We haven't thrown very many of these establishment jerks out, but we're getting closer all the time.
I’m sorry. The only thing that matters is winning. Ask Al Gore. There is no silver lining to losing in politics. We need to win. We, the Tea Party, needs to win asap.
The bad news is that Lamar will remain his RINO, GOPe self for the next 5 years.
Lloyd Marcus is a light.............
Second place still hurts. And it’s still second place. Nevertheless, perhaps we are making progress.
Another bright spot: Carr beat Alexander in Alexander’s home county of Blount. As a resident of Blount County, I take some personal delight in that. I think that I had the first Carr yard sign in the county. I think that they were the only ones for quite awhile. (I had two, actually.) I went to the campaign’s grand opening in Murfreesboro and got them (along with a bumper sticker). I live along a road with a fairly large amount of traffic. I also used pounded away on Facebook and other avenues. Hopefully it made a difference.
I’ll try harder next time. (Thinking about buying billboard space next time.)
The lesson in all the primaries is that you have to have an organization and have money to communicate to voters. Regular Americans, the working taxpayers of America, don’t have representation in Washington but they can get representation by doing a few simple things:
First, get an organization. Tea Party this-and-that is not sufficiently organized to accomplish step two.
Step two is to get money. You do this by pulling money from big and small donors. You use social media for the small donors and you use professional fundraisers to get the big donors. The donors won’t contribute unless you show you can win. To do that, you have to either show how your organization will win (and that your organization will help that donor) or how you can defeat other party’s candidates. Make it clear that spending money on other parties is wasted money. You can do that by pulling votes from other candidates—you do this by pulling votes from Republicans and Dems, too, if you can communicate to them. There are lots of people looking for a fresh change, but you can’t beat well-funded and organized incumbents without money and organization.
You start with a good organization. Not a hero candidate and not with a good platform. Not even with good economic proposals. You start with a good organization.
Alexander didn’t even win by a landslide. That should worry him unless he thinks he’ll get Democrat votes in the general.
My friend complains about congress and the damned republicans that won’t stand up to Obama...then he votes for Lindsey Graham.
There are wrong conclusions being drawn to support specific politics.
The Tea Party did not lose anymore than anybody that loses to an incumbent. Incumbents win. It takes really bad, I mean really bad incumbent to lose. The incumbent Republican Tony Shipley lost here....... he was really really bad
Carr’s loss was more the rule than the exception.