Anybody Not See This Coming?
Via Think Progress:
In an interview with National Review today, DeMint said that the tea parties should no longer be thought of as “separate” from the Republican Party:
“The GOP leadership needs to stand up for mainstream American principles,” says DeMint. The best way to do that, he says, is to “look to the great candidates we can support like Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Chuck DeVore, and now Michael Williams. They’re exciting, principled candidates who have all stood up to the Republican party.”
“We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party,” adds DeMint. “If we do that, we can stand up and create the biggest tent of all.”
It’s so Monty Python – Let’s not argue over who left who. Of course, to the rest of us this “merging” is just a formality. Tea parties have always been the far right branch of the Republican Party. But “merging” is probably the wrong word. The tea partiers are what’s left of the GOP, and we all know you’re either with ’em, or against ’em. And DeMint is pathetic, practically begging for a date to the prom.
And you gotta love the way poor Charlie Crist is thrown under the wheels of the whacky express.
Tags: Republican Crazy, Tea Parties
Crist should drop out now and run for reelection. He is far from the best candidate for Senate.
Does anyone get the feeling the republicans might win? I really think we may have underestimated 2 things in electing Obama. The stupidity of a LARGE percentage of americans, and the total shamelessness and hunger for power that inhabits the soul of every conservative. The public option is as good as dead. Without it, i see no reason to pass a health care bill that will only grow the profits of insurance companies. Thank you republicans and Tom Carper for keeping americans sick you you can stay in power and rich.
The problem with DeMint’s idea is that it takes two to have a “together”. It makes no difference if the mainstream Republicans see the teabaggers as part of their party, if the teabaggers themselves do not. I have seen people on this site explicitly and implicitly say that they see themselves as separate from the GOP. If the moderate Repubs want the teabaggers to go along with them, it’ll take more than “Can’t we all just get along”.
Does anyone get the feeling the republicans might win? I really think we may have underestimated 2 things in electing Obama.
Sure. Stupid by definition is not easily budged. Stupid people are still ragging on how bad Carter was but have already forgotten about Bush.
My prayers to the Baby Jesus worked!
Unless you measure by electability.
I think the TeaBagz can beat Crist in a primary. Think about if Glenn and Rush get behind (literally) a conservative party candidate. i bet Palindumb (i LOVE that term) backs the conservative too. Crist gets beaten, and a Democratic party candidate becomes the new Senator.
What is fun about the teabagger purity thing is that this does not leave their candidates any room to do the usual run to the middle in order to, you know — get an independent’s vote. So their hands are quite tied if they win a primary and opponents need a smart and persistent way to keep reminding these independents of the scary.
opponents need a smart and persistent way to keep reminding these independents of the scary.
We could just let them keep talking… Oh my, the debates will deserve more than popcorn!
Someone should explain to the Teabaggers what “tea bagging” and the sexual connatations really are! The democrats should be worried as many now realize they were deceived by Obama on so many fronts. Independents, moderates, liberals and progressives are quickly realizing they were bamboozled into thinking Obama was going to truly change america. Duped again!
I read that TeaBaggers are going to Washington next week to lay on Senate office floors and “die” in protest of the health bill.
I suggest Progressives go to the Senate offices and applaud when they do.
Yes, remember a few weeks back the purity pledge was put in place to keep the GOP from splitting. I’m not sure DeMint’s gambit will work, except maybe to drive out moderates and make the GOP smaller not bigger. I just don’t think the GOP coalition of big business and religious conservatives is going to stay together much longer. The problem for the Republicans in Congress is that most of them are more big business types rather than religious conservatives.
Yesterday on NPR they had a long story on some tea party leaders. I was so disgusted that I turned the channel (when some loony woman was saying that Obama never praises America and doesn’t love America like other people do). I was a bit disappointed that these idiots were getting so much airtime. Apparently, NPR got flooded with a lot of emails extremely critical of the teabaggers and the report. Maybe the best thing is to let the loonies speak in public since they are their own worst enemies.
“I suggest Progressives go to the Senate offices and applaud when they do.”
PM, that is a wonderful idea. if you actually want to organize this, i will help.
thanks, AP. I’m a bit too far away to get to Washington, but I do think progressives have to stop looking the other way when these uber-conservatives stomp their feet and throw their tantrums. They appear to have a power vastly disproportionate to their numbers — and are getting away, in the case of healthcare reform — literally (forgive me, VP Biden!) — with murder.