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Mitch McConnell walks into less-than-friendly territory at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, holding a rifle aloft while Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" plays. The rifle is for a lifetime achievement award he'll present to retiring Republican Sen. Tom Coburn. Three days later he would tell The New York Times that he and other Republican establishment incumbents would "crush" their tea party challengers and the groups backing them. “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” he said. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”


May 20, 2014, 06:00 am
GOP brass riding a wave?



By Cameron Joseph


The GOP establishment is poised for a good Tuesday evening as it faces its biggest primary night yet.

With six states set to vote, business-friendly Republicans are expected to defeat conservative challengers in primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Idaho and Oregon, giving national GOP favorites a slew of victories over social and fiscal hard-liners.


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will likely cruise to victory over businessman and Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin (R). Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), an ally of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), is the heavy favorite to defeat his Tea Party rival in a race where national groups spent millions.

The two candidates who establishment Republicans were most worried about emerging from Georgia’s crowded Senate primary are unlikely to make the runoff. And Dr. Monica Wehby, national Republicans’ favored candidate, is likely to win her Oregon Senate primary.
The wins will likely extend down-ballot as well, in more off-the-radar races. House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa.) Tea Party challenger fizzled from the start, and the establishment favorite is expected to win the GOP primary for retiring Rep. Tim Griffin’s (R-Ark.) seat.

The expected primary results follow a concerted push by establishment Republicans and their business allies to reassert control over the party and defeat the type of hard-line Republicans that have cost them seats in past years.

“It’s a victory for the pragmatic common-sense conservatives who are the majority of the Republican Party, who are more interested in winning a majority than falling on their sword and losing,” said GOP strategist Brian Walsh, a former National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director who still advises the NRSC and is helping the centrist Defending Main Street super-PAC.
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Is the Tea Party in its death throes ? More and more voters are showing they want a positive/progressive Congress and turning away from those who's only answer is NO...

Can the Repubs survive their primary splits and "crushing" each other and still win the general election then ?

Interesting scenario developing...
 

Mike

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Yea, they were really crushed in Nebraska. :lol:

Ted Cruz was annointed as the "King Maker" there.

Do you ever think before you post? :roll:
 

loomixguy

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No, he doesn't. He posts what he wishes were the case.
Yup, that darn Ben Sasse REALLY got his butt shipped last week..... :roll:


Idjit.
 

loomixguy

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Come to think of it, I don't think a Dimmocrap OR a Libtardarian could get elected dogcatcher in this state right now. They'd have even less chance than OT does telling the truth. :wink:
 

backhoeboogie

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loomixguy said:
Come to think of it, I don't think a Dimmocrap OR a Libtardarian could get elected dogcatcher in this state right now. They'd have even less chance than OT does telling the truth. :wink:

The libertarians have been around for nearly three decades (that I am aware of). Jessee Ventura was as big as they have been in the elections. Their concepts have not gone away in all these years and they still have support.

The TEA Party simply had old down home values. Right now the heartland of America is completely ignored. "Shut up and pay taxes" is what the left and right coast have to say to us. We aint crushed yet.

Forgive OT. Poor guy just doesn't get it. He has to have a label for everything. He has often called me a KKK member and often lumped me in with just about every movement that ever existed. He simply does not understand.

Take for instance Phil Robertson. Hollywood intended to make idiots out of that family. Sort of like they expected the Beverly Hillbillies to want to leave Arkansas and come to their "wonderful" lifestyle back in the 60's. They just don't get it. They don't understand and don't care to. OT is no different. He just doesn't get it. Never will. There are still good people in America's heartland. We are tired of paying for the left and right coast's blunders.

Ever sit around late night and watch those "get rich with real estate" programs on television? Lots of folks in California did. That is what started this slide. OT blames Dubya. Nevermind that millions of Californians defaulted on their loans.
 

loomixguy

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Some may think that OT doesn't mean any harm by the sewage he posts....BUT HE DOES. Just like his reporting of members here to God (sorry, Allah) knows what governmental agency. He knows what the truth is, but just can't bring himself to believe it.
 
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I do have to admit- the Tea Party is doing one good thing in Montana... With several Repub candidates running for Congress as Tea Party pledgers-and radical anti-U.S. government platforms---the split vote should guarantee the one candidate that has said he will do what is best for Montana and the nation instead of what some radical extremist group wants is probably going to win the primary- and if so he should win the general election too....
 

Faster horses

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Oldtimer said:
I do have to admit- the Tea Party is doing one good thing in Montana... With several Repub candidates running for Congress as Tea Party pledgers-and radical anti-U.S. government platforms---the split vote should guarantee the one candidate that has said he will do what is best for Montana and the nation instead of what some radical extremist group wants is probably going to win the primary- and if so he should win the general election too....

And who is it of which you speak?
 
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Faster horses said:
Oldtimer said:
I do have to admit- the Tea Party is doing one good thing in Montana... With several Repub candidates running for Congress as Tea Party pledgers-and radical anti-U.S. government platforms---the split vote should guarantee the one candidate that has said he will do what is best for Montana and the nation instead of what some radical extremist group wants is probably going to win the primary- and if so he should win the general election too....

And who is it of which you speak?

Zinke..
 

hypocritexposer

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With six states set to vote, business-friendly Republicans are expected to defeat conservative challengers in primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Idaho and Oregon, giving national GOP favorites a slew of victories over social and fiscal hard-liners.


