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Opening Arguments

Throw them ALL out?

The Tea Party movement is strong enough in Indiana, but on Monday it'll get a boost:

The cross-country Tea Party tour that kicked off with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaking in Nevada last weekend is coming to Evansville on Monday.

The 44-city “Just Vote Them Out” tour, which began Saturday just north of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nev., will roll in to the parking lot of the US Incubator building at 815 John St. at 9 a.m.

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The “Just Vote Them Out” tour is set to end in Washington, D.C. on April 15, the deadline for filing federal income tax returns.

We (the editorial board) interviewed Dan Coats last week in conjunction with his run for Evan Bayh's Senate seat, and he expressed a concern about the tea partiers, and that's the sentiment embodied in this tour's title, "Just Vote Them Out." Coats thinks there's a danger, during the current anti-incumbent mood, of also throwing out good people who've been in the trenches fighting the good fight for conservative ideas, people such as Mike Pence from Indiana's 6th U.S. House district.

Granted, Coats has reason to speak more kindly of incumbents. In the GOP Senate primary's five-candidate field, he's the one most like an incumbent, having held the seat before and most recently being a well-paid lobbyist, so he's the one most likely to suffer from the anti-Washington fervor. But he makes a valid point. Even if conservatives score enough wins to take back at least one house of Congress, it would be helpful for them to have a few old hands around to show them where the potholes are and which

Comments

littlejohn
Fri, 04/02/2010 - 7:05pm

Actually, I've got no real argument with the suggestion. However, I've noticed over the years that 'throw them all out" is always more popular among members of whichever party happens to be in the minority. Probably just a coincidence.

John
Tue, 04/20/2010 - 9:35am

I agree with littleJohn, the most keen and observant or Robin Hood's merry men

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