Meanwhile, at the Cotillion
as God is my witness, I'll never vote conservative again!!
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.
Very few saw LePage as a winner a year ago. Some did, certainly, but he was at 10% in the polls a week before the primary.
The goal is to remove RINOs. Snowe can be removed in the primary. That’s a victory. It’s very doable.
Another thing to consider is that the Democrats make it a point to challenge strongly the most Conservative Republican running. The Dems won’t spend a lot of money trying to defeat a RINO. They will spend a lot of money trying to defeat a Conservative. They don’t have an unlimited amount of money.
Yes, it’s harder for a Conservative to win. But we’ll be ok if there is no Republican running that the Democrats don’t absolutely hate. More Christine O’Donnell’s everywhere.
You beat me to it...Graham has to go. Isn’t he the one that said the Tea Party would not last?
You beat me to it...Graham has to go. Isn’t he the one that said the Tea Party would not last?
and a few “mis votes” to the left cost this nation millions or maybe billions. Collins, Snowe, Brown have to go
And he will go. But, unfortunately, not until 2014.
GOOOH is GOOOHing to replace ALL 435 members of the House in 2012. Any current member of the House is welcome to participate in the GOOOH selection process but may be required to agree to self imposed term limits for House seats
Great report on your convention! Snowe got huffy during the early Tea Party weeks in an effort to marginalize them and elevate herselfness. However, after the election she has damned sure toned it down, so I think you’re on to something about “this year may be the year” to de-throne the big time liberal. Can not imagine that Independents would blow off a Snowe opponent after this horrendous year of Obama and his little elves on our side of the aisle, or else these same Independents would be all out democrat and they are not. How come? They could be of help if a candidate would just teach them the danged Constitution and discuss the wreckage of run amok marxism. Independents in Maine can’t be marxists, or they would already be democrat.
What do you think? (I’m not from Maine.)
I’m fed up with lending our name to liberals and then trying to convince anyone there are two parties. In Maine there are not two party’s, in my opinion.
Uh, no, it’s a real question. All the Tea Party wants to do is get the most conservative candidates winning the GOP primaries. Is that something you’re for, or against?
And if you’re for it, I’m not sure what your point is.
A 1/3 term wonder, right? Since this is over in 2 years and a Senator usually serves 6.
Let him go—even if the seat goes ‘rat. Screw him. We’re not cheap dates that can be abused.
None of these RinoS NEED TO BE SURPRISED.
Thanks RitaOK; you shouldda been there!
Here is Maine’s new REPUBLICAN platform.
http://www.mainegop.com/PlatformMission.aspx
Yes dear hearts; there IS a little difference between the Dems and Pubs in Maine now, and we’re working to clarify and expand upon it at our TEA gatherings and City, County, and State Republican Committee meetings regularly.
Some of the establishment elite aren’t too happy about it, but we’re giving them the most run for their money that they’ve had in decades.
If we can’t retire Snowe in ‘12, we sure intend to dust a few feathers off’n ‘er!
The adoption of this “Tea Party Platform” was sudden and dramatic; it left the Party elite, including the Convention Chair, utterly flabbergasted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CrmBjefEKc&feature=related
The Marxists managed to hang on to their two rumpswabs in Congress, but it cost them dearly.
In 2010, the Maine TEA Party essentially turned Maine “RED” for the first time in nearly 35 years. The only “Republican” Governor we had in all that time was “Jaques” McKernan. Does that name ring a bell?
I’ve been invited and planning to attend our new Governor’s inauguration next week. If you’re not familiar with Gov. Paul LePage, here are a few interviews with him beginning with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpx6qOK0FI&feature=related
What good will it do, if leftist legislation from the most recent past to leftist legislation from the very beginning can’t be overturned and then, really and fully, replaced by decent, commonsense, conservative solutions, on all of the issues? This question needs to be, seriously and often, asked!
Meanwhile, at the Cotillion
as God is my witness, I'll never vote conservative again!!
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so you dont consider Lindsay Graham, Lugar, Lisa Murkowski,McCain and the occasional leftest trends of Hatch and many other southern western and central states RINOs??
My point is that the primary is when we do our level best to get the conservative on the ballot. Sitting on our hands in the general if we don’t plays right into the hands of the RAT Party.
Sorry, it does not make sense to me to dump Stowe and Brown and end up with Liberal Democrats instead.
OK, that’s reasonable.
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