From Day One, The Pink Flamingo has been telling you that the Tea Parties WERE NOT designed to benefit the GOP.
I truly hate being right.
Evidently, flexing their “power” Tea Party conservatives now think they can tell the GOP, RNC, etc. just who THEY want running for office. Dick Armey should know better.
The Pink Flamingo has been telling you the whole Tea Party thing is set up to either take over, destroy, or doom the GOP. If these people continue on their current course, they are going to cost us any hope of retaking the House in 2010.
We are dealing with a bunch of jerks who don’t have the courage to fight it out in a primary. I do NOT think their numbers are as large as they want us to think they are. I also know if we get some of their extreme conservative candidates into the primaries they will not win. Those who do ALMOST ALWAYS lose in a general election.
One can’t help but wonder about a group of alleged patriots who want to return the nation back to the principles of the Founding Fathers. In order to achieve their goals they must impose their arrogant and extreme views on an entire political party. Evidently democracy works for them only when it works for them – their way.
“…Tea party organizers say their resistance to Republican Party-backed primary candidates has much to do with what they perceive as the GOP’s stubborn insistence on embracing candidates who don’t abide by a small government, anti-tax conservative philosophy….“It’s an outgrowth of the frustration people have had with the Republican Party,” said Andrew Moylan, director of governmental affairs for the National Taxpayers Union, another group that has played a large role in organizing the tea party movement. “I think a lot of people have been angry at Republicans for betraying our trust.”
“I think the GOP establishment has ignored their constituents and the feelings of their constituents for years,” added Meckler.
It’s an unusual predicament for the Republican Party, since the conservative-oriented issues that animate Tea Party activists once seemed destined to make the movement a valuable auxiliary to the Republican Party….For some, supporting insurgent campaigns or waging primary bids just isn’t a strong enough signal to send to a Republican Party that has abandoned core conservative policies.