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January 07, 2019 02:23 PM UTC

Arapahoe Tea Party to Address Gardner and "The Problem of the Circular Firing Squad"

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Good luck with that – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Donald Trump, Cory Gardner.

At a meeting Tuesday, Arapahoe County Tea Party members will discuss ways to win (and lose) elections in Colorado, including the “problems of a circular firing squad,” according to the group’s Facebook page.

Republicans have been lashing out at U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) this week, in circular-firing-squad fashion, after Gardner called for passing legislation to open the federal government, without providing funds for a border wall.

In the political context, the term “circular firing squad” refers to members of a political party attacking members of their own party, inflicting damage and inciting intra-party anger.

Such firing squads can lead partisan activists to skip voting altogether for a controversial candidate.

After taking shots from a GOP circular firing squad, Gardner might be seen as lacking principles, which is a recurrent complaint of GOP Tea Party activists about Gardner, whom a prominent Republican recently called a “total [whore] for the Chamber of Commerce,” a “Mitch McConnell stooge,” and, “just like” U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a “traitor to every [position] he held in 2010.”

In Colorado, with so many Unaffiliated voters who appear hostile to the Republicans, a GOP candidate can ill afford to lose GOP votes and hope to win statewide, say pollsters.

GOP activist Gary Kirkland will lead the discussion about the firing squad and Gardner. Kirkland wrote on Facebook that “Cory Gardner will be one of the topics” of discussion at the Tues. meeting, which takes place at 9195 E. Mineral Ave. in Centennial from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Also at the Jan. 8 meeting, failed GOP congressional candidate Casper Stockham will discuss “his message for a winning strategy.”

State Rep. Susan Beckman (R-Littleton), who’s rumored to be running for GOP state party chair, will offer an “in-depth look at the Democrat playbook that was used to turn Colorado.”

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18 thoughts on “Arapahoe Tea Party to Address Gardner and “The Problem of the Circular Firing Squad””

      1. I've interacted with that dingbat on Facebook (where I'm currently suspended for hate speech- I called Erdogan a goat fucker,) and he's straight out of wingnutistan.  It's like he's running for Tipton's seat, not Degette's

    3. Last month a friend of mine ended up in a restaurant booth with her back to two men lamenting about the grubbing the Repubs took in November.  One guy mentioned he worked on the re-election campaigns of Hank Brown, Wayne Allard and Bill Owen (and was COS for one of them). Neither gentleman could understand how Polis could win over Stapleton (maybe they start by solving that equation).  They finished the conversation with the prediction that 2020 'would be their year'.  

      So there you go.  2020 it is. 

      1. Does Jerry have any of his ObamaTears left? So they can lube their gunz up proper-like before they re-assemble for a proper circular firing squad and fap to images of corporate whores, stooges and traitors?  

  2. I'm surprised the Tea Party is still around. The various Tea Party groups formed in 2009-10 to oppose Obama's spending. But they have been strangely silent during Trump's first two years, with that tax cut primarily for billionaires and no accompanying cut in spending to pay for the tax cuts. Seems to me that the Tea Party is suffering a major credibility gap.

    1. My understanding is that the modern Tea Party was originally a grassroots movement, which was quickly taken over by wingnuts, conspiracy theorists, racists, and opportunistic Republicans pushing their own agendas – much like the "gun rights" movement, and much like Donald Trump's entire campaign.

      The Trotskyites have a similar organizing principle – jump on the bandwagon of any successful grassroots movement and make it their own.

    2. Exhibit A: Ken Buck – A supreme asshole who voted for Tump's tax cuts with no corresponding reduction in spending.  His credibility gap is larger than the Grand Canyon.

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