Posted on 11/12/2014 5:24:14 AM PST by Maelstorm
Ummmmm.... No.
The "tea party" is a MOVEMENT that began in the early 1770's (with roots before that). It coalesced in 1789 with the Constitution. It was instrumental in the creation of the Republican party (Republican party formed within the "tea party", not the reverse) in 1754. It got pushed under the rug from the early 1900's, which progressively (sic) got worse, culminating in re-birth between 2007-2009.
The official GOP has moved Left, Tea Partiers are the heirs to the original R.
And Arlene Sphincter, Lisa Murkowski, Charlie Crist, Haley Barbour and Thad Cochran said, “Amen, sis!”
Romney got more votes than Juan.
Ha haaaaaa!
Careful, Becky. You get too many people on the other side of the isle and it might capsize as some 'RAT suggested might happen with Guam.
“2. You have convinced yourselves that your hard right agenda is what the American people want.”
When did Constitutionalsim become “hard right?” Only a statist would consider this.
“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!”
No, the Tea Party advocates have always talked about small government principles. Only a statist would deny this.
“Then once the layers of the onion started to unfold, your ideas left everyone in tears.”
What ideas have been implemented and resulted in tears? Are those the same tears that are shed by people that have lost their health insurance?
“Didn’t these last primaries prove that the majority of the American people just aren’t interested in what you have to offer?”
No, they proved that the statist wing of the Republican party are willing to call us racist and to attack the liberty wing of the part to maintain power. Statism in action!
“They want things to get done in Washington.”
And there you have it. A statist admitting that they just want to continue down the path to grow the power of the ruling class....
It wasn't a Republican political philosophy that pushed the GOP into a dominant role on the national stage: it was the large-scale migration of conservative Democrats to the GOP that began in 1980 and continues to this day. Ironically, it's these very same conservatives (many of them former Democrats) from the South and West that are most strongly opposed to the crap that comes from "establishment Republicans."
Mitt Romney was an ideal GOP candidate -- from the 1940s ... when his sole purpose was to head to Washington and get his @ss kicked by a Marxist in the White House.
In fairness, the guy who beat abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner was a slavery-loving Democrat (but I repeat myself; this was 1856), Preston Brooks.
He says that conservatives are not the base, but then goes on to trash us for staying home and allowing 0bama another term. Well if that isn't the base than what is? Just because the elites have control of the GOP leadership and therefore the GOP megaphone, doesn't mean the average voter agrees with them.
Seriously, in both 2012 and even 2014 what was the GOP message? Basically it was "we don't suck as much as 0bama". Well that doesn't get it done! The message should be, "This is why 0bama sucks, Here's what we'll do to undo his damage, and this is what we'll do instead!" The GOP won in 2014, but basically by getting out of the way and letting 0bama act like the buffoon that he is. There was no unified GOP message, and the conservatives who ran got no support from the party. They won in spite of the GOP-e, not with its help.
Anyway this blog is just 10lbs of Horse Apples in a 5 lb sack.
Yes but no one wins all the time and the Republicans leadership made things worse by becoming an echo chamber for the memes of the left and during those elections establishment candidates lost just as well by nearly equal measure. I attest there is no “hard right”. There is only a hard left which is actually an alien influence in America. The so called “hard right” are simply constitutionalists and if standing up for liberty, family, and fiscal responsibility is hard right then we all should be hard right. Romney actually behaved like a leader in 2010 and contributed to Christine ODonnell and campaigned across the board. If not for the Tea Party wave and the anti Obama wave that the Tea Party helped maintain the GOP would not have done nearly as well as it did in 2010 and 2012. The GOP did cause some self inflicted wounds in the Thad Cochran debacle but were lucky that the Tea Party and conservatives were more concerned about defeating Obama than getting even.
I wish this person was as upset with Obama as she is with the tea party
You know, there are lots of this type of typo(e)s these days - like there/their/they’re, aisle/isle, etc. They’re all over the web. I figure writers are dictating their pieces. The software pulls up a soundex() from its dictionary and slaps it on the screen. The writer then does a sloppy job of proofreading. That’s my theory, anyway. It’s reaching epidemic proportions on the web. Maybe it’s time for the guvmint to step in.
This reads like it was written by a “everyone must get in line NOW!” Democrat.
How far we have fallen.
People who believe in the constitution are now “Hard Right” extremists to the republican party?
I totally agree. Its these types who don’t know what they are talking about and live in a little protect GOP committee world that where everything with an R is good and principles are secondary or for show that get me. The sad part is many of these people do agree with the Tea Party they just disagree on the style and actually many are self hating conservatives who some how believe what the left says about Republicans being extreme and they don’t want to be extreme. They believe they are for God, Country, and Patriotism not understanding that for the Democrat party that is exactly what they consider as extreme.
Unless Congress has been exiled to a desert island, not a bad idea in its own right, I think she meant "aisle".
Here’s a simple test. If I ask, “Do you support the Constitution as amended?” and your answer is “Yes”, I’m with you.
If your answer is “Yes, but...”, you’re on the other side.
Becky exudes one of the most odious of Democrat characteristics...massive arrogance.
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