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Into the fold? that is a way to look at it but we now have nationally a kind of tea party establishment the larger groups me is referring that operate like the washington-based operations that karl rove is talking and what has characterize the the tea party at its strongest has been energize the voters. grass-roots voters.ff e grass-roots energy. that s what knocked off eric cantor. the local tea the national sn tea party groups took a pass on that one. i a friend of mine, a guy i know who runs a pac for the tea partn patriots said we looked at that guy, we liked him, but made our big bet in mississippi. well, they lost in mississippi and the local tea party groups r pulled the professor across thea finish line by a remarkable it degree. so to the extent the tea party lives on, i don t think it s k i beaten, i think the energy is te there, the republican party needs it, but i think these big ....
Was trying to meet was between the national tea party groups which have had not had much success and the local tea party groups which have had an enormous impact. if you take a look at the so-called establishment wins, say, for example, kentucky and texas and south carolina where establishment candidates won renomination or the victories in arkansas and montana and south dakota and west virginia and north carolina and oklahoma where the establishment candidates won without serious opposition, the fact is the victories were achieved by the so-called establishment candidate having strong support among some elements of the local tea party groups. we have seen this odd result where the national tea party groups are weakened because they made heavy bets and come up loser. who are you talking about? senate conservatives or the tea party patriots or freedom works or club for growth which ....
His campaign dug up opposition research. they aired ads on tv and radio. i ve been covering this race for quite a while. i spent time with matt bevin. he spent a lot of time on the stump defending charges mcconnell was leveling at him on the air and he didn t do a very good job of leveling attacks at senator mcconnell. if you talk to his campaign, they ll say they tested whether or not the attack that mcconnell was too liberal was one that would stick and that just didn t register at all and that was bevin s main argument he was not conservative. i think for most people who covered him for a long time in washington would say that this man may be part of the g op establishment, even the embodiment of the g 0 op establishment which is not popular right now but he certainly is conservative. in terms of the mcconnell campaign to bevin, i ll give it to you he was very aggressive but i stand by my contention that that ad where there was no words and he creepily, mitch mcconnell, smiled at ....
That purity are groups like the anti-tax, pro economic growth club for growth. it s barely been three weeks since senate republicans wrapped up another losing cycle where thanks to candidates like missouri s todd akin or indiana s richard mourdocks they failed to knock off a single democratic incumbent and already it s deja vu all over again. shelly capito is experienced, popular, deep roots in her home state. and before the democratic incumbent jay rockefeller had time to criticize her, barely an hour after her news conference, it was conservative groups who began to attack her. helped richard mourdock take down indiana republican senator richard lugar, the first with a press release saying her candidacy will undoubtedly be cheered by the g 0 op establishment. congresswoman capito has a long record of support of bailouts, pork and bigger government. quickly followed saying capito ....
Rights, gay marriage, and the health care law and bring a different dimension to the ticket as a woman and as a mother. she had the endorsement of sarah palin calling her a mama grizzly but the detractors say she is part of the g.o.p. establishment. shepard: we hear more from the florida senator rubio, as well? guest: he does acknowledge that his story represents for many the american dream. i have been blessed with the opportunity to represent the people of florida. does it not escape me that less than half a decade ago my family lived different circumstances. my dad was a bartender and my mom a maid. unimaginable that anyone in the next generation would be able to attain this is what other people did. not people that came from where they kay from. and i understand as hard as they worked and the sacrifices they made is due to the greatness of ....