rssInhofe: Tea Party Movement Can Keep GOP From Swinging to the Center
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the left.
“I’m real supportive of the idea that the Tea Party movement could join in with the Republican Party and keep it clean,” said Inhofe. “John McCain, for example, is one of those who wants to move us with the Big Tent Theory. Every time we do that we lose, by expanding and becoming more moderate. That’s where the Tea Party movement can come in, and stop us from doing that. I say that because there are a lot of Republican primaries around the country, and Republicans will have to come around and look real carefully about where they stand.”
Inhofe posed this scenario as an alternative to one where a Tea Party candidate could play a “Ross Perot role” and run in 2012, splitting the anti-Obama vote.
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Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
SIR WHEN YOU HOLD POSITIONS AS YOU TEABAGGERS DO YOU NEED SOME KIND OF FACTS TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS. TAKING SUCH A RIGID POSITION AND YOU HAVE BEEN PROVEN WRONG TIME AND TIME AGAIN! WHAT HAVE YOU CLOWNS EVER BEEN RIGHT ABOUT? YOU CAN SAY THIS AND THAT BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME FACTS NUMBERS TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS BUT ALAS YOU HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT WRONG SO WHY IN THE HELL SHOULD WE LET YOU CLOWNS CONTINUE???
Comment posted December 26, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
I hope Inhofe's correct: If so, the slo-mo implosion of the American right will continue unabated for some time yet to come, and THAT prospect is a big win-win for USA
Comment posted December 26, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
I hope Inhofe's correct: If so, the slo-mo implosion of the American right will continue unabated for some time yet to come, and THAT prospect is a big win-win for USA
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