But we are different.
The hope in the West that I spoke about is our path to success.
The Tea Party candidates are getting support from big money groups like the Club for Growth in primary challenges against old school deal maker republicans like Orrin Hatch in Utah. Hatch was challenged in a primary for the first time since 1976 and was forced to spend big to win.
Hatch may have won but others like Bob Bennett Have been turned out. I see this as our path to success. We must put up conservative candidates in the primaries and support them with our time and money.
This would help us in two ways. If our candidate wins or looses the primary we have more conservative candidates campaigning and putting conservative ideas before the voters (this will normalize conservative thinking in society). The Left has managed over the years to vilify conservative thought claiming that conservatives are selfish and mean. We need conservative candidates that put a positive voice to conservative thought and explain the evils of progressivism.
Second win or lose in the primary we will move the incumbent to the right because he will adopt some of the conservative’s policy ideas as a defensive measure. If we manage to get our candidate elected in the primary we are moving Congress to the Right. But win or loose this strategy advances our cause by putting pressure on the party to become more conservative.
Once these people get to Washington, they change. They find out quickly that the American people really want their pork. If people wanted smaller government and less spending, we would have it by now. This will not stop until we are bankrupt like Europe.
Think the food stamp program problem is about welfare queens and fraud? Think again. It’s about big ag businesses being on the government teat. Try cutting back any food or farm program of any kind and see just how fast those “conservative” politicians in the west fight to keep the gravy train going.
Pontiac,
You might be a little too optimistic, but there is truth to what you say. Tuesday in the Oklahoma US House District 1, a Republican incumbent who was reasonably conservative, was upset by a Tea Party supported very conservative candidate.
Welcome new Representative Bridenstine to the US House in January. He is NOT beholden to moderates or Rinos.
This is not my District, but I am pleased.
BTW, Oklahoma has 77 counties and all 77 voted against Ubama in the last election. (I hope it truly was not the LAST election in our fragile Republic.)
Oldplayer