Sentences with phrase «tea party label»

The longer this goes on, the more difficult Gibson's re-election becomes and the more the Tea Party label which Dems have been dying to affix to him sticks.

So far the results are 48 % for the Democratic nominee, 42 % for the Republican nominee, and 10 % to the two other candidates in the race, a Green Party nominee and independent Jack Davis, who was running under the Tea Party label.

Not exact matches

Bachmann is seldom described in those terms; the conservative Minnesota congresswoman and Tea Party darling might cringe at the feminist label.

The extremist faction of the GOP / Tea Party has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tParty has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tparty line through conservative litmus tests.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tried to pigeonhole Gibson as a Tea Party believer — he campaigned on eliminating the federal departments of education and homeland security, and thinks pistol permits should be reciprocally recognized among states the same way a driver's license is — but he stiff - armed the label.

«Congressman Tom Reed has lately been trying to run away from the «Tea Party» label, but now he is showing his true colors with his full - throated support of the government shutdown,» Robertson said in a statement emailed just before midnight, when a shutdown was apparent.

But some tea party conservatives have criticized the standards, saying they're not rigorous enough and take local control away from states and school districts, labeling the standards «Obamacore.»

«On the other side, there will be renewed claims of a war on science, a circling of the wagons among greens and liberals, and name calling strategies such as labeling [Tea Party - backed] conservatives «deniers.