Opponents that include ultra
conservative tea partiers like Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, as well as House Speaker Thom Tillis, some teachers, and some progressive education activists like Diane Ravitch — are fighting to take down what some see as either a government takeover of the nation's schools or a platform for excessive testing and corporate profit.
Not exact matches
With the retirement of his father Ron Paul, Rand Paul has taken over the mantle of the GOP's libertarian wing, fusing it with his growing coalition of
Tea Partiers and social
conservatives.
That reminds me of all the political lessons I learned talking with a couple of
Tea Partiers and a couple of other
conservatives for a few hours the other day.
The hate - filled rhetoric has become so intense from the «right» especially the social
conservative and
tea -
partiers, that we are quickly becoming a nation that can't have any rational discussion on the issues.
The
tea partiers are spearheading what is and must be a middle - class movement — a movement not of the old but the middle - aged, not of those who are
conservative because they have nothing left to create but who are
conservative because they have just begun creating in earnest.
Tocqueville on acid, Hobbes on crack: what could possibly unite the average libertarian, the
conservative of any stripe, me, and a
tea partier selected at random, if not Friedman's belief that the self - realized innovators of tomorrow are the listless, powerless lumpenbourgeois of today?
This document produced a political strategy that has managed to alienate social
conservatives, working - class whites, and
tea partiers (these are obviously partially overlapping categories).
Why are so many social
conservatives,
tea partiers, and working - class moderates supporting Trump?
Over at The American
Conservative, Larison uses the NY Times / CBS News poll to argue that the
Tea Partiers aren't populists but rather «base»
conservatives.
@
Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your
Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed at how little
conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version
Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...
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.
The couple sent out an e-mail yesterday that included a link to a recent National Review story entitled «Cuomo the
Conservative,» and urged fellow
Tea Partiers to back Cuomo's agenda, even though it doesn't go nearly as far as Paladino had proposed.
Scozzafava, who is not seeking re-election this fall, endorsed Democrat Bill Owens after she was pushed out of the NY - 23 race by Doug Hoffman, the
Conservative Party candidate who drew support of
Tea Partiers trying to push the national GOP to the right and punish party leaders for backing a pro-gay marriage, pro-choice moderate.
Harris's moral landscape allows the possibility of many peaks and valleys — more than one right or wrong answer to moral dilemmas — so perhaps liberals,
conservatives, libertarians,
Tea partiers, Green
partiers and others can coexist on different peaks.
But then came the crash of 2008, the rightward shift of federal
Conservative leadership and, in the U.S., the
Tea Partiers, surging gasoline prices and ongoing fears of economic collapse.
Tea Partiers and many other
conservatives believe that federal lands essentially belong to ranchers.
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.