Posted on 09/16/2010 7:42:07 AM PDT by La Lydia
...But for voters of all stripes, Tuesday’s primaries should illuminate the growling face of a new fringe in American politics — and provide the incentive for level-headed voters to become enthusiastic about the midterm election. Republican leaders have to decide if they want the tiny fraction of furious voters who have showed up at the primary polls to steer them into the swamp for years ahead. They have a chance to repudiate the worst of the Tea Party crowd and show that they can govern without appealing to the basest political instincts. So far, they have preferred to greedily capitalize on the nuclear energy in the land without considering its destructive effects.
Democrats, especially beleaguered incumbents and the White House, need to counter the toxic message of the Tea Party so voters have an alternative.
For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal...
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More evidence that Tuesday went REALLY WELL!!!!!
I like articles like this. Shows that we're hitting 'em where they live.
Half of America, conservative America, has been denied, ignored, and left bereft politically and denigrated by the popular culture for over 40 years. Why this has taken so long is the real mystery.
...hey NYT, why don’t you ask Pelosi how she feels about AstroTurf now?
That is what I thought. They are seeing the last fragments of their influence disappear.
Toxic?
It is truly amazing (and deranged) that the Tea Party message that this country must re-learn to live within its means is now considered toxic by the liberal (and RINO) elites.
Because this country can either do such of its own free will. Or have economic reality impose the lesson.
One approach is far less painful in the long run.
tiny fraction of furious voters
That "fraction" looks like 1/3 of the electorate at minimum.
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you WIN!
“the toxic message of the Tea Party...”
The Rinocrats Days are numbered...
Pure drivel from the Slimes. It is obvious why their paper is failing. Can’t vanish soon enough for me.
I was part of the 500,000 person audience at the 9/11 rally this year. I was one of the many millions of voters who chose a Tea Party candidate to represent us in the general election. When we outnumbered the other rally attendees by 1000 to 1, I didn’t realize that we were the fringe. When our Tea Party votes outnumbered the votes for the far left liberals we hope to remove, I also didn’t realize we were the fringe and the outnumbered socialists were mainstream. Thanks to the mainstream media, I now understand what “fringe” means in their warped language.
WooWeeee written with such mendacity and venom, you know the source without even looking.
The Democrats won both houses so they have the votes and were I a ranking Republican, I would not want my name anywhere near those costly Socialist bills.
If it is such a tiny faction, why do they think they are going to lose control of the US House in Nov?
NYT: Workers of the World Unite!!! Rise up and defeat the evil Tea Party Dragon. Be happy with your role as SERF and we, the ELITES, will be happy with ours.
Why does anybody read this Dem propaganda machine?
“the toxic message of the Tea Party”
LOL, they’re really panicked.
I was talking with a long-time Dem political operative the other day. She was in full panic/hate mode. She thinks Tea Partyers are a small group of fringe nuts and has no idea how disgusted the average voter is. (I wasn’t about to tell her and ruin the surprise in November.)
snarl, growling face, a new fringe, furious voters, basest political instincts, greedily capitalize, nuclear energy, destructive effects, toxic message.....
Say, who ARE these TEA Party people? I want in on the action!
LOL! What a meltdown!
For the next month and a half, the Dems are going to spend all their time talking about how O’Donnell can’t win.
Ultimately, they might be right. O’Donnell might - narrowly - lose.
But while they are gabbing about that in dark blue Delaware, we are going to take it to them everywhere else.
O’Donnell is a HUGE part of the GOP goal of taking the Senate. Whatever the result in her particular race, she has done a HUGE service to America already! (And all that said...she might still become a US Senator!!!!)
"Sooner or later in life, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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