Author Topic: TEA Party losses (Read 20222 times)

roo_ster · « **Reply #100 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:46:06 AM »

Quote from: charby on May 29, 2014, 09:30:01 AM

Texas is only part of the country, don't forget about the New England Republicans.

Maybe the northeastern TEA Party candidates can get an endorsement from NorAID and do alright?

"Hi, my name is Peter King, and I approved this message."

AJ Dual · « **Reply #101 on:** May 29, 2014, 10:04:55 AM »

Quote from: scout26 on May 28, 2014, 04:10:47 PM

Hmmm, what to make of this then:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/27/316525123/oldest-serving-member-of-the-house-loses-to-tea-party-opponent

Heh...

Ostensibly he switched parties because "The Democratic Party left him..." a-la Zell Miller (who didn't actually switch), but forgive me for wondering if that it's more a finger in the wind kind of thing, and he saw the electoral trends for his state.

And CBS had done a bunch of bits propping up the guy, how long he'd served etc. I'm immediately suspicious of any "conservative" for whom the MSM is willing to stoop and give the "aw shucks"-folksy down home Norman Rockwell-esque warm & fuzzy news treatment to.

charby · « **Reply #102 on:** June 04, 2014, 08:32:17 AM »

The pig castrator won in Iowa last night. They are saying she was successful at combining Tea Party and Republican Establishment Appeal.

I predict she gets her ass handed to her at the general election.

Smear campaign has already started by the left http://www.rightwingjoni.com/

Scout26 · « **Reply #103 on:** June 04, 2014, 08:46:42 AM »

Quote from: charby on June 04, 2014, 08:32:17 AM

Smear campaign has already started by the left http://www.rightwingjoni.com/

That's some pretty weak tea. I'm surprised they put up the "Missed 100 votes in the senate" Given that "I'm voted present" Obama is sitting in the White House.

"Iowa ranks 37th in funding per pupil" ?!?!? What's the test scores and graduation rates? Those, to me, would be a better indicator of performance not "We threw more money at schools and teachers then anyone except Illinois and look what that got them."

I predict she'll be your next Senator.

charby · « **Reply #104 on:** June 04, 2014, 09:22:34 AM »

Quote from: scout26 on June 04, 2014, 08:46:42 AM

That's some pretty weak tea. I'm surprised they put up the "Missed 100 votes in the senate" Given that "I'm voted present" Obama is sitting in the White House.

"Iowa ranks 37th in funding per pupil" ?!?!? What's the test scores and graduation rates? Those, to me, would be a better indicator of performance not "We threw more money at schools and teachers then anyone except Illinois and look what that got them."

I predict she'll be your next Senator.

Iowa Tea Party folks are pissed she won, said the Establishment paid for it. I guess Sam Clovis was their man.

charby · « **Reply #105 on:** June 04, 2014, 09:24:32 AM »

Quote from: scout26 on June 04, 2014, 08:46:42 AM

I predict she'll be your next Senator.

Nope the Democrats will be out in voting force, Brailey will win. The more populated areas of Iowa are very Democrat, only time GOP candidates win is when the D is a turd in those areas.

Balog · « **Reply #106 on:** June 04, 2014, 11:16:14 AM »

Quote from: charby on June 04, 2014, 08:32:17 AM

Smear campaign has already started by the left http://www.rightwingjoni.com/

Do you think that if her primary opponent had defeated her, the Democrats would not have started a smear campaign just as fast?

charby · « **Reply #107 on:** June 04, 2014, 11:18:47 AM »

Quote from: Balog on June 04, 2014, 11:16:14 AM

Do you think that if her primary opponent had defeated her, the Democrats would not have started a smear campaign just as fast?

They probably had preloaded smear campaign for all of the folks who were running in the primary. I think there was 6 people on the ballot.

Ron · « **Reply #108 on:** June 04, 2014, 11:22:00 AM »

Isn't it the duty of all Iowa Republicans to enthusiastically vote for her despite her not being the establishment pick?

