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 ? Its 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 dont 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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We can’t win this war if we quit the first time we get roughed up.
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First time my butt! Where the heck have you been oldbrowser? You must have been browsing another website for the past few years. Besides, WE’RE NOT QUITTING, WE’RE CLEANING HOUSE!!!
OK trebb; apparently you live in MS. Does it look like there’s a chance that Thad Cochran can be defeated? I know the Dems are fired up and discretely wooing the McDaniel people. They have a conservative Democrat, Travis Childers, for their candidate (Pro-Life, Pro-Second Amendment and ANTI-Sex Marriage.) The Dems are raising a lot of out-of-State money for this race. If the Conservatives stay home, skip the Senate Race on the ballot or vote for the Dem...... Cochran could lose and Haley Barbour would not get to give this seat to one of his nephews in a year or two.
WHAT SAY YE? Can Cochran be defeated?
So how did that end up working out for William Wallace and the Scottish clans?
I'm with you all the way on that.
We been 80 or 90 years getting into the shape we are in; we're not going to fix it in one election. We need to stand up some conservative representatives of the people or at least twist the arms of the lazy crooked ones we have. But it's going to be a long, long war.
Oh, we have a toehold, do we? Feel the excitement!!!! Maybe, if we spend our entire lives doing nothing else and persuade our children and grandchildren to do likewise, we can elect a Congressional Majority worth having by, oh, 2094. NOT! I am for slicing the towel in strips and using the strips to strangle each and every RINO bought and paid for slave of the US Chamber of Crony Socialism. Conservatives look at Ronaldus Maximus as the ideal POTUS. Our enemies such as Myth Romney, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, LAMAR!!! Alexander, Bob Corker, Mark Nancyboy Kirk, Thad Cockroach, Roger Wicker, John (Hic) Tanning Bed Boehner, Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the all too numerous "GOP" Congresswhores worship the memory of Gerald Feckless Ford, a good slave of business and of the "interests."
Hang the treasonweasel "GOP" "moderate" bastards and send each and every one straight to hell! Build a ten-holer gallows and keep it busy 24/7/365 until the job is done. What you call the "beltway boys" are the enablers who allow the Harry Reids and the Upchuck Schumers to survive and rule. "Republicans" have the House and therefore the "power of the purse" and have done almost NOTHING with it. Instead, they sit around whining and making excuses for their total ineffectiveness at forcing conservative policy. Oh, if ONLY we had a majority of the Senate, we could do wonders (on behalf of the US Chambers of Crony Socialism only and to hell with the American people betrayed as usual)!
If we give these Demonrats in GOP drag) the Senate, then they will whine and excuse themselves for total ineffectiveness on issues Americans care about by painting Obozo as Superman and doing the If only we had a Milquetoast Moderate GOP POTUS like Myth Romney, THEN we could do wonders (on behalf of the US Chambers of Crony Socialism only and to hell with the American people betrayed as usual)!
Elk, the problem with having conversations with you is that you were given most of the sense, reason and logic, along with the ability to wield them like a hammer...and the rest of us have to fight for the few bits left ;)
If I could add one thing to your post I’d say this.
The ultimate responsibillity for the actions of the RINOs falls on the people that put them in power. Because using the simple reductionist arguement, if they were not there governing identically to democrats, the problems of this nation could not in part, be blamed on them.
Dems are what they are. The longer the GOP ‘base’ assists the GOP in governing like Democrats, the more blame ‘we’ deserve. The simple and logical solution is to stop empowering our problem...and stop denying that it is a problem.
Unfortunately it’s a time issue and I doubt that enough people will use the time they now devote to proctological self exams to thinking clearly fast enough to matter.
They are worse than Marxists. They are political Judenrats.
Traitors are always the worst and most-insidious enemies one can have. Traitors to a cause, the most nefarious bunch.
The beltway boys are professional politicians that have become corrupted and need to be replaced as soon as we can get them out of there.
And you think elections are going to fix that? Cochran and Mississippi, that is the new normal.
The GOP are part and parcel of the Ruling Class Oligarchy. They have enabled the Beast to grow to the point it has. On top of that, the GOP made it perfectly clear that they are going to crush any Conservatives seeking to hold office in their party, and that they intend to punish anyone who will not support the leadership.
The Marxists are similar to the muslims in that their goal is a one world government, run by themselves. They have slowly eaten away at our constitution and hollowed out our government, our laws, our culture, and our morals.
