it’s laughable, since they don’t mention the fact that Paul and Lee have endorsed Greg Brannon in North Carolina. Facts are inconvenient for UnwashedPost
Incumbents typically do not endorse anyone in primaries
neither Dem nor GOP incumbents
someone needs to ask that stupid bitch to name some Dem incumbents and who they have endorsed in a Fem primary
Jennifer Rubin is a ditz...In order to have a big tent, do Republicans not need the tea party? (Jennifer—in case you are reading, that question was rhetorical).
Conversely, neither one has endorsed either of the three longstanding senators being challenged by the three mentioned above. Rubin seems oblivious to the fact that just as much meaning can be attached to their declining to support three Republican fixtures in the Senate.
Rand Paul and Mike Lee endorsed Brannon against Neocon Tillis.
Ted Cruz can’t endorse because he helps the NRSC committee.
Thomas Massie endorsed Lee Bright.
The open seats are the main way Tea Party candidates get elected.
Rubin is delusional and has set up straw man after straw man so she can direct her venom at an imaginary insurgent movement. Tea Party was a term used to identify a group of conservative voters with similar concerns. It has never become an "insurgent movement", though the possibility has, and still does exist. Backing a few conservative candidates rather than RINO incumbents does not equal an insurgency.
Her little rant is more about her personal hatred for voters with views not completely in line with her own than it's about any actual reality. Just another Beltway Republican elitist snob looking down her nose.
Show me federalism and I can buy big tent. Federalism has been dead for over a century.
If I had a dollar for every time the tea party was declared “dead”...
Jennifer Rubin - you ignorant slut!
The GOP in DC has a death wish.
It was most evident at the 2012 convention when they blocked out all opposition...from the Paul liberatian wing to the tea party base. They place wore over winning.
In other words, "I wish."
Democrats don’t treat their voters like domestic abuse victims but Republicans will eagerly beat the crap out of its Conservative base then expect them to vote for them.
The GOP is quite dysfunctional.
Wacko, far-left extremists like Mike Dickinson in VA are embraced, feted...grapes fed to him by naked liberal women even. But when a Republican dares be conservative OH NOOOOO WE CAN’T HAVE THAT...what about bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle???
Bevin’s problem has been money from the beginning. He hasn’t any and McConnell has his own printing press.
So far, despite this article, Bevin has made one misstep. McConnell, on the other hand, has chosen Duke of Kentucky in basketball, has slyly endorsed everything from massive spending to obamacare to amnesty. He uses the senate rules to look innocent, but he’s guilty as sin.
Didn’t Jennifer Rubin once pretend to be a conservative journalist? What happened?
The rag is a joke
Mrs. Rubin’s little princess, Jenny, is worried about the GOP again. She’s just trying to help them win elections. LOL! The “big tent” crap is a myth.
As expected, more than 90% are from the Left Wing.
But, the quality of the comments is shockingly poor.
First, most of them would fail a test of basic writing skills.
Worse, I did not come across even one original, or humorous, or insightful thought.
It's just endless repetition of Democratic Party talking points:
(1) Koch Brothers
(2) Cruz and Rand Paul are evil
(3) The 47%
(4) The George W. Bush Administration
For sure, Free Republic comments are not perfect.
But I rarely leave these pages without learning something or laughing out loud.
If WaPo is representative of the average Left Wing blog, well, that is borderline pitiful.