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Tea Party Group Reveals Republican Targets For 2012 (RINOs Lugar, Corker, Hatch, Snowe, Brown)
Tea Party Nation via rttnews.com ^ | 2010-12-27

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana; US: Maine; US: Massachusetts; US: Tennessee; US: Utah
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To: Ol' Sparky
It's people like you that told as a conservative like Chris Christie could never get elected in New Jersey.

I supported Chris Christie. But, let's be real...Christie is a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative.

Brown had Tea Party support in Massachusetts and won. That means someone far more conservative could have won the seat.

?????

Brown had the best possible environment and an inept opponent, and still only won 52-48.

Massachusetts is the state that made "Ted Kennedy's Seat" a lifetime position...it's the state that has re-elected live shot time and again.

It is the loser's mentality that you have the prevents any real progress from being made...

You are a funny guy...say some more.

If there's a difference between you and me, it's that I don't suffer from a bumper sticker mentality...and I don't believe in doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

241 posted on 12/31/2010 10:58:49 AM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: Ditter
Rude? I don't know...pointed, certainly.

There are some folks who, frankly, should be embarassed about their opinions, and have a greater awareness of their own limitations.

242 posted on 12/31/2010 11:01:53 AM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: MindBender26
Is this more of the Anti-Mormon madness?

I guess this is the conservative version of the race card.

Hatch is squishy. Utah will send a more reliably conservative member to the Senate.

Surely I'm not the only person who remembers the various Hatch-RAT bills?

243 posted on 12/31/2010 11:06:19 AM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: truthfreedom
It’s very doable...

I don't know if this is the case, but I'm willing to risk it.

244 posted on 12/31/2010 11:07:52 AM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: VictoryGal
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?

How about the most conservative candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning?

245 posted on 12/31/2010 11:09:52 AM PST by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: Flechette

He was just reelected. He’s not up again until 2016.


246 posted on 12/31/2010 11:11:29 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Truman: The buck stops here. Obama: Buck? What buck? Did I tell you how it's all Bush's fault?)
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To: Darren McCarty

Brown I can understand being Taxachussetts and all. Didn’t Maine just elect a Republican governor and legislature?


247 posted on 12/31/2010 11:13:07 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Truman: The buck stops here. Obama: Buck? What buck? Did I tell you how it's all Bush's fault?)
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To: Graybeard58

Kirk’s seat isn’t up again until 2016.


248 posted on 12/31/2010 11:13:48 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Truman: The buck stops here. Obama: Buck? What buck? Did I tell you how it's all Bush's fault?)
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To: George Varnum

Hey, what a convention!!!! Delightful to hear. Your enthusiasm reeks through and that’s wonderful. Exactly what we need, as opposed to the down in the mouth crowd. It’s positively contagious. Congratulations! And the governor’s innauguration will be a feather in the caps of fired up Maine Republicans. Keep us posted. Very interesting and uplifting for freepers to hear.


249 posted on 12/31/2010 11:23:13 AM PST by RitaOK
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

You’re the fourth or fifth person that’s told me that and I’ve already confessed to not reading the article but only names.

I want Kirk out of the Senate before his term is up, maybe he will get caught committing some especially heinous crime before then. I expect him to come out of the queer closet any day now, the only question is, whether he does it before or after he switches parties.


250 posted on 12/31/2010 12:57:08 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: gogeo
Christie is a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative.

Christie openly pro-life and has gone out of his way to defund Planned Parenthood in New Jersey. He opposes gay marriage and supports school vouchers.

251 posted on 12/31/2010 1:33:51 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: gogeo
Massachusetts is the state that made "Ted Kennedy's Seat" a lifetime positio

It's also a state where Republican frequently win the governorship.

When the opportunity exists to take a Senate seat there, it is important a conservative rather than a RINO have the opportunity to take it.

252 posted on 12/31/2010 1:36:12 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: gogeo

Its hard to tell exactly how conservatives will be feeling in 2012. Snowe is popular with Democrats, not Republicans, in Maine. The tea party candidate may need a lot of out of state money to win the primary. If the people, here, from all across the country who constantly complain about how terrible Snowe is do contribute to her challengers campaign, it shouldn’t be too difficult to beat Snowe in the primary. Hopefully there will be one clear tea party candidate and everyone will be able to rally around that candidate. If I was Snowe, I’d want a lot of challengers to split the anti-Snowe vote. Has the tea party developed enough to have a “convention” where a somewhat official tea party nominee can be nominated?


253 posted on 12/31/2010 2:10:54 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: gogeo
Do you usually tell people who you don't know, to their face that they are ignorant?
254 posted on 12/31/2010 2:26:08 PM PST by Ditter
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To: gogeo

> How about the most conservative candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning?

- Like FioRINO? (if they wanted a RINO who could win they shoulda picked Tom Campbell)
- Like Meg Whitman?
- Like Scozzafava, who, when it looked like she was not gonna win, ENDORSED THE DIMOCRAT?

The problem with RINOs is that they have no principles. They’ll turn on you and vote up odious legislation and then it’ll have that “BIPARTISAN” label when it is LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL.

I like my enemies to be upfront and out in the open not shadowed and masked.


255 posted on 12/31/2010 4:04:42 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: rabscuttle385

Make sure that every time you get a request for a donation from the RNC that you use the return envelope to send a note saying you will not donate until these repeat offenders are GONE- and that you are sending all that cash to real conservative candidates directly.


256 posted on 12/31/2010 6:43:53 PM PST by Melian ( See Matt 7: 21 and 1 John 2: 3-6)
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To: rabscuttle385

Add McCain and Graham to the list as well.


257 posted on 12/31/2010 6:51:36 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: rabscuttle385

don’t forget the local level Republican Party organizations ;
these are the groups that send us these people and defy the Constitutional Conservative movements .

The clueless mainstreamers are merely extensions of those that propel them into office .


258 posted on 12/31/2010 9:51:30 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: PhilCollins

Look at Robert Byrd. He only left the Senate in a pine box. What are they, after all, if they leave the Senate? As pitiful as a retired 4-star general playing golf every day.


259 posted on 12/31/2010 11:24:14 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: heiss

Pride is one thing,arrogance is another. Lugar gets further from his earlier self-every day he stays in Washington.


260 posted on 12/31/2010 11:25:51 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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