Posted on 09/19/2014 5:18:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
In the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R), wasn't exactly tea partiers' preferred candidate. But now some tea party organizations seem to be giving the nominee a quiet boost — or at least are still set on bashing Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC).
On Wednesday the Tea Party Express sent out an email calling on supporters to help "Defeat Harry Reid's Sinister Six." Hagan was listed alongside Sens. Mark Begich (D-AK), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Al Franken (D-MN), Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), the Democratic Senate candidate in his state. The Republican primaries in those states have been relatively mild with comparatively less or even no fighting between establishment and tea-party aligned candidates. North Carolina, by contrast, was one of the most heated Republican primaries in the 2014 cycle.
A day earlier the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund sent out a similar fundraising email targeting just Hagan.
"Barack Obama and his liberal Democrat allies are pouring money and campaign resources into North Carolina like crazy," Tea Party Patriots Chairman Jenny Beth Martin wrote in the email. "They are desperate to save leftist Senator Kay Hagan. Tea Party volunteers in North Carolina need our help to win this critical Senate seat."
Establishment-backed Tillis defeated Dr. Greg Brannon, another candidate in the primary, who was actually the favorite of the insurgent tea party wing of the Republican party.
In the general election the race has managed to stay competitive. The TPM Polltracker average currently gives her a 4.7 point lead over Tillis.
Rooting for an establishment candidate isn't ideal, but trying to get supporters to defeat Hagan is better than the alternative, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund communications director Kevin Broughton told TPM.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
I’d guess that Tillis is not a known, long term, weak-minded incumbent (like Cochran) nor a dangerous non-leader (like McConnell and McCain). Therefore he is easily better than Hagen, and not a suitable vehicle to be used for sending a message to the GOPe.
Tea Partiers Swallow Their Pride To Defeat Democrats In November
I’m voting for Grimes.
I understand that you want to vote in a way that upholds your principles, but why would you vote for a candidate who stands for pretty much the exact opposite of those principles? If you don’t want to vote for McConnell, why would you want to vote for Grimes? Would it not be better to vote 3rd party (I don’t know if that option exists in KY) or just vote for neither?
Might be our last big Hurrah.
Once the Dems successfully flood the voter rolls with illegals we’ll be Venezuela within a couple of election cycles.
Well at least she’s relatively honest about what she is though I can never vote for a child sacrifice monger.
I would love nothing more that to see Al Franken go down to defeat this NOV.
In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.
Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.
As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.
Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?
Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?
Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?
You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?
The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.
A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.
Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.
Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.
Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.
If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.
And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.
To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.
And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.
The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.
Yes, having Harry Reid continue as speaker is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.
And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame that they have unleashed on our country for the last five years.
America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?
You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?
America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.
But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead a Mitt Romney who, according to a recent panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.
So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.
Think about it.
and she (so by extension you) will be voting for Harry Reid.
When has a primary losing RINO ever endorsed a conservative? It simply NEVER happens. Mitch McConnell proudly boasted that he was going to destroy the Tea Party. I will not forget that declaration of war against conservatives. People like McConnell and his prostitute supporters (I am looking at you Ann Coulter) can go to hell.
Don’t worry about one tenth of one percent in any election, this one included. Talk is cheap.
Haven’t we supposedly been swallowing our pride for years due to the fixes in voting? It’s time to really choose our own candidates.
How about no more posts that long
Tea Partiers more openly become Republicans.
Are we winning the school boards? Are winning the County Clerks? Are we winning the City Councils? Are we winning the party caucus meetings? Don’t over sell your importance until you have the balls or the hearts of the populace in your hand. It is unlikely that conservatives will win everything in one election cycle. Those who choose to give up and try to teach the establishment by not voting or voting for loosing candidates only serve to make the conservatives weaker. Elections are won only when enough people are convinced of the efficacy of your candidate and by force of the system, you impose your beliefs on enough voters to win. If you watch the true history of the left, that’s exactly what they have been doing for over 90 years.
Not me. I will no longer aid the eGOP is becoming more socialist like the democraps.
I’m really hoping that the leaders of these Tea Party groups arent doing this out of the goodness of their hearts and wrung some concessions out of the GOPe for throwing support their way.
Thats how the Dems traditionally did it. Seemed to work pretty well for them..
I think it is a good post.
Great slogan......."Defeat Harry Reid's Sinister Six"
Although I think Iowa candidate Joni Ernst is the winner:
"I know how to castrate pigs....so send me to Congress."
Joni knows most Americans dream of castrating the pigs in Congress.
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"Harry Reid's Sinister Six" include: Sens Kay Hagan (D-NC), Mark Begich (D-AK), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Al Franken (D-MN), Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA).
In this, of all elections...all American voters of “ALL” political stripes must turn out and vote enmasse against any and all Democrats running for office...period!!! We must effectively destrot the entire Democrat party, politically....which in effect, destroys Obama, making him the biggest of “LAME DUCK” POTUSs!!!
This jive & jazz bout voting for a Democrat or staying home is pure “hogwash”....and actually would make thing worse for our country!
Look...I cannot stand some of the RINO low life.....but....I know....Obama is on a dedicated mission to take down the USA....and he must be stopped, cold, politically!!! Obama is simply and plainly one of the enemy. He (Obama) is no friend or supporter of the USA...period!!! Please.....vote to destroy the enitre Democrat Party come election day, Novmber 4, 2014!!!
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