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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:12 PM Oct 2013

Should all Tea Partiers be "primaried"?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Most of the time, it is the Tea Party that is threatening to "primary" some RINO that disagreed with them on one issue or another. Matte Kibbe (Mr Sideburns) said on Hardball tonight that their intent is to take over the Republican Party.

In my opinion, Mitch McConnell will take on his Tea Party opponent head on. He will not surrender his seat to such crazy people. In the process, he will expose the intentions of the Tea Party and their radical agenda to take over the Republican Party. That will not set well with many establishment Republicans.

We may have seen the peak of the Tea Party with their latest government shutdown attempt led by Ted Cruz and others. Those 144 Republicans that voted to let our country default, by this time next year, will have dwindled to about a dozen. The Republican establishment will not permit such revolution in their ranks.

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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. Yes, real republicans should primary the teaparty ones, and ...
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:15 PM
Oct 2013

... Democrats should run for ALL local, state, and national seats - ALL OF THEM

 

DontTreadOnMe

(2,442 posts)
2. It turns these into 3-way elections... which hurts the Repugs and the Teabaggers
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:26 PM
Oct 2013

And Dems needs to help "support" anyone who runs against a Tea Party candidate... any locations where the Tea Party is NOT being primaried, then Dems should show up and Repug meets and suggest they should!

 

legcramp

(288 posts)
3. Every one of the 435 house seats and 1/3 of the Senate seats up for re-election next year
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:26 PM
Oct 2013

needs to be "primaried".

There should be no such thing as a "safe seat" in congress. Make every damned one of them justify their existence.

Too many people think that congress is a waste but their own rep is okay. That needs to change.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
4. I'd rather we ran a good progressive against them.
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:28 PM
Oct 2013

Why would we want more Republicans, even moderate ones? Our time has come. Let's take advantage of the situation.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
7. The OP is about the primary though. Let the Republican win 'their' primary and then we run...
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:39 PM
Oct 2013

... a good Democrat in the 'general election'.

That way IF the Dem doesn't win then at least the teabagger would have been eliminated and there'd be more of a chance a sane republican would work with the Dems.



 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
5. That's up to the Republicans
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:30 PM
Oct 2013

Let me remind you that we got essentially zero Republican votes for any of Obama's progressive initiatives; the stimulus, the ACA, and so on.

They are all teabaggers. Some are just hiding in the closet. If they won't push the teabaggers aside and deal with Democrats in good faith, then what use is ANY Republican?

Therefore, it is always, 100% of the time, in our interest to have the teabaggers doing their thing. We won't make nay progress by working with "moderate Republicans" (an oxymoron if there ever was one. We will only make progress by beating Republicans into permanent minority status, and the teabaggers are the way to make that happen quickly.

As an ideology, teabaggerism peaked 2 years ago. With each passing month, Americans are seeing these people for the shameful, harmful, anti-American force they are. A very small, and shrinking, percentage of Americans now identify with the teabaggers. Their success results from superior organization and enthusiasm in a system that often has 80% of the public fail to even cast a vote.

Let that be Karl Rove's problem. That ain't our problem. The more radical the GOP becomes, the smaller it gets.

Southside

(338 posts)
8. I don't get it. McConnell is a top rated conservative
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:53 AM
Oct 2013

By the same people who are betraying him
McConnell (KY) 2014 87% (Average) 82% (Heritage) 74% (CFG) 100% (ACU) 92% (FreedomWorks)

Those look like very high conservative ratings to me. I don't get what they are selling to their people. McConnell is no moderate. They should be happy with him. This is a take over of the Senate by sideburns and his friends. Fight back Republican leaders. These guys are false prophets with long hippie sideburns. Crush them into dust before they turn you into history.

JI7

(89,252 posts)
9. there are limited resources and time so unless i know for sure a certain republican will result in a
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:56 AM
Oct 2013

Dem winning in the GE it isn't something i will put much into.

Grayson actually made sure the nutcase won the republican primary because it would help him in the GE.

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