The staggering price of crushing the Tea Party

Politico ^ | 06/26/2014 | By ALEXANDER BURNS

[xzins]

I would call the Travis Childers campaign. I’m sure they’ll hook you up.

[Kit cat]

I have been dead set against losing the senate this term AT ALL COSTS
EVEN RINOS being put in!!!!!!! I have voted FAITHFULLY in EVERY
election, I WILL NOT VOTE in the 2014 mid term I HAVE HAD ENOUGH
Obammie can have the Senate as far as I am concerned I NO LONGER
CARE!!!!!! the pubbies HAVE GONE WAY OVER THE LINE of decency!!!!!

[Colonel_Flagg]

These people do not understand. We either drive the bus or we leave the bus. They will find out in November.

[jpsb]

I don’t think a write in will work. There must be a 3rd party conservative on the ballot in Ms. If there is then I would suggest conservatives rally to the 3rd party candidate and get him/her elected.

[Gaffer]

There is no amount of reasoning, appeasing or rationalization that could convince me that AMNESTY is anything but horribly destructive for this country.

This one aspect of their colluding surrender is enough for me to discount ANY RINO hoping to do anything good or proper. I don’t care what their motives are. AMNESTY or any facsimile thereof is death to this country, period.

[Organic Panic]

We hear about the demise and fringe appeal of Tea Party candidates YET, the elites in both party spend fortunes to beat them with only tiny margins of victory.

[stanne]

If the GOPe takes the senate, won’t they swoosh in amnesty? It’s not as if they don’t work primarily for, and at the expense of the we want cheap labor chamber of commerce

What if republicans took the senate without Cochran and I can’t think of who else. Graham is too good at this too entrenched

[tennmountainman]

You are not alone. Just look at the tone of this tread.
The GOPe’s have opened a Pandora’s box, in the MS election.
There will be blowback from conservatives. How it manifests itself
remains to be seen. But blowback is coming to the GOPe’s.

[SharpRightTurn]

“The loose coalition of establishment forces encompasses two dozen advocacy groups, industry associations and super PACs that have raised and spent millions on behalf of Washington’s chosen candidates.”

The Chamber of Commerce, etc. have a lot invested in their bought-and-paid-for politicians and don’t want to lose them to anti-cronyism candidates.

[dead]

I will vote only for candidates that I sincerely believe will work to shrink the size and influence of the government.

This will obviously include not a single Democrat, and only a handful of Republicans. I am no longer a default Republican voter. They'll have to earn it.

My congressman, Scott Garrett, is a true conservative Republican and will continue to get my vote.

I don't imagine I'll find many other Republicans to support in NJ, but they do pop-up now and then.

[Sans-Culotte]

You're asking us to emulate Murkowski? Think about it. Stoop to her despicable level and that's one step closer to selling out.

It would not be emulating Murkowski. Cochran emulated Murkowski by appealing to the opposition party to defeat a conservative. Murkowski did the same thing after voters from her own party rejected her in the primary. Her write-in candidacy appealed to rat voters and GOPe voters OVER the actual conservative Republican voters who had selected Miller. If McDaniel were to launch a write-in campaign, it would reverse the situation. The rats that voted for Cochran will vote for the rat, and conservatives will vote for McDaniel.

[11th Commandment]

This thing was probably a win for conservatives - in the long run.

Whistling Dixie

[COBOL2Java]

While celebrating their big victory over the American taxpayers, the Republicans are starting to worry about how much they spent putting down the “insurrection”. They should be worrying about whether anyone is going to show up at the polls in November.

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Have no fear! The GOPe will dispatch their handlers to FreeRepublic to round up all those pesky conservatives who say they won't vote for the hand-picked Republican and get them all back in line...

...and you can count on the Pollyanna Republicans (aka GOPe Kapos) who will browbeat to death any poster who tries to argue for a write-in campaign or going third party!

[dps.inspect]

Mississippi conservatives need to get in gear and promote a write-in campaign for Cochran... if Democrats win, so be it, at least we will not have gone down with a fight!

[cuban leaf]

Whistling Dixie

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Hey, there is a reason I moved from Seattle to central KY after Obama was elected.

I don’t think we’ll survive his presidency. But if we do...

[firebrand]

Except in states like New Jersey, where the state lies in two broadcast areas, so ads must be bought in both NY and Philly for statewide candidates.

[firebrand]

Seems like the only segment of the economy that’s thriving: campaign expenditures.

[stanne]

Time will tell

[donozark]

You know what would be a hoot? If after all this, Childers gets elected, and about 2 months or so after he is sworn in he switches to Republican Party! LOL!

[stanne]

Time will tell