Posted on 05/24/2014 4:06:12 PM PDT by cotton1706
TPNN News Director Scottie Nell Hughes appeared on Varney & Co. on Fox Business on Friday to discuss Tuesday’s elections in which moderate candidates defeated more Tea Party-oriented candidates in a handful of primary races.
Host Stuart Varney said the the victories of the moderates were a “significant retreat” for the Tea Party, in his opinion and asked Scottie to weigh in.
“Let’s get it right out there,” Varney began. “I say that voters in those primaries gravitated more to the moderates, the center of the Republican Party, and a little bit away from the Tea Party. Would you go with that?” Varney asked Scottie.
Scottie agreed that “this week” that seemed to be the result, but reminded Varney of the week before where Senate candidate Ben Sasse from Nebraska easily defeated the GOP establishment-backed moderate candidate.
Scottie told Varney that, “This is what primary season is” about and that, “We have to find ways to unite,” after primary season or the GOP is going to lose in November. “We are a movement,” Scottie said with passion, referring to the pro-liberty, pro-Constitution Tea Party movement, and shouldn’t be judged only on electoral wins and losses.
Stuart Varney then asked the question the GOP establishment is dying to know, “Will you, Tea Party people, support the moderates in November?”
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Same here.
At this point social conservatism has more to lose by capitulation than by holding firm.
Nope.
Wehby is much more liberal than McConnell. Supporting her and opposing him does not make much sense at all.
But its Mississippi....most conservative white population in USA
90% GOP
its expected if there is anti GOPe push back it will be there
They weren’t rebs for nothing..
If it happens somewhere more mid America....then?
Problem is some of these challengers have been weak campaigners
And poor.....
You have to get money.
I don’t think he’s malicious in that regard but he should be more discreet
It makes sense in that she won’t be the majority leader like Mitch, but a freshman back bencher. Having a spineless squish like Mitch setting the schedule for the senate will be a disaster.
Harry Reid used the nuclear option to get rid if the 60-vote threshhold for cloture *only* in the case of confirming executive appointments (but excluding appointments to SCOTUS), which still will be subject to 60 votes for cloture). So, currently, legislation is subject to a 60-vote cloture threehhold under Reid’s rules. So if what you describe McConnell as having said is correct, then McConnell would be playing no less hardball than is Reid, at least with respect to cloture.
Wehby would be a “freshman backbencher” who will be the subject of glowing reports from The New York Times, CNN, etc. about how “reasonable” she is and how all Repubkicans should be pro-abortion and pro-same-sex-marriage like she is. I’d rather have someone like McConnell with his 90%+ conservative viting record than a social liberal like Wehby whose “economic conservatism” is based solely on her say-so.
I’m not saying that if I lived in OR I wouldn’t hold my nose and vote for Wehby to try to stop the ultraliberal Democrat Merkley from being reelected, but for you to say that Kentuckians should not vote for McConnell over the liberal Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes (or Grimey, (as she prefers to be called) is pretty rich. Electing Grimey to a six-year Senate term could have long-term repercussions on the entire nation, and someone who is willing to vote for a socially liberal RINO to the Senate should know better than to call for the election of a 90% liberal over a 90% conservative.
But Obama will still be president. He’ll just veto conservative legislation. And with 50%+1 for cloture for judicial appointments, he’ll just need a couple of RINOs to vote with the Dems to get them confirmed. So I don’t see how eliminating the fibuster *while there’s a Democrat in the White House* would result in a boot on the Democrats’ neck.
I am not very bright today. Again you are right. I failed to say this does work only from the assumption of having a Republican president who would sign legislation that came from 51% vote of passage.
It also mute, as it certainly will never happen under the Marquess of Queensbury, McConnell.
Cornyn will be a much better leader eh? He’s next in line. Assuming a different leader would be better is a faulty premise. Frist and Lott weren’t popular here after a while either. Sessions or Cruz would probably make a compromise that would leader to their approval ratings plummeting on FR. Look at Cantor in the House, he was well liked here, a few years in the leadership, hated.
You also ignore the fact that’s she’s unlikely to win and he’s in a tight race.
So backing a liberal RINO who’s unlikely to win and opposing the 85%-90% conservative voting record GOP leader who’s in a close race against a LIBERAL PROBAMACARE WITCH just because he’s the leader and done something to tick off conservatives just like every recent Republican leader in both Houses?
Sorry, that’s not based on any kind of logic that I can see, rather an emotional anger towards McConnell. Nation cursed with 6 years of Alison Grimes representing a Republican state because you’re mad at Mitch? You should at least be consistent, if McConnell is too liberal for you then Wehby is WAY WAY too liberal for you. If she’s acceptable to back over a Marxist democrat (I agree she is) then so is McConnell.
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