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Tea parties put forth a candidate
Meet Tom Cox – the organizer of the Arkansas tea party movement and now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Cox is the first candidate to emerge directly from the movement, running for the seat currently held by Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat.
Cox has never held an office, but he said he’ll run on pure elbow grease:
I’m sure I will be considered a long shot and a fringe candidate, but I can tell you, my family business has been in business for approximately 50 years. We will outwork anybody from Washington, D.C., and we will beat them at the grassroots effort in this state.
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Best of luck to him!
We need more candidates who will run and legislate on principles and less of those who simply support the status quo.
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Now that’s democracy in action! Good luck.
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Let’s hope this isnt just a flash in the pan movemt, ie akin to Perot’s “Reform Party”. Here’s hoping they have a good bouncer at the head of the Tea Party doorway to turn away fringe kooks
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He’s running as a Republican, so it may be the salvation of the party and get it back to its roots.
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“Getting back to the roots” means not becoming enamoured by the Washington liberal social scene when you get there. Many of the “moderate” Republicans today are the firebrands of the ‘92 Republican sweep.
Though not a Republican, Heath Shuler campagned on “bringing mountain values to Washington”. Now, he votes with Pilosi. I knew that would happen.
“Potomac Fever” eventually gets to most, but not all.
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I organized a TEA Party here in New Jersey. I also campaigned to get Steve Lonegan elected in the primary. Unfortunately, the Republican Party pushed Chris Christy, a moderate claiming to be a conservative. Lonegan hoped that a win in the primary might persuade the party to get back to its conservative roots. There are enough conservatives in NJ to elect a governor, but I doubt if Christy can find enough moderate votes to beat the liberal billionaire, Jon Corzine. I also doubt if the Republican Party can be diverted from the course it has chosen to take. We need to organize another party – the TEA Party = Taxpayer Electoral Alliance Party.
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I’m sure I will be considered a long shot and a fringe candidate
Well at least he’s self aware. I’d love to see the GOP waste money running against Blanche Lincoln, but they probably won’t spend much to help out this guy!
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“Unfortunately, the Republican Party pushed Chris Christy, a moderate claiming to be a conservative.”
Despite what the left says about true conservatives being so “yesterday” and that they can’t win running on a true conservative platforms, I think the Republicans lost exactly because they’ve caved in to the “moderate” push from the left.
If they were to run a truly conservative candidate who frightens the left, I think they’d be able to win another election. If they continue to push moderates, the conservatives will stay away in droves…
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I think the GOP theme for ads in the primaries should be the old Beatles ditty: “Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!”
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TEA Party = Taxpayer Electoral Alliance Party.
I like it. End prohibition. A bag in every pot. Let’s party!
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Pardon me, pot in every bag.
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What stats do you people have to show that true-conservatives “stayed home” in the last cycle?! McCain didn’t lose conservative votes by any game changing number. The line that Republicans aren’t being conservative enough and it’s costing them elections is not supported by and resemblance to actual reality. Y’all need to face facts about the last election, being more conservative would not have helped McCain get elected. Being more conservative would not have helped the GOP retain the 8 senate seats they lost! You have no factual evidence for this fantasy you are living in.
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Our resident astroturfer should have a field day with this thread.
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Mynock #12,
Shhh…don’t tell them such things.
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I like, “She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall.”
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“Being more conservative would not have helped the GOP retain the 8 senate seats they lost! You have no factual evidence for this fantasy you are living in.”
And neither do you…
How do you explain Sarah Palin energizing the base? (Before she was understandably was pilloried by folks like Scroop. I mean, what else would he do to a threat like that?)
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Mynock,
Most of my family voted for third-party candidates in the last presidential election, knowing they wouldn’t win, because they wouldn’t vote for McCain because he wasn’t conservative enough. I doubt they were the only ones. I myself pondered a third-party vote (something I’ve never done), and would have done it if McCain had picked a “moderate” running mate. People didn’t vote for McCain as much as against Obama, and such voting is quite likely to result in voters who don’t actually bother to vote on the day of the election.
