He seems reasonable.
In this
Politico story, the question is whether the tea party, a collection of frothing hyper-partisans united primarily by their demand that President Barack Obama stop doing things right now and forever more, is ready to "chill out."
Chill out is a technical term meaning maybe they could not primary every last Republican who was ever seen passing a law or looking like he might pass a law or who once made eye contact with the president
in an insufficiently belligerent way?
In interviews, more than a dozen conservative leaders said the activist right needs to be pickier about which Republican incumbents it challenges in primaries, acknowledging its total wipeout in primary challenges to resurgent establishment Republicans.
“I would generally urge my conservative friends to not focus on the primaries as much as on open races,” said Richard Viguerie, a veteran tea party operative. “There’s some primaries you have to go out there — and you should — but I wouldn’t spend as much energy and resources on incumbents, particularly for Senate.”
And good luck with that. My cousin's guppy once had babies, and despite having a very similar talk with mama guppy it didn't go well back then either. Still, the begging is pretty intense:
“As conservatives, we have to do a good job of choosing the battles that move the pendulum in the Senate more to the right,” said [former candidate Joe Carr], who maintains that [his once-opponent Sen. Lamar Alexander] is still more liberal than the voters of Tennessee. “If we move the pendulum to the right, let’s make sure we don’t knock some of our own players out of the way unnecessarily.”
No really, good luck with that. Nothing says "tea party" like restraint and moderation.
“Let’s see how our officeholders behave between now and 2016,” added Jim Gilmore, a former Virginia governor who embraces — and has been embraced by — the tea party movement. “If Republicans adopt a good [policy agenda] and move the country ahead, I think that a lot of these primary challengers will take care of themselves … We need to have a positive, conservative approach to the challenges facing the nation. I think that we can unify the tea party conservatives and the regular conservatives.”
Oh jeez, now I can't breathe. Yes indeed, good luck with
that. The policy part. The positive part. The unify part. The whole thing.