‘Tea Party’ Republicans Rebel Against National GOP

The Washington Independent ^ | 5/14/09 | David Weigel

[Recovering_Democrat]

Conservatives need to support the conservatives in the primary! Forget you, Crist. I am voting Rubio!

[Tzimisce]

This is the only way to reform the Republican party: by having real conservative candidates defeat RINOs in primaries.

[Recovering_Democrat]

...and if Crist by some miracle wins the primary, he STILL will not get my vote in the General Election.

I have learned my lesson.

We can eliminate future Arlen Specters by not electing them in the first place. Ergo, no more Charlie Crists.

[handy old one]

Send ALL Rinos to rinoland where they can roam free and feed with others like themselves.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

I’m just curious...why does everyone say that Crist is a RINO? I’m not saying he isn’t, but I’ve not seen any evidence to the contrary. Cato gave him an A on their fiscal policy report card...that sounds like a pretty solid conservative to me. What makes him a RINO?

[Yankee]

‘Tea Party’ Republicans Rebel Against National GOP

WTF? I thought we were all about hating a black man.

I can’t keep up.

Now I gotta re-do my damned signs again. Sheesh!

[Delacon]

Until he became a Democrat this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee had supported Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) over conservative foot soldier Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania’s Senate race.

 

Gosh, if I was a National Senatorial Committee member, I'd feel kinda foolish for supporting Specter.

[kalee]

I wrote to the RNC and told Steele that I would be sending any money I give directly to CONSERVATIVE candidates on a case by case basis. I would no longer give to the National or State GOP to distribute to candidates like Specter.
I know I am not alone in telling them, but I just do NOT think they are listeniong. They probably think they can scare us back in at election time after all it’s worked in the past.

[tioga]

didn’t work for me......I gave to Sarah when they picked her ...and just once to show my support of her. I tell them not to try the scare stuff......I am not falling for it.

[Free Vulcan]

It’s time for two things: 1) State parties distancing from the national party, and 2) Conservatives forming a party within a party)

Conservatives need to get control of their state party, and if that fails form a conservative wing, grab their donor lists and workers and start putting up well funded, well manpowered conservative candidates.

We have not one but two objectives, a two pronged offsenive: 1) Beat the democrats from without, and 2) Beat the RINO’s within.

[SoConPubbie]

I’m just curious...why does everyone say that Crist is a RINO? I’m not saying he isn’t, but I’ve not seen any evidence to the contrary. Cato gave him an A on their fiscal policy report card...that sounds like a pretty solid conservative to me. What makes him a RINO?

Let's start with Amnesty for Illegal Aliens:

CHARLIE CRIST: WRONG ON AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

[SoConPubbie]

I’m just curious...why does everyone say that Crist is a RINO? I’m not saying he isn’t, but I’ve not seen any evidence to the contrary. Cato gave him an A on their fiscal policy report card...that sounds like a pretty solid conservative to me. What makes him a RINO?

Definitely not a limited-government guy:

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[lone star annie]

This is what the Tea Party needs to be about. They were successful gatherings but now people need to put their protest into action fielding and supporting good candidates and taking out RINOs and defeating Democrats.

The dems have the unions, ACORN and neat, organized ghettos that can be mobilized for elections. Conservatives have no such groups. The Tea Party groups should mobize to register and educate as many new voters as possible. If each attendee registers two people, we can win.

Time for us to organize!!

[DangerZone]

Giving only to conservative candidates is a good and necessary start, but we must also do the groundwork in actively campaigning for these candidates not to mention working to take the GOP back from the RINOs at every level.

[Delacon]

Thanks for the link.

[Deb]

Are you retarded? The Senatorial Committees, presidents and party leaders always support their incumbants. As do their fellow Senators from their home states, because incumbents stand the best chance of winning. That's why Santorum and Bush supported Spector.

They may not want to and you may not agree with it, but if you didn't know it you're really stupid.

[lormand]

I have already expressed my outrage to Senator Cornyn (Chairman of the RNSC) twice. Everyone should be hammering this fool for his support of Specter (before he made it official), and now Crist.

Cornyn has really pissed me off. It goes to show you that it doesn't take long for YOU to assimilate into Washington DC once you've been there just long enough.

[Reagan69]

For starters, (I know Charlie, personally) he has run this state into poverty. He is against off-shore drilling. He is a complete tree-hugger. He is SUCH a politician. He is for giving amnesty to illegal aliens.

And on top of all of that: HE’S FREAKIN ORANGE !