If the Republicans ever have a pro-abortion candidate, or similarly non-conservative, you’ll see how many Republicans can stay home from an election.
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Opening statements started Tuesday in the trial of William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans(
). Federal agents found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and he is charged with soliciting bribes, money laundering and other crimes.
Apparently this democrat also had credit card debts over SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
And with his wife they had over FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS in bounced check FEES.
Never vote Democrat AGAIN!
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Many politicians become whores when it comes to getting elected. Eliot Spitzer made the mistake of admitting he did something wrong. Had he lowered his standards far enough, he could do no wrong. Do Mr. Cox’s constituents have the stomach to forgive a principled man, or must the man of their choosing reflect what they themselves have become? Only time will tell.
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#12 Mynock
Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx
What should the Republican party do with this stat?
Here is how you do it: get 40% of the vote by being genuinely conservative, without apology. Then go after one third of the “moderates” (thus getting another 12% of the vote, for a 52% majority) by pushing responsibility, competence and integrity. Heck, maybe you’ll get half the moderates, for a total of 58%, almost what Reagan got in 1984.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2272519/posts?page=2
And if you want to see why the left is scared by Sarah Palin..
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061509/content/01125108.guest.html
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Cheryl, You’re a hard-core right winger and that’s the social circle you live in. The votes of your extremist family and friends are not electorally significant, because they can’t affect the outcome of elections. Face facts. The numbers came in, and the right didn’t sit out the election in any significant way. I repeat: being more conservative would not have helped the GOP to stay in power. The idea that McCain could have garnered up an additional 97 electoral college votes by converting right-wing third party voters is not an idea; it’s a joke.
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Monty, you have a single poll of the general population (not adjusted by likely voter) that shows a small up tick in self identification as a conservative (not aligned with the GOP), which also happens to follow the election of a very liberal government. You have nothing that predicts future elections! When you grow up and learn more about politics you’ll start to understand the difference. While people might be calling themselves more conservative (anecdotally they are more likely to do so when we have a liberal government), they are flocking away from the GOP. Democrats have widened their registration advantage significantly since Nov 2008. The true conservative path back to power is a ridiculous fantasy, but you don’t have to believe me. In fact, I sincerely hope that the GOP takes Rush’s advice.
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I keep hearing boss Limbaugh say liberals are afraid of Sarah Palin, but I don’t see any evidence that that’s the case. I don’t know a single liberal who is afraid of a Palin candidacy. The only concern I ever heard voiced by the left about Palin was right after she was announced as the VP candidate, then she started talking, and what fear there was soon melted away.
I, along with my liberal friends, dream of the non-stop fun we will have mocking the queen ignoramus and her hapless followers. Almost any question is a “gotcha” question for Sarah Palin.
Please give me one example of a liberal being afraid of a Palin presidential run in 2012, just one. An anonymous blog comment will do.
Palin 2012!
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PS – Cheryl, I did the math And Assuming that McCain had managed to capture 100% of the vote that went for Barr and Baldwin–this is your supposed path to victory–it would have changed the outcome in exactly two states! Indiana and North Carolina would have gone red. Hypothetical-complete-fantasy-final-outcome: Obama-339; McCain 199. Still a resounding Obama win, being more conservative wouldn’t have even helped McCain break 200!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008
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And Cherly, that complete-fantasy-massive-loss-for-McCain does him the kindness of assuming (incorrectly) that whatever whorish thing he had to do to get Chuck Baldwin votes would have cost him none of his moderate supporters. That’s not a testable question really, but it’s worth noting that Obama lost Missouri, Montana, Georgia, and South Dakota by comparatively small margins. A more-conservative-McCain could have been expected to loose in one or more of those states.
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Mynock #12 “being more conservative would not have helped McCain get elected.
