Red State says no to a primary of Olympia Snowe:
Commentator Erick Erickson says he never suggested that Tea Partiers target Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown in 2012 by running a more conservative primary opponent against him.
“Tea Party activists would be nuts to challenge Scott Brown,” Erickson elaborated to The Daily Caller. “He’s the best we can hope for in Massachusetts and is not a blight on the party like Mike Castle would be.”
***The confusion caused Erickson to update his blog post, he said, and clarify that targeting New England Republicans such as Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe and Brown “might not be the wisest primary fights for the Tea Party movement.”
Those tea partiers better pay attention, because everyone knows a primary challenge isn’t the best way to send a message. This is:
You should listen to the serious people, teabaggers, and send her rock salt.
I really hope CNN is getting their money’s worth.
Redshirt
It’s eminently possible too, as Maine just elected a Teabag Governor due to a 3 way race. It’s Teabag Time for Vacationland.
BGinCHI
You pay these fuckers and put them on TV and their message snaps into the GOP frame lickety split.
The Moar You Know
What do you know? The retard is capable of learning. Or at least capable of reading the signature on his paycheck.
me
Only if EE is paying them $1,000,000.
BGinCHI
@Redshirt: Why can’t Stephen King run for the Senate as a Dem?
Jesus, it’s not like he’s busy. What is he writing, like 2 or 3 novels a year? Get off your ass, King!
tkogrumpy
When on the outside, you can say any thing you want. Once inside you can’t bite the hand that feeds you.
JGabriel
My favorite part of that salt trick was Erick sending people to RedState’s Amazon store so they’d get a cut on however much rock salt he sold.
THAT is the kind of entrepreneurial spirit we like to see!
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cmorenc
Erik Erickson was brought in by CNN for one purpose – to try to regain, or at least hold onto a portion of the right-wing viewer demographic within their viewership, and help refute the notion that they are a liberal-leaning network.
Unless he’s caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl, they could care less about contradictions that only progressive political junkies are attuned to, obvious and material though they objectively should be to a much broader swath of people. However, CNN realizes that most people who aren’t political junkies are too distracted instead watching “Dancing with the Stars” to care much about Erik Erickson, except that the rightward-leaning ones will give CNN credit for seeing him appear there.
CJ
@JGabriel:
I thought that was the whole point.
Funkhauser
What would have happened if Olympia Snowe had not “sold out the country?” The health care bill would have left the Commerce Committee on a 13-10 vote, not a 14-9 vote.
Who voted against the health care bill? Olympia Snowe.
Who also voted against the health care bill? Mike Castle.
Thanks for that DE one, Erick. Keep up the dumb work.
freelancer
Cole, before you redeemed yourself, didn’t you start out as buddies with Erick? Like, way back when?
The man says some horrendously dumb things, and I think I read a Sadly, No post or an entry by TBogg a year or so back, that for Earth Day, he turned all the lights in his house on, and idled his car in the driveway for eight hours just to piss off the liberals or counteract their efforts at conservation. If anyone remembers what I’m talking about and can link it, please do.
That said, E of E, well, let’s just say even though there’s plenty of evidence for Team Stupid, I’m on Team Evil. The guy is a total cynic. He’s a doofus leading a brigade of fucking morons. And he’s self-aware, that’s why I’m on team evil.
beltane
They’re forecasting snow in northern New England later this week. ‘Tis the season to send Olympia Snowe some road salt.
JGabriel
cmorenc
I don’t think anyone cares about the live boy anymore. It’s not like they’re firing Anderson Cooper.
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JGabriel
CJ: Verily.
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Nick
How the hell was Mike Castle more a blight on the party than Olympia Snowe or Scott Brown?
Delaware is as, or more, Democratic than Massachusetts and Maine.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
Do you think the Teahadists will listen to Erickson? I don’t think so, especially because they got a Teahadist elected as Governor of Maine, and they have also taken over the Maine GOP.
Joshua Norton
EE was selling the salt to send to Snowe so he had an ecomomic incentive to be an asshole back then.
Teabaggers have their own merchandising outlets so of course he’s going to backpeddle like the Tour de France heading towards the edge of a cliff.
beltane
@Nick: It’s because Mike Castle wouldn’t put his man-pants on, or so Christine O’Donnell said. Scott Brown doesn’t wear any pants at all so this won’t be an issue in his primary.
