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Presidential race loses fizz for Tea Party
Reuters ^ | Oct 9, 2011 | Patricia Zengerle and Eric Johnson WASHINGTON/CHICAGO

Posted on 10/09/2011 2:22:05 PM PDT by mdittmar

With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out of the race, many U.S. Tea Party activists are shifting focus to the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.

The fizz has gone out of the presidential contest for some supporters of the fiscally conservative movement now that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is not running and Texas Governor Rick Perry and congresswoman Michele Bachmann are slipping in polls.

"No one is going to get perfect in a general election candidate. That is why we think the Senate is a better place to focus," said Matt Kibbe, president and chief executive of the libertarian FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group.

In the 2010 mid-term elections, Tea Party opposition to President Barack Obama's policies played a big role in slashing the Democrats' majority in the 100-member Senate to just six seats and eliminating their majority in the House of Representatives.

With 23 of the 33 Senate seats up for grabs next year now held by Democrats, and a wave of public hostility to incumbents, Tea Party activists said they looked forward to more Republican gains in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: tsowellfan

I never heard of Matt Kibbee, and I don’t give a damn what he thinks...


21 posted on 10/09/2011 2:38:58 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: tsowellfan

It’s not my name,it’s my handle or nick name, you don’t really believe your own crap do you?


22 posted on 10/09/2011 2:40:22 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny (Cain 2012)
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To: mdittmar

HUH, apparently they have heard TEA PARTY members can chew gum and walk too.

EVERYTHING is in FOCUS aholes. It’s about getting the fascist/swocialist Dummies out of D.C. And their b****’s the RINOS.


23 posted on 10/09/2011 2:40:55 PM PDT by marty60
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To: BobL
Look at the two writers of this article

It's the same guy\girl! Patricia is Eric's sassy, engaged lesbian alter ego, and Eric's choice of accessories how "What not to Wear", the scarf Eric.... is so sophisticated. It gives that air of downtown Chicago, aloof limousine liberalness.

24 posted on 10/09/2011 2:42:03 PM PDT by pburgh01 (No more GWBs, say no to Perry.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Haven’t seen Jeopardy! in a long, long time. Trebec is one of the few openly conservative/Republican types in Hollywood. Sure it wasn’t a reference to “Mad Hatter Tea Party?” Or were the A’s about the political movement?


25 posted on 10/09/2011 2:42:54 PM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S, TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: rogue yam
Right . Now that Biden compares the pig fest on wall st to the t party , that must mean they are astroturf racists.
26 posted on 10/09/2011 2:43:05 PM PDT by fantom (,)
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To: big bad easter bunny
Just kidding with you.

you don’t really believe your own crap do you?

No. They are obviously hoping Romney will get the nomination so they must feel that the RINO would have less of a chance beating Obama than a Tea Party candidate such as Cain.

27 posted on 10/09/2011 2:43:05 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: pburgh01

Eric’s head on cropped Baghdad Bob’s shoulders was my first thought seeing the pic.


28 posted on 10/09/2011 2:44:58 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: mdittmar

They do their best to ignore Cain.That is where the TP is.


29 posted on 10/09/2011 2:45:10 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: richardtavor

McCain was the best lesson that the MSM could ever have given us.
We have learned their tricks. We can now identify their propaganda.
We are no longer USEFUL IDIOTS.
They are petrified of the tea party. Cain IS the poster buy for the tea party.
Don’t get discouraged.
Don’t let your guard down.
We have to first fight the Republican establishment. Then the liberal Marxist.
I am not retreating.
I’ll just keep in reloading.


30 posted on 10/09/2011 2:45:46 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: cripplecreek
Actually I’m fine with it as long as the media believes it. Plus we do need to put some effort into taking the senate.

Exactly. And I hope the state run "media" writes a new TEA Party obituary every day. The are in for a rude awakening come November 2012.

31 posted on 10/09/2011 2:47:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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To: mdittmar

What about Cain, Rueters? Forgot about him? Cain has been a perennial favorite at TP events. I also see they went to Dick Army’s fake Tea Party group for comment. Since when is Matt Kibbe a source for information involving the TP?


32 posted on 10/09/2011 2:47:32 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: mdittmar

The important races in 2012 always have been in the Senate and the House, and the race for President will be mostly a sidenote; because it will be much harder to come up with a Republican nominee than it will be for that nominee to beat Premier Hussein.

The work that was begun in the 2010 midterm elections has to be carried forward to 2012. Instead of trying to get Marco Rubio to run for Veep, we need to focus on sending him reinforcements in the Senate, and continue cleaning that ‘Rathole out.


33 posted on 10/09/2011 2:47:51 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
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To: E38

Every newspaper in the country prints rueters and ap $hit,at least here,at FR,we can dissect it.


34 posted on 10/09/2011 2:47:51 PM PDT by mdittmar (i)
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To: tsowellfan

Um, what planet does Reuters live on? Cain, Bachmann and
Santorum are all conservatives. Tea Party Conservatives will have no difficulty voting for any of them—despite our disappointment in Palin’s decision to be a queen/king maker rather than a queen.

We will not vote RINO again. Therefore, Romney and Perry are unelectable. We won’t vote for them because they are nothing more than demrats by another name. The RINO game is up.


35 posted on 10/09/2011 2:48:28 PM PDT by dools0007world
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To: tsowellfan

Um, what planet does Reuters live on? Cain, Bachmann and
Santorum are all conservatives. Tea Party Conservatives will have no difficulty voting for any of them—despite our disappointment in Palin’s decision to be a queen/king maker rather than a queen.

We will not vote RINO again. Therefore, Romney and Perry are unelectable. We won’t vote for them because they are nothing more than demrats by another name. The RINO game is up.


36 posted on 10/09/2011 2:49:32 PM PDT by dools0007world
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To: who knows what evil?
I believe that Alex is a Republican, but of course the show is taped mostly in Hollywood, and they are not as bad as most of the crud that comes from Hollywood.
37 posted on 10/09/2011 2:51:06 PM PDT by samantha (Sarah is our TEAple. leader for America the Beautiful...)
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To: mdittmar

Lots of “Hopey” there: TP is very ready to make the change in Nov 2012.


38 posted on 10/09/2011 2:57:06 PM PDT by vicar7 ("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
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To: mdittmar

Since when does a Chicago based Reuters reporter speak for the Tea Party?

I am prepared to vote against Hussein regardless of the person who is nominated by the Republicans. Millions are sick of this jackball.


39 posted on 10/09/2011 2:57:20 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: mdittmar

The commies are always trying to define the Tea Party.

It is hugely imporantant that Tea Party leaders put out the American Third Way - a restoration of the US constitution and an end to socialist debt oppression and Bush’s homeland inSecurity (war on terrorism) abuse of the constitution’s Bill of Rights. No more croney capitalism!

We are moving in Texas now.


40 posted on 10/09/2011 2:57:44 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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