TEA PARTY IS GOP’S SAVIOR,
NOT ALBATROSS
The
Republican Empire, led by Lord McConnell and Darth Boehner, isn’t taking
primary challenges by tea party insurgents lying down, and an all-out intra-GOP
war is in danger of breaking out!
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday
that Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell has been pressuring business interests to get off the sidelines
and start backing Republican incumbents who are being challenged by
conservative candidates in next year’s GOP primaries – which includes McConnell
himself.
Meanwhile,
in the House, “Speaker John Boehner
also has moved to undermine the power of the tea party.”
McConnell
is especially putting the strong arm on defense contractors. In a fundraising meeting last month that just
came to light, McConnell reportedly told those in attendance to step up, “mainly
to teach those who are primarying incumbents that it is not helpful to run
against incumbents who are champions for the (defense) industry.”
But “the
effort to beat back challenges from the right goes beyond the defense industry,”
the paper notes. “The U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and other business groups have been stepping in to help business
friendly Republicans aligned with the GOP leadership,” a sign that corporate
interests are worried that “tea party-aligned candidates might try to eliminate
tax breaks and spending favored by business.”
Yes,
we can’t have Republicans opposing corporate welfare and crony capitalism now,
can we?
Just
to remind everyone…
The
tea party movement didn’t begin with the election of Barack Obama in 2008. That’s
just when it was unofficially nick-named after CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s famous rant in February 2009 over the government’s
plan to refinance mortgages.
No,
the tea party movement actually began to evolve in 2006, after Republicans
failed to live up their fiscal conservative promises despite winning the White
House and control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in 2004.
Indeed,
conservative frustration, and outright disgust, with congressional Republicans
resulted in the GOP losing control of the House AND the Senate in 2006 as conservatives
opted not to vote or voted for third-party candidates.
The electoral
carnage continued in 2008, with Republicans – who apparently didn’t get the
message and learn their lessons in 2006 – losing a staggering eight seats in
the U.S. Senate!
Oh,
and by the way: Who was in charge of the National Republican Senatorial
Committee’s (NRSC) campaign operations and political debacle that cycle? Why, it was former Nevada Sen. John Ensign and his *brilliant* stand-for-nothing
strategist, Mike Slanker.
Fortunately
for the nation, the tea party movement - augmented by Rep. Ron Paul’s rising liberty movement - became fully engage
electorally in the 2010 cycle and returned Republicans to the majority in the
House.
So regardless of what
establishment Republicans and the media tell you, the tea party movement hasn’t
hurt the GOP, it SAVED the GOP.
And
one last reminder: Republicans blew the opportunity to beat Obama in 2012
despite all manner of White House failures over four year’s time. Now ask yourself, was the GOP presidential
nominee, Mitt Romney, a tea party Republican
or an establishment Republican?
‘Nuff
said.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“A
poll released yesterday by the Associated Press and GfK demonstrated a point
I've been making with eye-glazing regularity: The problems with healthcare.gov
will be solved; when they are solved they will reveal a far more damaging
problem for the Obama Administration and its Democratic supporters: Obamacare itself
stinks. It was ill conceived, ill
designed, ill written, and is being ill implemented.” – Rich Galen, Mullings.com,
12/15/13
“Two
sociologists have found that parents who have daughters are more inclined to
support the GOP and turn a cold shoulder to Democrats. In newly published findings that challenge
earlier research, Dalton Conley of New York University and Emily Rauscher of
the University of Kansas found that having more daughters than sons and having
a daughter first ‘significantly reduces the likelihood of Democratic
identification and significantly increases the strength of Republican Party
identification.’” - Rich Morin, Senior Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Social &
Demographic Trends Project
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