Posted on 11/08/2013 2:28:03 AM PST by markomalley
The Republican Party of Iowa was blindsided by the Tea Party movement in the last presidential election, but party officials are already working hard to diminish the conservative movement's influence by the time the next presidential primary rolls around in 2016, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa said.
"I think the Tea Party people in Iowa caught them off guard," Grassley said of the state party in an interview on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers."
Grassley said many Iowa Republicans "have been dissatisfied with the direction of the Republican Party in Iowa and are prepared to get more involved this time to counter the Tea Party influence."
"What we need to do is energize the Republican Party all over," Grassley said. "That doesn't exclude Tea Party people, but it means everybody who likes the Republican Party and our principles needs to get activated."
Grassley, who is running for a seventh term in 2014, said he hasn't decided who he'd back in the next presidential contest. But his influence in a state that casts the first votes of a presidential election will make him a sought-after endorsement.
When asked about the presidential prospects of newly re-elected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, Grassley said Christie "would be a welcome candidate in Iowa."
His appeal, Grassley said, stems from his success as governor, "and he's been able to work with both political parties and he's shown considerable success."
Grassley, who considers himself conservative, rejected the "moderate" label Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others have tried to attach to Christie to suggest he would have trouble winning a primary process dominated by conservatives. Christie allowed same-sex marriage to advance in New Jersey and embraced President Obama in the final weeks of the 2012 election.
"There is a tendency that if you are not a purist on everything then you are a moderate," Grassley said. "I don't accept that. I'm going to give Gov. Christie the opportunity to tell me issue by issue where he stands and I'll make a judgement."
Just three Iowa caucus winners — Democrats Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush — have gone on to win the presidency. But placing well in the race's first caucuses can give a candidate a chance to build momentum heading into the rest of the primary process.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum, a Tea Party favorite, won the 2012 Iowa caucuses, though he was effectively denied the traditional bump a winner would have because problems with the vote count meant he didn't learn that he'd narrowly won until weeks later.
Grassley, hoping Iowa picks a winner next time around, said the Tea Party's insurgency has shaken up the state's Republican Party, motivating the party to get more involved in the next primary "so that we can be a more major force not only in Iowa but in the nation as a whole."
I think the Repubs will be able to cobble together various groups in 2016 just because things will be so bad nobody will support a Dem (maybe that’s just wishful thinking, but the bad news keeps piling up). Social conservatives may support smaller government once they realize that big government simply puts a lot of supporters of liberal causes on the government payroll; “big government” simply transfers wealth from taxpayers to liberals (via both paychecks and entitlements).
Funny that, I wonder what Joe Lieberman would say about being a purist on every issue.
Fatso is not a Tea Party darling. Nice try.
Hide the corn.
In the original sense of the term (Taxed Enough Already), he was at the forefront. Beyond that, I have no interest in what anyone who hasn’t lived in NJ for the past 20 years thinks of Christie. Our property taxes no longer rise 5 - 10% every year (in a state that was already among the highest taxed), government is shrinking due to layoffs, and people are able to stay in their homes as a result.
Proof that Grassley is not in touch with reality.
The truth is that the GOPe, led by Romney, simply didn’t do serious on-the-ground party organizing. Other GOP leaders in Iowa didn’t organize either.
The surprise challenge to the GOPe came not from the Tea Party, but from libertarians. Iowa GOP Chairman AJ Spiker is a disaster who actually seems to have joined with the GOPe to give every advantage possible to Democrats.
The Grassley/Branstad era is nearing its end, one way or another.
What will follow them unless we act?
Well, we know what followed Branstad the last time he stepped aside: two liberal Democrat governors.
Or, will it be another mushy moderate Republican, like the one Branstad is now grooming?
I hereby commit myself to doing whatever I can to make sure it is neither.
Degenerates like Grassley had better get on the anticommunist bandwagon or be tossed to the side of the road
We are coming for the reds and anybody who gets in our way
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While Obama is a closet communist, the mayor-elect of NYC was pretty open about it in his positions (though he claimed he wasn’t). The Reds don’t seem to be worried about anyone coming for them; they are still winning elections.
Sen. Grassley agrees with the Democrats. How about that?
Not true
Lhota sucked asa a candidate and pussyfooted around the issue instead of smacking that communist SOB between the eyes any anyone who supported him including the parasite voters as card carrying communists hell bent on destroying the nation, and what the consequences of a communist victory would mean
Those not willing to fight the reds to the death deserve what they get
Lhota was only slightly less liberal than DeBlasio; the city was going to have a pro-abortion, pro-gay mayor regardless of which won.
Im talking about fighting the communists in the real USA
This primary season has to be about drawing lines and targeting GOP-E that is willing to work with the communists and turning the primary into a referendum on communists and their fellow travelers in the GOP.
Naming names.
Grassley will work with communists and needs to go.
Playing nice with the reds is no longer to be tolerated.
The whole RNC/GOP Washingtonian political class in DC needs to be decimated, this is revolution.
I think we should switch the red/blue designations back to what they had been; if it helps identifying we’ll just capitalize “Red”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Commies in the media deliberately switched the Republicans to red in 2000 as a propaganda device and the degenerate moron country clubbers at the RNC just went along with it.
They actually allowed the press to call them red, in fact, they embraced it and used it as background wallpaper at GOP.com.
We’ll know we have serious street fighters back in charge of the right when they tell the press to take the color red and shove it up their communist asses.
Grassley is okay for Iowa. In a state Obama, Clinton, Gore and Dukakis won.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfDMKzTDZA
Steve King was even promoting Christie. Doesn’t mean he wants him to win. He just wants to pal aroudn with R’s and get them to out themselves as RINOs when they attack King.
Id like to see Grassley as Senate Majority Leader and Steve King for Speaker.
He didn’t attack King when he called out the Calves with Cantaloupes.
I can never forgive Grassley for screwing around with my taxes. He cost me many thousands of dollars personally, and he cost thousands of American jobs. What a nitwit.
I called his dumb-assed bill the “Australian Full Employment Act of 2005.” After this misbegotten crap was enacted, the company I work for systematically replaced Americans with Australians all over the world. This guy can rot in hell forever as far as I am concerned.
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