Posted on 10/11/2013 5:38:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
From county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington.
The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall's elections.
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To the gopE ... Barbour, Sununu, Dawson ... ICH BIN EIN TEA-PARTIER! 2014 can't come soon enough.
WHIGS be hatin’...
Just goes to show whom the AP listens to. Out in red country the Tea Partiers are heroes.
TC
I just wrote my state GOP a love letter.............
I am with Ted Cruz!
“Rant” ping.
There are an estimated 60 million citizens who are TEA Party sympathizers, and the number is growing fast.
Dont forget Roy Blunt!
Ah, when you read "veteran Republicans" - or 'rats for that matter that is DC/MSM-speak for "professional politician." No matter what letter appears after his or her name, these people are not our friends.
The TEA Party isn't staining the GOP, they are washing away a little of the political filth that seems to accumulate so rapidly on all politicians when they go to DC. They forget the people they were elected to represent. They forget our best interests and begin to confuse their own best interests with ours. In the process, they get an enormously inflated sense of self-importance and self-worth.
Here's a shocker politicians: you actually do NOT know what is best for us. We are the people right here, right now, living our lives. We know what is best for us, you were elected to represent us, not rule us.
Here's a bigger shocker politicians: you are no better than any of the rest of us. Actually, based on job performance, you're on the far bottom end of the bell curve. You were hired/elected to do a job - to serve us. Like a gardener or the kids who shovel my drive in the winter, you are just hired help. Actually, I hold those people in much higher regard than you. They know their jobs, they are good at them, and they do them with no fuss. We cannot say the same thing for you. If you were my direct employees, you would've been fired long long ago.
I think it’s in AP’s best interest to incite and inflame any possible Party differences. We know who the RINOs are. We know who needs to go, and we know that the RINOs won’t go quietly, but we must be careful not to overstate the issue too. Eliminating the corrupt MSM and ousting the Marxist Democrats is the real goal.
We need to vote every one of the bastards out!!!
Hmmmmmm....
Let's try a few minor word tweaks...
Tea Partiers hail shutdown of Establishment GOP
Howzat sound?
We must destroy our health care industry and drive away 90% of our best doctors because the RINOs want more committee chairs. Funny thing — they would get those chairs if they just shut their traps. What RINO had led a 1.7 million petition drive this year? What RINO melted down the phone lines? They wanted us to focus like a laser on Obama-care did they? Well now the rats are having to defend their albatross rather than just ‘admit to mistakes’.
THAT’S THE FREAKING DIFFERENCE!
I am a Republican Committee Chairman for a county in Virginia.
This article is absolute nonsense.
Active Republicans are conservative and support the same issues as the Tea Party.
In 2014, Republicans and Tea Party folks will work together to remove the RINO’s.
Next year, there will be a tidal wave election that will sweep many of this parasites out of office.
Can we actually expel people from the party? What if we gather all the lindsey’s mcCains and announce they are not part of the republican party anymore. They can join the democrats or become independents we just do care. We just say get The F Out. And begin to rebuild the party. We spend too much time and energy dealing with these Rinos
“There are an estimated 60 million citizens who are TEA Party sympathizers, and the number is growing fast.”
Right. Even loyal libs are tempted to break ranks. Wolf Blitzer even. And the small-bill plan is already splintering their formerly ‘solid’ front.
Even professors have to drop family members from health coverage. Unions are angry. People want to see someone FIGHT THIS before we lose more doctors.
Not one dime in campaign contributions should go to the RNC. Conservatives shouldn’t enable RINOs to keep their seats. This is war.
Here's a real examination of who is to blame and why this unconstitutional piece of legislated garbage needs to be opposed with every weapon in your arsenal ... including this manufactured phony government 'shutdown'.
He also said, over and over — and over and over — that, if you liked your plan, you would not have to give it up. Nothing would change for you. No, we were just going to help some folks who were down on their luck and did not have access to health insurance. But rest assured: If you liked your plan, nothing would change for you. Now, both of those things turn out to be untrue: Health premiums are not going down, by $2,500 or any other number; they’re going up. And it’s not true that you won’t be forced off your plan: Some are.
If you were President Obama, don’t you think you’d feel the need to address these things?
... if you were a reporter in the White House press corps, you’d ask the president about them. You’d say, “Mr. President, you said over and over that health-insurance premiums would fall by $2,500. More like the opposite seems to be true. How do you account for that?” And, “Mr. President, you promised over and over that no one would have to leave his plan, if he didn’t want to. Yet this proves not to be the case. What do you say to that?”