So now "business friendly" means corporate welfare, and OT is fine with that, it would appear.

Used to be that it was the conservatives that were business friendly, now there needs to be a distinction made between the 2. Hmmm...
 
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hypocritexposer said:
With six states set to vote, business-friendly Republicans are expected to defeat conservative challengers in primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Idaho and Oregon, giving national GOP favorites a slew of victories over social and fiscal hard-liners.


So now "business friendly" means corporate welfare, and OT is fine with that, it would appear.

Used to be that it was the conservatives that were business friendly, now there needs to be a distinction made between the 2. Hmmm...

Actually it means they aren't brain dead- and wouldn't read Dr. Suess all day in Congress while the economy hangs on the edge-- and the country ends up losing money over a dog and pony show...

The business world saw what it cost the economy to play political partisan games- and they want no more of it...

I think mainstream USA along with the business world is sick and tired of just hearing NO which is the Tea Party's answer to everything.... They expect a Congress that can negotiate and compromise and keep the country moving forward... They want to see progress instead of regression or even stagnation... This can not occur when one's answer to every problem is just NO..
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
With six states set to vote, business-friendly Republicans are expected to defeat conservative challengers in primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Idaho and Oregon, giving national GOP favorites a slew of victories over social and fiscal hard-liners.


So now "business friendly" means corporate welfare, and OT is fine with that, it would appear.

Used to be that it was the conservatives that were business friendly, now there needs to be a distinction made between the 2. Hmmm...

Actually it means they aren't brain dead- and wouldn't read Dr. Suess all day in Congress while the economy hangs on the edge-- and the country ends up losing money over a dog and pony show...

The business world saw what it cost the economy to play political partisan games- and they want no more of it...

I think mainstream USA along with the business world is sick and tired of just hearing NO which is the Tea Party's answer to everything.... They expect a Congress that can negotiate and compromise and keep the country moving forward... They want to see progress instead of regression or even stagnation... This can not occur when one's answer to every problem is just NO..

So, the Tea Party is not willing to bow to the Chamber, that's what you are upset about?

Let us all know how the Tea Party is holding back the economy, when you get it figured out.

Did they take away obama's pen and phone? Did they stop the stimulus package?

Were they the ones that voted for all the increased regulations and obamacare, which is stifling small business, which employs 95% of workers?
 

hypocritexposer

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If it is the Tea Party that is "partisan", does that mean the establishment Republicans have been voting alongside the "business friendly" Democrats, OT?

And, I thought you claimed obama's policies were going to, and had, fixed the economy...are you now saying they didn't?
 
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I do have to give the Republicans credit for disassociating itself from the "Mikes" of the Party-- and now the Tea Party is even trying to disassociate itself from this type of Congressional candidate- altho he has campaigned as a Tea Party conservative...

Thank God- America is waking up to these folks that just want to spiel hate, bigotry, and anarchy as their political platform and hide behind the Tea Party label... I saw it years ago when I saw the fruitcakes that were crawling in bed with and taking leadership roles in these groups...At least the Montana folks are trying to clean their sh*thouses- its just sad the rest can't see what's so much of what is behind the Tea Party....

The Bundy incident awoke many to what a crew of nutcases these folks really are....



Sun Mar 16, 2014 at 10:52 AM PDT.

Montana GOP bars Tea Party candidate Drew Turiano from Lincoln-Reagan dinner for Racism

Republicans in Montana aren't comfortable sharing a stage with Drew Turiano, a candidate who has expressed racist views openly, and even included a rant about a possible "attempt to exterminate white America" 50 years from now during the speech announcing his candidacy.


Yellowstone County GOP turns away congressional candidate, cites racism

By TOM LUTEY/Billings Gazette

We asked Mr. Turiano not to attend our event because we have no intention of allowing him a platform to spread hate and intolerance,” said Jennifer Owen, Yellowstone County Republican chairwoman. “There is simply no place for racism in this party.”

He also voiced concern that in coming decades white Americans will become a small minority and possibly be exterminated by the nonwhite majority.
“When white America is about 10 percent of the population in about 50 years, like the white population in South Africa is today, isn’t it possible for a Louis Farrakhan-type demagogue to not only easily become the leader of America, but then once in power, might he not also attempt to exterminate white America like the current black president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, is attempting to exterminate white South Africans according to the organization Genocide Watch?” Turiano asked.

The candidate suggested the United States grant asylum to white South Africans, but suggested that wouldn’t happen because the immigrants might vote for conservative candidates.

“There’s nothing racist about it,” Turiano told The Gazette. “It’s a legitimate discourse that’s happening right now among conservatives.”
Drew Turiano claims he is being barred because he is a member of the Tea Party.
Turiano who looks a little like a skinhead in a suit also called for something called "Operation Wetback"
 

Traveler

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ranch hand said:
http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/totally-not-racist-ny-dem-lawmaker-makes-racist-comment-about-blacks/
Clearly a double standard. All of the black racists and hate mongers in the party of the Dim get a pass. Come to think of it the white racists in the party generally get a pass. They're obviously holding her to a double standard because she's a woman......I think, she might not really be.
 

backhoeboogie

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The Tea Party unseated several incumbent Republicans here in TX and you feel they are crushed?

Are you just going to keep ignoring the facts? Dream world you live in?

less than 2% turn out by Dim voters. They apparently see the writing on the wall.

Far from "crushed".
 

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