Uncivil War: Conservatives to challenge a dozen GOP candidates

[symple19]

I think it needs to be said. the far right and far left have no business setting the legislative agenda for this country. These eco terrorists and tea baggers need to remove themselves from the policy arena and let the majority run this country.

[Nbadan]

Eh....Progressive Democrats did the same thing when they nominated Obama and now the Democratic party seems unstoppable at the National level while the GOP purges moderates from its ranks in favor of a social theocracy....Kerry, Gore, even Clinton were blue-dog democrats no matter how they were portrayed by the wing-nut media...

[Marcus Bryant]

Kerry, Gore,

I'll give you Clinton, but, no.

[hope4dopes]

That's the thing. What truly is political conservatism these days? It seems limited to certain positions on "social" issues, unwavering support of military action, and unlimited embrace of tax rate cuts. What is truly amazing is the frequency with which I heard and read criticisms of Rep. Paul's last presidential campaign along the lines of 'I really like what he has to say about domestic policy, adherence to the Cons ution, etc...if only he wasn't so liberal on foreign policy.'

TF?

Meanwhile the last GOP occupant of the White House spearheaded spectacular growth in the scale and scope of the federal government, yet somehow he's a martyr and not a villain to conservatives. Not to mention that conservatism used to wear on its shirtsleeves Washington's admonition to avoid "foreign entanglements" and as recently as the Clinton administration we saw GOP congressmen resisting foreign military intervention.

I don't know to many conservatives who think bush was a martyr, more like a liar.

[hope4dopes]

[QUOTE=Nbadan;3810589]Eh....Progressive Democrats did the same thing when they nominated Obama and now the Democratic party seems unstoppable at the National level while the GOP purges moderates from its ranks in favor of a social theocracy....Kerry, Gore, even Clinton were blue-dog democrats no matter how they were portrayed by the wing-nut media...[/QUOTE kerry was a blue dog democrat? aaaaaaaahhhh nah.

[hope4dopes]

I think Conservatives should put up their candidates in primaries. but stay the same party.

I know that where I come from the thought was to build from the ground up, and so we did what they did in arizona, and a group of conservative republicans and Ron Paul supporters took over the local central committee of the Republican party and is promoting and supporting only conservative republicans
The idea is to wrest control of the party away from the Rinos from the ground up. This group of people thought conservatives had a better chance of changing the republican party this way rather than support third parties.

[Supergirl]

"tea party republicans" should just re-name themselves what they really are: White Supremacist Republicans. Sponsored by the White Supremacist Fox News.

[Wild Cobra]

"tea party republicans" should just re-name themselves what they really are: White Supremacist Republicans. Sponsored by the White Supremacist Fox News.

You have been brainwashed if that's what you think they are.

[Nbadan]

I'll give you Clinton, but, no.

Kerry was a big-business centrist...Gore not so much, but not mutually exclusive either...

[Nbadan]

The fact remains...Obama came to power because of progressives who got voters to the polls in a way that centrists Democrats couldn't....these same progressives that Obama now has to placate with a public option because he couldn't satisfy them with single-payer health-care system...this group, Obama needs in 2010 and 2012..

[spursncowboys]

Kerry was a big-business centrist...Gore not so much, but not mutually exclusive either...

Kerry was a lib. Gore was a New Democrat. A good example of a Blue Dog would be McCain.

[panic giraffe]

Kerry was a lib. Gore was a New Democrat. A good example of a Blue Dog would be McCain.

no, and I think you are confused, maybe our current sec of state, but not mccain...