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Offline Ptarmigan

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Will Tea Party, GOP establishment be 'mending fences' to win Senate in November?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/21/will-tea-party-gop-establishment-need-to-mend-fences-to-win-senate-in-november/?intcmp=latestnews

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After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party and other so-called “unelectable” candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.

Republicans appear poised to win three of the net total six seats required to take the Senate. But they are locked in six other, too-close-to call contests in their effort to win the remaining three seats.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday dismissed the notion that party voters are not united behind their candidates.

Establishment Republicans and Tea Party are two different things.
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Offline Mr Mannn

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Same story every election. Conservatives have to vote for establishment types to stop the Rats.
But when establishment types vote along with the rats, why support them?
But when establishment types intend to vote for amnesty, why support them?
But when establishment types do not want to repeal Obamacare, why support them? 
But when establishment types urge the IRS to discriminate against the Tea Party, why support them?

The entire primary season conservatives have been vilified by our own party, and now I'm supposed to kiss and make up?
NO! Not this time. y'all are on your own.



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Same story every election. Conservatives have to vote for establishment types to stop the Rats.
But when establishment types vote along with the rats, why support them?
But when establishment types intend to vote for amnesty, why support them?
But when establishment types do not want to repeal Obamacare, why support them? 
But when establishment types urge the IRS to discriminate against the Tea Party, why support them?

The entire primary season conservatives have been vilified by our own party, and now I'm supposed to kiss and make up?
NO! Not this time. y'all are on your own.

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Depends on the candidates.  Some TEA Party candidates really were unelectable goofballs, some mainstream candidates really might as well be Dems.  Neither one is true for all of them.
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