Chuck Schumer Pushes Plan To Wipe Out Tea Party

The Washington Times ^ | January 23, 2014 | Jacqueline Klimas

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Chuck Schumer Pushes Plan To Wipe Out Tea Party Calls for nonpartisan ‘blanket’ primaries

By Jacqueline Klimas January 23, 2014

"Do what a handful of states have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, then enter a runoff," Sen. Charles E. Schumer suggests in his scheme to weaken the tea party. (Associated Press)

Democrats should push for more open primaries as a way of weakening the tea party movement, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Thursday, laying out a plan to try to isolate the grass-roots conservative movement that has emerged as a key hurdle to President Obama’s agenda over the past three years.

Mr. Schumer said moving to a nonpartisan “blanket” primary — in which all candidates compete and the top finishers advance regardless of party affiliation — would force right-wing candidates to appeal to centrist voters, which he said would push out the most extreme candidates.

SEE ALSO: Rev. Jeremiah Wright slams tea party as ‘a 2.0 upgrade of a lynch party’ “Do what a handful of states have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, then enter a runoff,” Mr. Schumer said in a speech at the Center for American Progress. “It would force the most extreme candidates in Republican districts to move closer to the middle to pick up more moderate Republicans and independents.”

Such a system is in place in California, Louisiana and Washington state.

Mr. Schumer said the tea party movement is being controlled by a few wealthy donors whose limited-government philosophy does not reflect the ideas of millions of voters who identify as tea party supporters

[mac_truck]

Schumer must be worried that the hard left will start running against incumbent democrats like himself in the primaries.

[kevinm13]

CHUCKIE “CHEESE” SCHUMER needs to retire and get away from cameras and microphones. Following the nonsense from Mario’s son the Gov of NY.

[dandiegirl]

Exactly. The GOP are such idiots when they do get some air time. Make them defend why they want to defeat people that want to follow the constitution and keep their hard-earned money in their own pockets. Make them defend it- it’s really very simple, but the simpletons that compromise the GOP don’t have any interest.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

would force right-wing candidates to appeal to centrist voters, which he said would push out the most extreme candidates.

No Chuck-you. What would happen is that conservatives would stay home in droves, and those candidates at the top would be leftists duking it out over a smaller voting pool. Then more people will wake up and get to see who the real leftists are.

And the Tea Party will still be out there attacking the statist agenda and trying to stop it.

Schumer is a creature of big government. He has never held a private-sector job in his life, and has no clue what real people think outside of NYC. And he has absolutely no clue what the Tea Party really stand for.

[Mad Dawgg]

Caption Contest: "Show us your papers SCHNELL, or we put you in the boxcar!"

[gusopol3]

Does Hamas write his stuff?

[sergeantdave]

“Chuck Schumer Pushes Plan To Wipe Out Tea Party”

That’s exactly the kind of threat I expect from the Nazi Schumer. I’d bet the farm that this gutless Himmler worshipper will never step foot on the battlefield to carry out his cheap and empty threat.

We need an American-style Nuremberg tribunal to rid this country of communists, Nazis and democrat traitors.

[Nuc 1.1]

What would cause him to make that type of assumption?

it is not an assumption. It is a flat out lie. Lying is what Chucky and the dims do best. I am the TEA party. I work hard, pay my taxes, mind my business, and never bother anyone. All I want is to be left alone. It is the one thing that the power crazed busy bodies and marxists in government will not do. I have had it with them.

[cva66snipe]

From the article: “Mr. Schumer said the tea party movement is being controlled by a few wealthy donors whose limited-government philosophy does not reflect the ideas of millions of voters who identify as tea party supporters.”

Whereas the Democrats and GOP-E united party are OWNED mainly by a majority of Marxist/Socialist wealth and power class donors. These are ones who push their agenda for One World Order and a Slave and master economy with no allowances for free citizens to prosper from their own labors. They must be regulated into submission so sayeth our owned leaders. Those are the same leaders who are forcing subversion & creating our now out of control government & loathing our once honored Constitutional form of government. Such as these aren't statesmen they are Liars and Cheats.

Their philosophy does not reflect the ideas of the Founding Fathers nor any of the writs forming our nation. They are Tyrants. Spit on the sidewalk toward them when you see them in disgust. Their philosophy reflects Tyranny of the highest order against We The People and our blood bought freedoms.

Chuck Schumer and many in both houses just like him are enablers to such Tyrannies. That is a Bipartisan across the aisle act of hate against our nation. They believe We The People are too be ruled soley by the annointed elitist rather than ruled by elected consent. Chuck Schumer is a great reason for having Term Limits so Tyrants can not make their elitist ambitions a political reality. Oink Oink Marxist Pigs.