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Posted on 08/12/2013 5:36:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Tea Party is getting back on more solid ground -- midterm elections where in 2010 the fledgling, grassroots movement unseated so-called “Washington insiders” and helped Republicans win control of the House.
The loosely knit coalition of groups has already targeted some of the Republican Party’s most established candidates, accusing them of compromising their conservative principles in negotiating with Democrats.
The Tea Party Express even boasted this winter that promising to mount a primary challenge against Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss forced him to retire instead of seeking a third term.
“Lest anyone think this decision is about a primary challenge, I have no doubt that had I decided to be a candidate, I would have won re-election,” responded Chambliss, who was part of a bipartisan Senate group that tried to reduce the national debt.
One of the most recent, high-profile Tea Party challenges is in South Carolina, where Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel, is trying to unseat two-term Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose efforts to pass immigration-reform legislation appears most upsetting to the movement.
Graham also frustrated conservatives so much this spring when criticizing fellow Republican and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for filibustering over the Obama administration’s drone strikes that FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said Graham was “begging for a primary.”
Graham is also facing a primary challenge from Christian conservative lawyer Richard Cash and more recently from Libertarian-minded state Sen. Lee Bright, who plans to make an official announcement within weeks.
The Tea Party Express recently announced it plans to target 25 House races and seven to 10 Senate races, mostly with Democratic incumbents, including Sens. Al Fraken in Minnesota and Mark Udall in Colorado.
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Definitely got to nail Grahamnesty.
Who’s running against boner? In the primary or third party general?
He needs to be challenged in both the primary and general if needed.
The real conservatives need to stand up in his district.
So why don’t they find someone to go against Cornball in TX? I guess people don’t want to pay the $5,000 fee just to have their name on a ballot.
Graham is safe by virtue of their being three challengers. I wish instead of dividing our forces we could concentrate them. But them again, I suspect that one or more of these challengers is probably a Rovbot planted for exactly the purpose of dividing the forces of opposition to the establishment.
Seems so. The 2012 GOP POTUS primary seemed like that too.
Of course, that title is a bit longer although unquestionably more accurate.
chambliss... you are a liar to the bitter end. You are not running because you know that a right wing wind is starting to howl and there is nothing that you or your communist friends can do to stop the Conservative hurricane coming directly at all of you.
LLS
In this race, if Graham doesn't get 50%+, it goes to a run-off election where he will face ONE challenger.
The more the merrier at the beginning of the primary. Anything to keep him from getting 50%+ of the vote.
He will lose in the run-off.
/johnny
/johnny
I would have been highly motivated to vote for a primary challenger against Saxby “I love Gin all day long” Chambliss.
I am supporting Lynn Cheney because there's a possibility that she actually means it and there is no possibility Senator Enzi will somehow find a pair and actually fulfill the role of a conservative senator from an absolutely safe state.
GOOD! Make em pay for what they have done! Replace them with a wide turn out and vote them out of office! This is the ONLY message they will hear outside of the Dem Talking points they are given and the MSM praise for being “independent” of the Yahoos who know knownothing. Well, we know nothings are THE PEOPLE—you work for us!
Chambliss is retiring.
I still remember grinning from ear to ear when I first heard that news... this coming from someone who voted for that jerk.
When Republicans finally tossed out the Democrats in Georgia, I thought it would be great, but then they basically became the same good old boy, corrupt, lazy people the Democrats were. It is demoralizing.
Chambliss is a prime example of a Southern Republican who only became a Republican when he discovered he could switch parties and still keep his big government, big spending, good 'ol boy ways. The Senate will be better off without him.
That she means what? She's a liberal.
I can swallow Cheney's views on homosexuality. I am far more concerned that she is a neoconservative who is unrepentant about our involvement in Iraq and the way we handled Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, we simply cannot go on as we have been going. Every Republican who will not storm the ramparts is expendable. Cheney at least promises to do what Enzi has never done.
Find a candidate who understands the laws of nature and nature’s God and their obligation to support and defend the Constitution then. The idea that we have to settle for those who aren’t really on our side is killing us.
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