What's left of the Moonie Times is reporting that the teabaggers are looking for more scalps:
A founder of the "tea party" movement said Wednesday he had a warning for Republican state leaders: Back conservative candidates or else other states will suffer the same backlash that toppled Florida's Republican Party chairman this week.We've been wondering: Is Missouri on the list?
"We are turning our guns on anyone who doesn't support constitutional conservative candidates," said Dale Robertson, who operates TeaParty.org out of Houston and helped start the movement nearly two years ago.
He declined to say which states are next on the tea party's hit list. He said party leaders in those states would be warned privately, but the movement's wrath "will be very clear publicly" if they don't listen.
Long-time GOP Congressman Roy Blunt is running for Senate in Missouri. He's got opposition from State Senator Chuck Purgason, who is one of those very hard core right-wing GOPers. Blunt's been living the good life in D.C. for a long time and the teabaggers in his home state have noticed. Earlier this week, via FiredUp Missouri, we learned that Blunt was a headliner at teabagger rally in Missouri. Not anymore.
The conventional wisdom in D.C. is that Blunt is a sure thing for the GOP nomination (and the conventional wisdom had Charlie Crist picking out his Senate office.) But, Blunt's got baggage -- and none other than Michael Steele helped point that out. Check out the transcript on a right-wing radio show from the summer after the break. It gives a sense of what conservatives were saying about Blunt in Missouri.
The DJ, Vincent Jericho, is no longer working at the radio station:
VINCENT JERICHO: “But I’ve also made my career here by challenging Baby Blunt [former Gov. Matt Blunt] and how he just absolutely, ah, betrayed every single Missourian that who worked so hard to get him elected on the ridiculous stand he took where he redefined what cloning is. And this is supposed to be a Republican governor. He’s not governor anymore for good reason.Those teabaggers want the first crack at cleaning out the crapper.
“His [Matt Blunt’s] daddy [Roy] screwed around with a tobacco lobbyist. Then slips language into the homeland security bill favorable to the tobacco lobbyist. I mean here is a guy that has committed adultery multiple times. Yet he had a senior position, and still does, in the Republican Party. Guys like Papa Blunt make us sick to our stomach. They aren’t conservatives, and they sure don’t reflect moral absolute the way that we expect the Republican Party to stand up. You had the page boy scandal, you had all of that crap, and nobody stands up to it and says, ‘This is crap! What are you doing? [Steele tries to cut in; unintelligible] Behave like a man – not like, not like little boys who are running around with their little toy and can’t behave themselves.”
MICHAEL STEELE: Look, now don’t, don’t – I mean, I agree with you. And when stuff gets in the crapper, you gotta clean it out."
