And Sharron Angle from Nevada,
a Republican Tea Partier, wants to do just that.
Not exact matches
The only countervailing power is that within the
Republican Party a fringe of
tea partiers threatens to run against more established candidates safely sold to special interests.
The
Tea Partiers — like too many
Republicans — have big problems with the income tax as such.
It's kind of like saying... «All
Republicans,
tea -
partiers and Christians are idiots.»
I believe Jesus had an excellent moral compass (although «organized religion» twists it to their own ends - as do
Republicans and
tea partiers!).
The
Republicans used the fear, hatred and bigotry of the
Tea Partiers against Obama to win the House, and this year, they will use them to try to win back the White house and the Senate.
... and the
Republicans didn't the same with the
Tea Partiers?
The disrespect of
Republicans, especially
Tea Partiers, for our democracy is revolting.
But here's the fundamental problem: the
Tea Partiers may have mobilized against Obama and his policies (and in part be motivated by fear of him and the demographic changes he represents), but they're also opposed to big chunks of the
Republican establishment.
Israel, not surprisingly, hewed to the party line, blaming the
Tea Partiers in the House GOP for the shutdown and the lack of a debt ceiling deal, and pointing to recent polling that showed the
Republicans are being blamed more than the Democrats for the mess in Washington — and could pay a price for it come 2014.
In fact, the
Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to
Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).
The more the
Tea Partiers seize the microphone and scare moderate
Republicans with primary opponents, the more people they're likely to drive away from conservative politics.
Republican activists won't be quiet, assuming that
Tea Partiers and evangelicals aren't completely disenchanted with the eventual nominee, but so far we're not seeing the kind of organization and training that will help
Republican candidates hold their own in the ground war next fall.
The rabbis also urged voters in NY - 19 to vote for neither «pro-abortion Log Cabinist»
Republican Nan Hayworth nor Democratic Rep. John Hall, calling for them to write in the name of Neil DiCarlo, the anti-abortion rights
Tea Partier whom Hayworth defeated in the primary on Sept. 14.
While the mayor deflected questions about his views on Cuomo's opponent,
tea partier Carl Paladino, he did say that, «anger is not a governing strategy,» an apparent allusion to the
Republican nominee's bombastic style and his campaign slogan, «mad as hell.»
«This MTA payroll tax is the final nail in the coffin of a state that is trending vociferously into a downward spiral,» said Assembly Member Greg Ball, the
Republican and self - avowed
Tea Partier running for the seat.
A reader flagged an interesting, yet overlooked, aspect of Jacob Gershman's very interesting WSJ story about the lack of consensus among New York
Tea Partiers on GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who's banking in no small part on the support of disaffected
Republicans to fuel his hoped - for primary victory over Rick Lazio.
With turnout likely to be low and the
Tea Partiers potentially a wash for the
Republicans, the onus will be on Democratic campaigns to get their people to the polls.
It's not just
Republicans coming to the
Tea Partier's defense.
On the
Republican side, Rep. Mark Kirk was heavily courted to run by state and national GOP figures and, despite some unrest among the grassroots /
tea partiers for his moderation on key issues, won 57 percent of the vote.
Boosted by the shutdown, Rove has been rallying establishment types around the idea that the fault for 2012 lay mainly with the
Tea Partiers on the
Republican Party ballot.
and making
tea partier Carl Paladino — the
Republican gubernatorial nominee — a household name.
Leave No Teacher Behind is not what the people want (Democrats,
Republicans,
Tea Partiers, etc..
The primaried
Republicans to replace them with
Tea Partiers.
Aaaaaand that's why every American man, woman, and child; every
Republican, Democrat, and
Tea Partier, should be thankful for the Clean Air Act (and democracy).
It's de rigeur for
Republican candidates to deny global warming, and it's even worse for
Tea Partiers.
«Independents and mainstream
Republicans are far more likely to be aligned with «consensus» views on climate change than «
Tea Partiers.»
It's definitely not the conservatives, not the
Republicans, not the
Tea Partiers nor the libertarians that have brought the science community into such disrepute with the blatant global warming fraud uncovered in Climategate.
Seeing Red on Climate — Young
Republicans, reformed lobbyists, and green
Tea Partiers: Meet America's «eco-right» (Grist, Jan. 18, 2018)
And there it is — essentially, a handful of
Republicans have occasionally broken ranks to protest NIMBY projects that their states would object to, or to vote against something so egregious that anyone but a stalwart, balls - to - the - wall
Tea Partier would have to admit is crazy.