Posted on 01/05/2014 10:04:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who survived a recall in 2012 largely due to the tea party, said Sunday that the tea party movement should target Democrats, not Republicans.
"The answer is not to take it out on House Republicans in primaries, it's to go to Louisiana, Arkansas and North Carolina," the Republican governor said on CNN's "State of the Union," referring to Senate Democrats who are facing tough reelection campaigns in red states.
Walker offered his assessment in the wake of House Speaker John Boehner's recent criticism of some conservative outside groups.
It was a fairly gentle warning that circular firing squads aren’t bright.
Take your own advice, GOPe, represent your base and spend your energy on defeating the dems, instead.
There are two wars the Tea Party is waging.
The first war will be the series of battles in the Spring during the primaries against establishment republicans.
The second war will occur in the Summer and Fall during the election season against the democrats.
Walker is saying that the Tea Party should fight the second war and omit the first. He understands full well that the first war is just as important as the second because defeating democrats with RINOs is no victory.
Walker should consider the consequences if we were not to have Senators like Cruz and Lee. What did their fight to defund Obamacare accomplish? It accomplished a lot. It revealed to the nation that there is a contingent of republicans who are willing to stand on principle and oppose this reach of socialism. Without Cruz and Lee spending hours and hours on the Senate floor fighting to defund Obamacare, the republicans would be ***co-owners of Obamacare*** the fiasco of its rollout.
Bears repeating:
WITHOUT PRINCIPLED TEA PARTY CONSERVATIVES FIGHTING TO DEFUND AND REPEAL OBAMACARE, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD BE CO-OWNERS OF THE OBAMACARE FIASCO.
Principled Tea Party conservatives are a major force and ally of the republican party.
Therefore, we need to replace corrupt republicans who fancy themselves as members of the ruling class aristocracy with more Tea Party conservatives.
Then we will steamroll the democrats in the Fall election.
Governor Walker should consider revising his talking points to advocate the need to refuse the bribes of the Beltway class and to stand on principles that reflect traditional Americans.
We can also take out other liberals in whichever state they happen to have been betraying their voters.
If they happen to be Republicans, sorry Walker, they're also on the chopping block to plan on retiring, with a good chunk of our money to boot!
I don't think we need another elected official telling us which pols need removing and which don't, in your opinion but have a nice day.
Water Carrier.
LOL!
No way RINO’s are more damaging than a deocrap!
When a Democrat does it the opposition can become Republicans, what happens when both parties do it?
A 2012 Gallup survey reported that 10% of U.S. adults identify as non-specific Christian.
Criticism ...nondenominationalism encourages a descent of Christianity—and indeed, all religions—into comfortable "general moralism" rather than being a focus for facing the complexities of churchgoers' culture and spirituality... it also encourages ignorance of the Scriptures, which in turn reduces overall religious literacy, increasing the potential for inter-religious misunderstandings and conflict.[3]
Walker is good on certain issues but needs to shut up about this. Now he sounds like those who criticized Reagan for challenging Ford.
Great comment. It does seem that way.
The Tea Party isn’t the one who started this fight yet the establishment wants us to surrender while they trash us? Maybe they should take their own advice!
Which helps elect liberals. The liberals control the Executive (white house), US Senate and almost half of the House. Which gives them power to shove Obamacare, gay marriage, Amnesty to illegals etc.. down our throats.
Sounds accurate. I wonder exactly how that works.
Pretty big thing to say just be Gov. Walker wants the focus to be on winning races and on defeating democrats. All he is saying is focus on beating vulnerable Democrats.
Pretty big thing to say just be Gov. Walker wants the focus to be on winning races and on defeating democrats. All he is saying is focus on beating vulnerable Democrats.
Pretty big thing to say just because Gov. Walker wants the focus to be on winning races and on defeating democrats. All he is saying is focus on beating vulnerable Democrats.
Does he think people are so stupid they can not do both, support and elect conservatives and work to remove rinos? Electing a rino IS electing a democrat. The tea party understands opposing a rino IS focusing on the democrats. Flash: the tea party is able to multitask.
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