[LS]

Then we're screwed, because what I saw of the Tea Party in 2012 was pretty weak. The kickoff meeting in Dayton was attended by maybe 40 people---down from hundreds the previous year. With a few exceptions, they were all over 50. I didn't see a Tea Party presence---and this is the city that in 2009 had the second largest Tea Party rally in the nation---except for one billboard. I saw no Tea Party walkers in the burbs where I live, and yet the Republican turnout was not high as we know. We mobilized at the spring 2012 county level to put in the head Tea Party guy here as county chairman, and he was to put it mildly a flop. He didn't tell everyone that he had a) just gotten married and b) started a law practice and he had no time whatsoever to give to the election.

I heard the same thing from a group just outside of Cleveland over the summer, that their numbers were down a lot. Except for Ted Cruz, most of the Tea Party candidates did not do very well. Mandel lost; Mourdock lost; Aken's Tea Party opponent didn't even win the primary. West is likely to lose. So, while I'd like to think it's a force, right now it isn't.

Until or unless the Tea Party can mobilize people at least 15 years younger on average, it will not have much impact.

[Jim Robinson]

“Then we’re screwed,” said one of the guys who promoted RINOs/RINOism like there was no tomorrow. Welcome to tomorrow, LS.

[upsdriver]

Then we're screwed, because what I saw of the Tea Party in 2012 was pretty weak.

2012 wasn't a Tea Party campaign. It was a Romney campaign. One that chose to shut out the voice of the tea party. 2014 will be another Tea Party election and if we work hard and succeed in controlling the presidential nomination, 2016 will also be a tea party campaign. Palin '16!

[patriot08]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbOtYQceBxI

[Texas Fossil]

West is likely to lose.

Yep. West was jerrymandered out of his district by the FL GOPe. Bastards.

[Windflier]

I didn't see a Tea Party presence---and this is the city that in 2009 had the second largest Tea Party rally in the nation---except for one billboard. I saw no Tea Party walkers in the burbs where I live, and yet the Republican turnout was not high as we know.

Are you surprised? In its infinite wisdom, the GOP-e decided to foist the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama in 2008 on us.

Make sense now?

[Lazamataz]

Larry, you are a scholar. I want you to consider something with a scholar's bias..... This is a quote from another Freeper who UNDERSTANDS what has happened in 2008 and 2012. I will use his words, because frankly, I do not feel like rewriting it. He expressed it well.

We need to think outside the box of normalcy that we continue to confine ourselves to.

Marxists control the government, the courts, the media and the schools. Do some research - ELECTIONS and ‘turning out the base’ is NOT going to EVER remove a Marxist from power.

Never.

We suffered a coup - and it BAFFLES me that American Conservatives CONTINUE to pretend it’s just another election we lost to a liberal Democrat.

If that’s the case, you DON’T GET IT, you don’t understand what happened in 2008 that made 2012 inevitable and will make 2016, 2020 and the foreseeable future an entrenched Communistic tyranny of ruination by design.

I said Cook County went national back in 2009. You cannot defeat the machine by playing by THEIR rules that arbitrarily change to benefit themselves (Tuesday at the RNC this year anyone?).

The cabal/Ruling Class Regime has played for keeps, there is NO WAY the ballot box has any voice or value any longer. Cognitive dissonance will keep most under the vain hope it still is, because to accept the reality is too much for a weak and lukewarm people to bear.

Understand what time it is. It is time to think past today - return to God in repentance - and draw the line on what is left of your liberty that is GOD-GIVEN and be prepared to defend it by any and all means.

This regime will attempt to regulate us, fine us and starve us into submission. If that does not work to their satisfaction - there is the WACO treatment on tap. If you do not believe that - you are not paying attention and have not understood history under Marxists.

It’s Red Dawn and instead of enemy paratroopers - they simply created the atmosphere and used the machine to get themselves into power.

But the end desire and result by the regime is the same as in that movie. You do not negotiate with, compromise with or play pretend elections with those who are about the business of stripping you of your right to worship God, your gifted liberty and make you a slave who worships the state.

That goes for playing along with the GOP-e Ruling Class who know where the power is going to lie under the Obama regime, and are doing what they are to ensure they can share in it.

We are under enemy occupation.

I suggest absolute and all-encompassing voter fraud has made the ballot box ineffective.

If want proof of my thesis, look at the 2014 election. If it is a blowout, and Democrats seize control of both houses, then it should be obvious to everyone what's really going on.

Since 1862, there have been 37 midterm elections held during the first or second terms of an administration. In 34 of those 37 elections, the opposition party gained strength in the House.

If this trend is suddenly broken, and the 91.89% probability is not played out, you know what time it is.