Uncivil War: Conservatives to challenge a dozen GOP candidates

[Terri]

Politico

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.

But their success in Tuesday’s upstate New York special election, where grass-roots efforts pushed GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race and helped Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman surge into the lead on the eve of Election Day, has generated more money and enthusiasm than organizers ever imagined.

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Politico seems to be a little too gleeful about this but it's a good thing. The primaries are the place for conservatives to challenge moderates.

If Arizona Republicans had taken care of business in McCain's last Senate election he wouldn't have been the candidate last year.

[lranders]

That is good news to me. I am one who in spite of who the republican was I voted for them, but no more. Recently voting that way put a moderate in office and there is no distinction between them and a democrat. I have decided if they are moderate I won't vote at all because a vote for a moderate gets me the same result, a left leaning idiot. The republicans have scammed me for years making me believe their was a difference when all along the republican party was scamming me by moving policy to the left. No more for me.

[Ray-Ray]

Iranders:

I don't even know how to respond to that except:

[Love my Texas]

I have decided if they are moderate I won't vote at all because a vote for a moderate gets me the same result, a left leaning idiot.

This is why we must find Conservative Republicans to run against the moderates.

I was listening to Steele yesterday on Cavuto and the subject was moderates, and Steele made a statement that the Republican Party needs to be in the 21st Century. My take on his comment was that the Republican Party must accept 'moderates', which I consider progressive, left liberals.

Oh yes, two more moderates that need to be listed to replace with Conservatives are Senator Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

[qrayjack]

Now, this big-tent thing. The current leaders who cannot be named of the Republican Party have built such a big tent on the advice of the Democrats, that nobody's in it. Let me explain this, 'cause this is another profundity, ladies and gentlemen. We've had all these people, all these years say, "You know, you Republicans, you're too rock-ribbed conservative. You got too many pro-lifers. You got too many religious right people in there and the angry talk show people. You got a gotta spread out!" The Democrats, the liberals, the media, tell the Republicans, "You gotta have a bigger tent. You gotta attract independents in that party and you gotta have moderates in that party. You can't continue to grow, you can't continue to exist if all you are is conservatives."

Of course, the Republicans who want to get along with those people say, "Yeah, yeah, it's a good point." So big tent. And we went out there, we did everything we could to attract all those people. Right? We nominated all the right people. General Powell even out there showing us how to do it by endorsing a Democrat. So we've got this giant big tent out there, built on the advice of Democrats in the media but nobody's in it.

Rush Limbaugh

Yeah, but the important thing is that we listened to liberals from both parties who told us we had to have it, and we erected the big tent. Pretty isn't it? Pretty useless. Nobody in it. Oh well.

But it sure was nice of the Democrats to give us all that good advice, wasn't it? I mean, we know they have our best interests are heart, right? Why sure they do, they love us. As long as we act like idiots and buy into their crap rather than adhering to our conservative principles.

I don't think we're gonna let 'em sucker us anymore, do you? Nope, don't think so.