THE TEA Party has spent two election cycles now targeting establishment Republicans. But now that the Republican establishment is starting to fight back, the Tea Partiers are crying foul.
A new group, the Conservative Victory Project, will try to protect Republican Senate incumbents from challenges by hard-right candidates. The new super PAC will also try to recruit experienced conservative candidates and weed out far-right hopefuls whom it considers too extreme or inflammatory to win. This effort comes after controversial comments about rape and pregnancy by ultra-conservative Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock helped doom the GOP’s chances of winning control of the Senate last year.
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Since when is the Globe trying to help out the Republican Party? The Globe has ZERO credibility for this article.
I there was any moderate democrats left they could fight the liberals in their party, certainly not your father's democratic party. Only 15 members left in the blue dog coalition.
Certainly NOT my father's democratic party. President Obama is practically a Reagan Republican. Mainstream Democratic ideals of today are what were mainstream Republican ideals a generation ago. President Nixon would be considered a wild-eyed hippie by today's standards. And that's why the GOP is going the way of the Whig Party; it has moved rightward in an extreme way during the last decade.
One of the hurtles Rove or anyone has who wishes to move a party is the outlandish primary rules and off year elections. You have ten voters in a room 3 nut cases and 2 conservatives and five normal Republicans and what happens on primary. 3 nut cases come out 1 conservative and one real Republican. The nutcases win and call it a movement by the entire country. The media touts it and the other five people wonder, "What just happened?" You stayed home fool and gave you voice to a bunch of nuts. That's what happened.
While "migh" has a point the Dem. Party has not at this point collapsed to its extremes. While the blue dogs have certainly taken their licks over the years they remain a voice in the Party and are not targets of any coherent Democratic group, which in and of itself is an oxymoron, coherent Democratic group.
Rove or no Rove things look grim for the Republicans on the national scene. I know all about governors and blah, blah, but nationally this is a Party that has developed a really poor image.
Atta-Why the need to disparage all Democrats? Need to establish your middle-road propers this morning? Readership probably along the 3-1-1 ratio today? Maybe I'm not being coherent.. Or is your beef that Democrats don't speak with a united voice? On that point I would agree.
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If it is a favor for America it was unintended. Rove's only goal is to do what's best for Rove.
What do you get when a conservative finds himself supping with the great and walking the corridors of power in Washington for too long? Answer: Accomodationists like Karl Rove and those who rally round his latest invention, the so-called "American Victory Project".
As a movement conservative I would caution my friends on the Right against launching simplistic assaults upon the Tea Party. If I might paraphrase Einstein: The thinking that gets us out of this mess has got be superior to that which got us into it. To correct the mismanagement of the federal government and avoid the terrible day of financial and social reckoning that is to come requires radical, not incremental, solutions. You don't save a garden choked with weeds by weeding it around the edges. The Tea Party gets it. Establishment Republicans like Rove do not.
Your post has Biblical overtones with words like reckoning and garden. Bold strokes! I get it. How about just "burning" the whole garden? I put quotation marks around the word burning because I'm writing metaphorically; would not want to be accused of saying something crazy Heaven forbid.
In reference to your last sentence; you just did.
I've never been a fan of the Tea Party. They destroy themselves from within. When they first started they were very popular then as their platform started to condense, members started thinking "hey, their talking about me" and they left. Again, the whole two party thing has got to go. We're Americans, a little liberal, a little conservative. For four years the Rebublicans try to stop everything The Democrats are doing and vice versa. We'll never get anywhere at this pace. I'm a Blue Dog Democrat but will vote for the person I think is best qualified to lead.
The tea party is mainly focused on destruction of the American government, instead of fine tuning it, resulting in huge affronts to the economy and losses for everyone.
The current government is doing the Tea Party's alleged job, all by itself--no help needed.
"Giermund" That is exactly my point the left seldom has "coherent" voice. Generally Dems. have a widely divergent view regarding govt. and policies. They don't say getting Dems. to do anything is like "herding cats" for nothing. I don't hink I've ever seen in my 65 years a coherent push by the far left to "primary" blue dogs. The just slowly disappeared into the "red" through gerrymendering or simply because they came from the south.,
By the way lest I forget. It's not a beef. I like the fact of their diversity of opinion from far left to middle right.
Thanks for the clarification...you're a pretty even-keeled and sane voice here...
What's the difference between the tea party and daily kozites?