Isn't that the way it works?

When libertarian/conservatives have statist establishment picks foisted upon us we are browbeat into voting for them, for the good of the country/party of course. To hell with your principles correct? It's all about getting the power at all costs.

SADShooter · « **Reply #109 on:** June 04, 2014, 11:34:12 AM »

Quote from: Ron on June 04, 2014, 11:22:00 AM

Isn't it the duty of all Iowa Republicans to enthusiastically vote for her despite her not being the establishment pick?

Isn't that the way it works?

When libertarian/conservatives have statist establishment picks foisted upon us we are browbeat into voting for them, for the good of the country/party of course. To hell with your principles correct? It's all about getting the power at all costs.

"BOOM!"

Hutch · « **Reply #110 on:** June 08, 2014, 12:23:27 PM »

A bit of a drift...

It surprises me that Iowa elected and reelected both Harkin and Grassley. Same electorate, two very different Senators. I must reflect on this...

Scout26 · « **Reply #111 on:** June 08, 2014, 12:48:47 PM »

Given Obamacare and the various scandals, the R's and quite a few I's are motivated to vote for more Right/libertarian candidates. The D's not so much since Obama is not running.

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #112 on:** June 09, 2014, 12:54:59 AM »

Quote from: Ron on June 04, 2014, 11:22:00 AM

Isn't it the duty of all Iowa Republicans to enthusiastically vote for her despite her not being the establishment pick?

Isn't that the way it works?

When libertarian/conservatives have statist establishment picks foisted upon us we are browbeat into voting for them, for the good of the country/party of course. To hell with your principles correct? It's all about getting the power at all costs.

This right here.

charby · « **Reply #113 on:** June 09, 2014, 10:35:25 AM »

Quote from: Ron on June 04, 2014, 11:22:00 AM

Isn't it the duty of all Iowa Republicans to enthusiastically vote for her despite her not being the establishment pick?

Isn't that the way it works?

When libertarian/conservatives have statist establishment picks foisted upon us we are browbeat into voting for them, for the good of the country/party of course. To hell with your principles correct? It's all about getting the power at all costs.

I think she was the establishment's pick.

I didn't vote for her, I voted for another guy because I felt he would make a better Senator than the rest of the ticket. http://www.mattwhitaker.org/

Scout26 · « **Reply #114 on:** June 10, 2014, 10:41:07 PM »

Eric Cantor: RINO, Establishment "R" gets taken off at the knees by a Tea Party candidate.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Balog · « **Reply #115 on:** June 10, 2014, 11:41:17 PM »

Has a sitting House majority leader ever been primaried out before?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #116 on:** June 10, 2014, 11:53:46 PM »

I can't wait to hear MSNBC claim the voters were intimidated by the Las Vegas killings.

charby · « **Reply #117 on:** June 11, 2014, 12:18:24 AM »

Quote from: scout26 on June 10, 2014, 10:41:07 PM

Eric Cantor: RINO, Establishment "R" gets taken off at the knees by a Tea Party candidate.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

I think he would have lost to just about anyone who ran against him.

grampster · « **Reply #118 on:** June 11, 2014, 12:42:00 AM »

Oh, the butthurt that is going on because Cantor got creamed. The pundits are dreaming up all sorts of reasons. The people in his district say, though, they dumped him because he didn't represent them and he and his staff are arrogant a******s.

It's amusing to read how the Tea Party are a bunch of extremists, when the true extremists are the Democrat Party and the RINO's. Ruling by fiat and in spite of what the Constitution says, is extreme in my view.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #119 on:** June 11, 2014, 01:13:56 AM »

Quote from: grampster on June 11, 2014, 12:42:00 AM

It's amusing to read how the Tea Party are a bunch of extremists, when the true extremists are the Democrat Party and the RINO's. Ruling by fiat and in spite of what the Constitution says, is extreme in my view.

