Bachus: Palin Cost Us Control of the Senate

[thundley4]

GOP congressman criticizes tea party effect in Senate races.

A key Republican House leader told a chamber of commerce audience in his district last week that former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin undermined the GOP’s chance to take control of the U.S. Senate.
Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., a favorite to become chairman of the Financial Services Committee in the incoming Republican-controlled House, said that while tea party candidates fared well in House races, in the Senate "they didn't do well at all," according to the Shelby County Reporter.

“The Senate would be Republican today except for states [in which Palin endorsed candidates] like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware,” Bachus said at the November 4 meeting in Columbiana, Ala. “Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate.”
Bachus is not backing off his assertions about the effect Palin’s endorsements had on the GOP’s chances for capturing the Senate, but his spokesman, Tim Johnson, pointed out today that the congressman had complimentary things to say about Palin and the tea party in his speech.

“Congressman Bachus, like other political observers, said that seats in states like Delaware and Nevada could have been won by stronger candidates, and that’s a lesson going forward,” Johnson said. Bachus's spokesman added that the boss, in his speech, was “extremely complimentary of the tea party movement and Governor Palin in crediting them with the great turnout of conservatives that led to many of the successes on Tuesday.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/spencer-bachus-sarah-palin-cost-us-control-of-the-senate-20101109

Attention RINOs:

Most GOP Voters Critical of Republicans in Congress, Like Tea Party

Republican voters remain strongly critical of how their party’s representatives in Congress are performing and have a highly favorable opinion of the
Tea Party movement that is pushing the GOP more to the political right.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 19% of Likely Republican Primary Voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing the party’s values over the past several years.

Seventy-two percent (72%) say GOP members of Congress instead have lost touch with Republican Party members throughout the nation in recent years. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
These findings have remained basically the same in surveys since November 2008.

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of likely GOP primary voters hold a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, while only nine percent (9%) view the smaller government, lower taxes movement unfavorably.

Rassmussen

[5412]

Hi,

Looks to me like one more name to add to the asshole list.

regards,
5412

[JohnnyReb]

Hi,

Looks to me like one more name to add to the asshole list.

regards,
5412

Maybe it would be better if he were on the "GONE" list.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Except the (R)(ino) from Delaware and 'Whitey' Crist (R)(ino) would be two of the Senators, which would actually be worse since they were both to the left of half the Dems in the Senate.

[true_blood]

Hi,
Looks to me like one more name to add to the asshole list.
regards,
5412

[Freeper]

Without the tea party I doubt the GOP would have taken the house by storm.
If establishment republicans were running people may as well just vote for Democratics. 

Hmm spell checker doesn't recognize democratics but does democrats.
 

[JohnnyReb]

Without the tea party I doubt the GOP would have taken the house by storm.
If establishment republicans were running people may as well just vote for Democratics. 

Hmm spell checker doesn't recognize democratics but does democrats.
 

You hit the nail on the head. I have 2 friends over 65 years old that voted last week for the firstime in their life. They said the candidates supported by the Tea Party rallies were the first politicians in their life time that seemed worth voting for....meaning that they might change things rather than fall in line with the old guard beltway politicians.

BTW: They don't want compromise on anything short of the conservative agenda of smaller government, lower taxes, less social engineering and fewer entitilements.

[Freeper]

You hit the nail on the head. I have 2 friends over 65 years old that voted last week for the firstime in their life. They said the candidates supported by the Tea Party rallies were the first politicians in their life time that seemed worth voting for....meaning that they might change things rather than fall in line with the old guard beltway politicians.

BTW: They don't want compromise on anything short of the conservative agenda of smaller government, lower taxes, less social engineering and fewer entitilements.

Hell the tea party even changed the mood of this site.
All of us were pretty fed up with RINOs then the tea party comes along and we actually got excited about voting.
Now whether the tea party folks live up to their promises or not is to be seen.
And by that I don't mean accomplish everything (realistically we only have the house) but, their voting record reflects what they told us they believe in.

[thundley4]

Hell the tea party even changed the mood of this site.
All of us were pretty fed up with RINOs then the tea party comes along and we actually got excited about voting.
Now whether the tea party folks live up to their promises or not is to be seen.
And by that I don't mean accomplish everything (realistically we only have the house) but, their voting record reflects what they told us they believe in.

We might see an early test of their mettle against the old guard GOPers over earmarks.

[Freeper]

We might see an early test of their mettle against the old guard GOPers over earmarks.

Yep earmarks will pretty much just be a moral victory if we can get it but, dammit if we do it will be a big step in the right direction.

[TheSarge]

Mr. Bachus appears to be another Republican who has stayed in D.C. past his expiration date.

[5412]

Mr. Bachus appears to be another Republican who has stayed in D.C. past his expiration date.

Hell they are all poster children for term limits if you ask me.

regards,
5412