Posted on 11/12/2014 5:24:14 AM PST by Maelstorm
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1. We are not “The Establishment” or “RINO’s”, and you are not “The Base”. We are THE Republican Party founded in 1854. The Tea Party is a MOVEMENT that began inside our party sometime between 2007-2009, and if anyone must be referred to as a “RINO”, it’s the members of this movement, because they seemingly have a strong dislike for most of what occurs within our party.
In 1854, the Whigs that were against slavery didn’t solve the problem by calling the others WINO’s, they courageously founded the Republican Party. That is what a Republican does. We don’t run our mouths, shut things down, and see how many problems we can cause. We find solutions, because we are honored when we look at the American flag and sing the National Anthem knowing that throughout history men and women fought and still fight for The United States of America, not The United States of “our” America!
2. You have convinced yourselves that your hard right agenda is what the American people want. Look, you had success in 2010, but surely by now you know why. Your full agenda had not been uncovered. Everyone thought you were just fiscal crusaders, period! Then once the layers of the onion started to unfold, your ideas left everyone in tears. Didn’t these last primaries prove that the majority of the American people just aren’t interested in what you have to offer? They want things to get done in Washington.
We live in a country where people vote for all different kinds of candidates. The other side of the isle have just as much of a responsibility to their constituents as ours do to us. There has to be compromise. ...
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‘Hard Right’?
How about traditional mainstream.
David Frum, is that you?
The mainstream GOP is in full attack mode, right now.
I say bring it on.
Fight it out, right now. Replace the GOP with the Tea Party.
Tea Party. Sarah Palin. Ted Cruz. All of you, now is the time.
Right now.
Pick your GOPe RINO Quisling. It’s a long list.
Oh. Wait. They already do.
No. That would make him a hetero.
Wait a minute. Now that I think about it, has anybody ever seen Becky Boydstun and Jonathan Gruber at the same time at the same place?
Maybe Becky needs to understand that without the TEA party the Republicans she so loves would not be in the majority right now - in either house. If she wants to see that, alienate more of us and watch as you crumble to defeat in the next election.
She is so full of GOP elitist claptrap it isn’t funny.
There ARE RINOs - lots and lots of them. We had two here in Georgia, Isakson and Chambliss - both a couple of backstabbing Amnesty proponents who got bitch-slapped back to the stone age when they threw in with McCain and Bush on their failed plan. It didn’t even take a week for both of them to backtrack. In fact, Chambliss RINO credentials were so ingrained and his conservative constituents on his back every day, he opted to retire-out. Isakson will too before his upcoming 2016 re-election.
She can’t even tell me that the GOP is lilly white in its patriotism and purity - just ain’t so.
I didn’t read past her Number 1. Why? Because the Tea Party was not around until 2009. Also, the Tea Party is just everyday Americans, it is not some hard right group.
Th stupidity burns these days.
Two Words:
Eric
Cantor
"3. This one is the most important! I guess you are still a little raw about Mitch McConnell crushing Matt Bevin in the primaries,
because The Republican Party couldn’t even close election night before you started pecking away at seething articles questioning whether or not he and the Republicans have the ability to get certain things done.
These include things like repeal Obamacare, make the IRS pay for going after the Tea Party, stop Obama’s executive orders, stop the EPA, etc.
The list goes on and on, but there is a huge problem here. You are way out of line even beginning to think you have the right to put any demand on our party,
because we are in this mess because of you in the first place! If it wasn’t for you and your 100% single-mindedness,
“if I don’t get my way I’m just going to sit home and not vote”, Mitt Romney would be our President and we wouldn’t have the IRS scandal, VA scandal, EPA regulations ruining jobs,
Obamacare, Obama’s executive orders, racial divisions, Justice Department scandals, horrible relations with Israel, ISIS, Russia taking over Crimea and now Ukrain, Iran closer to a nuclear weapon,
Syria gassing civilians, Turkey refusing to talk to us, this list goes on and on as well. "
Example...Kasich's OH campaign skillfully reached out to the little folks who want good jobs and law and order. And look what happened.
No, but people need to understand the reality of what the people who vote Republican are, all of these people don’t feel like going as hard left as the Democrats, but the voters, the actual people who vote Republican, fall on a spectrum from far right to left of center. That’s reality. The hard right is only a fraction of the whole. As for the tea party, there were issues with the movement given its heavy reactivity and rushed allegiance to candidates whom we didn’t understand, a lot of them, such as Christine O’Donnell turned out to be easy pushovers, and got completely trashed by the left in the debates. Rather than react, we really need to understand who out competent candidates are. Although in perspective, we have hopefully vetted out more capable candidates such as Walker who fought the labor unions and Ted Cruz, who stands as apparently pretty tough on the issues. But to a lot of Republican voters, the Tea Party was a shotgun approach that lost them seats in Congress.
Anytime you see “far right” or “hard right” or “Tea Party”, the optic is “bad”.
That muffled voice you hear is Arlene Sphincter yelling, “Right on, sister!”
“In 1854, the Whigs that were against slavery didn’t solve the problem by calling the others WINO’s,”
No, but they nearly beat a Senator to death on the floor of the senate.
This is an amusing article. It makes no sense. It talks about the Tea Party having all kinds of wild, extreme ideas and being rigid, but doesn’t say what they are.
One line is “Everyone thought you were just fiscal crusaders, period! Then once the layers of the onion started to unfold, your ideas left everyone in tears.”
OK. What are those ideas? The Tea Party fundamentally is about fiscal responsibility and cutting back government. What is so crazy about that? What is wrong with saying that we have to cut spending to live within our means? Spending has doubled since Bush took office. There is no ability to cut that back by 10% or 20%? Is that “crazy”?
People who write articles like this are just plain stupid. They believe the baseless media hype that the Tea Party is full of “extreme” people with “crazy” ideas. The media repeats that over and over and over and then stupid, wishy-washy Republicans believe it.
Oh geez, I guess we’ve be told! NOT!!!
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