"Republican Senate Races May Worsen Conservative Divide"

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Republican Senate Races May Worsen Conservative Divide

by CHARLES BABINGTON at AP, Huffington Post

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/new/

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These groups' leaders say McConnell and other incumbents are erring by trying to discredit their GOP challengers so fiercely.

"It seems like the establishment thinks that if they defeat a few conservative candidates, the grassroots will throw up their hands and give up," said Matt Hoskins of the Senate Conservatives Fund. "But that won't stop us from fighting for conservative candidates in 2014, 2016 and beyond. We're not going away."

Sen. Mike Lee, a tea party Republican, launched this brand of intra-party struggle when he stunned three-term Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah's 2010 GOP nominating process. Things turned out worse for Republicans in 2012 when a tea party challenger ousted veteran Sen. Richard Lugar in the Indiana primary, only to lose to an underdog Democrat that fall.

Ever since, establishment Republicans have accused DeMint and other activists of willingly electing Democrats by knocking out mainstream GOP candidates who would be stronger campaigners in general elections. Some tea partyers, in return, say longtime Republican leaders like McConnell and Boehner betray conservative principles by working with Democrats on matters such as the debt ceiling.




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[applegrove]

1. LOL!

[yeoman6987]

4. My fear is...

the tea party freaks win the primary and then win the Senate seat. It is bad enough that the tea party has so many in the House and Senate, we don't need anymore. The reason I am scared is because most of the Republicans up for reelection are in deep red states and if the Tea Party wins the primary may win the general. We need to get out and vote more than even 2008 and 2012 for sure. Our future is seriously in trouble. I know that some are excited about the Republican Party getting crazier…I would too if I knew for a fact that it would go away for good, but that is not going to happen at least not in 2014.

[applegrove]

5. Food for thought. I'm also in Canada. So this stuff isn't as personal for me. I'll try and be more

sensitive. I just keep thinking this tea party revolution couldn't happen to a 'nicer bunch' than the GOP who have been all about making people terrified about falling out of the middle class, which is what the GOP banking crisis has brought so many. It just makes me so mad. So I lash out when they get a little bit of that capitalist narcissistic fundamentalism thrown in their faces. Like pope Francis says:

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“I am convinced of one thing: the great changes in history were realized when reality was seen not from the center but rather from the periphery,” the pope said.

To look at something from the periphery, the pope explained, meant analyzing reality through a variety of viewpoints, rather than filtering all experience through a centralized ideology.

“It is not a good strategy to be at the center of a sphere,” he said. “To understand we ought to move around, to see reality from various viewpoints. We ought to get used to thinking.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/03/pope-francis-condemns-fundamentalism-urges-setting-an-example-over-proselytizing/

[Andy823]

2. What I want to know is

If the tea party nuts don't win the primary, will they run on their own ticket come the general election against those they believe are not "crazy" enough to be a "real" conservative"? I guess all we can do is hope.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Yep,

I am right there with you.