Tea Partier challenges Boehner for House seat

CBS/AP ^ | September 17, 2011 1:35 PM | Staff

[Outlaw Woman]

CBS/AP) CINCINNATI — A tea party activist is challenging U.S. House Speaker John Boehner in the 2012 Republican primary.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that David Lewis announced his candidacy on Friday.

Lewis, 26, is the father of a 2-year-old girl, and says he plans to run on a single issue — Boehner's support of a federal budget that includes funding for Planned Parenthood, which he calls "the largest killer of unborn babies in America."

Lewis told the newspaper he plans to run graphic...

[reasonisfaith]

Now all we need is 434 names from the phone book to replace all of Boehner’s colleagues, and our country will have a fighting chance.

[central_va]

Figured you liked “boehner”. He will goes limp all the time, just like you.

[MikefromOhio]

Figured you liked “boehner”. He will goes limp all the time, just like you.

I see your reading comprehension hasn't improved a dot since I've been gone....Hooked on Phonics didn't work for you at all, eh? Better than that - despite the time I've been gone I see REALITY still doesn't have a place in your world so at least that didn't change at all.

BTW, POINT ME TO WHERE I SAID I LIKE BOEHNER?? That's right, you won't find it.

[central_va]

Yes or no IYO is Boehner a RINO?

[tallyhoe]

Ok I know you think that the Republicans can pass the light bulb bill but they have to have both houses and the White house to get it passed? If it was that easy they would have repealed Obama care!! I don’t think that Boehner has done a very good job though. He let the patent bill pass the house with that rider for 214 million dollars to bail out a law firm! I am furious over this!!!

[nbenyo]

“So many conservatives have suicidal tendencies.”

Yes, this is why Obama has a 50/50 shot at re-election. We are eating our own and giving Obama a free ride.

[MikefromOhio]

First and foremost, I go by what the ACU says when it comes to determining what a “RINO” is, whatever a RINO happens to be in your world. What’s a RINO? Oh wait, don’t engage central in intellectual arguments...right. Forgot about that one. Let the hilarity ensue....

Anyway, ACU has him at 94.3 lifetime and a 100% for 2010 alone (he was also 96% in 2009). Therefore, by the ratings (which is far more important than your UNINFORMED OPINION), he’s more conservative than you, he’s more conservative than most of the Republican Congress on average too.

But LOOKING AT HIS DISTRICT (which is important in the REALITY which everyone by you lives in), he’s likely about as conservative a congresscritter as you are going to get from the district that encompasses what’s left of the west suburbs of Dayton.

My rep is Austria. He picked it up in 2010 finally and no numbnuts I didn’t vote for him either even though he’s about as conservative as we can hope for given what is in his district. I don’t really have an opinion about Boehner as a Rep other than to say I wish someone else was Speaker.

BTW who is YOUR rep? My guess is either Bobby Scott or Jim Moran, since you line up with them quite well LOL

[MikefromOhio]

Someone, I can't remember who, on the news a couple weeks ago said the GOP and the right wing acts like a 3rd party during the primaries. I'd say that's fairly accurate, wouldn't you?

Everyone is the enemy it seems except whoever YOUR favorite candidate is - the worst part of it is that loses focus on what the actual goal SHOULD BE - the most conservative and most electable candidate possible.

[Free Vulcan]

Bingo. I want Boner gone as much as anyone BUT:

1. Guy doesn’t live in the district. This is the kind of crap the Rats pull. Strike one.

2. Single issue campaign. Strike two.

3. Takes on the Tea Party mantle but is running because of social issues. Strike three.

[MHGinTN]

'It' is on Freerepublic to serve an agenda and it is not doing a good job hiding its leftist bias:

“So, you intend to be a disgusting n00b, not just a stealth n00b. Duly noted.” MHGinTN

'I intend to be nothing more than my own person. My politics are quite simple: the higher the level of government, the less it should govern. Charity starts at home, then a lighter touch in the neighborhood, then lighter yet at the parish/church/worship level, then even lighter at the community level. As you go up the chain — county, state, federal — the touch should continue to be much, much lighter. The “one size fits all” idea of Big Government just doesn’t sit well with me, not at all.
And here I thought the Conservatives were of a similar mind as myself. Thank you for disabusing me of my notion. You don’t hate Big Government, you hate Big Government that does things you don’t like.

There is something so whiny about an obnoxious poster who is so obsessed with its own opinion that it tries to force others to read it even in freepmail not intended for the open forum. If the poster ever awakens to the reality that the alive unborn are not only human beings in the most vulnerable position but also SENSING HUMAN BEINGS, perhaps a more humane perspective will arise. But frankly, the evidence in its posts indicate otherwise, belying a very closed mind.

