Tea party threat again hangs over Republicans’ efforts to take Senate

Washington Post ^ | December 10, 2013 | Paul Kane

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"...............Seven of the 12 Republicans running next year face tea party challengers.

“People are no longer deferential to existing officeholders,” said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the independent Rothenberg Political Report. “We’ve entered a whole new era. I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

Some veterans suggested that the remedy for discouraging primary challenges was aggressive campaigns that throttle opponents, such as in Hatch’s 2012 primary contest against a tea party opponent, as opposed to weak campaigns like that of longtime incumbent Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), who lost in 2012.

“The only cure for political ambition is embalming fluid,” said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.).

Isakson is up for reelection in 2016 in Georgia, where tea party challengers popped up even before Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) announced he would not run for reelection next year. Big victories in 2014 over these challengers, Isakson said, “would certainly slow down the drive to do it.”

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who weathered a tea party challenge in 2010, less than two years after serving as the GOP presidential nominee, said he has given his colleagues facing primaries specific instructions: “Play offense. Go after your opponent. Your opponent’s going after you, you go after your opponent. The best defense is a good offense.”

To that end, (Sen. John) Cochran, 76, whose last tough campaign was more than three decades ago, is hosting a big $1,000-per-person fundraiser Wednesday at a Capitol Hill townhouse, declaring it an “ALL HANDS ON DECK” event on the invitation.....................

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Be sure to read the whole piece — savor the paragraphs about how the GOP-e thought that by tapping Ted Cruz as vice chairman of the NRSC, he’d be their “liaison to outside conservative activists” but instead of “mollifying them” he encouraged them and helped them raise money.

Oh! The horrors!

Get out the embalming fluid, throttle them - attack!

[Jess Kitting]

The truth is that RINOs, not the Tea Party, are standing in the way.

[Ronin]

Sigh... it always does my heart good to see the wonderful folks at The Washington Post giving advice to Republicans on how they are in serious danger because they listen to those nasty, grubby, Conservative folks.

I mean, you just have to KNOW The Washington Post has nothing but the best interests of the Republicans in mind. After all, they’ve been such staunch supporters for sooooo long!

[VRWC For Truth]

All the GOP incumbents are Rat enablers. They bash their own base, before saying one bad word about their friends across the aisle.

[Olog-hai]

Didn’t they have headlines like this back in 2010?

[vicar7]

Competition bring out the best everyone knows even the yokels that 2 gas stations on main street are better than one.

[RKBA Democrat]

Oh the humanity! Can’t conservatives just be quiet and go back to their place at the back of the bus? This is what happens when people don’t learn the proper respect for their political betters (/s)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

True enough, but the Washington Post didn’t put those words into the mouths of Republicans.

[Mr. K]

"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who weathered a tea party challenge in 2010, less than two years after serving as the GOP presidential nominee, said he has given his colleagues facing primaries specific instructions: “Play offense. Go after your opponent. Your opponent’s going after you, you go after your opponent. The best defense is a good offense.” "

Too bad that didn't apply to his run against Obama

[Gaffer]

“The only cure for political ambition is embalming fluid,” said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.).

I am so effing mad now at this RINO poser. He's my Senator, and the only 'embalming' that is going to be happening now is his next primary run. He has steeled my resolve even further to ensure that his RINO ass never sees the floor of the Senate come his next election.

Damn him. He's nothing but Chambliss' little lap dog. Weasley little two-faced RINO, second-tier appeasing simp. We'll see what happens in November 2016 for you.

I don't care if we win the Senate with the likes of him and his ilk.

[fastrock]

Same here w/ Mitch McConnell. I’ll vote Bevin in the primary, but should MM win primary I not vote for him in the general. I won’t vote for the the Rat either.

[Gaffer]

I am NEVER going to vote for a RINO I know to be dishonorable - EVER. I’ll vote against them in the primary and then sit out the general if need be, but never again. Holding my nose twice is enough.

[steve8714]

They should be better Republicans.

[Venturer]

Yours is the point.

What good is winning if we are merely putting Dem Lites in office and not Conservatives.

We may as well vote for a real Democrat as a fake one calling himself a Republican.

[FreedomPoster]

Good. Here is a perfect reason why on the same page on FR:

McConnell Hosts Fundraiser for North Carolina’s Charlie Crist at Home of Fannie Mae Lobbyist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3100323/posts

[FreedomPoster]

I watched Chris Carr, GA Senator Johnny Isakson’s outgoing chief of staff (he’s now in change of economic development for the state), do exactly that at a talk a couple months ago. He spent more time bashing Cruz over the shut down than he did bashing Democrats. Cruz was right, as the initial implementation nightmare of Obamacare has proven.

[Yosemitest]

I read a great article by Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. written February 4, 2011 from "NewsWithViews.com" and here's part of it.

COMPROMISE – A DIRTY WORD
Compromise – is defined as:
“A middle way between two extremes”

If this is a literally correct definition, and I believe that it is,
what then are we to do when the two extremes at the opposite ends of the plane are
that which is moral
and that which is immoral?
Is it possible that a righteous compromise can be accomplished
when such a compromise, by the very definition of the word, must contain the elements of an extreme that is in and of itself evil or wicked ?

Compromise is as old as humanity;
compromise began as a human endeavor to attempt to escape the penalty for the transgression of God’s laws
and to mitigate or contravene the absoluteness of God’s word.
Compromise is man’s way
to lessen the seriousness of disobedience to immutable laws and dictums,
or to excuse or condone such disobedience altogether.
No good thing comes from compromise.
Man’s accommodation of transgressions by compromise is not a defense for iniquitous acts in the eyes of God.
Compromise is the devil’s invention;
God who is perfect in every way will not be conciliated by the conditions of a compromise.

