Posted on 06/11/2014 10:17:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Thanks. Instinctively I thought deliberate mischaracterization was still the default position for so-called journalists regarding this topic. Apparently it is.
Waaaaaaayyyy oversimplified version of
That's the media spin now that he won. They did the same trick with Ben Sasse. He was a "Tea Party" guy right up until he won, then he wasn't.
Dave Brat is definitely one of us.
I think too many people are listening to the media and not the candidate. I heard Brat say that TEA party people in his district worked tirelessly for him and that he had tremendous help from TEA party people. He gave credit to TEA party for the win. I also heard it said that he got no help from the national Tea Party groups.
To me, that means he had local TEA party support. Maybe people should consider eliminating support for national Tea party groups but supporting local TEA party organizations and donating to conservative candidates around the country directly.
The establishment system is set up to subvert large centrally run organizations. They can monitor activity and judge what will happen based on activity of the national organizations. They can infiltrate and subvert, basing strategy on any intel they obtain. But they can’t keep up with smaller group grassroots activity. The establishment does not have the manpower to compete with all the “little” people. There is no single person for them to focus on and too many small groups for them to properly monitor and infiltrate.
It is wonderful to realize that the same methods we used to defeat the British originally can work to defeat the establishment today.
That struck me as particularly funny since Mr. Custer, leading a brigade of Michigan soldiers at the Battle of Trevilian Station in Virginia, almost got his soldiers surrounded and massacred in one of the skirmishes but some unit (I forget which) saved his bacon. So, the reference applies to more than his performance at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Postscript: The Battle of Trevilian Station occurred in Louisa County, part of the 7th District.
I remember the shock here in Indiana when we lent Lugar packing. Actually, he didn’t have to do much packing, just sell the vacant house he kept here.
Then conservatives were hammered with “see I told ya” when a democrat won the general election. Good riddance.
“I care about what he does.”
I don’t care what he does either...I just care that CANTOR IS GONE and so is Amnesty!!!!
Anyone more conservative than Pelosi is just icing on the cake.
His first year in office his ACU rating was 100% according to a poster earlier today.
Clearly he ran a bad race, he neglected his district and then went hard negative, with specious claims that Brat was a liberal, backfired.
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