Purging the Republican Party : Tea Party campaigns and elections / Ronald T. Libby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Libby, Ronald T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).

Tea Party movement.

Elections--United States.

Elections.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 149 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Purging the Republican Party 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 one hundred 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Tea Party's Political Ideology 21

3 Tea Party Policies: The Contract From America 43

4 The Civil War Within the Republican Party 63

5 The "Scozzafava Strategy" to Unseat Senator Bob Bennett 81

6 Tea Party-Hispanic Voting Alliance and Marco Rubio 103

7 Conclusion: The 2012 Elections and Beyond 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739187630

0739187635

OCLC:

856054392