God bless the Tea Party.
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.
Politics is the art of the possible, but you and your ilk are so unbending that you let the RATS manipulate you at every turn.
> Because you idiots would rather have your dicks cut off with dignity than vote for anyone other than someone who meets your level of conservative purity.
There’s a difference between voting in the general and getting good candidates to win a primary. I often hold my nose in the general election and vote R even if the candidate literally makes me sick. McVain in 2008 and FioRINO in 2010 are examples of this.
Who would you rather see win a primary... a true blue conservative or an almost-Dimocrat milquetoast traitor?
We need to take the best that we can get while winning (so we get committee votes to control agenda). What's the best depends on each state. In Maine, so far it's Collins. In Massachusetts, it's Browne. Whoever wins there needs a ton of independent voters.
Retorical question, I presume.
All that is a good start. In addition, let’s not get taken in again by the likes of Mike Huckabee, a RINO in a pretty darn good disquise. The times demand that we be extra careful in our choices.
All that is a good start. In addition, let’s not get taken in again by the likes of Mike Huckabee, a RINO in a pretty darn good disquise. The times demand that we be extra careful in our choices.
I whole-heartedly agree! To my mind, some of the old guard Republicans are more dangerous than the most Liberal Democrat because you never know when they’re going to turn or upon whom. Carl Rove was one of the first to trash Christine O’Donnell. She might have made a much better showing if not for being attacked by one of her own.
As for Charles Krauthammer, consider his origins in the political world. “A dog will return to its vomit” every time.
I’m not sure when Kennedy’s term (that Brown won the special election to complete) would have been up. He wasn’t on the November ballot in 2010, so that means he would be up for reelection in 2012 or 2014.
I’ll wait to see what Palin says.
As for Snowe? I'd be willing to risk finding out if we can do better. She's been there for awhile.
Yeah...that's the only thing standing in the way of electing a true conservative to the Senate in Mass...(rolls eyes)
Preach it brother!!!
Let me help...Senators are elected for a six year term.
Snowe is up for re-election in 2012, which this article addresses. Collins is not up until 2014, and Murkowski was just re-elected...will not be up again until 2016.
Knowing these subtle facts helps greatly when discussing political strategy.
Well said!!!
Moi?
Re #21: “Did anybody think (Brown)’d be another Jim DeMint?”
I sure didn’t! I’m a TEA supporter of his, and am I disappointed; Yeah; a little.
Surprised? Heck no! This is, after all, the Peeplez Republik of Assachussetts. With Bawney and Kerry easily winning re election, I opine that Brown is probably more than could be reasonably expected out of that socialist bastion. Like our two Bobsey Twins from Maine; every now and then they get one right... rarely, but every now and then.
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