Posted on 06/03/2013 8:37:38 PM PDT by neverdem
The movement is as fired up as ever — and just as unwilling to compromise. That could spell trouble for the Republican Party.
The "tea party" is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment.
After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the presidency but blew a chance to take over the Senate, party leaders paused to consider what had gone wrong.
The Republican National Committee issued a scathing report warning that the party was in "an ideological cul-de-sac" and resolved to act friendlier toward women, minorities and low-income voters. Strategist Karl Rove said the lesson was to nominate more moderate candidates and set about raising money to do just that.
But tea party and other conservative leaders, undaunted, drew the opposite conclusion.
"It was not conservatives" who lost those Senate races, 19 of them wrote in a joint attack against Rove's efforts. "Not one moderate challenger won." The solution, they argued, was to swing further right, not toward the center.
The tea party is as fired up as ever, even though the movement is smaller now than in its heyday of 2010. In one recent poll, only 22% of American voters said they considered themselves tea party supporters, down from 30% three years ago.
But the grass-roots small-government movement has proved...
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It spells trouble in the Senate, where the tea party's newest star, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has brought old-guard GOP leaders to the edge of rage by publicly criticizing them as "a bunch of squishes." He and other tea party senators have succeeded in blocking House-Senate budget negotiations, charging that talks might lead to a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, which they oppose.
"I don't trust the Republicans, and I don't trust the Democrats," Cruz said...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
yup. that was a “it’s my turn” good ol boy thing that worked out just freaking super for us.
Even in blue Connecticut, Republicans gain 14 seats in the state legislature.
2012......GOP avoids Tea Party. No gains.
Every state GOP in America should pick a new State Chairman with Tea Party credentials if they want to regain the majority again!
Ah yes, and the Gang of 8holes.
Good analogy using the turkey hen.
I only had a feeling about him- maybe it was one of thsoe feeligns you get when you think somethign is ‘too good to be true’ I dunno- never coudl put my figner on it really- then I heard his itnerviews, and he just seemed a bit whiny to me- weveryoen was praising his itnerviews as being abotu a poor family that overcame great odds and rose to the top etc- but I heard the typical whining undertones in what and how he was sayign it- only later when he began attackiogn thsoe who dissagreed with his imigration amnesty did I understand that he was indeed whining about beign an imigrant earlier on- looking back, his itnerviews ‘appeared’ humble, but were sorta laced with his feeligns of entitlement for beign son of imigrants
Thanks- Was quite a spectacle and privilege to witness (After my heart attack subsided after she burst into hte air scarign the snot out of me lol
Well, if the GOP splits, it was meant to split. The establishment views the TP as a barely tolerable, yet necessary, evil anyway. How again has all that big-tent “unity” worked for us anyway?
Check the numbers. Any who stayed home or voted third party voted for Zero.
That would be any who didn't vote or voted for Johnson, Stein, Goode, Barr, Anderson, or, yes, Hoefling. Sorry, but that's how the cookie crumbled, and how we knew it would in advance.
My vote does not belong to anyone but me. It certainly does not belong to NE establishment liberal Republicans.
We were played in 2012 by the DNC via governmental apparatuses and by the RNC keeping us at a distance, hoping they could sweak out a win and keep the 2 party games going.
Paging Col Allen West, Paging Sarah Palin...
......Breaking News from the LA Times, they are the ones who are in TROUBLE.
Agree. But it’s not always possible to spot an opportunistic manipulator at the outset.
We’ll make a few mistakes. A few RINOs and turncoats will get past our filters. It’s inevitable. But we’ll learn from them and get them out on the next round.
Also, there are times when a RINO is the only person running against a liberal, socialist, or communist. Lesser of two evils.
We need to start early to identify good conservative candidates. One problem is that politics mostly attracts the opportunists and manipulators, especially those with no real skills that could be applied to a normal, productive job. Those of us who are intelligent, honest, hardworking are usually busy with real jobs and raising families and don’t have time to run for office.
Equal protection be darned!!!
We must raise “minorities”, “women”,
“the children”, “Islam” and “gays” to the highest status possible and reject the rantings of biased, hateful, bigoted, homophobic, bible-thumping, gun-loving, knuckle-dragging Christian morons who are potential domestic terrorists.
/SARC/
IMHO
I would tell you la slimeballs to blow it out your arses but they are so worn by buggery that nothing can be retained within them... ergo your editorial pages.
LLS
> The RNC is dead.
> What do we need to shut them up? Garlic? Crosses? Holy Water? Wooden stakes? what!?
Let’s not leave out tar and feathers and torches and pitchforks.
The RNC should be supporting the Tea Party; not the other way around.
Latest liberal media meme. Ted Cruz and Obama scandals have them scared.
(The movement is as fired up as ever — and just as unwilling to compromise. That could spell trouble for the Republican Party.
The “tea party” is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment)
Is journalism over?
Republican Party and Republican Establishment are not the same thing. The resergegence of the Tea Party spells trouble for those that seek to destroy America be they Democrats or Rino’s
First paragraph was enough for me.
"Try pouring a ton of steel without rigid principles" - Henry Rearden.
Principled citizens are needed to get rid of the looters and moochers in Washington DC.
Republicans supporting the Republican National Committee RINO policy are now in the minority. Conservatives and patriots are getting close to taking over the party. Karl Rove is about to be tossed into the garbage can of history.
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