Posted on 07/28/2010 10:04:44 PM PDT by VictoryGal
Tea Party members are furious with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for her endorsement of Republican Congressman Roy Blunt over state Sen. Chuck Purgason in the Missouri Senate primary.
Bachmann plans on traveling to St. Louis this weekend to campaign for Blunt, who has drawn the ire of the conservative Tea Party movement because of his vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the federal bailout of Wall Street firms. Tea Partiers, who support the anti-tax Purgason, said they were "shocked" that Bachmann would back Blunt, adding "she has been grossly misled if she understands him to be a Missouri Tea Party candidate."
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Effing Republicans need to stay the hell away from the Tea Party. WE DON’T TRUST YOUR ILK!
Does Purgason stand a chance of winning, or would throwing Blunt under the bus (perhaps deservedly so) hand it to the Dems??
Scratch another one.
Too bad. I really liked her.
I wouldn’t write Michele Bachmann off yet. This is a chess game. Lose a Pawn and checkmate the King.
Not to disagree, but if one loses too many pieces the game will be lost.
So far, per usual, the compromises are demanded from us.
Has Blunt had a change of heart since? What’s the rest of the story?
Blunt has lots of money.
Agreed!
Insiders are going to stick with insiders. That’s just the way it is. I lean third party more and more each day.
Insiders are going to stick with insiders. That’s just the way it is. I lean third party more and more each day.
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Please don’t say that. You are actually leaning towards an as yet unrealized second party. You are rejecting the bicameral Government Party.
Heads I win, tails you lose. Wanna play again? We need donations if you wanna play again.
I agree. Bachmann has shown no capitulation on anything. There's way too much knee-jerking going on these days.
Which Tea Party members?
Let's see, Obama or Bachmann? I choose Bachmann. Sarah or Obama?.....Sarah, definitely. Let me think awhile. I start to quiver and shake and think of denying everything I just wrote if we have Obama and Romney, but I would have to go with Romney........ Even if I upchuck.
Party and self interest (self dealing, as Palin says) over principal. This is the story of modern day America and why we are up that nasty creek of corruption and oppression w/o a paddle.
They yap one way talking with this group and then act another way to serve the opposite power players. So sad. Michelle did it too now...
No wonder Republicans are not gaining traction while the Dems melt.
Hope and pray that this is not the case. Why? You might ask.
If this be the case in reality, then only with much blood shed, will Our Republic be restored, for this would mean the fox is in the chicken Coop Indeed!
It irks me that you are right.
But . . . you ARE right.
Dammit.
“Which Tea Party members?”
Exactly! The article has a lot of quotation marks, but no attribution to anyone as to the MO race.
The last sentence is about another race altogether, in NJ, where a candidate against Chris Smith objects to an endorsement of Smith, whose credentials, at least on pro-life issues, are unassailable.
I think there is a lot of sabotaging of the “Tea Party” movement both from within and especially from ‘journolist’ types who want nothing more than to see that movement go down in flames. And, unfortunately, they are getting a lot of help from those on the right who will accept nothing but perfection from their own perspectives.
Pro life is about the only thing he is unassailable on ...
I sense the Tea Party is starting to have the perfection syndrome already and we stand to loose everything fighting over almost nothing. What we should do is have central values that we cling to but realize that someone from Maine probably won't be elected if they could be elected from Texas. They just don't think the same. I have some core values that I will never compromise, but most Republicans match my core values even if they aren't as radical as I am.
I wish Bob Dole was more radical than he was, but we got Clinton because the Republican party felt he was next in line. When you have these squishy Republicans, you may as well vote for a Dem, and they did.
>>> And so it begins. I’ve seen this many times in my life time. The Tea Part will be so strident they will fall apart.
Precisely. Last month Lindsey Graham got a lot of flak for making this very obvious point.
“The problem with the tea party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country. It will die out.”
No matter how strongly Bachmann or Palin or fill-in-the-blank has fought on this side, it’s not good enough. Denunciations of every politician as either traitors or blackmail victims or corrupt sell-outs when they don’t fall in 100% lockstep makes Graham’s point.
