Posted on 08/08/2014 4:40:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
So lets continue with the spineless feckless go along to get along rhino rats, yeah that seems to be working out well for us isnt it? We can always count on silence when there needs to be screaming
The establishment fossils will die. The TEA Party conservatives have gained valuable experience in running for office. They should be prepared to win.
Time to get off the fence.
Doesn’t matter, the Senate is a bunch of panzies anyway (with a few Cruz-like exceptions, of course). The important thing is that we won the BIG PRIZE, which was Cantor’s (political) head. That more than makes up for all these losses - if, for not other reason, Amnesty would be LAW by now if Cantor had won.
If voters have a healthy skepticism of both “TEA Party” and “Establishment” candidates, I see that as a good thing. It’ll force the voters to take a real hard look at their candidates and judge them on individual merits (or lack thereof) and not generic labels.
I wonder if the reason Pat Roberts won in Kansas was because the Tea Party challenger is a third cousin to that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Many probably held their noses when they voted for Roberts.
I consider myself tea party. That stated, in many instances, we need better candidates. I am not talking about a change in political philosophy or policy (lower taxes, less government, rule of law, constitutional checks and balances)...what I mean by “better candidate” is an articulate person, like able and not angry...low information people don’t vote for anger. Reagan was a force of nature who changed America for the better...but he did not come across as angry.
To be sure, if you aren’t angry, you should be. But our candidates cannot come across as such.
Agree 100 percent.
Remember Mississippi.
Seems that the Tea Party candidates have been able to overcome, somewhat, the endless barrage of negative,
name-calling propaganda that the MSM has been spewing for years.
(Herr Goebbles might be just a bit disappointed.)
IMHO
Headline should have said “...RINO Voters Wary Of Tea Party...” And when did Mike Barone become the election advisor to Conservatives?
I would absolutely agree. I want to see reasoned calm, not fury.
Barone has to come up with one or more columns a week. Everybody occasionally burns their toast. So Mike burned his today. Don’t know what the details of his column were. He lost me at the headline. Sorry. But I’m about “up to here” with political BS from the scribes.
I am in my early 60s and recently started dating a woman of similar age whom I met online. She is a Republican, and among other things we bond around our mutual hatred of Obama and the Democrats.
When I first met her this past January, and we got to talking, I was very happy that we agreed on so much politically. She’s not a real political news junkie like I am, but she hates the Boston Globe, and likes Howie Carr. (We live in Massachusetts, about five minutes away from each other.)
But get this. When I told her that I was a big Tea Party fan, she said: “I hate the Tea Party. They’re way too extreme.”
Needless to say, I was stunned. But in the six months that we’ve known each other, and as she has come to understand why I’m a Tea Party supporter, her opinion has mellowed, and she admits to having more respect for the kind of conservatism that the Tea Party represents.
My point is that there are a lot of basically conservative people who would seem to be potential Tea Party supporters, but somehow they have gotten such a wrong impression of what it stands for because they are not political junkies and basically get all their news from the MSM.
She gets her news from local TV news, and reads the Boston Herald everyday along with the very local town daily paper. She has a laptop, but doesn’t spend a lot of time with it.
I think there are probably a lot of Tea Party-hating conservatives out there who would get on board with the Tea Party agenda if only there were some effort to reach out to them and get the right message out.
Not sure how to do that, and maybe my experience is just a generational thing, but meeting this lady and hearing her initial reaction to the Tea Party has really opened my eyes.
I think this is one reason why so many Republicans continue to vote for the RINOs.
I agree. There have been plenty of candidates seeking to ride the coattails of the Tea Party who have been poseurs or duds.
Judge a candidate by his/her stands on the issues, not because they say they are aligned with this or that group. If they are elected, hold their feet to the fire or vote them out next time if they don't walk the walk.
The incumbents are winning by embarrassingly small margins, but a win is a win. It doesn’t matter if they win by one vote or millions. So why are the incumbents winning?
#1 I personally think Republican voters in general are moderately satisfied with the incumbents. Mitch McConnell, for example, is despised here, but he actually has a reasonably conservative voting record. It’s not stellar of course, but it’s not nearly so bad—in the eyes of most Republicans—as some here think.
#2 The so-called Tea Party candidates were generally political newcomers. Here that’s considered a big plus, but most Republican voters do not want to elect people who haven’t paid their dues. We don’t put complete amateurs into the Oval Office (or a senator’s job) based on popularity, family name, or media propaganda. We don’t run elections like beauty pageants. We aren’t Democrats.
#3 Incumbents generally know how to win and have the resources necessary to wage winning campaigns. They have money, connections, and name recognition. If name recognition alone gives them a few percentage points, that’s enough to win a lot of elections.
That’s my two cents for what it’s worth.
Blame the state Republican Parties who refuse to fix the problem of “open” primaries, where Democrats are authorized to join in with the Repubs (and they do) to vote for the most “liberal” Republican on the ballot. Yes the Repubs are so fair and square they let their arch enemy arrange things for them. Just like the Rats voting in the “primaries” were the ones who chose Mitt Romney for US in 2012. What a bunch of self-hating suicidal morons.
Democrats and the DBM have had great success denigrating the Tea Party.
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