The national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots isn't mincing words on what she believes is the cause of Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's defeat in the Nov. 6 presidential election.
Jenny Beth Martin, who lives in Woodstock, issued a press release and held a press conference, blasting the Republican Party for "hand-picking a weak, Beltway elite candidate who failed to campaign forcefully on America’s founding principles – and lost."
Martin said conservatives "wanted a fighter like Ronald Reagan who boldly championed America's founding principles," but noted the party instead nominated a "moderate" candidate to challenge President Barack Obama for the office.
“What we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party," she added. "The presidential loss is unequivocally on them."
Martin went on to say the Tea Party is the "last best hope" to restore "America's founding principles and begin the process of balancing the federal budget, eliminating the national debt and fighting the full implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare.
Cherokee County Republican Party Chairman Bob Rugg said he won't comment on Martin's statements, but added the party has to "pull together and work in the same direction."
This wasn't so much a defeat for the GOP as an utter repudiation of the tea party and their reactionary anti govt agenda. As we saw with Sandy and the election the majority of people in liberal, multi cultural modern America approve of government, universal healthcare and higher taxes on the wealthy. The GOPs choice now is if they come in from the fringe and endorse these popular positions or are content to remain the electorally irrelevant angry old white protest group the tea party have turned them into.
This election was lost because the Republican Party panders to the right wing fringe on social issues and nobody wants to associate themselves with the Christian extremists who use abortion and gay marriage as a litmus test. The real bummer about this is that people on BOTH sides of the aisle don't seem to realize that it really doesn't matter how a candidate feels about these issues...THE PRESIDENT HAS NO POWER TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT EITHER OF THEM. And, let's be honest, the Tea Partiers aren't helping matters much either. I watched the Cherokee Tea Party Patriots this election cycle and, between supporting a morally deficient State Senator, a failure for a CPA to chair the School Board and a constitutional amendment that ceded local authority to a state agency, you managed to be on EXACTLY the wrong side of every issue. If you're truly looking for who's responsible, don't look to the beltway. Look in the mirror.
Because that's what happened Dog. Libertarian, what's it to you what women do with their bodies? Pro-Choice is the most libertarian position there is.
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You can't operate America from a polar front. You cannot solely implement all liberal, or conservative policies and expect to be successful. America is a melting pot. You must have a good mix of liberal and conservative policies to get our country back to where it used to be. All things in MODERATION.
Of course, Republicans will have to have a candidate who is not like Rick Santorum, who, just today, claimed that a "homosexual cabal" stole the election.
Here's a news flash, you all were already voting Republican if the candidate was racist David Dukes. The Tea Party cost Senate seats ( Richard Lugar and others) and failed to unseat Its like watching the clowns chase a ball at the circus, you just don't get it. Tea Party failed to unseat McCaskill in Missouri & crazy-lady Michele Bauchman won by less than 1% though outspending opponent 11 to 1. Lastly, stop saying Ronald Reagan. Every person with an R next to their name thinks they've received a Reagan blessing from Shirley McLain. He would've rejected you all.