We’re talking about a senate race in a state where the winner never wins by more than 5%. Bachmann has to support the obvious choice, not some obscure candidate. I’ve met Blunt when I lived in his district. He wouldn’t have been elected in SW MO if he weren’t conservative. Nobody is going to vote the way you or I like 100% of the time, and that’s no reason to reject them and send another Rat to the Senate.
Does anybody else roll their eyes when they see “tea party” capitalized, as if it’s a real, trademarked organization with “leaders”, etc.? I swear the rats are hard at work through their newsrooms (with a lot of help from the clownish political wannabes and libertarian malcontents who are always the loudest “tea partiers”) to turn the effective tea party protests of 2009 into “The Tea Party”, until it becomes the same kind of marginal laughingstock that the “Move On” campaign evolved into ten years ago.
Purgason had $428 on hand at the beginning of July, Blunt has $4.5 million. No scientific poll shows him within sight of Blunt.
Remember “Rome was not built in a day” The T.E.A.(tax enough already) Party Movement will not change Washington in one election. If you as a voter helped elect a person, it is your job to hold his or her feet to the fire.
The zero tolerance crap has got to stop.
>> The Tea Part will be so strident they will fall apart.
Screw your arrogance.
Roy Blunt is a RINO of the highest order. A few of Roy Blunt’s votes, the TARP Bailout, Cash for Clunkers, No Child Left Behind. Any one of those votes are enough to keep me from voting for him, in addition the liberal Kit Bond has annointed him as his replacement. Purgason it is.
> Blunt has lots of money.
I’m sensing a pattern. FioRINO is loaded too. Looks like our heroes are willing to trade principle for cold hard cash.
I agree... up to a point. Obama vs. Sarah, sure, the choice is obvious. Obama vs. Crist? It’s almost like choosing death by fire vs. death by drowning.
shhhhhhh, do not ask logical questions.
> I am more concerned with Sarah’s own support for TARP than I am with either endorsement.
Ouch, I didn’t know that she did support TARP. That’s awful. Not good!
I think you’re underestimating how much knowing someone, and liking them personally, can affect one’s decision. You’re much more likely to endorse someone you like but agree with less politically than someone you don’t like but agree with more politically.
This is why I would propose that Congress of both houses should no longer meet in DC.
With modern technology there is no reason why they can’t cast their votes from their offices in their own district/state. If they can’t get together, it takes a lot of the personality stuff out of the equation.
Crist is not a Republican. Rubio is the clear choice. Crist would have been culled out as a Republican.
Yeah, up yours you ignorant twit!
How's that for a comeback on the discussion of the topic?
If you scratch everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do, pretty soon there will be nobody left to scratch.
No one’s perfect.
Especially when it comes to endorsements.
>> How’s that for a comeback on the discussion of the topic?
LOL - a well deserved comeback.
Is she off your list for president now?
Like she ever was........
Maybe she shouldn't be allowed to vote......
Anyone expecting perfection will always be disappointed. Always.
Purgason is a good man, BUT HE CAN'T WIN...no money and Carnahan has the ACORN people in her pocket.
No Brainer...vote Blunt
Blunt didn’t even join her Tea Party Caucus and she’s still endorsing him.
That would explain why Palin and Bachmann are so high on McCain and Fiorina and Ayotte. And would also indicate that as far as they are concerned conservatism is meaningless, it's whether they can win or not.
I guess the question is this: Do you want Robin Carnahan elected???
The real question is why do you want to give Snowe and McCain and Fiorina and Graham and Collins yet another ally to vote with Obama or to block conservative programs? If you're not going to stand for conservative values and conservative principles then what will you stand for? Or more importantly, when else will you toss those principles over the side in the name of expediency?
Sorry, but I’ll take a RINO over a full fledged socialist ANYDAY.
Now who might you be talking about rt?
It's obvious Bachmann is nothing but a traitorous RINO!!!!!!
Heh heh heh..........
:-)
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