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.
McCain needs to go ASAP too!
I confess, I didn’t read the article, just the names.
In your dreams.
but about what I expect out of you.
I'll take that as a compliment.
We have fools like you to thank for Schwarzenegger and the 2006 Democrat majority in Congress.
Here is the list...note Pence is a good guy and requested “0” A list of Tea Party Caucus members and their earmark requests in Fiscal Year 2010, courtesy of Citizens Against Government Waste’s Pig Book:
NAME EARMARKS AMOUNTAderholt (R-AL) 69 $78,263,000Akin (R-MO) 9 $14,709,000Alexander (R-LA) 41 $65,395,000Bachmann (R-MN) 0 0Barton (R-TX) 14 $12,269,400Bartlett (R-MD) 19 $43,060,650Bilirakis (R-FL) 14 $13,600,000R. Bishop (R-UT) 47 $93,980,000Burgess (R-TX) 15 $15,804,400Broun (R-GA) 0 0Burton (R-IN) 0 0Carter (R-TX) 26 $42,232,000Coble (R-NC) 19 $18,755,000Coffman (R-CO) 0 0Crenshaw (R-FL) 37 $54,424,000Culberson (R-TX) 22 $33,792,000Fleming (R-LA) 10 $31,489,000Franks (R-AZ) 8 $14,300,000Gingrey (R-GA) 19 $16,100,000Gohmert (R-TX) 15 $7,099,000S. Graves (R-MO) 11 $8,331,000R. Hall (R-TX) 16 $12,232,000Harper (R-MS) 25 $80,402,000Herger (R-CA) 5 $5,946,000Hoekstra (R-MI) 9 $6,392,000Jenkins (R-KS) 12 $24,628,000S. King (R-IA) 13 $6,650,000Lamborn (R-CO) 6 $16,020,000Luetkemeyer (R-MO) 0 0Lummis (R-WY) 0 0Marchant (R-TX) 0 0McClintock (R-CA) 0 0Gary Miller (R-CA) 15 $19,627,500Jerry Moran (R-KS) 22 $19,400,000Myrick (R-NC) 0 0Neugebauer (R-TX) 0 0Pence (R-IN) 0 0Poe (R-TX) 12 $7,913,000T. Price (R-GA) 0 0Rehberg (R-MT) 88 $100,514,200Roe (R-TN) 0 0Royce (R-CA) 7 $6,545,000Scalise (R-LA) 20 $17,388,000P. Sessions (R-TX) 0 0Shadegg (R-AZ) 0 0Adrian Smith (R-NE) 1 $350,000L. Smith (R-TX) 18 $14,078,000Stearns (R-FL) 17 $15,472,000Tiahrt (R-KS) 39 $63,400,000Wamp (R-TN) 14 $34,544,000Westmoreland (R-GA) 0 0Wilson (R-SC) 15 $23,334,000TOTAL 764 $1,049,783,150
I like that list. Although Pat Toomey’s DADT position puts him on the side of the RINOs. We’ll have to see just how conservative he really is. I’m also concerned about my new senator, Marco Rubio. We’ll have to see if he is a real conservative or an amnesty lover.
You never really know about any of these power lovers and influence peddlers. You have to keep a close eye on them all the time.
The Republican alternative to Nelson is going to be an issue in FL.
Frantzie wrote:
FL’s Dem POS Bill Nelson is a go to and No RINO Jeb thank you.
We need to find a suitable conservative (with strong constitutional roots) to run for that seat. The Party Establishment will either give us another RINO or another career politician positioned as a faux oustider.
For a true conservative, I like what I've heard from Col. Mike McCalister.
The establishment has been floating Jeb Bush. Also George LeMieux (the Crist seat warmer) and Mike Haridopolos have been mentioned for that seat.
We need to do better than those career politicians.
Beg to differ with you about the sexual preference of Miss Lindsey. But I agree that South Carolina has given us one excellent senator, Jim DeMint, to balance out that absolutely atrocious Grahamnesty.
You could add 95% of the GOP from New York State. They are all RINOs who actually think they are conservatives. Not a one of them actually knows what conservatism is.
You keep on being a tool of the RATS. They play you and your ilk like cheap fiddles.
If it hadn't been for fools like you, the RAT Party wouldn't have survived the first years of this century, but you are so easy to manipulate that you played right into their hands.
And you haven't learned a damned thing.
Brown may have been backed by the Tea Party in MA, but he never pretended to be a solid conservative. MA has over 50 % registered independents, 38 % rats and just 11 % GOP. Maine now has a GOP governor and legislature. Snowe should be primaried, IMHO. The result in the 2012 general election should determine whether Collins gets primaried in 2014, IMHO.
Where’s Ron Paul’s name?
Primary victories are VERY helpful. No candidate should be able to presume the primary is theirs.
See RNC endorsed Crist.
This is a list of Senators not House members.
If there is a House list, there are probably 2 dozen people on it before Ron Paul would be considered.
Gold bless the teaparty.
A RINO culling.
I agree with all except Scott Brown. Sadly, he’s as good as we’re going to get from MASS. Might as well keep the RINO in the caucus, rather than get another Kennedy.
Okay but he won’t get a dime of CONSERVATIVE money like he did last time,so he’ll probably lose anyway...or change parties.
I have no doubt Richard Lugar would go the same route Lisa Murkowski did if he lost in a primary.
I don’t believe he can do that in Indiana.
I think she’s retiring.
Toomey was for repeal of DADA? I give up.
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