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The Tea Party is back!
American Thinker ^ | 04/06/2019 | Lloyd Marcus

Posted on 04/07/2019 9:57:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Trump has our economy booming.  Unemployment claims are at an unprecedented 50-year-low.  There are more jobs available than there are workers to fill them.

Yet every Democrat presidential candidate is on a mad dash to socialism.  If a Democrat is elected president in 2020, we will be thrust back to the depressing days of Obama's failed economy: record-high numbers of Americans on food stamps, unemployment, and disability.  Democrats are like drug-dealers seeking to insidiously addict Americans to government dependency solely to control their lives, behavior, and voting loyalty.

From the beginning of the Tea Party movement, I traveled the country on numerous national Tea Party bus tours, speaking and performing my song, "American Tea Party Anthem," at over 500 Tea Party rallies nationwide.

Reflecting back to Obama's horrible economy, I fondly remember the five dollar lady.  After my performance on stage at a rally in Texas, I was approached by a humble woman.  She thanked me for what our team of patriots was doing for our country.  She explained that Obama's anti-business policies cost her husband, a trucker, his job.  With tears in her eyes, she grabbed my hand with both her hands, giving me a crumpled up five-dollar bill for gas for our tour bus.  I instinctively knew that five dollars was a huge contribution from her.  The five dollar lady drove home the importance of our mission and responsibility to push back against Obama's plan to transform America into a socialist nation.

On April 15, Stop Socialism Choose Freedom Rallies are scheduled across America — 300 thus far, with more added daily.  Yes, the Tea Party is back.  Please join us.

Actually, the Tea Party never went away.  We matured, working behind the scenes to elect conservatives, becoming less visible.  


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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: taxday; teaparty
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1 posted on 04/07/2019 9:57:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Excellent!

We need the teaparty to fight against the lawless Dems trying to take down Trump by any means.


2 posted on 04/07/2019 10:07:16 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: SeekAndFind

The Tea Party never went away.

Led by Sarah, the Tea Party saved America in 2010 with the fight back against Obozzo - who would have imposed martial law if not for the shellacking he was given.

Now the TP is a proud passenger on the Trump Train


3 posted on 04/07/2019 10:09:19 AM PDT by WashingtonFire (The charisma of Reagan + the vision of Jefferson + the patriotism of Washington = Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Trey Gowdy, Bobby Jindal, and Paul Effing Ryan...

Tell me why we should not be dancing for joy that the Tea Party is DEAD?


4 posted on 04/07/2019 10:13:32 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

RE: Tell me why we should not be dancing for joy that the Tea Party is DEAD?

What alternative movement do you suggest?


5 posted on 04/07/2019 10:16:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
Actually, the Tea Party never went away. We matured, working behind the scenes to elect conservatives, becoming less visible.

Protests are a cute distraction, but don't mean that much.

The Tea Party needs to continue to concentrate their efforts on electing conservatives and defeating bad legislation.

Conservatives, and most Americans, are not street protest emotiontards. They're productive members of society that don't have time for silly rants 'n chants.
6 posted on 04/07/2019 10:18:08 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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Long live the Republic! and those who defend it’s form of government.


7 posted on 04/07/2019 10:19:39 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; USAgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: WashingtonFire

The Tea Party was indeed a big factor in 2010. It is on the Trump Train now but the GOP is not, unfortunately.

This would be the same GOP that turned its back on the Tea Party and did everything it could to marginalize this grass roots conservative movement.

We are in desperate need a new party. I wish Trump would form one out of the Tea Party.


8 posted on 04/07/2019 10:20:12 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: bigbob

. . . Ron Johnson . . .


9 posted on 04/07/2019 10:23:03 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is the state of New York, Manhattan in particular, so ready to embrace Socialism? Are the N.Y. unions so ready to give up their perks and pensions? It would only take less than a decade under Socialism, for that City to really fall into decay.


10 posted on 04/07/2019 10:29:58 AM PDT by yoe
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To: akalinin

Protests are a cute distraction, but don’t mean that much...Conservatives, and most Americans, are not street protest emotiontards. They’re productive members of society that don’t have time for silly rants ‘n chants.

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I disagree. I attended lots of Tea Party rallies despite working in a very demanding, production driven job. I consider myself a productive member of society.