Not that amusing, really. Extremism of the darkest and bloodiest kind became a central plank of the Dem. party decades ago.

roo_ster · « **Reply #120 on:** June 11, 2014, 10:57:26 AM »

Mickey Kaus was a media booster of center-left Democrat politics from back before Clinton was elected POTUS. He is definitely not of the right, but is much more concerned about working and middle class folks than Dem or GOP leadership seems to be.

Anyways, he posits a "bottom-up" bipartisanship of the working & middle classes instead of the "top-down" DC/NY/LA sort we have with Dem & GOP leadership, the MSM, and the financial sector.

He sees the Cantor upset and Brat as a sign that such a thing is possible. He wrote the following before Cantor lost yesterday
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/10/the-benefits-of-beating-cantor/

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Bottom-Up Bipartisanship? Yesterday Dave Brat, the conservative economics professor who is challenging Majority Leader Eric Cantor in today’s primary, sent out what I assume will be his final pitch to voters. Here’s a sample:

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“The entire amnesty and low-wage agenda collapses if Cantor loses — all the billions of special interests dollars, all the favors, all the insider dealing — all of it is stopped in its tracks tomorrow if the patriotic working families of Virginia send Eric Cantor back home tomorrow.

Tomorrow, the middle class has its chance to fight back.

Tomorrow, the people of Virginia can show up to the polls and defeat the entire crony corporate lobby.

Tomorrow, we can restore our borders, rebuild our communities, and revitalize our middle class.”

Notes: 1) This is a pitch — against a “low wage agenda” and “crony corporate lobby” — that can appeal to Democrats as well as Republicans. Maybe partisanship will eventually be transcended, not at the top, with David Brooks, Gloria Borger and Jon Huntsman imposing a Beltway consensus they hammer out at an Atlantic panel, but at the bottom, where less sleek figures like Brat, Phyllis Schlafly and Jeff Sessions, can make common cause with Democratic workers who’ve gotten the short end of previous top-down triumphs such as global trade and Reagan’s 1986 amnesty, as well as of ineluctable technological trends like automation. 2) Perhaps not coincidentally, Democrats can vote in the Cantor vs. Brat primary. …

brimic · « **Reply #121 on:** June 11, 2014, 11:26:15 AM »

Quote from: Hutch on June 08, 2014, 12:23:27 PM

A bit of a drift...

It surprises me that Iowa elected and reelected both Harkin and Grassley. Same electorate, two very different Senators. I must reflect on this...

We have Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin- you couldn't pick any two members of the Senate which are further apart politically or philosophically- both were elected in back to back elections.

charby · « **Reply #122 on:** June 11, 2014, 01:27:23 PM »

Quote from: fistful on June 11, 2014, 01:13:56 AM

Not that amusing, really. Extremism of the darkest and bloodiest kind became a central plank of the Dem. party decades ago.

I bet hard core Democrats also deny that they are also extremists.

Balog · « **Reply #123 on:** June 13, 2014, 07:32:55 PM »

Thad Cochrane, ostensibly conservative candidate, is being funded by Bloomberg.

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2014/06/latest-filing-for-cochran-pac.html

Ron · « **Reply #124 on:** June 13, 2014, 10:01:55 PM »

Quote from: Balog on June 13, 2014, 07:32:55 PM

Thad Cochrane, ostensibly conservative candidate, is being funded by Bloomberg.

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2014/06/latest-filing-for-cochran-pac.html

In a recent interview Cochran shows he wasn't even aware that Eric Cantor lost his seat!

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INTERVIEWER: What happened in Virginia the other day, does that concern you for your chances here in this run-off?

   COCHRAN: I don't know what you're talking about. What happened in Virginia?

   INTERVIEWER: With Eric Cantor losing his seat.

   COCHRAN: Well, I haven't followed that campaign very closely at all.

   INTERVIEWER: Really?

Later, the interviewer says, "Well, Eric Cantor lost his seat as the Majority Leader." To which Cochran replies, "Well, it happens. Some win, some lose."

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/13/thad-cochran-apparently-didnt-know-that-eric-cantor-lost/?wpisrc=nl_fix

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