Sentences with phrase «big tent party»

Democrats are a pretty big tent party and Manchin has a pretty independent voice.

Castro, 41, makes for a striking tableau standing next to Clinton: a rising Latino star of the Democratic Party, paired with the older, experienced, first female major party nominee, gives the sense of a big tent party.

«To survive, we're going to have to become the big tent party that we always were,» says Torrey Shearer, a member of the leadership committee of Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, which, along with Log Cabin Republicans, took out a full - page ad in Wednesday's Tampa Tribune calling on the GOP to support gay - marriage rights.

«We must, just as Republicans all across the country must, return to being the big tent party,» Kudlow said.

«The big tent party.

Pat Barrett is the personification of moderate Republicans merging with a majority of the Democrats for a new centrist big tent party!

You can't be a big tent party AND force your beliefs down other people's throats.

Not exact matches

«We need to have a big - tent party,» he said during a local radio interview this month.

Asked about Democrats having enough leeway on polarizing issues like gun rights and opposition to abortion, House Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley said in a press conference on Wednesday that the party «always has been» a big tent.

A big - tent party that existed to exercise power has lost its raison d'etre and will not get it back any time soon.

Despite pledging to build a big tent conservative party, Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the voice of social conservatism in Albparty, Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the voice of social conservatism in AlbParty MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the voice of social conservatism in Alberta.

The historical success of the PC Party in Alberta between 1971 and 2015 was not based on adherence to conservative ideology but on the ability of its leaders to build a big blue tent of conservative, moderate and liberal voters.

Without a strategic place in the big - tent of one of the two parties, or in both, this could never be.

Until religious freaks leave the republican big tent, I will never vote for anyone from that party.

Not much later the biggest mountain - rescue operation in U.S. history was launched — a woman in one of the other parties was reported in distress from exhaustion at the same time, complicating the situation — and after four days of suffering in a tent Day was lifted off the mountain by a helicopter flying some 1,300 feet above its rated ceiling.

I agree that as it stands right now, the Democratic party is still very much a big tent with the levers of power being held by the centrists, i.e. the Clintons / Obamas.

For a very reasonable rate, you can rent one of their tents (a small tent holds 25 - ish people, a large tent is available for bigger parties).

The AG has been stressing his «big tent» appeal across party lines, wooing both disaffected Republicans and small - i independents.

«to achieve what Tony Blair had failed to achieve, a realignment of British politics, a big tent involving the full participation of two of the three national parties.

To foster a non-ideological «big tent» party of ideas which serves as a think tank for the solutions to the problems we face.

At recent Compass conferences, I have discussed the need for a more progressive, pluralist politics, based not on Blair's suffocating «big tent», but on a campsite of different parties and movements, sharing common values but maintaining their own identities.

«It was about the strength and energy of a big tent - Democratic Party where labor, Indivisibles, activists come together to fight for our shared values.

«He created that big tent and some of them have just exclude themselves from offering their services to the party and that's up to them.

«He has laid out a bold agenda to reform and I am proud to stand with him and this diverse group of leaders to bring New Yorkers together — regardless of their party affiliation — under this big tent and behind this agenda for reform.»

Later, Kudlow reiterated his big tent point, saying: «We are not just the party of angry white men, no disrespect intended.»

He plans a «big tent» approach to ensure Labour does not miss out on votes in the south of England, saying the party has to «broaden its appeal».

That's good, that's the symptom of a big - tent, inclusive party that I think is the party of youth, innovation — at least it should and could be, and I think it will be.»

@LabourEoinI guess it depends whether you want the Socialist Party and other opponents within out big tent.

I would also add the big tent strategy used by the Republican party.

Cuomo referred to the Democratic Party as a «big tent» in which «everybody has a voice and everybody wants to use it.»

It reveals the Prime Minister's cunning masterplan to put everything that he and his predecessor built to fire and the sword, making sure that the party is not simply dented but flattened for a generation, the big tent cut into pieces and burned, the centre ground abandoned to the enemy, and anything of value utterly destroyed.

«We're an open party and a big tent,» Labriola said.

While the eschewing of political honours exemplified by Keith Hill, Tessa's sometime neighbouring MP, is impressive, there was also a lot to admire in the big tent assembled for Tessa's party.

«You know, the Democratic Party, we have a big tent, we have a lot of people with a lot of opinions and everybody has a voice and everybody wants to use it.

If such a standard bearer from the old right - wing of the party is surplus to requirements, then Jeremy Corbyn's «big tent» has suddenly become a bivouac.

It was about the strength and energy of a big - tent Democratic Party where labor, Indivisibles, activists come together to fight for our shared values.

«We had a great meeting with successful GOP operatives from around the state and discussed the importance of a unified big - tent party that can win in 2018,» Catsimatidis, the daughter of supermarket mogul and former mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, said in a statement.

The Republican Party, and the Ohio Republican Party is a growing big - tent party that accomodates various view points, we have pro-life and pro-choice candidParty, and the Ohio Republican Party is a growing big - tent party that accomodates various view points, we have pro-life and pro-choice candidParty is a growing big - tent party that accomodates various view points, we have pro-life and pro-choice candidparty that accomodates various view points, we have pro-life and pro-choice candidates.

Like their Republican counterparts, Cardinale said, a Sanders - inspired super-progressive movement would value ideological purity over electability and would threaten the Democratic Party's «big tent» tradition of accommodating a wide range of viewpoints.

Meanwhile, there are some Coalition - istas within the party who can not get enough of inviting left - of - centre politicians into Cameron's big tent.

I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for the ideals of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view.

One speaker suggested a negotiated level such as happened in the personal injury «Big Tents» but in those negotiations there were two distinct negotiating parties which general civil litigation does not have.

Tents are often described by the maximum number of people that can sleep, but if you can go for one bigger than your party.