The crazies are restless, sowing the seeds of Republican accidental Sen. Scott Brown's inevitable primary defeat.
How Scott Brown caved in on "Don't Ask Don't Tell" -- ten-month campaign by homosexual lobby!
Scott Brown's radical change of position on homosexuality in the military did not happen by accident. It was a coordinated campaign by the homosexual movement in Massachusetts.
We (pro-traditional family group MassResistance) first got wind of it at the GLSEN conference held in Somerville this past March, where we had a person in attendance. (We are preparing a full report on that conference.) There was a workshop on repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell". One homosexual serviceman talked about men having sex with each other in the barracks, and the officers looking the other way (a positive step, they indicated). They said they will be targeting Scott Brown in every way possible to get him to change his mind on the ban. "We will bombard Scott Brown's office," he told the group.
In addition, the national homosexual organization Human Rights Campaign appears to have been coordinating things in Washington and helped arrange for Brown to meet with "gay" servicemen. The ACLU was also involved, from at least one email of theirs we've seen.
But the real grunt work was done by in Massachusetts by MassEquality, which even organized phone banks out of their offices to coordinate calls from across the state. [Emphasis in the original]
That's it, Scott Brown must go!
“I think that there will be a primary challenge,’’ said Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party. “There’s enough of an underground movement in the Tea Party movement as seeing him as not being conservative enough. There probably will be multiple people who attempt to run against him.’’
Varley said it is too early to name a possible opponent, and she acknowledged that Brown’s campaign war chest and statewide organization would probably be enough to fend off an opponent. But if Brown has to devote energy and resources to a primary campaign, it could put him at a greater disadvantage in a general election in which Democrats will be fighting hard to reclaim a seat they consider theirs.
The teabaggers are also restless in Virginia.
Jamie Radtke, head of the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots, has filed federal papers to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by Virginia Democrat James Webb.
The race is expected to be a crowded one. Former Sen. George Allen, who lost to Mr. Webb in 2006, looks increasingly likely to jump into the fray, as does Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County board of supervisors. Mr. Webb hasn’t made it clear whether he will run for re-election.
In an interview, Ms. Radtke said she decided to run after watching Congress pass legislation during this month’s lame duck session, including a package of tax cuts, that added to the national debt.
It does promise to be crowded, with at least four teabaggers threatening to run. Indeed, nothing would be better for Allen than a crowded field, as the former senator and governor would have the clear financial and name-recognition advantage. But assuming the teabaggers can sort themselves out and settle on a single candidate, Allen would certainly face serious trouble.
One big caveat, however -- the Tea Party chances in 2012 will depend in large part on whether national groups and figures get involved. Will renegade Republicans like Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint will continue undermining their party's electoral chances by backing the crazies over establishment-backed candidates? Because I can't think of a single big tea party primary victory in 2010 that wasn't fueled by either their big national groups or their biggest personalities.
Yet those efforts also cost Republicans the Senate, which should've swung GOP this year. Teabagger efforts in Delaware, Colorado, and Nevada cost them seats outright. Kentucky cost them millions they could've spent in Washington and other tighter Democratic holds. Alaska cost them Senate votes as Sen. Lisa Murkowski now pulls a reverse Lieberman on the GOP.
So will the teabaggers continue sabotaging their own Senate chances on 2012. The local crazies obviously don't care, but they're stupid and really not that influential. What remains to be seen is whether Palin, DeMint, et al decide they want the majority more than they want to continue sabotaging their party's efforts to score cheap purity points.