Will the TPM hurt the GOP in november?

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    what say you?
     
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  2. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

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    It will hurt the establishment yes.
     
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  3. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Do you see moderate conservatives supporting an incumbent Democrat who voted for Obamacare over a Republican who has TPM backing? I don't.
     
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  4. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    I say no. Why would it? I never hear or see anything bad about the Tea Party. Unless it is coming from a hardcore liberal. Then they are racist f*cks that need to die a slow death.

    ETA: wait, maybe I don't know what TPM means...
     
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  5. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

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    I don't.

    But I see more conservatives actually supporting conservatives and not these RINO morons.

    The TPM has been good overall for conservatives but we need the likes of GB and SP to just move on. They are nothing but more of the same, with the same old rhetoric.
     
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  6. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Perhaps, but if conservatives have only a choice between a TPM RINO and an incumbent Dem, I have no doubt they go RINO. They'll pull the lever, even if they have to hold their noses while they do it.
     
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  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It's already hurting the GOP by moving them even further to the right. Tea Party influence is huge in republican-only primaries but does not translate into general election results.

    Did anybody see the news today?

    Tea Party favorites win GOP primaries in Delaware, New York

    The Tea Party and the Republicans overlap in politics but are not in sync. Moderate republicans who toe the party line are being threatened by maverick tea baggers taking their seats. The main spokesmen for the GOP right now are Newt Gingrich, Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and Sarah Palin . . . none of whom hold elected office. Democrats are taking advantage by wooing independents increasingly dismayed by republican infighting and lack of leadership and many of whom think the tea party extreme and shallow. The GOP fears that the mostly ultra-right and often single-issue tea party candidates can't beat the democrats in November.
     
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  8. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Yeah i gotta think that moderate republicans will be jumping ship. All of these TPM candidates that have beaten the GOP candidates out in the primaries, i'm not hearing too many of the beaten candidates coming out in public to support the tea party candidates that just beat them, in fact quite the contrary.
     
    LaSalleAve, Sep 15, 2010
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  9. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    The old guard GOP is the GOP's biggest problem right now. They want control of the House and Senate but they don't want any young whippersnappers who won't toe the party line. Politics as usual.
     
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  10. LSUsupaFan

    LSUsupaFan Founding Member

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    The Phantom Menace? I think it will only hurt Lucas's reputation. He is pretty liberal.
     
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