polgara
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Re: Eric Cantor is Gone
If the Tea Party really thinks the way they seem to, it's baffling to me. That's akin to winning a battle but losing the war, because it could win a seat for a Democrat that theoretically stands for everything they claim they are against! Is that possible? Weird political thinking on their part, if true.
Good morning, Pero. :2wave:
Work with Boehner and Obama? You mean like the lame duck session in December of 2010 where both sides gave and took. The repeal of DADT, the approval of START and the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts. I really doubt it. I have been concentrating on the seats in the senate that might switch. Mississippi isn't going to switch no matter who the Republican nominee is. If whoever is the Dem nominee can get within single digits, then I will start paying attention. If the race was considered safe, I really haven't looked at them.
This is June, once the primaries are over, I am sure foot in mouth disease will strike. There are some Republicans that can't help themselves. It seems to me the establishment Republicans worry and want to win election and are not so pure ideological drive. The Tea Party wants pure ideological candidates and are not that interested in winning. By that I mean the Tea Party are very happy to beat a more moderate, less ideological pure candidate in the Republican primaries even if they know that candidate has no chance of winning in the fall and guarentees the seat will go to the Democrats. Of course in some states and in some districts, the ideological will win in the fall with VA-7 and Mississippi being prime examples. But not in places like Indiana, Missouri or even perhaps Georgia.
If the Tea Party really thinks the way they seem to, it's baffling to me. That's akin to winning a battle but losing the war, because it could win a seat for a Democrat that theoretically stands for everything they claim they are against! Is that possible? Weird political thinking on their part, if true.
Good morning, Pero. :2wave: