Posted on 09/20/2014 8:02:38 PM PDT by Din Maker
After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday dismissed the notion that party voters are not united behind their candidates. “Can you point to a race … ? It’s a false narrative,”
Kevin Broughton, spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots singled out a few races, particularly in Kansas and Mississippi, but suggested his troops will rally for the general election.
Broughton said they will focus on such grassroots efforts as get-out-the-vote, instead of buying TV or other media spots.
All six Republican senators who faced promising Tea Party-backed challenges won their primaries, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who in March boldly predicted he and the rest of the Washington establishment would “crush” far-right advocacy groups and their candidates.
“I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country,” the five-term Kentucky Republican told The New York Times.
The other wins came in Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Kansas, where the NRSC helped incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Roberts to victory with more than 40,000 phone calls in the final three weeks of his campaign.
In Mississippi, Tea Party-backed candidate Chris McDaniel forced GOP incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran -- who had strong inside-the-beltway financial and grassroots support -- into a runoff to retain his seat.
Politico described the contest as “a flashpoint in the GOP civil war.
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Where the disagreements are minor and in good faith, sure, I’ll consider the lesser of evils when the lesser evil is essentially decent.
In the case of McConnell and Thad Cochran, I’d say forget it. Never.
Here we go again, they kick us in the face and tell us we aren’t wanted and then say we should vote for them anyway.
Happens every time.
I agree with you 100%. If the GOP candidate is decent and/or the Dem is a total scumbag, yeah; I might mend some fences. But, like you......... McConnell and Cochran....NEVER!
Nope. The GOP-wing of the Democrat party must be driven to extinction.
who is “they”? who is “us”? the enemy is harry reid, not thad cochran.
I don’t think the GOPe’s get it.
Desperation will set in about 3 weeks from the election.
They will promise the moon at that point.
What exactly is the GOPe’s running on?
Have they been reading FR again or is this just a propaganda trick?
Never forget Mississippi and Mark Mayfield who was railroaded to his death by Cochran’s direct involvement.
Thad Cochran is as much the enemy of conservatives as Harry Reid.
From the NRSC website:
Please let us know your questions or comments for the NRSC.
You can email us here,
http://www.nrsc.org/Contact
or call us or send us a letter.
Our address is:
NRSC
425 2nd Street NE
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Our phone number is:
Phone: 202-675-6000
(Be sure to let them know how you feel!)
How can you “mend fences” and join forces with corrupt frauds such as Mitch and Thad? Both richly deserve defeat. Bob
The GOPe acted like DenocRats last time they held te Sin-ate. Not one dime’s worth of difference.
No
Those of the Tea Party persuasion might want to try writing in “Lipton” on their ballot. Sort of like a Mel Gibsonish Battle of Falkirk thing, the troops walking off the field of battle but not before leaving their mark.
AND... everyone who contributed to the runoff in the secretive meeting. They are all NO GOOD!
It seems like some would support Harry Reid if he puts an R behind his name.
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