Conservative Claims MLK For The Tea Party
During his speech at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition convention yesterday, conservative entertainer and YouTube celebrity Wild Bill Finley claimed ownership of slain Civil Rights...
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Rafael Cruz (father of Senator Ted Cruz, (R-TX)
Donna Fiducia, co-host of Cowboy Logic Radio, interviews Rafael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) at the 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention - January 19, 2015.
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Martin Luther King is Officially Announced as a Tea Party Hero!
Bill Finlay of the Tea Party has officially taken Martin Luther King from the left and adopted him as the Tea Party new hero! Just what he always wanted! See more at http://www.worldofrevelations.com.
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But her bio is politically irresistible even beyond that.
Joni Ernst to brave State of the Union rebuttal
She's an Iraq war combat vet, and the first woman elected to Congress from Iowa.
She was a tea party favorite for her positions on everything from abortion to the federal minimum wage. On the latter, Ernst told us on the campaign trail back in August she doesn't believe in a "one-size-fits-all approach."
"I believe it has to be done by the state," she had said.
But she snatched the Senate seat left open by retiring liberal icon Tom Harkin by moderating her image in the general election, winning handily in the purple state of Iowa.
During her campaign against Democrat Bruce Braley, I asked her if she would be a senator in the mold of conservative poster boy Ted Cruz. She recoiled, insisting "Oh no, I'm a senator in the mold of Joni Ernst. Just an independent leader who will represent Iowa."
And she has another trait that drives Democrats crazy: She seems nice. Not New Jersey nice or California nice, but Iowa nice, which anyone who has ever stepped foot in Iowa knows is really, really nice.
Except, that is, if you're a hog.
She even used her victory night speech last fall to reinforce her hog castrating fame.
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Tea party favorite to give GOP response
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. The past year has not been kind to the tea party: Its most prized candidates were crushed in primary elections to establishment-backed foes, then it watched in dismay earlier this month as conservatives in Congress failed to block John Boehner from another term as House speaker.
Five years into its existence, the tea party is a movement adrift, interviews with conservative activists at this weekends South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention show. Its members are at odds over what went wrong in the 2014 election and on how to move forward in 2016; theres even disagreement over how to define success. Is it enough to nudge the Republican Party to the right, as it has indisputably done, even if its candidates lose to people backed by the party establishment?
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Perhaps, suggested Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)., the tea partys recent struggles are just the nature of a sprawling, loosely defined grass-roots effort.
The tea party gets [factionalized] in primaries a lot because the tea party is just really a large group of average Americans who believe in limited government, free markets and are frustrated with Big Government, said Duncan, a member of the House Tea Party Caucus who was first elected during the 2010 tea party wave election.
Hundreds of those average Americans milled about a spartan convention center on the beach here over the three-day conference, participating in activist trainings and hobnobbing with lawmakers and notables. A anti-Common Core booth featuring an image of a rotten apple was particularly popular. The event also drew potential 2016 contenders to this early voting presidential state, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), former Sen. Rick Santorum and neurosurgeon-turned-conservative-activist Ben Carson.
The confab unfolded following a recent early test of the tea partys clout in the new Congress: Earlier this month, Boehner (R-Ohio) was reelected speaker after a surprisingly large but still insufficient number of conservatives voted against him. Activists at the conference were outraged but disagreed on how to handle the defectors. Threaten another primary? Let them off with a warning?
Im furious about Boehner, said Joe Dugan, who organized the conference. Absolutely furious. Im extremely surprised, Im extremely disappointed [but] I dont know what promises Boehner made. Rather than berate, Im going to watch a lot more carefully.
He added that tea party allies who backed Boehner will have to prove themselves to him all over again.
Roger Keyser, 70, suggested that in theory, the tea party should be more forgiving of disagreements within its ranks. But voting for Boehner? There was no excuse for that one, Keyser said.
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