For years, Democrats were famous for infighting and Republicans were masters as closing ranks. Now along comes the Tea Party and the unholy alliance between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans is ripping at the seams.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who lost Alaska's GOP primary last month in a stunning upset to a tea-party backed rival, announced Friday that she's mounting a write-in candidacy in a bid to hold onto her job. She lost the Republican primary to Republican Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. I wrote about Jim in - Has The Tea Party Been Hijacked By Conservative Christians?
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Karl Rove (about as mainstream Republican as you get) said O'Donnell is unqualified.
"Listen to the people, respect their will," said Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. "Voters chose Joe instead."It seems that the infighting is a reflection of the bi-polar nature of the Tea Party itself. Is it a party about small government and fiscal responsibility or a party of extreme social conservatives?
I no longer believe it is a party of Libertarians - the social conservatives have hijacked the Tea Party express.
The social conservatives hijacked the Tea Party because the Republicans in these economic times can get more votes by being fiscal conservatives and attacking spending and deficits, no matter that the Republicans during the last administration spent on wars and tax cuts and turned a surplus into a deficit and an almost depression.
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