Tea Party Eats Their Own

[DonViejo]

David Freedlander

New GOP primary challengers are looking to serve their Tea Party challengers a scolding hot cuppa change. Their goal? To oppose!

They arrived in January of 2011, unfamiliar with the ways of Washington, and promising never to adapt. The Republican freshman of the 112th Congress had helped take back the House, riding a Tea Party-infused, throw-the-bums-out wave of conservative disgust with career politicians.

But after three years in office and an election season looming, a number of GOP Congressmen find themselves facing scrappy challengers who say that they are now the ones with a serious case of Potomac Fever.

“I didn’t expect Renee to go this route,” said Frank Roche, a conservative Internet talk show host, who is challenging Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. “I am sad she did. Unfortunately she has chosen to go along with the establishment in Washington D. C.”

Ellmers was a nurse and a Tea Party favorite when she emerged out of a crowded field in 2010, and went on to eke out a win against the Democratic incumbent. Then, she harped on the building of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque in New York in her campaign speeches, compared President Obama to Louis XIV and said that his administration is establishing a “socialistic form of government.”

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[Glitterati]

1. Good!

The more the right puts their crazies on full display the better.

[11 Bravo]

2. That would make them shit-eaters, wouldn't it?

(But we already knew that.)

[JNelson6563]

3. The cycle of learning

So now the ones currently holding office at least have a clue how it actually works, this whole "governing" thing. Of course they have done what they can to obstruct that n-word Democrat in the WH but it's been impossible to completely halt the government's functions. It's also been impossible, while holding only the House in majority, to ram through extreme legislation that these crybaby teabaggers demand.

The incumbents now realize that those on the outside (formerly themselves) really don't get it and have unrealistic expectations.

Julie

[Mopar151]

4. This is what happens when you buy discount morons.

All the malcontents, old Birchers, tax protesters and militia commanders were recruited for this Tea Party thing, very much on the cheap. They've not been well behaved, and their governance has been abysmal.