[stockpirate]

Funny, they are more concerned with stopping the TP then stopping the Obama fascists. Says a lot about their values and goals for our country.

[Bon mots]

How I see it.

[Texas Eagle]

RINOsaurs like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Juan McCain, et al, are like their namesake, dinosaurs. They don't realize that white fluffy stuff floating down from the sky portends their doom.

In this case, the RINOs don't realize that their ultimate demise is rising from below, namely, the grass roots. Statehouses and Governorships from coast to coast, border to border are being inundeated with Tea Partiers or, at the very least, Republicans who espouse Tea Party beliefs and principles.

Enjoy your day in the sun, Jeb. The ground is shifting beneath you and it's going to swallow you up.

[Candor7]

Well , this in fat is a signal that the GOP is actively outing its conservative base. In fact the GOP has been destroyed. Now is the time for the organizatuion of an American Party by the TP wing of the GOP. Time to go it on our own. Ef the bushes , Romneys and the sell out donor class of unconstitutional supporting idjits.

[ripley]

It looks like the Republican establishment is attempting to make itself look like all those brilliant, intellectual, bespectacled Progressive geniuses who run around the halls of congress leaving their piles of manure in the aisles and passage ways. (Absolutely annoying and irritating, unless there’s a method to their madness.)

IMHO

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The GOP-wing of the Democrat party just wants to be in charge once in a while.

[jsanders2001]

So I guess in summary, all politicians are saying that they hate a very large number of people who:

believe that Constitution was written to protect its people from tyrants by men who lived under tyrants,
Are patriots that love their country,
Are hardworking people that try to live morally with integrity
Believe in God, his Word, his wisdom, and his laws
Serve(d) their country in the military or as police officers, firefighters, etc...
Believe that people (including politicians) should be responsible and accountable for their own actions
Have common sense

So what’s not to like about them? Or is that they’re afraid that the Tea Party can dethrone them from their positions of power if they serve their owm best interests and not those of the people who elected them in the first place?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Sorry, Rush, but it’s going to take you actively advocating and working for a conservative third party to make the Republicans really sit up and take notice.

[Lee'sGhost]

I get it. It’s a suicide pact. GOPe and Jeb working together to defeat TEA Party will kill any hopes of electing a Republican to the White House.

Brilliant!

[gdani]

Tea Party support for the GOP & its candidates is akin to battered spouse syndrome.

[pepsi_junkie]

...but what if the strategy in 2016 to win the presidency is a repeat of their strategy in the midterms of 2014, i.e. don't say anything. Don't say anything controversial. Don't have any agenda. Don't lay out any agenda items you're gonna do. Don't make yourself a target. Just run and be Republican and just have people get angry at Democrats, vote for Republicans for no reason, other than they're not Democrats.

Ah, the strategy they employed in 2012, 2008, 2000, and 1996 again. Worked once (barely, by like 50 votes) and the other three were blow outs. Yup, no doubt they'll do that again. They have no other plan, really.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Jeb doesn’t need the tea party to stop him. The name “Bush” is anathema to most Americans.

[Jack Deth]

How is Jeb Bush going to bother the Tea Party when the Tea Party wants nothing to do with Jeb Bush?

[thirst4truth]

I did not vote for Romney, because of all the reasons above and more. I will not vote for another moderate that openly insinuates that my conservative Christianity is the problem. I thought elephants remember well? No to Dole, No to McCain, No to Romney are you listening R's?

I cannot believe that they think another Bush is the answer, super stupid. It is obvious that they are not for the country but power and wealth, all of them. Well except for the 22 who voted with Cruz.

[Westbrook]

Alienate us, yes.

Stop us, no.

[Impy]

They are certainly not united behind Jeb, they yearn for a more electable choice.

[Liz]

The treasure trove of "The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby" (and down-ticket state wins) have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know:

<><> REPUBLICANS WIN STUNNING ELECTORAL HISTORY...

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

<><> Landrieu's loss means Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

<><> Of 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.

<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery. /

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)
Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: latino vote is meeh---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (per Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Republican governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Massachusetts. .

<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton's politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> Repubs hold 246 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II.

<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

<><> Arizona Republican McSally wins last open House seat after recount (Gaby Giffords seat)

<><> McSally's Arizona win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in the Arizona congressional delegation,

<><>Republican Congress holds largest House majority in 83 years...

[Morgana]

CROW T ROBOT: "JEEEB" JOEL ROBINSON: Crow I told you to stop that!