The nation's largest tea party organization is launching a new federal political action committee, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, aimed at challenging GOP incumbents and other establishment candidates to adopt more conservative positions.
"If we are going to change Washington and save America, the tea party movement must hold every politician who supports higher taxes and even higher spending accountable — regardless of their political party. If that means we have to defeat some of these big-government politicians in primaries, so be it," said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, in a statement released Friday.
The move appeared to be a direct response to an effort by strategist Karl Rove and other GOP establishment figures who have started a new group to wrest control of the Republican Party from candidates and activists whom they view as unelectable and harmful to the party's future.
After spending more than $300 million in what was widely regarded as a losing effort in the 2012 elections, Rove and his fundraising allies have launched the Conservative Victory Project to help fight primary battles, especially for the Senate, against candidates they think will hurt the party's chances in the 2014 midterms.
Many Republicans think that the party blew a chance to take control of the Senate in 2012 by offering candidates who were too flawed to win.
The tea party disagrees with that view. "Karl Rove is trying to rebrand himself so people will forget all the losses in 2012," Martin said. "But he sounds like big-daddy government: 'I know what's best, you need to listen to us and do what we say.' It is the antithesis of what the GOP stands for. Primary voters want to pick their candidates."
NASA's 'Mohawk Guy,' Systems Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi, will be sitting with the First Lady at the State of the Union address.
The Republicans are bringing delusional, racist, pedophile, draft dodging, illegal hunting, fear mongering chickenhawk of a talentless has-been musician Ted Nugent. They hail him for being a patriot and upholding American values.
rstrong wrote:NASA's 'Mohawk Guy,' Systems Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi, will be sitting with the First Lady at the State of the Union address.
The Republicans are bringing delusional, racist, pedophile, draft dodging, illegal hunting, fear mongering chickenhawk of a talentless has-been musician Ted Nugent. They hail him for being a patriot and upholding American values.
Score one for the Tea Party.
Right. Threatening the president because you don't agree with him is über-patriotic and the most basic American value.
Who woulda ever thunk Rove could look like the voice of reason? But unfortunately, while the loonies hack at each other in the national GOP asylum, their equally looney but less visible counterparts in state legislatures are wreaking havoc and getting by with it.
Donald Trump called the Beyoncé Super Bowl halftime show "inappropriate" and "a national scandal." Apparently, it lacked the quiet dignity of Gary Busey and Meat Loaf screaming at each other on "The Apprentice."
Teabaggers decide Rove isn't a Nazi after all...or maybe he is but they didn't get the reaction they wanted by calling him one...or maybe Teabaggers don't any more know what a Nazi is than what a "socialist" is...
already.