Dr.BDH
Eric Redundancy is also Eric Hypocrisy? How very Republican of him.
beltane
@Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle: The Maine Teahadists will most certainly NOT listen to Erickson. Better yet, the 62% of Maine residents who are not Teahadists (probably a higher number than that by the time 2012 rolls around) will be highly enthused about kicking some teabagger ass.
PurpleGirl
Argh…. I’m going nitpicking here. Salt DOES NOT MELT ice. It lowers the temperature at which it freezes. It does nothing to snow (until/unless it melts to water). Idiots. (I started college as a chemistry major.)
Cat Lady
Scott Brown is who we thought he was – a pretty boy empty suit who has no constituency. I’d like to see Mike Capuano run against him – that guy can breathe fire. The problem with Mass Dems is that they have a small bench, since the national Dems have been reelected forever. Same with the ladies from Maine. This whole Republican midterm wave feels like a dead cat bounce.
Andre
@JGabriel:
I bet it’d depend on whether the boy was white or black.
John O
5th grade called and wants their insult back.
Violet
@JGabriel:
I always thought the word ‘boy’ in this context meant a male under the age of consent. I think people would still care about that.
The Republic of Stupidity
I’m disappointed…
Erick didn’t mention his wife’s shotgun once…
JAHILL10
EE clearly feels Consistency is the hobgoblin of people with an attention span longer than a gnat’s.
Cacti
I hope the purity trolls of the right succeed in their efforts to nominate a Christine O’Donnell for Senate in every blue state.
The easy wins will help the Dems allocate funds to more competitive races.
sfinny
Well it’s fun to see some of the GOP pundits try to corral the tea partiers. If we have to put up with a republican house, at least we should get some amusement out of it.
ulee
I live in Maine and I can confidently say that the personnel in Snowe’s office that recieved all that free rock salt were thrilled.
sfinny
@ulee: Wonderful! Maybe we could get the red staters to start another campaign that would involve sending other useful items where needed.
morzer
An interesting piece about someone who sounds like a recovering Republican:
motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty?page=1
burnspbesq
I think the RS commentariat has gotten off its leash and engaged in a bit of poll-skewing.
modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
El Cid
This seems important.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: Four Rands and three elrons in the top ten. Wow. How on Earth did Ulysses get to 11 on the list?
Bubblegum Tate
@Cacti:
They might–they’re absolutely, positively convinced that the only reasons the O’Donnell types lost are the old standbys: “librul media bias!” and “voter fraud!”
It’s like they think honest reflection causes cancer.
fasteddie9318
I don’t care if her teatard opponent wins the general and in theory makes the Senate nuttier, when President Snowe is tossed out on her decrepit, obstructionist, fake moderate ass I’m going to pour myself a nice glass of 12 YO Macallan and Laugh. My. Fucking. Ass. Off.
@MikeJ:
The non-fiction list is worse.
J. Michael Neal
@fasteddie9318:
I’m scared to look. Why do I have the sinking feeling that I’ll find Atlas Shrugged at the top of that list, too?
4tehluz
This only shows that Erick has been infected with the liberal media virus and is no longer worthy of the label “teabagger”.
fucen tarmal
at least rock salt is something you can use in maine, preferrable to low quality tea bags…
i suppose its a corollary to the saying, everyone gets the same amount of ice, the poor get it in the winter, and the rich get it in the summer.
so olympia snowe gets rock salt, to use in maine, good thinking.
El Cid
@freelancer:
I don’t see a contradiction. He can be evil and also advocate for policies which are both harmful to those he hates but also ridiculously stupid.
Plenty of angry bigots happily cut off their own nose to spite their face. This is exemplified by most populist appeals to the white South.
joe from Lowell
I have to admit, that “Narnia” line is pretty good.
Jonathan
Who knew Teabaggers could be so helpful. Now they’re just volunteering extra money and goods to help the government!
CalD
Not for nothing, but if you have an office in New England, you tend to go through a lot of rock salt in the winter. So sending rock salt to Snowe’s office in Maine probably counts as a campaign contribution.