Posted on 09/01/2013 3:58:56 AM PDT by don-o
The tea party settled one question this afternoon at a meeting to audition candidates to challenge Sen. Lamar Alexander in next year’s GOP primary. Both Joe Carr and Kevin Kookogey promised they'll drop out of the picture if tea partiers are rallying behind the other guy.
Carr, a three-term state representative from Murfreesboro, took the pledge in his opening statement to the crowd of roughly 300 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. It was the first of five meetings to vet potential challengers to Alexander and to conduct secret straw polls. At the end of September, tea partiers will add up the votes and decide which candidate to back. Carr said if it’s not him, he’s out.
We’re all here for one reason and one reason only, and that’s to beat Lamar Alexander for the United States Senate. Before I go any further, I’m going to tell you that this process is so important that we’ve got to unite around one candidate. However this process works out, I pledge to you that I will support that candidate because it’s that important. We as principled constitutional conservatives can no longer allow ourselves to be divided. We need one candidate who can run against Lamar who can win this election and carry the banner of constitutional conservatism to the United States Senate.
Kookogey, a former chairman of the Williamson County GOP, made a similar promise later in response to a question. Unlike Carr, who announced his candidacy this month, Kookogey hasn’t said whether he’ll run yet.
“The target is Lamar,” Kookogey said, adding that if he decides to run and “if Joe is polling ahead of me and he has more money, absolutely I would step aside and I would give him my money.”
This is bad news for Alexander, who hopes his opponents within the Republican Party will divide their votes in the primary. Splitting the conservative vote arguably is the only reason Bob Corker is a U.S. senator today. He won his primary in 2006 with fewer votes than the combined total of his two more conservative opponents. Bill Haslam did the same thing in his 2010 primary for governor.
A bit thick headed are you? Honestly, how about you tell me all the ways I sit here and bitch about my country all the while doing nothing, as you stated.
I don’t give a rats butt where you live, it’s your incessant pointing of your boney old finger that is tiring and useless here.
You remind me of a guy who sits on his boat watching another one sink. Smugly saying they should have gotten a better boat instead of getting off your a** to help them from drowning.
My 90 year Father, WWII Vet has more intelligence and dignity in his pinky finger than all the nonsense you post here. He imparts valuable knowledge to those around him, friends and strangers alike. That is what strength and honor looks like.
If your life is going great, I am happy for you, truly.
I have asked you in the past what your purpose is in coming here instead of living your life in the paradise you found?
To taunt? To annoy? To boast?
Your posts are nothing more that those of a man with an ego who understands little of the human condition. Even after having lived, as you say, under communism, you’d rather poke instead of offering sage wisdom. As I understand it, you are not a spring chicken. Instead you choose to annoy people you know nothing about. Unless you have evidence of who you are calling dogs here, or cowards which is what I’m reading between the lines, I believe you will receive the push back you are now protesting.
I hold zero ‘resentment’ for your choice to exit. How very coy of you to put words in my mouth. As for your query of ‘evidence’ of what I or others are doing, guess what pal, IF you were here I would share it all with you, but see you are so very far away and you can’t/won’t help so I can’t take the time and energy to inform you on the many things I’ve chosen to do for what I believe in. Kinda like the kool aid drinkers, not much worth in trying to explain something as foreign to them as personal freedom for all, and what it takes.
“If your life is going great, I am happy for you, truly.
I have asked you in the past what your purpose is in coming here instead of living your life in the paradise you found?
To taunt? To annoy? To boast?”
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No, you are not at all happy for me. You are just another of the handful of Dogs in a Manger that are very bitter that I am enjoying my retirement in various countries, and you are obviously suffering under the Obamination.
I am not poking my finger at anyone. It is you and your small gang of angry thugs that should be looking in the mirror. I have not seen one word about what you and your gang are doing to save America. In fact, there is nothing YOU or any of your gang can do to save the country that now seems to be lusting for socialism. None of you can fight the majority. All WE have is a vote.
I am here, and have been here and active on FR far longer then you, and I have helped other FReepers with information about expat living. I also refer them to other links and sites for information. I have not boasted or taunted anyone. You, on the other hand, obviously has an anger problem.
I am not a wealthy man, and frankly, I could not live in the USSA on what funds I have.
Now, you go and enjoy your own life, if that is possible, and I will enjoy mine.
At least you are a spunky chick, hahaha
I must'a took a left turn unawares.
Does the Tea Party have an official logo .. T-shirts .. other regalia ?
I am not conversant with the Tea Party at all.
Where a donation can get a Beat Lamar! T shirt
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We're comparative moments away from shit or get off the pot (imo) and those of us that don't move easily, quickly nor well are more in the way than an asset.
If the feds hadn't disarmed me, and you talked to me like you talk to Alex, I'd be hard pressed not to cap your asses
Nice try.
The thread you referenced only has 16 posts.
Apparently you’re a “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will do me even more harm” kind of guy.
If AlexW wants to live in the Phillipines, that’s fine with me, but he needs to quit calling the rest of us idiots for not following him.
Oh, by the way ... have you never heard of "private sale"?
Imagine THAT !
20 years ago I would never had thought we'd be in the condition we're in today.
We can wait for 2014 ... then .. 2016 .... then I'll be 3 years older, even MORE decrepid than I am now and what if ... what if ... I wake up Nov 6 (or whatEVER day follows election .. ) and I see ourselves no better, perhaps worse ..