I agree with you in this way, you can’t erase McCain’s 30 year record of being a “moderate” in one election cycle. Hew would have been a phony conservative and the electorate would have done to reject him as they did when he ran as a moderate.
McCain represents everything that is wrong with the Republican party. The Repubs siding with the stimulus package, their inability to do much to change abortion statistics, their uncontrolled spending, all point to the fact that there is little difference between Dems and Repubs.
True conservatism appeals to a significant number of Americans, democrats, republicans, and independents. A true conservative party has a chance to work both ends toward the middle in the electorate. Let the 20% right-wingers have their piece, and the 15% left-wingers have theirs. It’s the 65% that is in the middle that can win an election if the right candidate is proffered.
There is a changing breeze that’s blowing. We’re already seeing “change that you can’t believe in” the next wind of change should provide a moderating effect back to some semblance of economic and moral sanity.
Watch the 2010 elections. Many more of Cheryl’s family will be voting beyond the stale, outdated two party system.
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21. Y’all act like Obama has been elected emperor for life. There will be another election soon. I predict Obama is Carter II.
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What we need to watch in the 2010 election is the ACORN thugs. It seems they won’t be restrained.
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Kbells, we don’t act at all like Obama has been elected emperor for life, but the size and breadth of his electoral victory certainly gives him a head start in 2012.
To take back the white house, the GOP will need to wrestle 97 electoral college votes away from his 2008 results. How do you think you can do that? No one really knows for sure what 2012 will look like, but there are no good indicators that veering to the hard right to pick up conservative 3rd party voters is a winning option.
How is republican opposition to the stimulus or a filibuster of Sotomayor going to flip 97 votes? Conservative 3rd party candidates racked up 0.5% of the total vote. You lost 2008 by almost 7 points.
Those are staggering odds considering the GOP is hemorrhaging moderate votes month to month. Time to face facts, the only issue moving public opinion at a pace similar to what you need is the favorability of gay marriage.
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“Kbells, we don’t act at all like Obama has been elected emperor for life, but the size and breadth of his electoral victory certainly gives him a head start in 2012.”
You have NO idea what will be happening in the next few days much less the next few years!
Just watching that water goin’ under that bridge. And that water isn’t just going under bridges in the US. Just sayin.’
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Mynock,
When you grow up and learn more about politics you’ll start to understand the difference,
Maybe if you weren’t so enamoured of your own opinions you would actually read and realise that conservatism did not vote in this last election.
Mynock, don’t be so deluded.
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RVH (6): … the Republican Party pushed Chris Christy, a moderate claiming to be a conservative.
Frank: Somewhat similar to all the party-line clowns (”smaller” big-gummint, military-interventionist, print-and-spend, etc.) that the GOP tries running against Ron Paul every two years.
My experience around/watching the Tea Parties seems to show two distinct lines of thought among TPers:
The first (which includes me) is the line that had already been complaining for 8 years about the Bush regime’s war, inflation, and police state. We recognize that this isn’t a matter to be solved by party politics (GOP GOOD … Dems BAD), but rather by a return to the WHOLE US CONSTITUTION.
The second group are Republicans/”conservatives” who had precious few complaints about BushCo’s trashing of the Constitution, but when the Obamassiah picked up where BushCo left off, all of a sudden they start kvetching. They refuse to admit that Bush set bad (anti-liberty, unconstitutional) precedents in numerous areas and that Obama is just continuing the tradition, and they think that all will be well “if only Sarah can get elected in four years.”
There are few politicians or candidates out there that embody the ideals of my group of Tea Partiers than Ron Paul.
I hope this Tom Cox guy is more Paulian (i.e., Constitutionalist) than he is Republican.
Otherwise, he’ll be just another Jeff Cherry, spittin’ into the populist/constitutionalist wind, and (if he gets elected) driving more nails into this once-great nation’s coffin.
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