ScreamingEagle
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The Tea Party is busy kicking out RINOs and filling empty seats....
Now, young conservative entrepreneur and renowned state pension reformer Dan Liljenquist is taking on Utahs other big government Republican barnacle, 77-year-old Hatch....Hatch co-sponsored the $6 billion national service boondoggle and dedicated it to his good friend Teddy Kennedy, with whom he also joined hands to create the ever-expanding SCHIP health care entitlement. He slobbered over corruptocrat Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, supported tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from Day One, lavished praise on Joe Bidens manhood, and embraced and defended Attorney General Eric Holders nomination because, he said, I like Barack Obama, and I want to help him if I can.
In Indiana, another aging liberal Republican dinosaur is fighting for his political life by masquerading as a tea party standard-bearer. The six-term 79-year-old Sen. Dick Lugar who prides himself on being Obamas favorite Republican hasnt lived in his home state since 1977. He supported the Obama stimulus law, job-killing environmental mandates and the taxpayer bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the auto and banking industry bailouts...Richard Mourdock, Indianas former state treasurer, offers a fresh alternative with widespread support from both grassroots activists and local and state GOP officials. While others hedged their bets, Mourdock took the federal auto bailout head on, lodging a court complaint against the Chrysler bailout to expose its illegal abuse of shareholders and punitive impact on Indiana citizens.
In Texas, young attorney Ted Cruz is making waves in the GOP race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The former Texas solicitor general is a 10th Amendment scholar who doesnt just speak the tea partys language. Cruz has put constitutional conservatism into action, winning many of the 40 cases he has argued in front of the Supreme Court.
The GOP needs just four seats to take control of the Senate. With inspired and inspiring free-market candidates like Dan Liljenquist, Richard Mourdock and Ted Cruz, 2012 bodes well for the tea party footprint on Capitol Hill.
Michelle Malkin