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Tea Party Holds Ground in GOP Primaries
thedailybeast.com ^ | 8/6/14 | Ben Jacobs

Posted on 08/06/2014 9:08:11 AM PDT by cotton1706

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Establishment "warchests" are being drained and cards are being forced to the table. Mitch and his goons have had to play every card, every trick, and carry out every insidious plot to maintain their power. And it's not over yet. They still need to face the voters in November.
1 posted on 08/06/2014 9:08:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
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News of the Tea Party’s ‘demise’ have been greatly exaggerated - we (the Taxed Enough Already) people are NOT going away.


2 posted on 08/06/2014 9:11:51 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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Yes that is true. I am in agreement. I live outside KC and I voted for Milton Wolf and he carried the county.


3 posted on 08/06/2014 9:12:36 AM PDT by Mozilla
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4 posted on 08/06/2014 9:12:56 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Typical Daily Therion, calling the GOP-e the “pro-business wing” when they are just the opposite.


5 posted on 08/06/2014 9:13:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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The GOPe — working hard to lose the battle for the Senate.


6 posted on 08/06/2014 9:14:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Yes that is true. I am in agreement. I live outside KC and I voted for Milton Wolf and he carried the county.

I did the same thing Mozilla!

It's shows we are still serious about this.

Good Article too if you might be feeling a little blue.

7 posted on 08/06/2014 9:15:07 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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A close vote for a relative unknown candidate who picks up over 40 percent of the vote with the 52 percent anti-Roberts vote split three ways.

The GOPe ran splitter candidates to help Roberts win.


8 posted on 08/06/2014 9:16:57 AM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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I hate seeing Kerry Bentivolio go but I do think I got a good state representative Candidate named Brett Roberts. Roberts is a farmer who promises to work on restoring property rights to rural people. Says he’s sick of urban people making uninformed decisions about how rural people will live.


9 posted on 08/06/2014 9:16:59 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Olog-hai

The GOPe is the pro-crony business wing.


10 posted on 08/06/2014 9:17:54 AM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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The Tea Party may not be knocking off incumbents, but it doesn’t appear to be losing any ground within the GOP.


Close doesn’t count in this business.

I remember George H. W. Bush had a 90% approval rating before going into the primaries for the 1992 election. Pat Buchanan hammered and hammered away at Bush. This helped soften Bush 1’s approval numbers and I believe helped Bill Clinton get elected.

Beating up a republican that helps a less desirable democrat win isn’t exactly a great strategy.

I would prefer that all the GOPe be dumped but I don’t want to do so for something even worse.


11 posted on 08/06/2014 9:21:30 AM PDT by boycott
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The GOPe — working hard to lose the battle for the Senate.


I’ve got to agree with that.


12 posted on 08/06/2014 9:22:27 AM PDT by boycott
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One reason why I think it’s stupid to have intra-party debates.


13 posted on 08/06/2014 9:22:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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“The GOPe ran splitter candidates to help Roberts win.”

That too is one of the tricks they’re using to maintain power. And the people will become aware of it.


14 posted on 08/06/2014 9:23:42 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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“...calling the GOP-e the “pro-business wing” when they are just the opposite....”

You’re right of course. The elite are no friends of small businesses and entrepreneurship. But they are friends of the giant politically-correct corporations.

I have some humble investments within the Edward Jones Investment firm but it is out there promoting ObamaCare.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 9:23:51 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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Here’s to the hope of another Cantoring on Thursday in Tennessee. I will not be surprised if Carr pulls it off.


16 posted on 08/06/2014 9:24:27 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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Tea party candidates isn’t the proper term, IMO. There is no tea party nominating convention. What it really is, is an establishment alternative candidate. People gravitate towards those candidates because they are fed up with the cronyistic, politics as usual crowd in DC. The fact that someone challenges an establishment elite automatically gets branded tea party. TP = Terminally Pissed off.


17 posted on 08/06/2014 9:25:11 AM PDT by upsdriver (Palin/West '16)
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we would be wise to refer to them as the ‘big-business’ wing of the party.


18 posted on 08/06/2014 9:27:24 AM PDT by ilgipper
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Tomorrow, Thursday we have our primary here in TN..

For 10 days last month we had our early voting and record crowds have already voted, illegal aliens and the dead in Polk County included...

hopefully the US Senate vote was for Joe Carr and not for Uber-RINO Lamar! Alexander..

I went to the event for Joe Carr this morning in Chattanooga..

He was confident and hopeful and ready for tomorrow..

He has a proven Conservative record in the TN legislature..

I think he will stay strong and vote Conservative in DC..

He is solid anti-AMNESTY..

we need him in TN..


19 posted on 08/06/2014 9:27:38 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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One reason why I think it’s stupid to have intra-party debates.


The first objective should be putting roadblocks in front of Hussein Obama’s destruction of the USA. One of the most important things is to take the senate away from him.

I am 100% for electing conservative candidates and removing both liberal democrats and republicans. If that doesn’t work, I am for the next best option .... whatever that may be.


20 posted on 08/06/2014 9:28:12 AM PDT by boycott
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