Compromise was introduced into the lives of men in the Garden of Eden by that serpent of old, Satan,
and will remain with men until the Lord Jesus Christ brings this world to an end - which He will inevitable do - and establishes His Kingdom.

THE FRUITS OF COMPROMISE
Most people have come to believe
that compromise is a useful tool
and that the negotiations thereof have brought about good things and useful policies.
If one examines that belief closely it soon becomes apparent that
there are no useful results that accrue to negotiated compromise on any level.
In fact most often
compromise actually breeds dissention and strife,
which in turn leads to more compromise.
In short compromise feeds upon itself and eats up that which is just and right in the process.

To live in a world of compromise is to live in a world without absolutes,
and yet we know that the entire universe as well as the lives of men are managed, controlled, and kept within irrevocable bounds by the absolutes established by Almighty God.
We violate those bounds, via compromise of any kind, at our peril.

Political negotiations (compromise) in regard
to the step down from the safeguarding of the sanctity of life
and from the immutable right granted by God to be defended against being murdered -
as set forth in the sixth commandment
- has enabled an American medical assassination machine
that has claimed nearly double the number of lives of the combined number of military and civilian deaths attributable to World War II.

The killing of innocent babies has reached record heights.
The lives of twenty-four percent of all unborn babies are delivered into the hands of the serial killers of the medical community.
A baby is murdered every twelve seconds,
and it is estimated that in this country alone there have been ninety-two million living beating hearts stilled by the bloody hands of the legal abortionists.
This conspiracy to commit murder,
this aiding and abetting of murder,
this disconnect between the forbidden pre-meditated murder of living adults and the sanctioned pre-meditated murder of living babies
has been wrought by a politically mediated compromise between
those who claim the right to murder babies
and those who know God’s absolute prohibition of murder.
And there is more.

Now continuing…compromise on morality resulted in the condoning of, and an exponential increase in, the filthy - God condemned - practice of sodomy and promiscuous sex.
For every compromise of God’s word a penalty is exacted.
Aids rapidly achieved endemic proportions, first in the United States and then in the rest world.
We were told that Aids was a disease of monkeys that had migrated to men.
The inventiveness of the scientific community and the political apologizers who defend such appalling and execrable behavior
often find fertile ground in the credulous minds of a spiritually deprived people.
I’m not done.

POLITICAL COMPROMISE CONTINUES TO DESTROY THE REPUBLIC
Today as never before in our history the dishonorable who control our social destiny via their political intrigues
subject the nation to a slow death by way of political compromise.

Compromise through ill-conceived trade agreements has destroyed domestic industry and extinguished millions of jobs.
Compromise on sound financial practices has destroyed the housing market, seriously damaged the economy and crippled small businesses.
Compromise on immigration has demolished the social structure, bankrupted state and local governments, critically imperiled national security and jeopardized the safety and well-being of the people.
And compromise on moral integrity has corrupted the youth, encouraged extreme vice and given license to social prurience.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END
In a recent article I wrote
that from this time forward
the people of this nation will not know a day of peace,
there will be no good news, each bad day will fade into another equally bad day,
and the black and ghostly apparitions of the former will blend with the grim and ghastly tidings of the new.
The Lord has departed from a people that have departed from Him and prostituted themselves before heathen gods,
a people who will in the coming days loathe themselves for the evils that they have committed in all of their abominations.
They will surely know that He is the Sovereign God who will carry out His word
to do evil unto them that defy His word and deny His Lordship over all of creation.

As I write this piece
the nation is seized by a 2,000 mile long arctic blast of an unprecedented magnitude;
each season delivers devastation of Biblical proportions.
Tornadoes ravage, floods inundate, conflagrations gobble up thousands of acres of trees and foliage and lumbering mudslides follow in the wake of these,
hurricanes terrify the coasts, and hail, ice, and snow bring cities and towns to a standstill.
Truly the day of the Lord is at hand.

One who reads these words and does NOT understand or relate to that which has been written
can be thought to possess one or more of the following character deficiencies:
deep perversion, callous indifference, abysmal illiteracy, or appalling ignorance.

Believers in God’s word know
that ignorance of a secular kind is directly attributable to a lack of spiritual discernment.

Solomon gives a litany of dangers that await the man who lacks Spiritual discernment:

“To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Who leave the paths of uprightness,
to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again,
neither take they hold of the paths of life.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
[Proverbs 2:12-22]

A modern translation:

"Wicked and perverse men are scattered like land mines across the paths of our lives.
Without discernment we will soon be following them into the dark of destruction.
The adulteress, every man’s worse nightmare, will seduce those who cannot see past her beauty and promises.
Behind her attraction lies the steps that descend to hell.
No one who goes to her returns,
but how can anyone know this apart from God Himself telling us."
[Proverbs 2:12-22]

Read Compromise Is a Dirty Word for Club for Growth.

We will never unify under "Establishment Republicans" .
"Establishment Republicans" have more in common with the Democrats, than they do with Conservatives.
The weak candidates are "Establishment Republicans", weak on national security, amnesty for illegals, abortion, and government spending.
"Establishment Republicans" scream "COMPROMISE".
And people who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.
These "Establishment Republicans" are being weeded out, one by one, and slowly but surely, the TEA Party is taking over.

Take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.

[Flick Lives]

“Play offense. Go after your opponent. Your opponent’s going after you, you go after your opponent. The best defense is a good offense.”

Funny; McCain didn’t try this when running in 2008.

[tumblindice]

Let me see if I have this straight.
By your lights as expressed in another thread, we should go after Republicans—RINOs—but it’s bad form to attack—hands off—uber Democrats Obama?
That doesn’t make any sense CW, unless you’re a Democrat.