Republican primary challengers are lining up to take on sitting senators next year in eight of the 12 races involving sitting GOP senators, gunning for party leaders like Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, veterans like Thad Cochran in Mississippi and Pat Roberts in Kansas and deal-makers like Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Texas Sen. John Cornyn became the latest target this week, when a fiercely conservative congressman, Steve Stockman, suddenly announced plans to challenge the Senate’s second-ranking Republican in next March’s primary.
“I think it’s pretty thin gruel,” Cornyn said of Stockman’s case for his candidacy: that the senator didn’t fight hard enough to defund Obamacare.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Tea party members are sore, whining losers
You would think the Tea Party butt-wipes would learn from getting their asses handed them after the sequester debacle. But, no. They are challenging GOP senators in the primaries. The crimes that these GOP Senators committed? Being insufficiently committed to the Tea Party's goals. Or, the Tea Party is just pissed off they didn't sell their snake oil:
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