I’m in NC, and I couldn’t tell that the Tea Party didn’t want Tillis. The ONLY ads I saw against him were the idiotic ones run by dim-0s about.................Thom Tillis shared an apartment with an aide and the aide was having an affair!!!!!!!!!
RUSH is partly wrong on this…Walter Jones is hardly Tea Party - less Tea Party than his opponent Taylor Griffin - who had the local TP endorsements in this race. His research here just totally wrong.
The Jones race is not classic estab v tea Party. Neither candidate fits the entire mold, but Jones is more liberal on more issues than Griffin by far. Sarah Palin and the local Tea Parties agree. Rush stepped in deep do do on this one.
His bigger point, that the TP isn’t dead, I agree with….but NC 3 does not prove it at all.
In fact, the more I think about this, the more irritated and disappointed in Rush I am.
Jones is a 9-11 Truther…..he’s in favor of raising the minimum wage…..his rankings on all the conservative rating groups has been going down down down over the past decade. He is certainly the most liberal Republican in the House from the South. He’s just awful. The local Tea Party groups know it, and so did Palin, who endorsed Griffin. SHAME on Rush for this mistake.
As an aside, I know enough about show prep to know how this kind of mistake could have been made.
Tellis will be better than Kay Hagan, so let’s united behind him.
All Tuesday proves is that the GOPe has successfully jiggered the election process in a number of states.
Good news, “Operation American Spring” is coming to D.C. a week from today!
Thank-you Rush!
| NAME ON BALLOT | PARTY | BALLOT COUNT | PERCENT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Jones | REP | 22,534 | 50.91 % |
| Taylor Griffin | REP | 19,937 | 45.05 % |
| Al (Big Al) Novinec | REP | 1,788 | 4.04 % |
Walter Jones was the RINO in that race, not Griffin.
Honest to God Rush, come on. Come ON!
“A big shout-out and Mega Dittos to my pal, Rush Limbaugh, who talked about our victory over the Washington Insiders in Tuesday’s primary race. It was Main Street vs. Wall Street and K Street.
Rush and I - and the voters in Eastern North Carolina - know that the Washington Republicans’ prescriptions - endless debt, foreign aid, Wall Street Bailouts, and amnesty for illegal aliens - are wrong for America
Here’s a link to Rush’s audio and a transcript:”
https://www.facebook.com/WalterJonesCommittee/posts/618776598206231
Limbaugh failed to mention immigration and foreign policy.
Also part of the Tea Party bashing was that they claim there is a mandate to ram through amnesty.
Ellmers the RINO said she wanted to have a long discussion on immigration and it wont happen in 2014.
Tillis even said he wanted the border sealed before they debate any immigration law changes.
Taylor Griffin said we either deport 12 million or we give them legal status.