GOP Senators Can't Avoid Primary Challenges

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/08/31/gop_senators_cant_avoid_primary_challenges.html


August 31, 2013

GOP Senators Can't Avoid Primary Challenges


"For the past two years, Republican senators facing re-election have very deliberately spent millions of dollars, hired multiple consultants and cast scores of conservative votes with one goal in mind: avoiding the embarrassing primary conflagrations that befell their party in 2010 and 2012 and cost Republicans a chance at taking back the Senate," the New York Times reports.

"It has not worked. Despite their careful efforts, some of the best-known and most influential Republicans in the Senate have been unable to shake threats from the right and have attracted rivals who portray these lawmakers as a central part of the problem in Washington."

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. And the result has almost every Republican Representative worshiping at the altar of the right.

Bowing and genuflecting into a war on women, denying LGBT citizens their rights, while performing fellatio on the cocks of the Koch brothers.

The right has shown a willingness to hold their elected representatives feet to the fire to support the most ridiculous aspects of their ideology.

So what are they doing right.

Perhaps it is time we ran massive challenges from the left.

NOTE: Your first sentence doesn't seem to have anything to do with most of the rest of the OP. Since I've had my say about the whole bloody Syrian mess, I pretended it wasn't there and moved on to politics.

[mick063]

2. "Perhaps it is time we ran massive challenges from the left."

We must build on this theme.


To those that fear political consequences for pulling Tea Party tactics within the Democratic Party:

We don't lose strength for being on the right side of issues.


To the elected Democrats being sold to the highest bidder:

We know who you are. We know you by your actions.


The movement is a little late for 2014, but with a repeated message, we can get there by 2016.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. It is never too late to start.