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Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November.
Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win back the majority and don't want the same scenario to play out again. The tea party's scorecard this year is far different than in 2010 and 2012, when it knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.
It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum."
It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum.
originally posted by: butcherguy
One of the biggest victories the mainstream Republicans have had (with the help of the main stream media) is painting libertarians as 'far right', and mixing libertarians in with the 'tea party' as a whole.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month
originally posted by: butcherguy
One of the biggest victories the mainstream Republicans have had (with the help of the main stream media) is painting libertarians as 'far right', and mixing libertarians in with the 'tea party' as a whole.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
originally posted by: LDragonFire
originally posted by: butcherguy
One of the biggest victories the mainstream Republicans have had (with the help of the main stream media) is painting libertarians as 'far right', and mixing libertarians in with the 'tea party' as a whole.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Main stream media didn't have to paint them as anything, they did to themselves.
originally posted by: butcherguy
One of the biggest victories the mainstream Republicans have had (with the help of the main stream media) is painting libertarians as 'far right', and mixing libertarians in with the 'tea party' as a whole.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Washington (CNN) -- It's one of the busiest days in this year's primary calendar.
Six states from coast to coast hold primaries on Tuesday, and again anti-establishment candidates face long odds in high-profile Republican showdowns.
Since its birth in 2009, the tea party has had a number of primary successes, with victorious challenges from the right producing major headlines for the movement.
But they've also given the party plenty of headaches and hurt its chances of winning back the Senate, effectively costing the GOP five winnable elections over the last two cycles.