[Revel]

Bye Bye Boehner- You Rino.

[americanophile]

Purist waste of time and money. Go challenge a Democrat. Boehner’s doing fine.

[americanophile]

Well said. And you’re right on the issue of course.

[cc2k]

Kaslin wrote:

Very well said. Also what is important is concentrate on the Senate and make sure we get not just the majority, but the super majority back.

Yeah!!!! Why, if we can keep the House, with establishment leadership like Boehner and Cantor, take the Senate with establishment leadership like McConnell, and take the Presidency with a former Texas Governor like Perry, we could accomplish many things:

• Double the budget of the Department of eduction in 4 or 5 years
• Add 50% to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency within 4 or 5 years.
• Add 50% to the budget of the Department of Energy within 5 years.
• Pass through a brand new entitlement for retirees, with no offseting budget cuts to "pay for it," and an open ended promise to every American that they will get more "free stuff" once they reach retirement age.

I could go on.

All of those things, and more happened the last time Republicans had a strong majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican President (who happened to be a former Governor of Texas).

Boehner and his party leadership promised last year that they would cut spending back to 2008 levels. Here's a picture of him holding up a copy of "A Pledge to America" (PDF Version).

Speaker John Boehner holds up a copy of "A Pledge to America" at Tart Lumber Company on September 23, 2010.

Now, I understand that the Senate will be a problem, and that the President will veto any actual spending cuts. However, so far, Boehner's Republican controlled House of Representatives has funded the government through Fiscal Year 2011 at levels higher than spending in Fiscal Year 2010. Further, the Republican Controlled House has already passed at least 7 of the 13 appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012, and as far as I can tell, every one of those bills appropriates more in total than was appropriated to those departments in Fiscal Year 2011. (though I'm not 100% sure, and with FY 2011 being all in continuing resolutions, comparisons are difficult)

The Republicans not only have not presented any plan to live up to their promises last year, they haven't even started heading in the right direction with their legislative proposals.

In every respect, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hensarling and the rest of the GOP leadership have failed on spending. They continue to spend more money every year. If they can't get behind a 1% per year actual overall reduction (in absolute dollars) over the next few years, they haven't earned my support. They need to pass that through the House. If it doesn't survive the Senate or gets negotiated away in the conference, then it's on us to resolve the problems in the Senate.

But in 2010, the TEA Party elected the GOP to a majority in the House. We were clear in that election, and in elections since then, "Stop spending more than you take in, and stop borrowing money from foreigners and out of thin air to pay for spending we don't need."

Thus far, Boehner doesn't get it.

He needs a serious primary challenge from within his district, and I hope that he can be picked off. The same goes for Cantor, McCarthy and Hensarling.

That said, this clown who has announced doesn't meet my specifications. He apparently doesn't live in the district, and he doesn't look very serious to me.

[SharpRightTurn]

“In every respect, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hensarling and the rest of the GOP leadership have failed on spending. They continue to spend more money every year. If they can’t get behind a 1% per year actual overall reduction (in absolute dollars) over the next few years, they haven’t earned my support.”

BUMP

[Enterprise]

Mega bump. My view is that if the past can be a possible predictor of the future, then even if we get solid majorities in the House, and the Senate, and we get a Republican President, the Republicans won’t concentrate on reducing the size of the Government, reducing overall spending, and being ruthless in defunding all things leftist. What the Republicans will do is keep the dollars coming in, and redirecting them to their own spending priorities. The ruling elite Republicans are as disgusting as the ruling elite Democrats.

[Theodore R.]

The caption could read “Five Failures”, and “We Want More!”

[Vendome]

Nice try but, that cliff is a little higher than you think.

A single issue is not a winning strategy in business or politics.

You need a minimum of three important issues to illustrate your understanding of the target audience requirements or needs.

You can have up to 5 issues but you need to have considerable skill and experience to keep them all alive or at least consider three of them to be primary objects with the others supporting your overall proposition.

Without a multiprong strategy though, you are just another so and so and Dead In The Water.

Go back to taking care of your daughter and reconsider this when you have really thought through your ability to be a candidate and ultimately prevail in an election.

Buh Bye.

[Vendome]

LOL

Too True.

[Outlaw Woman]

Vendome...that is somewhat harsh, coming from such a well respected FReeper.

The point is, that someone is daring to throw their hat in the ring against Boehner. I totally agree with you about the one issue premise. It’s a losing situation but if Boehner sees that there is someone (and this guy may not be the only one) to challenge him, he might tighten up a bit and STOP COMPROMISING.

I hope that there are others willing and able to challenge him.

In any case, we need a more conservative Speaker.