Tea parties unite to pick GOP candidate to take on Stabenow

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: November 18. 2011 1:00AM
Tea parties unite to pick GOP candidate to take on Stabenow
Marisa Schultz/ The Detroit News


Tea party groups in Michigan plan a statewide convention and straw poll to pick their GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in an unprecedented move of solidarity to avoid splitting their votes.

Organizers say the only way to ensure a true constitutional conservative defeats Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the 2012 election is for tea parties to unite around one candidate.

For fiercely independent groups leery of a top-down power structure, a decision to work together on behalf of the straw poll winner reflects the urgency of their cause, organizers say, though some tea party supporters question whether the alliance weakens the freedom of the grass-roots cause.

"Our best chance … is if we unite and start now," said Cindy Gamrat, of Plainwell, an organizer of the tea parties' Michigan 4 Conservative Senate push. "It's a big feat we are undertaking."


Read more: http://detnews.com/article/20111118/POLITICS02/111180382/Tea-parties-unite-to-pick-GOP-candidate-to-take-on-Stabenow#ixzz1e2Gt6i9y

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Best news Debbie ever got.

[Old and In the Way]

1. So are they returning to the Republican Party?

Or are they uniting as a 3rd party? Sounds like they are returning to the mothership...as if they really ever left.

[freshwest]

10. They never left, just rebranded. If they had, they wouldn't be so rabid about Dems, etc.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Teakooks will not be viable outside of dark red districts come 2012.

[Politicalboi]

3. I thought they weren't Repukes

Hmmmm I guess they were wrong.

[Kalidurga]

4. I love the smell of bagger fear in the morning...

They know they are all out of power the only way to even hold on to a little bit is to grab a piece of the shrinking gop pie.

[Enthusiast]

5. I hope they pick another idiot.

So our beloved Sen. Debbie Stabenow can win.

[No Elephants]

7. Let's put on tri-corner hats and start a "Draft Christine O'Donnell" movement!

[Enthusiast]

8. Great idea! nt

[No Elephants]

6. Tea Movement or Tea Faction.. We need to stop repeating the myth that a Party.

Personally, I prefer Tea Movement.

Sound like a trip to the john, which is about right for this Koch cult.

[JNelson6563]

9. I'm sticking with tea-baggers.

:toast: