No The Tea Party Has Not (Yet) Won The GOP Civil War

Clarity From The Numbers

Politics • June 2014 • Views: 1,839

Just in time, the Brookings Institution has issued a study offering some clarity and, most helpful, a scorecard of tea party wins and losses. Per the study, researchers identified the ideology of every House and Senate candidate running this year and compiled a won-loss record through Tuesday’s primaries.

The bottom line: If the tea party were a baseball team, it would be mired deep in the cellar.

HT Brookings

More: Political scorecard shows tea party has dismal won-lost record - Los Angeles Times

Recent Pages by Rightwingconspirator:
Russia's New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case Against Right Wing Hacks About That Flood Warning for Los Angeles? Coastal Serenity The Six Fingered Con Man

Jump to bottom

15 comments

Randall Gross Jun 14, 2014 11:23:52am

Of course all these losses matter not if the average GOP candidate has to drift so far right in actual policy just to stay in office that the tea party might as well have won.

nines09 Jun 14, 2014 11:40:24am

re: #1 Randall Gross

Exactly. I see very little difference in full blown Tea Party and full blown GOP insanity. One wants to cut your throat in public, one wants to drag you out back and do it.

Rocky-in-Connecticut Jun 14, 2014 12:43:22pm

I concur. Please someone explain to me the difference between an official Tea Party candidate and the average Republican stated platforms, goals, and stump speech statements.

Please, someone explain the difference. I can’t see one.

Rightwingconspirator Jun 14, 2014 1:00:48pm

re: #3 Rocky-in-Connecticut

That would be in the description Brookings used.

Randall Gross Jun 14, 2014 1:58:31pm

re: #3 Rocky-in-Connecticut

I concur. Please someone explain to me the difference between an official Tea Party candidate and the average Republican stated platforms, goals, and stump speech statements.

Please, someone explain the difference. I can’t see one.

The establishment GOP candidate is the one with Stockholm Syndrome.

goddamnedfrank Jun 14, 2014 2:37:31pm

re: #2 nines09

Exactly. I see very little difference in full blown Tea Party and full blown GOP insanity. One wants to cut your throat in public, one wants to drag you out back and do it.

Exactly, who cares, they’re pretty much all bigoted greed filled sniveling hyper religious cock-bags.

Dark_Falcon Jun 14, 2014 3:26:12pm

re: #4 Rightwingconspirator

That would be in the description Brookings used.

Thanks much for this piece, RWC, but it won’t change much around here. Its an election year and the “EBBBILL TEAGOP!!1” meme has been set.

nines09 Jun 14, 2014 3:40:22pm

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Dark. Wake the fuck up. The coffee is burnt.

Rightwingconspirator Jun 14, 2014 4:30:36pm

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

It’s just supposed to be some objective data on the current state of the race. But sentiments are running so high these last few days. Anyway have one up for fairly taking the heat.

Decatur Deb Jun 14, 2014 4:32:18pm

The Democrats are winning the GOP civil war. Please proceed.

nines09 Jun 14, 2014 7:10:32pm

re: #10 Decatur Deb

Winning as the obvious purveyor of truth, intent, and not being fucking insane, Yep. Got that wrapped up. Now they have to rely upon people voting for it to matter.

Jayleia Jun 15, 2014 6:26:05am

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

If you want to stop people from calling the Tea Party/GOP from being called stupid, crazy or evil, convince your fellow party members to stop supporting policies that are easily characterized as stupid, crazy or evil.

But, whenever you decide to actually make a serious attempt at that, you already know what will happen.

HappyWarrior Jun 15, 2014 11:38:02am

Honestly, I have to ask myself if the establishment is really much better from the TP. Let’s look at Cantor versus Brat shall we or McConnell versus Bevin. In fact, the TP may be a slightly less bad than the establishment because the TP may sincerely believe in what they’re doing while the establishment just jumps on to any anti Obama/Democratic cause as possible because they’re afraid of getting primaried. It’s even been pretty much conceded here that Lindsay Graham has used the Benghazi scandal not out of genuinely misguided principle but out of fear for being primaried. Same crap with McCain who was once a strong supporter of immigration reform saying build the dang fence a few years ago. I’ve got no respect at all for the GOP establishment and I hope these two sides continue to ruin each other. They deserve each other.

EPR-radar Jun 15, 2014 4:46:33pm

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Thanks much for this piece, RWC, but it won’t change much around here. Its an election year and the “EBBBILL TEAGOP!!1” meme has been set.

Har har har. This would be much more convincing if accompanied by any evidence whatsoever that the GOP is not presently sitting in a moral sewer and adding to the shit diligently.

HappyWarrior Jun 15, 2014 8:07:50pm

re: #14 EPR-radar

Har har har. This would be much more convincing if accompanied by any evidence whatsoever that the GOP is not presently sitting in a moral sewer and adding to the shit diligently.

No shit. Really, the reason why many of us have such a negative opinion of the GOP is because they keep on nominating nutcases. I’ve seen the VA GOP go from having people like Tom Davis and John Warner as its leaders to people like Ken Cuccinnelli and E.W Jackson. So yeah pardon me if I don’t think the GOP’s situation is just peachy and that’s just har har GOP is evil.

Auto

This page has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!