{"id":10796,"date":"2012-11-25T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2012-11-25T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T19:39:48","slug":"your-tea-party-2014-focal-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/11\/25\/your-tea-party-2014-focal-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Tea Party 2014 focal points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline Georgia<\/a>
\n“I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge,” Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ on Thursday. “If we do it his way, then we’ll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that.” […]
\n“Grover Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. His plan says you continue to add to the debt. I just have a fundamental disagreement with him about that,” Chambliss said.
\nNorquist, in response, noted that Chambliss was an author of an open letter to him last year from three Republicans promising support for revenue generation from the “pro-growth effects” of lower tax rates.
\n“Senator Chambliss promised the people of Georgia he would go to Washington and reform government rather than raise taxes to pay for bigger government,” Norquist said.<\/p>\n

AND
\nChambliss, who is up for re-election in 2014, was asked in the interview whether Norquist would retaliate against him.
\n“In all likelihood, yes,” Chambliss said.<\/p>\n

See here
\n<\/a>Remember Karen Handel? She was the subject of national interest several months ago when Handel, a former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and staunch opponent of abortion rights, directed Komen for the Cure to cut off all grants to Planned Parenthood. […]
\n“She’s considering it,” says Rob Sims, a Republican campaign consultant who worked on Handel’s unsuccessful run for governor in 2010. Kay Godwin, the co-chairman of Georgia Conservatives in Action, says Handel is among those she’s hearing who could successfully challenge Chambliss.<\/p>\n

…………………..<\/p>\n

The classic line of attack where the big money capitalist wig would use the social issues they don’t particulary care about to down their slightly off key figure.<\/p>\n

Dateline South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n

Graham, by contrast, held a conference call with West Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to tout bipartisan support for foreign aid. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Foreign relations are not a Democrat or Republican issue, but an American issue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he insisted.
\nReplies Rand Paul: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see myself campaigning against a Republican in a general election ever, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extraordinary that Graham is supporting a Democrat in a general election.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nThe battle lines are drawn. The Club for Growth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president already hinted in September that Graham would be on the conservative pressure group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s target list. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you are looking over the horizon of 2014,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he told a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the sun may rise over South Carolina.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tea Partiers are anxious to collect another Republican establishment scalp.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n………….<\/p>\n

His bi-partisanship, of course, sucks a bit, as it basically skews over toward protecting the Military Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n

One question though<\/a>…
\n“I don’t think it’s any secret that Lindsey Graham has not always represented a consistent, pro-growth record,” Chris Chocola, the group’s president and a former Indiana congressman, said in a telephone interview. “If an attractive alternative — a viable alternative — emerges, we’d take a look at the race. And I don’t think we’d be alone in that.”
\n<\/em>
\nDoes an organization that prefigures “Tea Party” get to be called a “tea party group”, as opposed to tea party astroturf organizer or something?
\nAlso, as for candidate… how about 2008 Demcoratic candidate Bob Conley?<\/p>\n

Dateline Tennessee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Tea Party members were further angered this weekend by a Nashville fundraiser Alexander hosted for several Republican moderates, including Olympia Snowe of Maine and Richard Lugar of Indiana, that are disliked by many Tea Party member for their willingness to compromise.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apparently Al Franken and Harry Reidcouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t clear their schedules,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one local conservative wrote to The City Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe Lamar Alexander was running somewhat to Bob Dole’s right in the 1996 Republican Primaries.
\nA question… is there any Democratic Party nominee in these three states who can sit in the wings and pick up moderate (or quasi-moderate) Republican support going into a general election?\u00c2\u00a0 We note that the trio of candidates who are claimed “at risk” because Grover Norquist is chomping at the bit all lie in the South… So, for instance… Dateline Maine<\/a> and the new “Least Conservative Republican in the Senate” gets the query: so…?\u00c2\u00a0 Do they dare do a Christine O’Donnell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dateline Georgia “I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge,” Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ on Thursday. “If we do it his way, then we’ll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that.” […] “Grover Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}