“Can we actually expel people from the party?”
Impy knows better than me.
[I’ll offer my uninformed opinion however on next post.]
[Impy knows better, but ...]
They drummed out that KKK man, Senator Byrd, from the DNC. No wait, the DNC adored the KKK man past the year 2000. But the ‘G’ OP drummed out another KKK guy. It can be done, but actually, we need to primary Cornyn. According to Beck, he’s the money machine of the GOP establishment.
The best way to do it is to get control of the party chair. That’s ususually the spoils of the GOP president.
Today, every single one of them is either a Washington lobbyist or a political consultant.
Yes. And then they have the audacity to lecture us on how we need to be "united" as a party. Hey GOP-E, how about "uniting" with your conservative base for once in your sorry-ass lives????
No money to RNC or NRSC...that works to re-elect incumbents.
I am a Republican Committee Chairman for a county in Virginia ... This article is absolute nonsense ... Active Republicans are conservative and support the same issues as the Tea Party ... In 2014, Republicans and Tea Party folks will work together to remove the RINO’s.
There are an estimated 60 million citizens who are TEA Party sympathizers, and the number is growing fast.
Great posts ping. 'We The People' of the Tea Party are winning this fight!!! A fact which neither the AP nor the gopE wish to acknowledge. 2014!
Haley Barbour: Washington lobbyist, BGR Group.
John Sununu: Washington lobbyist and power broker; W.R. Grace.
Katon Dawson: political consultant to Sen. Lindsey Graham
Matt Cox, political consultant, Cox Consulting Group.
Cornyn needs to go. He is an embarrassment to Texas and a liar.
Cornyn is up for re-election and knows he is in trouble. Rumor is that Gohmert is considering running against him.
“The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall’s elections.”
How? Are they going to refuse to vote for us? Idiots!
I too am hoping Gohmert takes him on, I think he would have the best chance.
Predictably and on cue, two of them got together when Michael Medved gave McCain airtime on his show.
Yeah, it's always a winning strategy to "strike back" at your core voters, who'll then just stay home or vote third party.
Idiots.
More likely this is the meme the AP wants to push, that we are divided. Yes, we have some idiots who can't see beyone their noses and like being doormats in DC, but truth be known there is a remarkable unity from most right of center people about this shut down. We are winning (for a change).
It’s more likely agitprop from the AP, not even the GOPE is quite so stupid as to declare open war against their base.
You are correct. See post 28 which summarizes several very good and pertinent points from other posters.
Yep, but the hobby of the week is glomming onto some liberal news source headline so people can prove they hate the GOPe more than the next guy. It’s like the “yeah, and it’s deep too” contest.....
The Associated Press is not a credible source — except to “journalists”. The AP lies all the time. If they did, accidentally, commit an act of real journalism, they’d bury it under 100 lies.
“Thrown out of the party” in general, um no I don’t see any way to do that to anyone.
A legislator could be thrown out of his chamber’s GOP conference/caucus.
But it never happens. In countries with the parliamentary system it happens all the time, 1 minor scandal and a guy is kicked out and forced to sit as an Independent.
In NY you had Dede Scuzzobma, the liberal RINO who ran for Congress drop out and endorse the democrat and the NY Assembly Republicans still didn’t kick her out, they didn’t even take away the minor leadership position that she held! She rewarded them by quiting it herself and then endorsing the democrat who ran for her seat when she retired!
"The greatest trick the left has ever played is to convince conservatives we cannot win. The media will tell us that believing in free market values, believing in the Constitution, believing in freedom are extreme views. It is a lie," he said to cheers."
I think a few of the gop/e have today. Rush and Glenn are all over this today! They will cave if they already have not.
Agreed. It’s the AP doin’ their part to sew dissension. It does grate me that Haley Barbour sounds just like Rove or McQueeg. There was a time when Haley was one of the good guys. He’s better than this.
I just don't want to help them here on FR.
Too much time in DC and too little time in Mississippi.....
The sad part about Haley is that he is still pretty good on issues, but he’s awful on strategy and communications....
No haley is a corporatist. I thought he was a good guy until I knew of some business he was involved with as Governor and believe me... he is a pos.
I do not believe we are losing. I do not believe these propaganda polls so I agree with you. The leadership are not trustworthy so caving will not surprise me one bit.
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