too.)
That said, I see nothing wrong with this firing list. I'll give Snowe and Brown a small pass due to their states, but Corker, Lugar, and especially Hatch need to go. I'll work to fire my idiot senator Stupidnow as well.
Why is Mark Kirk missing from this list?
Lets GET everyone of em OUT. Scott Brown was Tea Party backed and the sorry idiot votes to the left. He should repay the Tea Party Folks the campaign money
“When do we get a chance to get rid of McStain?’
Oh no but Sarah says he is a conservative that wants what she wants for America.
Leave NOT a single RINO standing if it takes three election cycles to get them all.
They’ve left Ensign for us.
Lindsey Graham of SC is a he and distances himself from the Tea Party while Demint from SC recently had words with Grahamcracker over earmarks. Demint is a good man and a true Tea Party patriot
too bad about corker.. and hatch, we lose the only banjo player on the Hill I think
Senators Lugar and Hatch should choose to retire. Both of them were elected in 1976, so they’ve been in the U.S. Senate long enough. Lugar should be replaced by Gov. Mitch Daniels, and Hatch should be replaced by Michael Leavitt, a former governor and secretary of HHS.
(RINOs Lugar, Corker, Hatch, Snowe, Brown)
Lugar: Globalist sell out - IN can do better
Corker: The Chatanooga Chaffee - TN can do better
Hatch: A good guy who has been their too long and far too much of a gentelman for this war. UT can do better.
Snowe: Ignore her, why hand the Dems a seat.
Brown: See Snowe.
I'd add Thad Cochran to the list, as he's the king of pork now that Stevens and Byrd are gone.
Those would be my 4 targets and my two to ignore instead of oppose.
You had a chance this past election. He was voted back in.
Kirk isn’t up until 2016.
“I see nothing wrong with this firing list.”
I agree. I’m in. Except Snowe is way past her expiration date and should have been tossed away long ago.
Arizona said he’s what they want. Get it right.
Ensign needs to retire. He can't win. Too much trouble in the pants department.
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