Posted on 09/05/2010 9:42:53 AM PDT by Zakeet
Democrats aren't the only incumbents in trouble this November. With a crop of feisty, fresh-faced conservatives making noise in the House and a wave of Tea Party-backed newcomers determined to join them, senior Republicans could have a mutiny on their hands.
The gap between the old and new schools of the GOP has become apparent as Election Day nears and polls show Republicans increasingly likely to pick up seats -- lots of seats.
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The opportunity for a shakeup is ripe, but so is the opportunity for a makeover of the Republican Party itself.
"The Republican caucuses in the Senate and the House will change," Democratic strategist Kiki McLean said. "A dangerous place for Republicans to be is establishment leadership.
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"We're seeing a different type of candidate," he said, noting that the resounding theme of their campaigns is fiscal conservatism, government restraint and job creation. "The country's just about had enough and I think that's why you're going to see a new face of Republican politics out there, and it's one of fiscal control."
He said candidates like Paul and Rubio would "lead that charge" in November.
Dozens of new Republicans could enter on the House side. McLean said the changing makeup could pose a serious problem for sitting Republican leaders.
"The most endangered incumbent this year is really John Boehner, the House Republican leaders, because I think as you see a lot more of the Tea Party candidates come into their caucus, when they go to their leadership elections, they're not going to stand with establishment leadership," she said.
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For the GOP to survive as a viable political party it needs to remove the go-along to get-along country club types and bring in more and more true conservatives to give America a TRUE choice. The faster the RINOs are drummed out of the party and replaced with real conservatives the better the GOP and America will be.
The thing that worries me is that while we’re throwing out the RINO in all these primaries, we’re depending on the general elections to get our folks in office.
If we lose, how do we know we lost honestly? With ACORN, SEIU, and the other socialists who will be involved with counting ballots, there will be questions.
As long as we can reasonably trust election results, there is no call for using the Second Amendment for it’s real purpose. How will we know if the line is crossed?
“Democrats aren’t the only incumbents in trouble this November. With a crop of feisty, fresh-faced conservatives making noise in the House and a wave of Tea Party-backed newcomers determined to join them, senior Republicans could have a mutiny on their hands.”
Let’s hope so.
I am very hopeful the conservatives will win, but the danger in overthrowing an incumbent in the primary is you are left with an unknown quantity. It’s harder to win against the Dems than if we just ran the ‘establishment’ incumbent.
That said, ASIDE FROM Sharron Angle, I think the risk is worth it.
She’s the only real loony in the bunch, and unfortunately, I think she will lose an election that should have been a big winner for us. That infuriates me, and she should pay dearly for this. I generally like this Paul since he isn’t as kooky as his father.
Good - no more tolerance for the fifth column in our ranks. It was glorious to see Murkowski get trounced by Miller in Alaska!
“That said, ASIDE FROM Sharron Angle, I think the risk is worth it.”
You have it wrong. The real looney is Reid.
There's hope for us yet...
How anyone could vote for Reid after his leftist stint is beyond me. I would vote for Angle just to get rid of Reid, regardless of any problems with Angle (which I think are highly exaggerated).
How anyone could vote for Reid after his leftist stint is beyond me. I would vote for Angle just to get rid of Reid, regardless of any problems with Angle (which I think are highly exaggerated).
With a crop of feisty, fresh-faced conservatives making noise in the House and a wave of Tea Party-backed newcomers determined to join them, senior Republicans could have a mutiny on their hands.
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I heard Dick Armee on the J. Kudlow show describe this phenomenon as a Tea Party “hostile takeover” of the GOP.
THAT is a sale!
Take aim at old programs that have never been sunset studied. Time to make the Muppets pay for the millions they earn form PBS...Barney too. To much government money going to programs like Archer Daniels and NBA players that are not likely to be real farmers.
Just like going along to get along?
Not at all. “Go along to get along” was a losing proposition from the start.
If elections still work, we can still throw the bums out.
When they quit working, we’ll have to resort to other means of changing our public officials.
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