Cruz & Rubio: Tea Party Desperados by Chris Rossini

I remember so vividly, people with libertarian leanings cheering passionately that a new breed was coming in to change The Republican Party.

 

English: Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

The Tea Party was taking Washington…small government, the Constitution…you know the rest…

 

Many of the cheers were coming from the younger generation, who really don’t understand how twisted politicians really are. That, yes, they will lie to you just to get your vote and support.

 

But, that’s what experience is for…the young, oftentimes, must learn their lessons the hard way. We all go through it.

 

 

 

Presidential race loses fizz for Tea Party

With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out of the race, many U.S. Tea Party activists are shifting focus to the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.

The fizz has gone out of the presidential contest for some supporters of the fiscally conservative movement now that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is not running and Texas Governor Rick Perry and congresswoman Michele Bachmann are slipping in polls.

“No one is going to get perfect in a general election candidate. That is why we think the Senate is a better place to focus,” said Matt Kibbe, president and chief executive of the libertarian FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group.

In the 2010 mid-term elections, Tea Party opposition to President Barack Obama’s policies played a big role in slashing the Democrats’ majority in the 100-member Senate to just six seats and eliminating their majority in the House of Representatives.

With 23 of the 33 Senate seats up for grabs next year now held by Democrats, and a wave of public hostility to incumbents, Tea Party activists said they looked forward to more Republican gains in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com …

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