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By BILL BARROW Associated Press
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Presidential primary polls will not open for another year, but archconservatives have begun debating how to reverse the GOP's losing streak in national elections.
Retaking the Oval Office, according to many of the activists attending the annual Tea Party Coalition Convention here, depends on choosing a nominee from within the conservative movement, rather than a more moderate favorite like John McCain in 2008 or Mitt Romney in 2012.
"There's just so much excitement here, such hope that we can go in a different direction," said Gerri McDaniel, a Myrtle Beach tea party leader who helped organize the three-day convention that opened Saturday.
About 1,500 attendees from 28 states are to hear from several potential White House hopefuls who hope to tap that energy. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are scheduled to speak Sunday. Former Sen. Rick Santorum and businessman Donald Trump are awaited Monday.
Organizers said they also invited Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. They all declined, citing scheduling conflicts.
The venue is particularly important given that South Carolina hosts the South's first primary, set for February 2016, shortly after the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Newt Gingrich, who won South Carolina's 2012 Republican primary, has said publicly that he will not run again.
Meanwhile, the party establishment finds itself embroiled in an unusual scramble among New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and failed 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who recently started telling his past backers and staff members that he's considering a third run for president.
In 2008 and 2012, McCain and Romney, respectively, consolidated the establishment relatively early in the primary calendar, positioning themselves to withstand spirited, but longshot challenges from multiple candidates on the right. Certainly, the 2016 campaign again promises a plethora of conservative candidates, but figures on the right express optimism that one of their standard-bearers has a shot if the traditional GOP power structure remains divided.
Nearly to a person at the South Carolina tea party gathering, activists express displeasure at the current establishment trio. Among their concerns: Bush's support for Common Core and an overhaul of immigration laws, Romney's long struggle to connect with both the GOP base and middle class voters of all stripes, and Christie's governing record in a Democratic-leaning state that has legalized same-sex marriage and expanded Medicaid.
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Tea party looks to 2016 at South Carolina convention - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
The 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention is set to kick off at the Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach on Saturday, featuring many well-known conservatives, including business mogul and possible 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The convention runs through Monday and was sold out, as of 10 p.m. Thursday.
Other familiar faces that will be in attendance include 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, South Carolina U.S. Rep. Tom Rice, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Steve Bannon, executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network.
Among the topics scheduled for discussion are The Color of Politics, The Constitution and the 2nd Amendment, State Sovereignty vs. Shar'ia, a national security panel, New Strategy for Combating Common Core and several South Carolina-specific issues.
The convention will be live-streamed on the Tea Party Patriots website.
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In the science fiction series "Star Trek," if matter and anti-matter ever came together, there would be a huge explosion and the universe would cease to exist. In Florida, a diverse coalition of groups will put that theory to the test, all in the name of expanding the use of solar power.
The strange bedfellows that have come together include the Tea Party, the Christian Coalition, libertarian groups and left-wing environmentalists. Their goal -- to put a constitutional amendment on the November 2016 ballot in Florida that would make solar power more widely available in the Sunshine State.
Debbie Dooley -- founder of the Atlanta Tea Party -- is leading the charge.
"Being good stewards of our environment, craving energy freedom and choice is not a leftist issue. It's not a radical right issue. It's an American issue," Dooley told Fox News.
Under current Florida law, only utilities can sell electricity to customers. Businesses and homeowners can install solar panels on their properties, but any excess electricity must be put back onto the grid.
The amendment this so-called "Green Tea Coalition" is aiming to put on the ballot would allow individuals or businesses with solar installations to sell power to tenants or neighbors. For example, if a shopping mall owner put a large solar panel array on the mall roof, they would be able to sell the electricity to the individual store tenants.
The law would also allow people to escape the big upfront costs of installing solar by ending the prohibition on leasing solar panels. Companies selling solar panels could put up an array in, say, a hotel parking lot, then lease the panels to the hotel for less than the cost of comparable electricity from the utility.
"This ballot initiative is a great example of where you need people from across the political spectrum to take on monopoly power," said Stephen Smith, director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, one of the environmental groups that has teamed up with the Tea Party.
But the oddball coalition also evokes the famous line from the film "Ghostbusters" about "dogs and cats living together." So how do groups who might normally be scratching and clawing at each others' throats over a wide array of issues work constructively on this one?
"We put blinders on," said Dooley. "And we have a mutual respect for our differences. I respect he has a right to believe the way he does and I have the right to believe the way that I do."
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