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Purging the Republican Party
Tea Party Campaigns and Elections
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2013
Summary
This is the first book that explains the Tea Party’s successful “primary” campaign against Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). Grassroots Tea Party activists adopted this strategy in 2009 shortly after the movement emerged. The first successful campaign occurred in upstate New York where the Tea Party defeated Dede Scozzafava, a RINO running for congress in a Republican primary that only elected Republicans to office during the previous 100 years. Armed with success, they defeated “conservative” Utah Senator Bob Bennett an eighteen-year veteran and then proceeded to defeat the popular Republican (RINO) governor of Florida Charlie Crist and elected the virtually unknown Tea Party candidate, Marco Rubio. This placed all Republicans on notice that if they do not follow conservative fiscal policies, they could be “primaried.” The Tea Party’s goal is to take control of the Republican Party and return it to its original, fiscal conservatism.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8763-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8764-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
149
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter Two: The Tea Party’s Political Ideology No access Pages 21 - 42
Chapter Three: Tea Party Policies: The Contract From America No access Pages 43 - 62
Chapter Four: The Civil War Within the Republican Party No access Pages 63 - 80
Chapter Five: The “Scozzafava Strategy” to Unseat Senator Bob Bennett No access Pages 81 - H
Chapter Six: Tea Party-Hispanic Voting Alliance and Marco Rubio No access Pages 103 - 124
Chapter Seven: Conclusion: The 2012 Elections and Beyond No access Pages 125 - 136
