Karl Rove launches initiative to keep tea party candidates out of elections

[240 is Back]

Apparently, YOU missed what I posted over a week ago. Whenever a Tea Party guy loses in a primary, he usually backs the guy who beat him in the general election against his Democrat opponent.

Yet, when a Tea Party guy beats an establishment guy/RINO, more often than not, that RINO either slams the Tea Party candidate or he tries to run as an independent.

So, it is possible to be "Tea-Party backed" without necessarily being a Tea Party guy.

FOX uses a pretty weak logic then.  I mean, was mitt romney a 'tea party backed candidate'?

[MCWAY]

The problem is that if the somewhat more electable moderates don't win, someone who is obsessed with others' sex lives and wants the federal government to deny rights to citizens on that basis -- someone like McWay -- can always claim that such candidates lost in virtue of being moderate and that a "legitimate" conservative would have fared better, when the reality is that social moderates -- whether libertarian or establishment types -- are the Republican party's least worst option.

"Someone like McWay" isn't obsessed with anyone else's sex life. Neither is MCWAY for that matter.

Social moderates aren't the "least worst option" They're simply the worst option. Or did you forget that a number of them lost as well. In fact, many of them didn't even make it out of their respective primaries.

Social moderates are simply liberals who don't have the guts to, as the saying goes, come out of the closet.

The lion's share of Tea Party folks, particularly in the House, RETAINED their seats. Check and see how many of them believe in the CRAAAAZY notion of marriage being between one man and one woman.

[MCWAY]

FOX uses a pretty weak logic then.  I mean, was mitt romney a 'tea party backed candidate'?

Actually, he was, once he secured the GOP nomination.

Look at the history. Establishment/RINO types get beat; they undermined their primary opponent. Look at Charlie Crist, Arlen Specter, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle, etc.

In fact, Rush predicted much of this nearly THREE YEARS ago. He predicted Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist would flip and become Democrats.

The Dems, to their credit, don't engage in this. Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were at each others' throats in 2008. But, once Obama won, Clinton fell right in line.

[240 is Back]

Akin wasn't a Tea Party guy.

Only, he was?

I know we're playing games with "dude claimed to be tea party, but this one guy with the tea party said they wanted the other guy, then they got on akin's team..."

this same weak ass logic goes along with "technically, nobody ever PROVED that hermann cain was a shady cheater".

[andreisdaman]

Only, he was?

I know we're playing games with "dude claimed to be tea party, but this one guy with the tea party said they wanted the other guy, then they got on akin's team..."

this same weak ass logic goes along with "technically, nobody ever PROVED that hermann cain was a shady cheater".

Herman Cain was a boss pimp!...he should have tracked down all those chicks and given them hush money two years before the campaign...watching him debate Obama would have been awesome...and funny!