Posted on 11/12/2009 2:55:16 AM PST by Scanian
Elected officials of every political stripe ought to be shaking down to their Gucci loafers and pumps. History is forming and firming up harder than the proverbial brick wall right outside their congressional glass house. Yet they seem utterly oblivious.
Since last April, I've written a few columns on the Tea Parties, but I had never actually attended one in person. I harbored a few misconceptions, formed at a distance through the media's drive-by lens. Being a woman who tends to cower in crowds and who loves the security and solitude of my little office-cloister, I had been content to write based on the observations of others. But an Alabama homemaker-turned-activist, Suzanne Green of Birmingham, pulled me into the bosom of the Tea Party movement along with the Rainy Day Patriots.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Lees some one get confused, I'm in touch with many other leaders of Tea Parties around our region and the ones organizing are NOT organizing to take over the GOP. It’s not about trying to take power in Washington DC. Essentially, it's about trying to eviscerate BIG GOVERMENT of which BOTH parties have created. It's truly a We the People movement and pity the R that tries to glam on. For a more detailed look, go to www.thefroginthekettle.com and you'll see what much of the movement is about. Again, it ain't about taking over the GOP.
From article:
It’s the real deal, the genuine article. It comes from the groundswell of the people...
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The sense of betrayal by politicians is palpable among Tea Partiers.
If there is a shared ideology among them, it is the one espoused by our Founders, simply put: God and Liberty. “Unalienable rights” was a phrase I heard over and over again.
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The uncompromising message in the Tea Party movement to politicians of all stripes is clear: You work for us, and you have betrayed our trust.
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If anyone asked me to adequately describe the Tea Party movement, I would have to reach back into my American civics book to find its root.
Simply put, the Tea Party movement is 1776 brought back to life.
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Now, does America have any leaders capable and humble enough to be led by the people? Answer I got from the Tea Partiers: God will provide.
I was floored how the media did not report this event. I suppose if you ignore them, they will go away.
Their lack of reporting confirmed for many that the Main Stream Media does not care one hoot about the ordinary individual in this nation. They are no longer relevant. Instead they showed the staged event in Minnesota.
I will no longer allow them to try and effect my opinion. I met folks from the West Coast that came as an entire family. It cost them thousands in travel and hotel costs, but the tears running down their faces were genuine.
Individual Americans are asking themselves:
"I am but one person, what can I do as I watch my Nation I love being destroyed!"
So far I am impressed that no one person or organization has tried to step in and absorb the energy of the Tea Party movement. If anything after the 220-215 vote on PelosiCare - "We did this for America", individuals are more fired up then ever. The article ends with this statement - "Now, does America have any leaders capable and humble enough to be led by the people? Answer I got from the Tea Partiers: God will provide. "
The terrorist massacre at Ft. Hood has just given us that much more to embolden us.
During a time of war, one of our officers provides aid and comfort to the enemy by planning a horrendous attack on our own soil, and our CinC tries to dismiss it as some psychotic break with reality.
But every district in our nation needs to find at least one die-hard conservative to get into the race for the House and the Senate.
Principle before Party
By from what I have read, 2010 could become a TSUMMI of a mid-term election.
perhaps a militant wing would cause them to take the movement more seriously
he posted only half-sarcastically
I attended the 9-12 March on Washington, and the Freeper Convention.
I would like to point out that the Tea Party movement has one other important attribute.
It is spontaneous and thus self-propagating, as the author pointed out, but it also will grow exponentially instead of arithmetically. Because liberty lovers have "come out of the closet", going from inert to overt, it has given the sense of safety in numbers required for others to "come-out" and become pro-active.
In just nine months, polls indicate that it has suddenly become "cool" to self identify as conservative. There is a sense of belonging, a connection with others not unlike the "movement" of the sixties-same psychological trappings, opposite direction ideologically.
Glenn Beck is our Abbie Hoffman, talk radio our tribal drumbeat. The WAR ON THE PRIVATE SECTOR provides us our VietNam, it is what we collectively and instinctively are mobilizing against. Obama provides the political focus, just as Nixon and LBJ did in the sixties.
Mercifully, there is no Timothy Leary, because we are grown-ups.
The internet gives us a powerful tool the hippies didn't have, and it should enable us to grow more rapidly, and become more efficient in effecting change-and sooner.
Vote Democrat; It’s easier than working.
Of course Lieberman is not a conservative by any measure. But he is consistently bucking his party when it comes to the war on Islamic radicalism as well as government spending. When the Dems have 60 votes including him, we need all the help we can get.
Congressman Billybob
Thanks for that perspective. That will help me understand how this emotion is running so deep and so strong.
Revolution is in the Air!
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