Sentences with phrase «on tea party conservatives»

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If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.

Representative Trey Gowdy, the 49 - year - old from South Carolina chosen by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to chair the panel, is a Christian conservative elected to Congress in 2010 on the wave of the Tea Party movement.

The survey found that most Tea Party members reflect the views of religious conservatives, as opposed to libertarians, on social issues.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Nonetheless, it is right enough on the observation that the TEA PARTY conservatives have abandoned Rick for reasons that couldn't be remedied by better debating.

Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement are mostly social conservatives, not libertarians on social issues.

«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians, at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the survey's lead author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.

He as the king of Gods kingdom will change things on earth he doesn't need conservatives, republicans, tea party evangelicals, Muslim brotherhood... He doesn't need party's to make changes... He himself will to changes!

The Tea Party sold out to Koch money and Fox News publicity and turned their backs on Ron Paul who wouldn't toe the «Social Conservative» line.

State GOP and Tea Party leaders have done so, but there is a nagging concern on the part of some that Paladino might well implode, leaving Republican and Conservative voters with no options.

Sources close to Paladino say he's torn between trying to appease his Tea Party followers, who want him to keep pushing hard on his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, and perhaps even release the proof he says he has of the AG's extramarital affairs; and GOP and Conservative leaders, who want him to adopt a more subdued approach and perhaps even apologize to those he has impugned — including Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The state Conservative Party is so far sticking by Hoffman, but GOP leaders are wondering if the lack of national attention on NY - 23 in the upcoming general election could mean last year's Tea Party cause célèbre no longer has sufficient star power to carry their banner into the race.

And spitefully, with his pony tail flapping in the air, he turned his back on all democrats by endorsing the conservative republican nominee, Dennis Saffran, a Tea Party fanatic that does not represent the interests of this community.

Earlier today, Paladino blasted out a missive to his sizable email chain in which he called on Libous to ask the «grassroots / Tea Party taxpayers» for forgiveness for «past transgressions» and pledge to advocate for and defend Conservative / Republican interests.

But however much Gov. Andrew Cuomo might take issue with that characterization, it seems be working, as Caputo's push to get New York's Tea Party crowd on board with the Democratic governor's fiscally conservative budget appears to be gaining steam.

With the contemporary GOP radicalised increasingly by the ultra-social conservative Tea Party, every US election means that women's reproductive rights are on the ballot and constantly in peril.

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

In the aftermath of the 2012 American elections, some Tea Party activists have taken up more traditionally populist ideological viewpoints on issues that are distinct from general conservative views.

Across the state, the governor, who will release his budget on Tuesday, is earning praise from unlikely sources: Republicans, Tea Party supporters and conservative Democrats.

Those groups, seizing on the then - nascent Tea Party movement, backed Doug Hoffman, an accountant who ran on the Conservative Party line.

Rep. - elect Claudia Tenney, R - New Hartford, a conservative Trump supporter who has received Tea Party backing, will succeed Hanna in office when the 115th Congress begins on Tuesday.

And the race between Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathleen Hochul, the Erie County clerk, and Jack Davis, a once - conservative Democrat who is running as a so - called tea party candidate, is becoming more and more a referendum on House Republican plans to alter Medicare, as both sides filling the airwaves with television ads attacking the other side over Medicare.

Hatch, who is running next year for a seventh term in the Senate, is facing opposition from some in the tea party movement, including FreedomWorks, a major DC - based conservative grassroots organization that is actively working to find a candidate to take on Hatch in next year's primary.

Astorino repeated throughout the 45 - minute question - and - answer session with reporters that «Stop Common Core» was a grassroots movement fueled by teachers and parents who are dissatisfied with the standards, dismissing any connection to the conservative and tea party opposition on the national level.

«If this is what it means to be a New Democrat, and if this is what it means to be progressive then something is very wrong.We can not be silent on this matter — not when the Tea Party, the Conservative Party, Republicans and a group of wealthy Wall Street executives are cheering the Governor's policies.»

Both Pataki and Giuliani hail from the moderate wing of the GOP, although Pataki sought to buff his credentials with the more conservative Tea Party types during the last electionc cycle through Revere America, which advocated for the repeal of «Obamacare,» and targeted Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform.

(CNN)-- Campaigning for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee in Virginia's gubernatorial race, Vice President Joe Biden depicted Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli as a puppet of the tea party and framed the race as a referendum on the conservative grassroots movement, one day before voters head to the polls on Election Day.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The U.S. House on Tuesday night passed the «cut, cap and balance» deficit reduction plan backed by tea party conservatives but dismissed by President Barack Obama, who offered strong praise for another proposal put together by a bipartisan group of senators.

