Tea Party Wins Again!
By admin | August 12, 2010
In Colorado another Tea Party supported candidate won the primary election against the establishment favored candidate. The Tea Party is on a role.
Ken Buck the Tea Party’s choice in the Colorado GOPs Senate primary race beat the GOP establishment candidate by around 4% on Tuesday. This shows just how well organized and strong the Tea Party has become within the GOP and it shows that many are heading the advice of many in the grass roots movement that we need to get our Tea Party candidates into the GOP primaries so that we can have access to the GOP money and organization to help push forward our grass roots ideas.
Also, as I noted in some previous posts, a majority of people actually support the Tea Party and by extension their candidates, which plays out in the multiple polls that have been taken in Colorado already, which show that Ken Buck is already ahead of his Democratic opponent Michael Bennet by an average of 45.6%-43.2%.
This is yet another sign that the Tea Party grass roots conservative movement is not only being effective within the GOP with those that are not in the political class, but it also shows that our message of smaller government, less taxes, and holding to our constitutional foundation is resonating with independents also. And it is with independents that many of these races will be won or lost.
I have no doubt that the upcoming primaries will also be filled with many Tea Party candidates, but after that is were the real work starts. Because although we may have convinced the rank and file within the GOP that the Tea Party ideas and ideals are the way our country needs to go, we now have to get out into our neighborhoods, talk to our friends, families, and coworkers and let them know about our candidates. Get out there and tell them what we stand for, tell them why we are standing up for our country and how we can bring it back out of this current slump and back to being the shining city on a hill that it has always been.
Don’t be afraid of being the lone voice in the woods, their are many more people out there that support our message than many of us know. Attempting to keep us quite by keeping us in the illusion that we are isolated is why grass roots conservatives have not been able to organize before the Tea Party movement began, because we each thought we were alone. But we truly are the majority in this nation.
So, once again, congratulations to all those across the country that were backed by their local Tea Parties and won their primaries, but now lets continue to focus on November and the general elections, get the message out to the people, motivate them, let them know how important this next election is to the future of the country, and get them off their couch and into a voting booth come November.
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Is there a record anywhere of how many tea party candidates have won their primaries around the country? I know a lot have won, just no real numbers. Thanks.
That is a really great question, unfortunately the answer is no. Due to the very decentralized nature of the Tea Party, there is no central clearinghouse for who is being supported by Tea Party groups and who isn’t. Many of the national races obviously get reported on, like Joe Miller who just won in Alaska, but most of the state and lower level races that have Tea Party backed candidates aren’t easy to find.
Also some Tea Parties, like the one I help run choose not to support any candidates in the primaries because we didn’t really see any “new” blood in any of our races. The best way to find local candidates would be to search for a local Tea Party and contact them to see who they backed. Please keep in mind though that each Tea Party may be a little different, so you will want to make sure that the candidate they point you toward actually meets up with your style of fiscal, social, and constitutional conservatism.