Tea Party Express Names Snowe as Its Next Moderate Republican Target

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The Tea Party Express, which raised and spent millions of dollars to knock off moderate Republicans in Alaska, Colorado and Delaware in the 2010 election cycle, is now going after Olympia Snowe in Maine.

The conservative group, arguably the most organized and best funded campaign tool in the tea party movement, announced Thursday afternoon that it plans to fight the moderate Republican’s 2012 re-election effort. Snowe enjoys tremendous popularity across the political spectrum in her home state, but she has irritated Maine’s small and disjointed tea party movement for her willingness to work with Democrats.

Pine Tree State conservatives have already dubbed “Snowe removal” a top priority for 2012, when Maine’s senior Senator will seek her fourth term. But they have struggled to rally around a single challenger.

“Olympia Snowe dishonors the notion that the Republican Party is supposed to be the fiscally conservative, constitutionalist political party in America,” Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer said in a statement.

“She voted for the bailouts, the failed stimulus plan, the repeal of tax cuts and showed her disdain for the constitution by voting in favor of the nominations of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotamayer to the Supreme Court,” Kremer said in the statement, which misspelled Sotomayor’s last name.

Snowe’s chief of staff, John Richter, countered that the Tea Party Express was “obviously ... totally unfamiliar with her record on fiscal responsibility.”

http://www.rollcall.com/news/-203309-1.html

Edited February 13, 2011 by Some Old Guy

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Someone needs to remind the Tea Party that most Republicans voted for the bailout. Bush was President back then, remember?

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Lots of scary movies on The Movie Channel.

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Someone needs to remind the Tea Party that most Republicans voted for the bailout. Bush was President back then, remember?

That was before they got in touch with their inner anger.

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That was before they got in touch with their inner anger.

Boehner described voting for TARP as the the kind of vote that separates the children from the grown ups (1:32)

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But which is which? It's easy to spend other peoples' money.

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Someone needs to remind the Tea Party that most Republicans voted for the bailout. Bush was President back then, remember?

And that's why they want them OUT.

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The Tea Party won't get Olympia Snowe replaced. In Maine, they're a bit of a joke.

Maine likes it's Senators, because they're not complete partisans and they do what their electorate want and represent them. How else can you explain Susan Collins, facing a well-known and liked Democrat ex-Congressman, winning by 20 points in 2008?