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Post by boxcar on Jan 1, 2013 11:37:22 GMT -5
>The TP, while significantly diminished in power, still holds enough power to influence GOP politics. I'm not sure that is necessarily a bad thing now, but it caused chaos in the country for awhile before everyone stopped getting on the bandwagon<
Lets take a closer look at what has been happening in the GOP these last few months. Boehner and the “elite group” have been stripping some members of coveted political positions for not voting party lines. This is what I’d call blackmail. Actions like this keep the TP in vogue.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 13:33:00 GMT -5
Hard to argue against that. I would've thought, however, that Boehner would've toed the TP line more than he has.
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Post by boxcar on Jan 1, 2013 15:00:47 GMT -5
IMO he caves into Obama's wishes too quickly.
And then there is that case in Maine that we talked about some time ago. One candidate, ( forget just which one now, probably Cane) got a pretty good percentage of the vote, but he was not recognized by the Republican Electorate Committee and his votes were given to Romney, the party favorate.
Yes the Republican "elites" disenfranchized the voters in the state of Maine during the last election. This is why we need the Tea Party!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 17:23:26 GMT -5
JR,
I don't mind a watch dog. I do, however, object to a faction within the GOP that runs the show. That is my primary objection to the TP. I fell better about them the less I read about them
Denny
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Post by boxcar on Jan 1, 2013 18:06:45 GMT -5
>I do, however, object to a faction within the GOP that runs the show.<
The faction within the GOP that wants to run the show is the elite, championed by Boehner these days. It was not the TP that deprived Herman Cain (?) of his electoral votes. It was the elite party bosses.
It has been the elites that promoted Dole, McCain and Romney, all losers. I could add both Bushes in there also. Then there was Barry Goldwater, By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater's libertarian views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights and the role of religion in public life. (You will note, Goldwater was considered by many as being the ultra conservative. That lable is questionable)
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