TEA* Party or GOPe?
If you are a RINO, don't. You RINO's have had your day in 1992 (GHW Bush), 1996 (Dole), 2008 (McCain) and 2012 (Romney). While GW Bush won in 2000, it was barely against the kook Algore, and beating Kerry shouldn't even had been close. Still, Bush won. But he's still much more RINO than TEA. And he helped ruin the brand, what with amnesty support and No Child Left Behind dealings with Tedward Kennedy. I won't even get into Afghanistan or Iraq because I supported kicking their asses but we never should have tried nation-building with them. Kick ass, kill bad guys, get out. Rinse, lather, repeat.
ANYWAYS, RINOs have had the contender role these past several elections and come up short. It's time to try a different type of challenger. TEA party, or TEA philosophy, at least.
TEA = Taxed Enough Already. It is not Tea, but rather TEA. Seriously that is what the TEA Party actually means.
Not to mention "TEApublicans"
I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt if there is such a thing as a "TEA-RAT".
Pence is more conservative socially than most RINO’s. I’d say he is also more TEA than GOP-e. He was one of the few who did not vote for the stimulus bill back in 2008. I believe he also did not vote for the senior care prescription program.
I’d say he’ll likely run in 2016. I wish Rand Paul and Ted Cruz would consider running for governor before they ever run for president. They need the executive experience, IMO.
The only hit on Reagan that made sense to me was his inexperience or running a state. Of course, with zero in office today that doesn’t seem to be such a big deal now but it was at the time. So Reagan ran for and won in CA to be governor and get that experience. In 1980 experience was no longer an issue for him.
I had the same reaction to Mike Pence. He was good in congress but lacked the executive experience. Now that he’s been running Indiana, and we have an incompetent novice in the White House, that doesn’t seem to be an issue today. Still, Pence has that experience and won both Democrats and Republicans to get his office.
With that in mind, I’m looking forward to evaluating Pence for a candidacy for president. If he’s still as good as he was before I believe he stands a good chance of winning conservative voters and stopping Jeb Bush and the party elite.