Posted on 08/28/2014 6:22:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
he dilemma facing the true grass-roots tea party believers -- the dilemma they do not acknowledge -- is that their primary goal of whittling and whacking away at big government undercuts their secondary goal of saving the middle class from the greedy grip of big corporations..
If Democrats have a unifying philosophy, it is that government needs to be effective enough to curtail the economic and environmental abuses of unfettered capitalism. Republicans, on the other hand, preach the dogma that smaller government and unrestricted corporate power serves the best interests of the common man and woman.
The tea party folks have largely bought into that belief, but still are uncomfortable with Republicans who appear to be too much in thrall to big business. That is partly why a big tea party effort was mounted against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s Republican primary. McConnell was rightly seen as the epitome of the GOP establishment that the tea partiers so disdain. Yet, even with major support from national tea party organizations, such as FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund, challenger Matt Bevin could not depose the incumbent senator.
Now McConnell faces a robust challenge from Kentucky’s Democratic secretary of state, Alison Lundergan Grimes, who, at age 35, has been alive exactly as long as McConnell has been in the U.S. Senate. Polls show Grimes is in striking distance of beating the old veteran.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It’s agitprop. They hate the Tea Party, but want to control the Senate and oust McConnell more. So they’ll say nice things about the Tea Party as means of achieving their higher priority goals. Once those goals are met they’ll go right back to bashing the Tea Party.
As reference look at the articles Katrina Vanden Hovel (sp?) wrote last year about how wonderful it would be if the KY Dems and Tea Part collaborated on getting rid of McConnell. Does anyone really doubt that, had Bevins won, he’d be immediately smeared loudly and often as a right wing, racist, fascist, nutjob Tea Party extremist?
I’m fine with people opposing McConnell on points. But people should also be aware that articles like this are just attempts by the Leftist MSM to play us.
We need her to win. We need her to win because it is the only means of making an example out of Mitch McConnell, which is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than worrying about whether Grimes will win again in six years. (she won't.)
McConnell contributed to our losing the Mississippi Senate seat. What good does it do us when someone like him deliberately throws away a seat to prevent us from taking it and then holds on to his own? How do we come out ahead? The Mississippi Senate seat was just as important as the one in Kentucky.
No my friend, you are not grasping just what this man has done and will do again in the future. Grimes is by far, the lesser of the two evils.
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They had the majority 2000 - 2006, House, Senate AND WH. Did they reduce spending? Did they get rid of any prospects for amnesty? Did they secure the border? No, they didn't, but we DID get the 'Patriot Act'. How's that working out for ya?
which was really hypocritical on McConnell's part, seeing as how McConnell was the person who offered a similar proposal for the Senate's consideration when the Democrats were filibustering/blocking Bush's nominees. Reid is by far a bigger hypocrite (on this issue, as well as others), but McConnell's opposition to curing the Senate's dysfunction when it comes to dealing with executive appointments was an about face.
The wife & I refuse to vote for him this time. Strange how angry people can get when their Senator threatens them and craps all over them. We’re not like abused wives, we are NOT coming back for our fair share of abuse.
I have no idea how many conservatives feel as we do out here. Going to be interesting to see. My gut feeling at this point is he will pull it out by the skin of his teeth. The Dem fraud machine here is not sufficient (yet) for a Republican to be ahead by 3 points and still lose.
But.....they want this one pretty bad, so I see the likelihood of some heavy duty smears late in the campaign.
Here’s how I would run Grimes campaign: Why would anyone want a Republican that can’t be trusted and betrays his own base? Sell it as a man that can’t be trusted by his own party, so why should Dems *or* Pubbies want him.
Keeping traitors allows Democrats to win, or have you not been noticing? McConnell contributed to our loss in Mississippi. He will do so again. He has to go.
Sometimes ya gotta let the Dem win to get rid of a deeply seated RINO.
Well, McConnell should have considered that before he crapped all over political conservatives.
You don’t get it. We need 100 Democrat Senators. Let’s not pretend. With 100 Democrat Senators in control the country will surely sink in to the abyss. THEN we can start over.
I think that’s the plan......
Yeah that’s what I first keyed on, the ‘LA Times’ and how they would twist things. It’s almost in the category of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.
Notice how the LA Times still denigrates the Tea Party folks by saying the movement still doesn’t acknowledge the ‘dilemma’; what rubbish.
The liberal republicans need to lose and never, ever win another race again.
I will work to destroy the liberal republican party.
I'm a conservative, not a republican.
/johnny
Going back to the traditional filibuster rules while Obama is president makes sense. Is very much a good thing.
In a slim GOP Senate Majority it prevents a**holes like McCain from crossing the aisle to confirm Obama’s Liberal nominees.
So wrong on so many levels. But hey, you apparently enjoy being stabbed in the back by traitorous wretches in your own party. Good luck with that.
It despises the political ideals that tea partiers desire.
LAtimes voter suppression effort.
Seems more like trolling for idiots.
Grimes ain't weak.
I think McConnell is toast.
/johnny
Yup, the Dems are really obsessed with defeating McConnell.
A close race is to our advantage. Means the Dems will pump money into KY that they’d otherwise spend elsewhere. Might be enough to swing one or two other marginal races our way.
I still think McConnell wins. Especially if Obama tries to implement that climate treaty. Grimes is pulling out all the stops in trying to win votes in coal country, will see her chances there implode if Obama follows through with his plans.
So, presuming that he’ll win, I want McConnell to damage Grimes as much as he can to hurt her chances at other elective offices (like Governor) she might try for down the road.
McConnell is very weak.
/johnny
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