Braking News !
I guess the brakes aren’t going our way.
This article would be more credible of the GOP-e wasn’t spending more money against Tea Party candidates than against Democrats.
Breaks?????
Boehner, McConnell, Graham and McCain’s collective gloating and derision of the Tea Party ooga booga will come back to bite them in the a$$ if they don’t shut up and take their wins humbly.
Those Mexicans you think will vote for you if you just let those 12-50 Million illegals have citizenship will NOT be there to vote for you. And many of those conservative Tea Party sentiment voters you ridicule won’t be there either.
The “tea party” became everything and was doomed without formal structure and principles to eventually become nothing. Anybody could hang out a “tea party” sign, and they did.
McConnell lost 40% of the vote in a republican primary as the Minority Leader of the US Senate in a state he’s been an elected official for over 35 years.
That’s pathetic.
Yes. Tap the breaks. Breaks need to be tapped.
I am in accord.
Tea is seeping back in - if slowly from appearances.
Braking News !
I agree with this. Nobody (well maybe McCain) is running in a Republican primary as the bipartisan compromise douche we are all longing for. Those days are over.
Some bipartisan compromise douches still seep through, but that because not enough Republicans study the candidates and see who is actually going to fight the fight.
The Tea Party has shifted the debate within the Republican Party to the right, but it moves at a glacial pace. We need to keep the pressure on the Republicans and keep shoving.
Count on it.
All we need to do is look at how much chaos sown by just a handful of tea partiers in DC.
We don’t have to win every race or even most of them as long as we keep winning a few with the right people who can force change in Washington.
The NC GOP has for the fist time ever, dating back to the Civil War, taken from the Rebels (DNC) the State House, Senate and Governorship - and with that power has reshaped North Carolina fiscally and politically. They have Kate Hagan on the Run - and for the first time ever in Fayetteville we have Republican Judge. Times are changing in the Deep South, but should the Tea Party sit back and pat itself on the back. The primary season was one in which the establishment GOP beat it challengers within the conservative sphere. TEA Party is not dead but might as well be in Cumberland County because from what I saw attending meetings was a group of Liberals Fiscally Minded - this is not GOP nor is it conservative. If the TEA Party is failing it is precisely because of its internal politics - if not for their concern about Budgets, I would have guessed them all to be Social Leftists; therein lies the problem - they are not conservative at the end of the Campaign season. Our local TEA Party would do better campaigning as Democrats because that is their Social Constituency.
Ha!
At this point, and strictly out of disgust, I’d vote Tea Party on any candidate or issue JUST because of the way the GOP has reacted to Tea Party issues and candidates.
ALSO, because of the way the most uninformed and shallow idiots who know NOTHING about politics in this country seem to know ABSOLUTELY everything about the Tea Party! Really??!!
The GOP’s top guy in the Senate has 40% of his own party’s voters in his own state vote *against* him?
Against a poor candidate?
I’d say that this should be a good scare for the GOP.
The GOPe is staying in mostly under the power of incumbency. Look for the Tea Party to capture at lease a couple of open seats.
Good news, the seeds coming from the TP movement have been planted. Give it time, they will grow and come to life.
Thank goodness this guy is a better writer than he is as a talk show host.
He replaces Bill Bennett every Friday here locally, and never fails to irritate the hell out of me.
He was ragging on the Mexican imprisoned Marine for “driving around with an arsenal” in his truck - he had 3 guns !! Oh, NO !!!
He may make it DullAss, but he really belongs in New York, or Massachusetts. He sounds like a northern fast talking liberal whiner, NOT a Texan.