Posted on 04/28/2011 2:26:05 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells Newsmax that the 2012 elections will leave the GOP in control of the presidency, Senate, and House, and tea party activists will oust “timid” Republicans who aren’t committed to small government.
The Texas Republican, chairman of FreedomWorks and a patriarch of the tea party movement, calls President Barack Obama a “romantic egalitarian” who is “quite confused,” asserts that Obamacare is a “monstrosity,” and says Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to reduce spending is a “bold initiative” but doesn’t go far enough.
Armey served in the House from 1985 to 2003 and is the co-author of “Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto.”
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, he says FreedomWorks — which claims 700,000 members — is gearing up for the 2012 elections and he is confident about the outcome.
“We are searching for the right candidates for the next election cycle,” he says.
“We will make big changes in the next election cycle, bigger in fact than we did this cycle, because we’ll take the Senate, we’ll take the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I tend to agree, based on the 2010 election results. Also, in ‘08 all he had was the race card and white guilt. Now he has to run on his disastrous record.
Bump!
Unfortunately, Boehner and the RINO majority are apparently totally on board with the $5 trillion deficit...giving us a "cut" of $356 million....
“That can’t be whitewashed.”
That sounds like a racist remark! /sarc
Correct, and well said.
Check here.
“Not sure how Ron Paul would be responsible for those outcomes.”
See my post #20. Translates into a few million voters, and we’ve got enough to overcome in this next race (could be close and there’ll be significant fraud) without something like that. Instead of running another losing race and spoiling a lot of votes, he should pick someone to endorse when the time comes - unless he, too, wants to see another 4 years of this deadly president. He either doesn’t get it or doesn’t give a damn what happens to the country.
You need to understand how libertarians are generally viewed on FR.
364 days a year, it's "You're all dopers. And smelly hippies. And baby killers. We hate you. God hates you. You suck. Keep your ideas out of our platform, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
On the morning after election day, it's "Hey, how come you didn't vote for the candidate we wanted to win?"
For the most part our loudmouth talkers take such joy in demoralizing us with doom and gloom about the unacceptable candidates on our side.
Might be good for their ratings but terrible for America.
This is just Dicky Boy trying to compromise the TEA-Party. He had his chance and muffed it.
Well quit doping and killing kids then we can all get along. The sad fact is whether you personally agree with those things, or no, true libertarianism always results in a perverse society.
Our Constitution is not sustainable with a perverted society. We struggle now to survive, and the perversion of our fighting forces is proceeding full speed, once in place there is no turning back. The same thing is happening with health care and the supreme court sets on their hands knowing full well the outcome of their inaction.
Anyone thinking a court or an election will fix this is self deluded.
Seek this day whom you will serve.
Well, the existence of Ron Paul and his supporters means that
someone is going to have to do something to get their votes.
In 2008, Ron Paul was treated badly by other Republicans.
Perhaps this time, people will understand that those votes were needed. And people will do something besides fight with Ron Paul supporters, pulling tricks in states to hurt Ron Paul. If you do that, you lose a huge chunk of votes that you want.
But Ron Paul is not responsible for those outcomes. The people who want the votes are responsible for getting them.
If the GOP insulted Ron Paul, it’s the GOPs fault for hurting their ability to bring Ron Paul’s supporters to vote for McCain.
Right. And throw in “don’t the Democrats understand that the Republican party is the party of Freedom” thrown in there somewhere. I wouldn’t even call Ron Paul a Libertarian, but a Traditional Conservative. Ron Paul’s positions are where Traditional Conservatives, Tea Partiers, Libertarians agree.
The word "bailout" is only to be used in the context of flaming airplanes. You made some bad investments? Tough s--t Bunky, take your writeoffs like a man.
Total transparency in economic policy. Every Treasury and Fed transaction on the net, in excruciating detail.
Wars? Go in 100% to kill every bad guy, and sterilize all their sources of supplies and money. Don't have the stomach for that? Then stay the hell out, and don't put one American life at risk for anything else.
That would be a damn good start. My hopes are not high though....
Well Armey doesn’t need to be Nostradamus to see that coming. The only thing that will stop it is a 3rd party run by someone as high profile as Trump.
The time has come to question the conventional wisdom which asks the question: “Which candidate can beat 0bama?”.
The truth is my dog could beat 0bama.
The question becomes: “Who has the guts to turn around this socialist Rat/Soros agenda?”
On that score Palin and Bachman seem to be very strong contenders. .
Like it or not, we are a two party nation. While I'd like to see a third party rise and become as powerful, doing so right now is a disaster looking for an election to happen.
The country will never elect Ron Paul, anyone thinking he stands a chance is a fool.
Running third party candidates is drawing votes away from the GOP candidate. The Dems have their ducks in a row and stand behind Obama, just as Hillary's supporters who said the despised him did in 2008.
The Dems unify their people, get in line and vote.
We waste precious dollars promoting fringe candidates like Ron Paul and when they don't get the nomination they never stood a chance of getting, throw votes away or encourage followers to get behind other fringe candidates.
Whether McCain could have won or not is academic. Our vote was splintered.
I hope so too but the ignorance and apathy of so much of the American electorate continues to distress and depress me. If I had my druthers I would not allow most of them inside a voting booth.
I have no idea about 3rd party. In 2008, people pissed off Ron Paul’s supporters.
If the Republicans want to win, they need solid support from Conservatives.
Who is “We”? As in “we waste precious dollars”. It’s not you.
You aren’t trying to get Ron Paul noticed.
Conservatives are 40% of the electorate. McCain thought wrong about needing moderates. If Conservatives aren’t happy, they can vote 3rd Party, or stay home, or vote for a Democrat, just to kill a RINO.
“Our” vote, whatever that means, is likely to remain splintered unless the Conservatives and the RINOs support the same candidate.
“I’m wary of Armey. I recall him not liking Palin....am I correct?
Correct, and well said.
Check here.”
Armey did NOT say he disliked Palin. Your cited article is from November 2009, and Armey talks about Palin rebounding from losing the 2008 election, to get stature as a future candidate.
Even worse when Republicans do it.
We haven’t fought a war since Harry did the dead. Democrats start them, tie the hands of the war fighters, then bring a Republican in to clean up the mess by signing away, in a lousy peace deal what they were trying to take by force.
McCarthur was right, so was Patton.
That’s sort of revisionism at it’s best.
In 2008, Ron Paulies pissed a lot of us off, one such incident coming very close to blows between 4 and me at a party meeting.
http://lewwaters.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/republican-meet-and-greet/
http://lewwaters.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/no-good-choices-in-3rd-congressional-district-race/
McCain was almost as pathetic a candidate as is Paul. But, whenever I blogged about Ron Paul, it was guaranteed to draw Ron Paul supporters with some of the most vitriolic rhetoric and verbal assaults I have seen for some time.
Libertarians are hardly conservatives, no matter how much you wish to redefine the word or rewrite history.
Instead of whining about being treated badly by the GOP, stop the militancy of the Ron Paulies, the stacking of online polls to make his support seem better than it is and the vitriolic assaults against those who see Paul’s whiny cries of America caused 9/11 and every other ill in the world for what it is, disqualification for the office.
For all of the complaints against Obama for apologizing for America, how can Ron Paulies accept their cult leader blaming America?
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