-- The 59th SD, where Sen. Dale Volker is retiring and there's a three - way battle for voters on the right between GOP primary winner Patrick Gallivan, Jim Domagalski (still on the Conservative and Independence Party lines), and David DiPietro (just restored to the Tea Party line).

Liberal groups hoping to narrow the «enthusiasm gap» with the Tea Party and other conservative organizations before Election Day are mobilizing for a big rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

«I don't know where this professor was when the New York delegation was facing relentless attacks from the Tea Party in Washington, but I do know where Kathy Hochul was — standing and fighting right alongside us,» said Rep. Charlie Rangel in a statement yesterday, after Hochul's opponent, Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, issued the first of a four - part dossier on her relatively conservative voting record.

On Tuesday, after he announced the petition campaign, Astorino rejected the premise that his opposition to the Common Core was related to a national movement of Conservatives and Tea Party leaders against the standards.

Cruz arrived on the presidential stage as a hero to tea party activists, but he had another objective: to make himself a hero to evangelical Christians and libertarian conservatives, too.

Today Chris Huhne proudly announces that he's vying with Vince Cable to be the most unpopular minister on the Conservative Home website, and adds in a bashing for «Tea party Tories» to try to boost his chances there.

In order to help freshman Democratic congressman John Adler win reelection this year in this conservative - leaning district, which had been occupied by a Republican for 25 years prior to 2008, the Democratic Party conspired to plant a fake tea - party candidate on the ballot to siphon votes away from Republican nominee Jon RuParty conspired to plant a fake tea - party candidate on the ballot to siphon votes away from Republican nominee Jon Ruparty candidate on the ballot to siphon votes away from Republican nominee Jon Runyan.

Republicans are concerned that Davis, who is a former Democrat, but was able to get enough signatures to run on the ballot as the Tea Party candidate, is drawing conservative support from Corwin.

2.51 pm: Mark Pritchard, the secretary of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee who recently got onto the front page of the Daily Telegraph by calling for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, has issued a statement responding to Chris Huhne's Tea Party jibe.

Gibson holds a 52 percent rating from the American Conservative Union based on his 2011 voting record compared with 72 percent for fellow Hudson Valley Republican and Tea Party favorite Nan Hayworth.

«I think his chances for success on the Conservative Party line are minimal,» Upstate New York Tea Party head Mark Barie said after Tuesday's primary.

In a piece on her campaign site blog, Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Tiffany Briscoe speaks out against coercive social conservatives.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

While the Tea Party says it doesn't take a stance on religious and social issues, many of its supporters are conservative Christians.

One reason is that the modern political environment has become increasingly polarized, and conservative Republicans — propelled by Tea Party devotees, the fiscal crisis, and big gains in the 2010 election — have taken on the unions like never before.

John Madden football would be my guess on the # 1 American Game... for bleeding heart Liberals but for Conservatives it would be Call of Duty and then there is the Tea party who's all american game would be would be Border Patrol!

On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss Rise of the Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity (20:35), the Night Trap HD Kickstarter and ESRB rating (28:32), Tekken 7's producer soliciting fans for feedback on Middle Eastern character design (47:34), Microsoft saying it's still gung ho on the Kinect (52:48), and the accusations by some conservatives that Battlefield: Hardline is aiming its political guns at the Tea Party (1:07:02On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss Rise of the Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity (20:35), the Night Trap HD Kickstarter and ESRB rating (28:32), Tekken 7's producer soliciting fans for feedback on Middle Eastern character design (47:34), Microsoft saying it's still gung ho on the Kinect (52:48), and the accusations by some conservatives that Battlefield: Hardline is aiming its political guns at the Tea Party (1:07:02on Middle Eastern character design (47:34), Microsoft saying it's still gung ho on the Kinect (52:48), and the accusations by some conservatives that Battlefield: Hardline is aiming its political guns at the Tea Party (1:07:02on the Kinect (52:48), and the accusations by some conservatives that Battlefield: Hardline is aiming its political guns at the Tea Party (1:07:02).

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

Rep. Bob Inglis, a six - term Republican Congressman from South Carolina and member of the House Committee on Science and Technology, lost his primary bid for re-election to a Tea Party - backed candidate who accused him of not being conservative enough, at least in part because of his record of accepting reality on climate change.