Tea partiers regrouping for 2014
In South Carolina, tea-party activists are looking to mount a primary challenge against Mr. Graham, whom they oppose in part because he voted to confirm Mr. Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan…
Another potential target is Tennessee’s Mr. Alexander, whom tea-party activists see as too centrist, citing examples such as his vote last July against blocking an Environmental Protection Agency regulation on utilities.
“He is much too close to the Democrats,” said Katherine Hudgins, a tea-party activist from Murfreesboro, Tenn. “We believe he’s an environmentalist at heart. He’s gone to the dark side.”…
Others feel disillusioned with the movement itself. Allen Olson, founder of a tea-party group in Columbia, S.C., describes the movement’s members as “fractured” and “living in a bubble.”
Many are in denial about the demographic realities that powered Mr. Obama’s win, Mr. Olson said, and the movement has taken up a set of issues beyond its core mission. “It was supposed to be fiscal responsibility, and that was it,” Mr. Olson said. “They’ve branched out to things like immigration reform and voter-ID laws. Those are Republican issues, and I don’t think they should be tea-party issues.”
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GOP ayatollahs : Damn, those witches are back.
tommy71 on November 23, 2012 at 7:46 PM
I don’t see how immigration reform and voter ID are not also fiscal issues. How much money are we spending on illegal aliens in this country? If we can’t count on fair elections, what good does it do to vote for your fiscally responsible candidate?
Night Owl on November 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM
I would rather be RULED by conservatives than represented by Socialist Enablers.
Hint, conservatives have a light rule, not so much socialism.
astonerii on November 23, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Love the tea party!
We should fire all the GOP leadership. Case in point, you sweep the 2010 midterms gaining the house by running on Obamacare, so what do the mullahs in washington do for 2012, they nominate Romneycare, the father of obamacare, taking that issue off the table. Further, front and center in 2010 making the case for the GOP was palin, so again what does the royalty do, they blackball her (a fmr. VP nominee can’t speak at the convention)
Tea Party make them sweat, take them all on. No more RNC chair, McConnell, Boner for Obama, all the bushie’s, rove, gillespie, american crossroads, etc.
Danielvito on November 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM
I just want the various TP and conservative leaders to get organized on their recruiting for 2014. That even means the bigshots like DeMint, Palin, and Erickson dropping their varied degrees of posturing and communicating with mutual respect. We’ve done it right before. When everybody is on the same page as was the case for Ted Cruz it’s a beautiful thing.
Disasters such as we had in Missouri are unforgivable. I don’t know if we’d have won there anyway, when we didn’t even ultimately nail down friggin’ ND, but allowing a gaffe-machine like Akin through because we were split on the two perfectly acceptable candidates of Brunner and Steelman is something we cannot allow going forward if there is anything left to save of this country.
Gingotts on November 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Or “We are shocked, shocked we say, that people who agree with each other on 1 issue, might agree with each other on different issues. Even more surprising is that these people would then resort to using the networks they’ve established while promoting their position on the first issue to try and achieve an objective as it relates to a second issue. We never saw this coming. Never.“
Stoic Patriot on November 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Becasue something is more effective when it is focused. As soon as the tea parties started having effects, they got tagged by the media as socons.
The socons then ruined the tea party just like they ruin most anything else. Because they thought tea party was all about them and their agenda.
I don’t care about abortion and punching people in the face with bible scriptures.
Moesart on November 23, 2012 at 8:13 PM
An immoral society cannot be fiscally responsible. It is just how it goes. If you cannot face that fact, then you are in for an entire life of disappointment.
astonerii on November 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM
None of it will matter if the voting system is not changed. While we accept defeat and plan the next election, they left has not stopped. The reason that they had such a good ground game, is that they never left areas and efforts from the 2010 mid terms. They are now working on the 2014 cycle.
Most people have lives and jobs and responsibilities. To the left, politics and winning is their lives. Lie, cheat, steal.. the ends justify the means, and they are newly energized by their 2012 victory.
The only way to succeed is to change the process…they wouldn’t know how to deal with a system that is fair and they haven’t been able to infiltrate and manipulate.
