[Combat_Liberalism]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

[arderkrag]

No. Principles are more important than victory.

[Hostage]

I believe the Tea Party backed candidates scored a number of impressive wins in the last election.

[Psalm 144]

So far there has been as much impurity as a cat house chamber pot, and they are still losers.

Kapo-conservatives, always urging surrender before the fight.

[Nuc 1.1]

As long as they are truthful I can see supporting a winning candidate. What I will not support is a candidate who lies to me straight faced then knifes me in the back and laughs about it. Yes that group they betrayed so badly in 2006. They know it too and they need us. The pubbies are finished without us. The last straw for me was the gang of fourteen. The problem for the pubbies is one of trust. They have a long way to go to regain mine. And selling out the nation I love to the progressives is not helping my trust issues. So...here is a suggestion, take control of the purse. No appropriations, no debt ceiling hike until the Paul Mac Penney Plan is passed. This means elimination of baseline budgeting and the beginning of fiscal restraint. If you win the Republic and probably the world is spared a new dark age. If you loose, well you are loosing anyway, and your previous arrogance and cowardice put you in this position. Maybe some humility and courage can pull you out of the mess. Maybe following the constitution is all you need to do.

[No Socialist]

“Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers”

Holy Crap! This is exactly the thinking that has gotten us the sorry lot of republican “conservatives” we have now.

[ansel12]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

That is what they have been doing. Now we need to stop losers at the top of the ticket, like Romney.

[okie01]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

It's not like the GOP-e has a spotless record in this regard...

[DBeers]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

How do you propose we get these principled individuals that act with conviction in response to personal and local concerns to act as a compromised national collective?

Maybe we could push for a central planning body?

/s