Discussion: Tea Partiers Swallow Their Pride In The North Carolina Senate Race

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So TPM runs articles on the Louisiana and Colorado races that focus on a single poll that is unfavorable to Democrats and in the North Carolina race where you don’t have such pessimistic news you run a piece focusing on Tea Partiers’ willingness to vote for a mainstream candidate in order to defeat Democrats.
You need to change your " In it, but not of it " logo, because it is no longer accurate.

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“We will not wait several years to wake up and realize we’ve been duped.”

Sorry, that train has sailed.

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The “Tea Party” is nothing more than the Republican base. Of course they are going to support the Republican candidate.

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Right, just like they supported Romney in 2012. How’d that work out?

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“We will not wait several years to wake up and realize we’ve been duped.”

Dude, getting duped is your entire m.o.!

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What’s up with the Mississippi race? Has that Tea Party candidate swallowed his pride yet?

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Tea Party members are hypocrites and just the same old republicans they claim to be against.

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The Scot’s folded like the sheep they are and the Teabaggers Have been used like pawns and yet are to stupid to know it that is a condition of the result of brain washing by Fox Noise and that Drug Abusing Junkie Rush

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The race, and candidate to watch in NC is Clay Aiken. He has a real chance to flip his own district - NC’s 2nd. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/american-idol-made-clay-aiken-a-star-but-he-knows-it-wont-make-him-a-congressman/2014/09/18/028c9630-3e63-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html?hpid=z7

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Clearly it’s Josh’s recruiting drive to get wingnuts to pay for “Prime”.

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Hagan will lose. She did not spurn Obama as a reelection tactic. Association with the liar in chief is a liability in your re election. Or as we say in the south, " play with chit, smell like chit"!

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This would appear to be a vivid depiction of the intellectual quality of the opposition. On this basis, I predict a Hagan landslide.

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“Barack Obama and his liberal Democrat allies are pouring money and campaign resources into North Carolina like crazy,” Tea Party Patriots Chairman Jenny Beth Martin wrote in the email. “They are desperate to save leftist Senator Kay Hagan.”

Here, the use of “liberal Democrat allies” and “Leftist Senator” with such contempt exposes just how reliant the far right has become on cliche’s, codewords and dogwhistles to foment their pack into a frenzy.

There is more than one kind of prejudice, and in this case, political prejudice has replaced all comity and compromise. Compromise of any sort or degree, which is the essence of our system of governance, is considered political treason by many on the far right.

When the crowd becomes this rabid, they are but a few incendiary events away from becoming a mob. And the wannabes running the Tea Mob machine would love to see it go there.

Anyone who isn’t under that right wing spell can see it, it is not very well concealed to people who aren’t politically prejudiced.

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‘We will not wait several years to wake up and realize we’ve been duped.’

These folks are selfdupers.

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I hope the choke to death…

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One man’s dupe is another man’s dope and an incoherent Tea Partier qualifies on both counts.

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Unfortunately for the Tea Party, the establishment Republicans are super duper…

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Oh, puh-leeeze, Miss Thing!

You need to get over yourself.

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Will make it even sweeter if the Dems hold the senate. It will be like the guy who sells all his worldly possessions to buy lottery tickets and wiffs.