Voter ID..no same day registration..paper trail voting or machines..updating voter rolls to eliminate people who have died or moved..data bases cross referencing people voting in more than one state, etc.
This is the only solution, but I fear, like past cycles, things like this will be last on the list, in favor of putting lipstick on the next pig in line and producing flashier talking points.
“Its not the people who vote that matters..its the people who count the votes”
Uncle Joe.
Mimzey on November 23, 2012 at 8:19 PM
It’s easy being pro-abortion when you’re not the one getting murdered.
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:22 PM
“They’re not playing fair!” *stamps foot*
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:24 PM
I wondered why Graham was all of a sudden in the news fighting against the Whitehouse on Benghazi.
!. The press is reporting his comments because they don’t want a conservative taking his seat.
2. He now has some campaign talking points.
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM
dear lord, not another witch!
nathor on November 23, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Exactly right.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM
The thing is, you primary him he’ll probably win. Then it’s over. If there was a third party option, you get two chances to beat him. You have one conservative primary him, and have another run for a third party. If Graham wins his primary, the third party candidate will have another shot at him. It might be time for that.
Night Owl on November 23, 2012 at 8:35 PM
I’m OK with that.
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:37 PM
I love me some Tea Partiers. Just keep primarying your party into oblivion. For nominating Angle, Miller, O’Donnell, Mourdock, Akin, Rehberg, West… your country thanks you. Please put your undying patriotism on fully display by nominating Palin/Bachmann (in either order) in 2016.
Alpha_Male on November 23, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Not a surprise since you’re one of the rainbow boyz. Bet you don’t mind smacking a bible thumper with a pride parade, though.
platypus on November 23, 2012 at 8:54 PM
The problem with the Tea Party is the Tea Party leaders. We don’t need people co-opping the movement for financial or political gain.
Not that Graham or Alexander shouldn’t be primaried- they should. We just don’t need some self-appointed Tea Party leader picking the candidate.
BKeyser on November 23, 2012 at 9:07 PM
or co-opting
BKeyser on November 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM
Yes, well, good luck with that. The Tea Party was originally about opposition to Obamacare and the Democrats’ out of control spending and it was successful until it became a synonym for the Religious Right. Between them and the libertarians who thought it meant they now have the whip hand over the GOP, it has lost its meaning. These extreme wings ended up giving the left all the ammunition it needed to destroy Mitt Romney. Unless they learn from this debacle, there is no future for defeating the socialists until they’ve left us nothing but rubble.
flataffect on November 23, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Well how is it going to grow and function without leaders? OWS swore by no leadership and you see what happened to them. You need some kind of leadership or the issues get mired.
thebrokenrattle on November 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM
The Tea Party is a strong and powerful asset to conservative/libertarians. Most of their bad rep is promoted by the MSM, Democrats, and Rinos in fear of losing their dominance.
Perfect candidates are chimerical. Better ones, not so much.
trl on November 23, 2012 at 9:50 PM
Tea Party is FiCon, and liberty otherwise. FICON! and LIBERTY! Anyone tells you otherwise is trying to usurp the movement. And we know all about Usurpation of POTUS, right?
FICON! LIBERTY!
Who is John Galt on November 23, 2012 at 10:03 PM
The GOP will betray you
True_King on November 23, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Hence the reason I do not support them.
Fiscal Responsibility is only possible with a moral society.
The Liberty you are talking about is the liberty to be immoral and degenerates.
The outcome of such a situation is that the degenerates vote money out of other people’s wallets and out of future generations lives. As we are witnessing right now.
astonerii on November 23, 2012 at 10:15 PM
astonerii, well it’s too late anyway.
Who is John Galt on November 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM
Have you ever considered running for office? Is there a way I can contribute to your campaign for, say, Republican Senate candidate in the state in which you live?
Alpha_Male on November 23, 2012 at 10:24 PM
I wish. Thought about it. Am planning to try and cultivate my views into my children and hope one or more of them runs for office.
astonerii on November 24, 2012 at 7:39 PM