Tea Party Re-Flexes Its Muscle

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[Combat_Liberalism]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

[Just another Joe]

I believe the title should be, "Tea Party Ready to Flex Its Muscle".

I have yet to see the Tea Party flex any muscle on a federal level.

[Baynative]

The census bureau estimates there are 14 million registered black voters in America. Some of them are conservative. With an estimated 15 million Tea Party supporters out there we should quit getting stomped into the mud.

[arderkrag]

No. Principles are more important than victory.

[Hostage]

I believe the Tea Party backed candidates scored a number of impressive wins in the last election.

[Psalm 144]

So far there has been as much impurity as a cat house chamber pot, and they are still losers.

Kapo-conservatives, always urging surrender before the fight.

[RoosterRedux]

The Tea Party is willing to die for its principals.

And that is what the Libs fear most (because they are willing to die for nothing).

That said, the TP needs to get organized.

This country is being overthrown...and real Americans are standing on the sidelines watching.

If we love this country and this Constitution...we need to get organized and get a plan...we need to fight for the country we love!

[Nuc 1.1]

As long as they are truthful I can see supporting a winning candidate. What I will not support is a candidate who lies to me straight faced then knifes me in the back and laughs about it. Yes that group they betrayed so badly in 2006. They know it too and they need us. The pubbies are finished without us. The last straw for me was the gang of fourteen. The problem for the pubbies is one of trust. They have a long way to go to regain mine. And selling out the nation I love to the progressives is not helping my trust issues. So...here is a suggestion, take control of the purse. No appropriations, no debt ceiling hike until the Paul Mac Penney Plan is passed. This means elimination of baseline budgeting and the beginning of fiscal restraint. If you win the Republic and probably the world is spared a new dark age. If you loose, well you are loosing anyway, and your previous arrogance and cowardice put you in this position. Maybe some humility and courage can pull you out of the mess. Maybe following the constitution is all you need to do.

[Psalm 144]

As long as conservative efforts are wasted on the GOP, conservatives will lose.

[Ranger Warrior]

The Tea Party needs to recapture the spirit of 2010. What Obama has planned in the near future is a total affront to the U.S. Constitution.

[Karliner]

Start getting Allen West going as the next presidential candidate and no more milqutoast , just n more I’ll go to the townhalls and back them because there’s no one else but they have to start going for the carotids or we’re ...hell, , just hell.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sub-Driver.

Jenny Beth Martin, the Patriots’ co-founder... warning followers not to openly advocate a government shutdown as a way of resolving the debt limit talks.

[No Socialist]

“Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers”

Holy Crap! This is exactly the thinking that has gotten us the sorry lot of republican “conservatives” we have now.

[riri]

Holy Crap! This is exactly the thinking that has gotten us the sorry lot of republican “conservatives” we have now.

Thanks for saying it.

The Tea Party needs a leader. Our movement needs leadership. And he/she needs to be tough enough to stand up to the left and their Alinsky tactics. And for the love of God, we need to push the milquetoast mush in the middle with us and stop quaking in our boots at the thought of offending them. Enough is enough, it is time to lead the sheep because as you can clearly see they are FOLLOWING the HARD, RADICAL left right of a cliff.

[ansel12]

Tea Partiers need to stop backing weak and lame candidates just because they are the most conservative. How about picking the most conservative who can win? We need winners, not ideologically pure losers.

That is what they have been doing. Now we need to stop losers at the top of the ticket, like Romney.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sarah Palin.

Wake up.

[Tau Food]

“So which is it for them? Are we dead or are we to blame? We’re the most powerful nonexistent group in the country,” the Tea Party Patriots’ Martin said.

The Tea Party was instrumental in opposing Obamacare. However, an important test is coming up for many of them. Will they support cuts to Social Security and Medicare, two of the "big three" entitlement programs?

Each day, the number of SS and Medicare recipients increases. And, believe me, those folks vote.

If we don't cut current SS and Medicare benefits, we can't begin to solve our spending problems. I saw what happened when Ryan suggested that we cut spending on Medicare not now, but 10 years from now. The seniors are going to completely flip out when they learn that some folks are talking about cutting current benefits. But, that's what we need to do, at a minimum.

[riri]

So far, the only one who has had the fortitude to stare into the belly of the beast.

I don't know if she is the one but she is the model to follow.

Someone needs to come forward soon. There is raw power just laying there waiting for someone to come along and scoop it up. Millions of Americans without representation, hope or a place in the current system.

[ansel12]

Principals gave us an historic victory in the 2010 sweeps, and helped us win victories this time.

The lack of principals led the GOP to a history making disaster with Mitt Romney having a face off with Jimmy Carter the second and not even being able to win the home states of the ticket.