Is our wingers learning? Teabagger war on GOP continues
The teabag movement has become a war on the GOP.
Not content to lose just one historically Republican House seat, the winger jihadis are continuing their fight for total irrelevancy for the GOP. Charlie Crist remains a target, having been dropped by the NRSC (To hear RedState tell it, specifically at their request.) But there are others on deck, too. Wingers are next looking to deep six the not-right-wing-enough Carly Fiorina, who has her sights set on Barbara Boxer’s seat in California (yeah. Good luck with that.) Having deemed Ms. Fiorina too modern a gal for conservatism, the jihadis are throwing their two-t0-three-ounce weight behind a more suitable candidate, and elected Republicans, who remain completely flummoxed by the ongoing palace coup, are tucking their tails between their legs and going along. From the New York Times, signs the wingnuts have learned the wrong lessons from New York 23:
Ms. Palin, who had endorsed Mr. Hoffman in the upstate New York race, indicated that she had not been dissuaded by his loss.
“To the tireless grass-roots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug,” she wrote on her Facebook page, “please remember Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976: the cause goes on.”
And Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, announced that he was endorsing Chuck DeVore, a conservative, in the California race for a Senate seat. Mr. DeVore is opposing Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, who was encouraged by party leaders to seek the nomination.
Other conservatives, too, were not deterred by the New York defeat. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a conservative organization that strongly supported Mr. Hoffman, said that conservative activists intended to play a role in Republican primary and general elections next year and that it was just as important to keep unacceptable politicians out of Congress as to help others win.
Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, another conservative group that campaigned heavily on behalf of Mr. Hoffman, said the organization was now considering issuing endorsements in contested Senate and House Republican races in New Hampshire, Florida, Kentucky and California.
And while Count Chocola looks to extend Club for Growth’s 100 percent electoral losing streak, DeMint has taken to doing joint conference calls with Col. Von Erickson, where the two ask teabaggers to pray them up some conservative candidates. Seriously. I’m starting to wonder whether Rahm Emanuel is planning all of this behind the scenes…
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