Posted on 06/11/2014 2:14:31 PM PDT by Javeth
Hatch says he is retiring but there have been some news reports that he’s been considering reneging on that promise, as he’s crafting some statements to at least leave the door open. I don’t trust RINO’s like Orrin Hatch when they claim they’re planning to retire, if only since the attractions and corruptions of D.C. power are so great. If Hatch plans to retire, all the better, but we need to hold his feet to the fire and make sure he follows through on that promise, and whatever the case, we need to have a true conservative, an opponent of amnesty and the H1b and the other defining elements of the Dems’ Socialist agenda in the wings, to take that seat in Utah in 2018.
Mark Levin has said he has behind-the-scenes info that Hatch and Mitt Romney are maneuvering to get one of Romney’s sons to challenge Mike Lee in Utah in 2016.
If they do that, they will regret it until they die.
Wow, thanks for posting those numbers— looks like Graham’s RINO-ing has an awful lot of Democratic enabling. Is this a structural issue with South Carolina’s primary and general electoral system? I don’t think I’ve heard of this sort of thing in other states.
Thanks for that list in Tennessee. Anyone standing out in particular?
Ted Cruz was one guy in a field of 6 against Dewhurst
I don’t know a thing about any of them except that Alexander has been there
for a long time. With seven challengers I have no idea what that will do to his chances
of winning the primary. It’s an open primary state but then the democrats have several
races going on also. And I don’t if it’s a 50% plus one to win or some other criteria.
A lot of good and relevant ideas here, I agree the key is to have something of a “pre-primary” among the Tea Party and the overall conservative core of the GOP, so that we’ve settled on one conservative champion well before the primaries of 2020, 2018 and 2016. Not sure of the best mechanism for this, but the various straw polls and pre-primary debates can help us to settle on a single champion, which for example for the 2020 primary, might be someone like Lee Bright— but more or less decided earlier in 2019, so that he has the name recognition, media attention and resources to take down Lindsey Graham. Same for the 2018 and 2016 primaries to take down those pro-amnesty and H1b RINOS, we should have some means to settle on a single conservative champion by early in 2017 and 2015, respectively.
Good point also about Marco Rubio, he has been walking back somewhat but he’s lost a lot of trust from his membership in the Gang of Eight, and I’m not sure he can ever gain that back. The problem is he posed as a conservative initially and backstabbed the movement with the immigration reform bill, the single most important bill to show his conservative credentials (the one most important for allowing a conservative movement to be viable in the first place). If he wants to regain that trust, he’s going to have to do a lot more and specifically on immigration reform, for example to unequivocally kill such a bill if brought up again in 2015. And also to loudly and unfailingly speak up against other pro-amnesty and H1b RINO traitors even outside of that, for example right now denouncing John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, Kelly Ayotte, Orrin Hatch, John Hoeven and other pro-amnesty traitors, publicly. Obviously this would be unpleasant for him as he’d be going against the RINO’s who duped him, but he has to show some backbone against those traitors to prove his own bona fides. In fact, he could get that ball rolling by doing something we can all easily agree on— denouncing the Democratic Gang of Eight anti American traitors especially Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Robert Menendez. This alone would show some spine while also giving an introduction to turning his immigration reform criticism against the RINO’s as well.
Perfect answer to Vinnie.Rinos must be ok in his book.Some people just don’t get it.
A grown man and a politician getting played? I think not.He was promised something big to get out there and champion this crap called anything but what it is .AMNESTY.Do not trust him.dont get played.
The Dems and Graham himself helped bring about the six candidates. I’m going to vote against LG in the general.
Tex, You are correct. To run six conservative candidates against Lindsey and then expect one to defeat him was sheer folly. Hopefully the anti-Lindsey conservatives will spend then next six years, provided Lindsey is re-elected, uniting to find a single conservative to run against him.
amen
“Graham did not even do well in his primary. As entrenched as he is, he could barely muster 59% of the vote against a divided field. This was even worse than other RINOs like McConnell and Cornyn (who, treacherous as they are, were able to hang on only because they did at least cast NO votes on the immigration reform bill). Graham has clearly stoked serious opposition in the party which we can capitalize on in 2020.”
Grahamnesty only received 56.4% of the vote, though he had more money than all the rest of the field several times over. None of his opponents received free publicity from outside groups or talk radio. None of his opponents were able to get their message out in an effective way and therefore none of them got any traction. And yet Linseed only received 56.4%. Linseed was very lucky this time around. And meanwhile, as Levin emphasized on his show tonight, Tim Scott, who was also running for a Senate seat in SC, received about 90% of the vote in his primary.
IOW, hold your nose and vote for Graham in Nov.
I hope SC voters will hold there noses and vote for Graham in November. Lee Bright was a wonderful candidate but with our crazy open primary Graham was able to get enough Dems to cross over and carry him over the finish line. He isn’t perfect but he is in the right caucus. I spoke with Mrs. Bright this evening and thanked her for the try they made.
Yeah, I swore I wouldn’t vote for that rino Romney, but I did.
Sadly millions of repubs thought exactly like you and didn’t vote for him. I suspect a lot of them because he is ..gasp....a Mormon.
Now look at the mess this idiot Zer0 has the Country in.
We have wasted 10+ years and thousands of soldier’s lives in the Middle East as the Taliban, et al, retake Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank You Barak.
The economy is in shambles. The employment books are cooked along with the Growth, GNP, inflation, etc.
Thank You Barak.
Romney could have gotten the economy turned around, but no, ideologues stopped that.
I dislike Graham, McCain, Alexander, Hatch and a bunch of other rinos but in the big picture filling up that side of the aisle is extremely important.
And Judge appointments, don’t forget the importance of that!!!
If you want 6 more years of Harry Reid rule, Out and out Communists appointed to government positions then keep that line of thought.
Joe Carr is being supported by local Tea Parties here in TN.
I don’t vote for liberals period.Did you ever think that they ran Romney(A LIBERAL)to lose? I did and still do. When he gave a speech he would rush right through it. The fix was in pure and simple. I don’t see a big difference between the leadership of either party. They are just way too cozy with each other. Do you notice that the gop establishment fights tooth and nail against tea party people and folds, against demorats, like a cheap suit?I believe the current mess this country is in is by design.
Well, as Reagan said in his 75 speech, you should go your own way. Because I and a growing number of us by the day, are not voting RINO. Ever.
But just remember that every prediction we made has come true. The GOP surged left, they run ever leftward candidates and are now indistinguishable from the average Democrat.
So if you continue to side with America’s GOP/Dem disaster against what the rest of us know to be the correct path, do not be shocked when you are opposed in every way. And to save you some typing, we do not give a damn what you think about it, us or anything else. You chose the wrong way to go and in doing, became the problem.
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