Posted on 12/29/2010 12:05:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385
(RTTNews) - A prominent Tea Party group sent a message to members on Monday identifying five current Republican Senators that they intend to target in 2012.
Tea Party Nation named Sens. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., as Republicans that need to be sent into retirement, accusing them of being Republicans In Name Only, or RINOs.
The message cited Lugar's vote against a ban on earmarks as well as a his votes in favor of the DREAM Act and the START Treaty. Hatch was also criticized for being a "pork king" and a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for certain young illegal immigrants.
Tea Party Nation blasted Snowe for her votes in favor of the health care reform bill, the START Treaty, and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," while the group called Brown " the biggest disappointment of the last year."
Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, said Corker is the group's top target, because he "has done many things to sell out the conservative Tennesseans who put him in office."
"The good news for 2012 is that so many liberals are up for reelection, Republicans are guaranteed control of the Senate and we do not have to pinch our noses this time and support a RINO to prevent liberal control of the Senate," Phillips said.
He added, "2012 will be a very good year for the Tea Party movement and RINO is on the menu!"
Tea Party members had success in a number of Republican Senate primaries in 2010, including in Utah, Florida, Nevada, and Delaware, although their results in the general election were more mixed.
I’m totally on board with all of these. It’s long past time to put these spineless traitors on notice.
Snowe was not backed by the Tea Party and neither was Collins. Here is the list of TEA PARTY backed candidates..some did not vote for any and some did...A list of Tea Party Caucus members and their earmark requests in Fiscal Year 2010, courtesy of Citizens Against Government Waste’s Pig Book:
NAME EARMARKS AMOUNTAderholt (R-AL) 69 $78,263,000Akin (R-MO) 9 $14,709,000Alexander (R-LA) 41 $65,395,000Bachmann (R-MN) 0 0Barton (R-TX) 14 $12,269,400Bartlett (R-MD) 19 $43,060,650Bilirakis (R-FL) 14 $13,600,000R. Bishop (R-UT) 47 $93,980,000Burgess (R-TX) 15 $15,804,400Broun (R-GA) 0 0Burton (R-IN) 0 0Carter (R-TX) 26 $42,232,000Coble (R-NC) 19 $18,755,000Coffman (R-CO) 0 0Crenshaw (R-FL) 37 $54,424,000Culberson (R-TX) 22 $33,792,000Fleming (R-LA) 10 $31,489,000Franks (R-AZ) 8 $14,300,000Gingrey (R-GA) 19 $16,100,000Gohmert (R-TX) 15 $7,099,000S. Graves (R-MO) 11 $8,331,000R. Hall (R-TX) 16 $12,232,000Harper (R-MS) 25 $80,402,000Herger (R-CA) 5 $5,946,000Hoekstra (R-MI) 9 $6,392,000Jenkins (R-KS) 12 $24,628,000S. King (R-IA) 13 $6,650,000Lamborn (R-CO) 6 $16,020,000Luetkemeyer (R-MO) 0 0Lummis (R-WY) 0 0Marchant (R-TX) 0 0McClintock (R-CA) 0 0Gary Miller (R-CA) 15 $19,627,500Jerry Moran (R-KS) 22 $19,400,000Myrick (R-NC) 0 0Neugebauer (R-TX) 0 0Pence (R-IN) 0 0Poe (R-TX) 12 $7,913,000T. Price (R-GA) 0 0Rehberg (R-MT) 88 $100,514,200Roe (R-TN) 0 0Royce (R-CA) 7 $6,545,000Scalise (R-LA) 20 $17,388,000P. Sessions (R-TX) 0 0Shadegg (R-AZ) 0 0Adrian Smith (R-NE) 1 $350,000L. Smith (R-TX) 18 $14,078,000Stearns (R-FL) 17 $15,472,000Tiahrt (R-KS) 39 $63,400,000Wamp (R-TN) 14 $34,544,000Westmoreland (R-GA) 0 0Wilson (R-SC) 15 $23,334,000TOTAL 764 $1,049,783,150
Graham was not given a pass, he is not up for reelection until 2014. This TP group has targets for 2012.
And her twin sister is chopped liver? Collins should also be booted and they should take Murkowski with them!
Arlen Jr. believes in the repeal of DADT.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/255461/toomey-support-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-daniel-foster
He did not have to say anything, but he wanted everyone to know before he actually takes office, that he is a flaming RINO. Pat “Do it” Toomey, possibly the 2nd coming of Arlen Sphincter.
“the RAT Party wouldn’t have survived the first years of this century,”
You mean like GWBush never enforcing the Beck decision that would have defunded the Democrats? That kind of fool?
Good list...forgot wasting time on BrownSnowe...by 2012 those 2 states will be sunk.
AZ...re-elected him this past election...so I’d say when he goes the way of Murtha, since AZ keep electing McRino.
Still, Kay’s not out till Kay says she’s out! People here still think she is “conservative.”
I imagine Toomey is having a “fit of compassion” for poor Arlen having to leave. 2010 is not 2004. I am sure he will disappoint conservatives time and time again, Toomey that is!
Throw out the RINOs.
I will give Brown a big pass: he is the only Republican in congress from Massachusetts and they keep voting in Barney Frank! Luger has been a disgrace for a long time. He has to go.
Why? Because he is a lot better than Barney and his Franks! And let’s not forget that Ted supported partial birth abortion!
Snowe, Brown, and Corker voted against the DREAM Act.
Don’t you read the news. McCain was re-elected this year.
Hint: the U.S. Constitution allows senators to have six-year terms. Now, make your own conclusion.
Great! So who will they run in Massachusetts to replace Scott Brown? This I got to see.
Yeah where is Grammesty’s name on the list?
But....the tea party JUST got Brown elected!
I'd phrase that his draft dodger lacks the stomach for a fight. He started off as a Reagan Republican but his proclivity for friendships with bad people clouds his judgement.
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