And you think the GOP had no hand in that?? They had total control for 6 years and they outpaced what the Marxist Democrats had ever done up until Obama. So don't hand us this crap that Democrats are worse than Republicans and a RINO is better than a Marxist. They are all one, and the same - they only differ on how fast they intend to take us to despotism.
All that's left is the final coup de grâce to turn us into Europe.
We are already there. Most refuse to see it because we can still buy beer and watch cable and porn.
Heh heh ... “Democrats in GOP Drag”.
I like that.
Short adjective to fully describe how the Leftists have infiltrated and have taken over the GOP the same way they did the Democrat party some 50 years ago.
Mind if we use it?
Not throwing in the towel, just taking out the trash. I will support GOPe candidates as fervently as Dick Lugar supported Richard Mourdock and other examples. Payback is a bitch
Malformed question. Will the tea party cave? The GOP has no intention of mending fences, and no promises of conservative fidelity on their part can be believed.
What would lead you to believe a promise from the GOPe?
I find the idea that conservatives should vote for a statist, fascist, globalist because the oligarchy's mouth piece says so amusing.
No American conservative can in good conscience vote for a fascist, socialist republican candidate simply because they are not communist democrat. I will sit out any election that is a Fascist vrs Communist contest.
Now give me a Constitutional Conservative to vote for and I am all in. Give me a pragmatic moderate conservative and I'll even vote for them. But a fascist statistic socialist like Rove wants? No freaking way.
A lot of the issue boils down to ego. No one can make the arguement that a person displaying a given set of actions isn’t what those actions are defined to be...and be taken seriously by honest people.
If a man rapes, he is a rapist. If he plays games, he is a gamer. if he gambles he is a gambler. If he votes with Democrats on issurs like illegal immigration, abortion, funding terror and the rest, he is a democrat. And as history shows without reservation, Democrat is another name for marxist.
Because their actions ALSO mirror marxist dogma.
Ego comes in because most on the right lack the humility to admit they were wrong and are willing to take America down into Dem/Marxist hell rather than admit they backed the wrong horse. If they did have the humility, they would admit their mistake.
I will support GOPe candidates as fervently as Dick Lugar supported Richard Mourdock and other examples. Payback is a bitch.
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I felt that needed to be re-posted for everyone to read.
Put your dukes up, *browser.
If you mean mean to defend the Constitution by voting for any ole POS with an “R” stuck on his forehead, then you don’t just enable the UniParty Establishment, you enable the Marxist Democrats they intentionaly fail to stop, cycle after cycle.
YOU have the problem. One of being much worse than a RINO, YOU become them— a RINO socialist enabler who NEVER fights back, NEVER says, “NO”, but clings to a plantation mentality, afraid to dump your treacherous masters who conspire with the enemy and oppose nothing.
The GOP is dead. They are the plainly the “RINOS FOREVER” cult, and your tricky voting excuses support their greasing the way for growing more Marxists in America. Look around!
We have a chance to break the party and to TRY to restore it to the REAL and loyal opposition, a party that actively opposes communism, and an increasingly subsidized American population, indentured servitude to Chinese Communists, the Godless and socialist public re-education camps, pacifism, and threats on Christian religious liberty.
You voting RINO means you defend nothing and tolerate everything, because conservatives are not found there. Conservatives aren’allowed.
The only chance for this country is conservatives.
You are with us, or a coward and against us.
Wake up.
I am sympathetic with how you feel. However, we have to go a little slower if we want to bring the 350,000,00 citizens with us.
I am also very frustrated that the house has not used what power they had. Again, they were probably thinking of "their" careers. But also, maybe concerned about exposing the Marxists to such a degree that the people who don't follow politics would have to notice.
Somebody said, "you go to war with the army you have". You are proposing that first we behead the army we have, and then go to war?
The economy has made us the powerful country that we are, or were. Without the innovators, the capital, and yes the corporations, we would be a backwater economy, like Mexico.
There is no doubt that they are not going to let go of the power that we have entrusted them with. Cochran was robbed and I hope he exposes them, including McConnell and the national Republican apparatus. I see the problem just like you describe it. The way to get back the country is what we have to agree on.
I would be the first one shooting from the rooftops, but I know that is not the right solution.
We have to turn the public opinion around, somehow.
Hosea 4:6.
We are two decades too late.
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