Look into your crystal balls and see what you can determine about the future ... no? ... ok ... look into the past ... )
Do you turn off the TV when they show those retirees enjoying golf in NC or Fla or wherever, or do you subliminally think .. "Geez .. it sure would be nice ... sighhhh .. )
I'm married to a Filipina and the Philippines is a tropical paradise, with an economy a smart American could get involved in and make some money ... AND enjoy the weather and easy pace.
ALL talk does not necesarily need to be backed up with action ... I don't think Plato was a warrior nor Rockwell a politician ... but they both contributed to the understanding a man needs to live free.
ALL words today can, like good preaching, have a positive affect on our ways of life.
BUT ... like good preaching ... too many whom call themselves American and Patriot NEVER listen to someone tell THEM what to think ... no SIR.
Maranatha
Can’t go into it ... yes I have ...
“...I’d be hard pressed not to cap your asses...”
A little over the top, bud.
This particular line of discussion with Alex goes beyond this thread.
“...those of us that don’t move easily, quickly nor well are more in the way than an asset....”
Understood. But that’s not the issue. The issue is a guy who left the country (no problem there so far - everybody has that right), gloats about it (problem starts), then sits out here sneering and jeering at and insulting folks who didn’t (problem magnified).
If you think it’s only four folks who have problems with that you should check back through the history.
And don’t worry - if there is a “shit or get off the pot” moment coming you’ll get plenty of cap time.
Got it, enjoy your life. I will stay clear.
Glad to know there is a mind reader here! Quaint :)
Honestly!
This is quickly becoming a comedy. I am choosing to bow out, there is no value in banging my head against the wall ~
Wow...life sure sucks for you, doesn't it? Why don't you go off and join chicken-a** Alex on the beach in the Philippines? Since you're obviously worthless to us here, and will only get in the way, go ahead...turn chicken a** and begone.
BTW, try not to think about what's going to happen to American expats who are cowering in 3rd Wold sh!tholes when the global economy finally collapses once and for all. All those smiling natives are going to take it out on y'all, so don't think you're going to survive the unrest -- fat, dumb and happy -- siting on the beach drinking a Mai Tai. A rusty, dull machete is more like it.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
A loud mouth asshole ... very simular to the way you talk, brought a lot of heat on some good people and I was one caught in the dragnet.
So, there we were all prepared and shit ... and wouldn'tcha' know it ... the law is very, very powerful.
So yeah ... life does suck for me.
YOU on the other hand seem to be very calm and decided in your intentions and I think that's a wonderful thing.
I'm envious ... I miss my AK .. and all my friends that we no longer talk because we don't want to go to prison for a loud mouthed asshole ... you're so lucky.
” he needs to quit calling the rest of us idiots for not following him.”
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I have never called ANYONE an idiot, except those that vote for Marxist like Obozo. Furthermore, you and your “dog in a manger” ilk are the last people that I want to see ANYWHERE in my world. You and your ilk started this spat and despise all of us that live our own lives, or have something that you do not. You should get a life, or stay in your dog house. You obviously do not know the meaning of “FREE”, and I do not mean food stamps!
I post international living info for those that are sick of what America is becoming, and it is not likely to change in anyone’s lifetime. I love America, as my heritage goes back to her infant days, but I despise Obots, Communist, and other assorted “holy then thou” liberals, and I will not have them run my life anywhere, especially not in the USSA.
All of the pompous preaching by you and the few other dogs is not going to change anything. You will just have to be content with your new Marxist way of life. Not one of you have suggested one single thing that will change what is happening there. You say you will fight...with what, your spitballs?
Those of us with courage and imagination will continue to live our God and America given lives as we wish, despite the barks of a few dogs. Now, go back to your dog house and sulk all you want, but you really should be proud of expats, for they are the ones that founded America as she use to be.
For now, I will remain on my Philippine beach. Next year I may be back in central Europe, which is now more free then the USSA.
For those who feel the need to escape, one can check out www.Internationaliving.com and www.EscapefromAmerica.com .
Better yet, chat with other Expat FReepers. There are a number of us. In the meantime, pray for America, that she be saved from the Marxist scum. Sadly, this will not happen in my lifetime.
I can't relate to what you've been through, and I can't imagine Alex can, either. He gave up and ran away, presumably when his situation was not nearly as bad as what you're going through. He is trying to convince other FReepers to do the same. He is mocking those of us who are determined to stay and do our duty as Americans. That is what we in the "manger dog pound" have a problem with. We all have our own way of mocking him; I choose to be sarcastic and snide, because as Alenski (?) said, ridicule is a powerful weapon.
I'm sorry your situation is what it is, and I apologize for letting my derision of the coward, AlexW, spill over to you. But I have no respect or time for those who would rather switch than fight, who, when the going gets tough, they give in an run away. When they then proceed to blow raspberries at those of us who have chosen to stay and tough it out, I get upset. Mind you, not upset enough to bust a cap, but definitely enough to show Alex the more negative side of my personality. Sorry you got caught in the crossfire.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Horse crap. I've told you before I don't give a toss where you go...I think you're a coward for having left your country when it needs you most, but I'm not denying you your right to be a coward. We in the "manger dog pound" aren't keeping you from eating the hay; we're across the street, calling you on the BS you're full of.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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