GOP Insurgents Rubio, Hoffman Have The Right Enemies—But The Wrong, Treason Lobby, Friends
The times they are a-changing on the grassroots right. After years of drinking the neoconservatives’ Kool-Aid and eating their freedom fries, Middle America seems to be realizing that blind support for the GOP got the country right in the mess it’s in today—government bigger than ever, mass unemployment, unchecked immigration, and Barack Obama as president.
Tea Parties, defunding ACORN, auditing the Fed, attacking Sotomayor for her La Raza Agenda, attacking Obama for his anti-white agenda, Members of Congress screaming at the President for lying about health care and illegal immigrants, even mutterings about secession—all of this would have been unheard of with Bush and Delay in charge. But today it’s commonplace on conservative talk radio and on the blogosphere.
As yet, there is a dearth of political and institutional leadership to guide this nascent movement. Needless to say, the Republican Party Establishment is promoting safe, bland candidates for office rather than new Tom Tancredos or Virgil Goodes. However, the Tea Partyers/ Town Hallers appear to be standing up to the party hacks. This is gratifying—but beneath the anti-establishment veneer of some of the Tea Partyers’ Beltway allies is the same old Open Borders particle board.
The most prominent “anti-Establishment” candidate: Marco Rubio, the white Cuban former speaker of Florida House of Representatives, who is running against former Florida Governor Charlie Crist for the appalling Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be vacated U.S. Senate seat.
“Anti-tax ‘tea party’ conservatives are struggling with the Republican Party establishment by backing insurgent candidates, political activists say.
One example is in Florida, where the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks [more on them later—WW] is backing former state House Speaker Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate against the candidate preferred by GOP centrists, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
['Tea party' backers target GOP candidates, UPI, October 12, 2009]
Besides Crist’s support for amnesty, conservatives are still furious over his underhanded promotion of John McCain during the Florida primary:
Naturally, the National Republican Senatorial Committee endorsed Crist.
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GOP Insurgents Rubio, Hoffman Have The Right Enemies—But The Wrong, Treason Lobby, Friends
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I am a “9-12′er” who is sick and tired of the Republicans who are supposed to be representing us in Washington. What in the hell is wrong with those spineless wimps? I’m a middle-aged grandmother of six–never felt compelled to make signs and participate in marches and Town Hall meetings until the stupid, ignorant people in this country put Obama in our White House. The only voices we have are our own! Those elected officials which we sent to Washington are damn sure not being vocal about the socialist policies of this President and his administration. It WILL be remembered on election day. We, the people, have no choice but to take it to the streets and town halls of this country. I’ve never been a radical conservative before, but I’m mad as hell now.