As for rants ‘n chants, that’s a cute way to put it but the Democrats feared those “silly” protests because they shined a critical and much needed light on liberal hypocrisy and the dangers of government overreach. The media certainly didn’t like covering the rallies either as the turnouts demonstrated support for conservative causes.

All that “silline3ss” helped to change the composition of the U.S. congress.


11 posted on 04/07/2019 10:32:17 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Our local Tea Party was infiltrated by disruptors. Many folks dropped out. Are we the only ones it happened to?


12 posted on 04/07/2019 10:32:29 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: SeekAndFind

The Tea Party needs to really focus on the local secretary of state positions. Why? Because Soros is. Oversees a lot of key election items.


13 posted on 04/07/2019 10:36:59 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: SeekAndFind

A strong lesson for President Trump from President Nixon.

With the Vietnam War winding down, the Democrats were terrified that Nixon was about to launch a major political investigation of “who lost the war”, which could of been devastating to them, their antiwar radicals having taken control of their part at their convention, leading to the George McGovern election debacle. Nixon could have effectively wiped the Democrats out.

So the Watergate scandal, a petty scandal, threw them a lifeline. And they tried to snowball it, thinking they could use it as a bargaining chip against the Vietnam investigation disaster.

But President Nixon *never* initiated his attack. Taken by surprise, the Democrats used Watergate, with the help of the media and RINO Republicans, to tear down Nixon’s administration and drive him out of office.

So this is the message to President Trump: You either start indicting criminal Democrats like there is no tomorrow, or eventually the Democrats and RINOs will tear you down too.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t think of it as “gentlemanly” or “presidential”. It is political war. And unless you fight, and fight back, you are going to be overrun and destroyed.

The bully pulpit is not enough. You must have a dozen or more federal prosecutors going after criminal Democrats full time.

There must be no excuses for not doing this. That they were politicians, candidates or bureaucrats, that they were “connected” and wealthy, that the Democrats are going to squeal like stuck pigs when you do it, DOES NOT MATTER.


14 posted on 04/07/2019 10:43:33 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Desperate swarm sewage drains for water..." Venezuelans or D.C. Swamp denizens?)
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To: bigbob

Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Trey Gowdy, Bobby Jindal, and Paul Effing Ryan...
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Don’t blame the tea party for traitors that jumped on board the Cheap Labor Express as soon as they got to D.C.
Paul Ryan hated the tea party.

One could blame the voters who re-elected Rubio after he showed them he was a traitor.


15 posted on 04/07/2019 10:46:16 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: akalinin

[[Protests are a cute distraction, but don’t mean that much.]]

Exactly- to be truly effective, the te4a party needs to form into a massive cohesive unit that can boycott businesses that want to violate our constitutional rights, companies that support crap like transgenders using women’s bathrooms- Schools that ram islamic messages and LGBT messages down people’s throats- etc-

The NBA or NFL can’t remember which, threatened NC that they would not do business with NC because NC didn’t allow men to use women’s bathrooms- and NC eventually caved- IF enough teaparty folks boycotted the NFL for doing that- it could have a pretty substantial effect on the NFL-

[[They’re productive members of society that don’t have time for silly rants ‘n chants.]]

And they are also folks who get behind a cause and can affect change by effectively protesting with their pocketbooks and wallets instead of non effective protest chants like you mention- They just need a good leader/group to motivate them to let them know their efforts will be worthwhile because millions will join them-


16 posted on 04/07/2019 10:47:41 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Starboard
How many second amendment rights rallies ever got a gun law overturned? How many tax protests actually lowered taxes?

I'd bet near zero.

Personally, I have neither the time nor the inclination to stand and protest, however fun that may be to hang out with like-minded Americans. I do however support (financially) candidates who are in a position to change something by being elected.

That's why, IMHO, the Tea Party should concentrate on behind the scenes work to get conservatives in positions of power to effect change.

A rally or two here and there isn't a bad thing, provided enough of a crowd attends to combat the lies of the propaganda/Democrat-controlled media.
17 posted on 04/07/2019 10:49:04 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Revolutionary

The Tea Party needs to really focus on the local secretary of state positions. Why? Because Soros is. Oversees a lot of key election items.
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Secretaries of State of the various states are the ones who can keep ineligible candidates off ballots.

Natural born citizen only.

Barack Obama should be proof enough that the founders were right to exclude the children of foreign nationals.
They are also foreign nationals, even if they are born here.


18 posted on 04/07/2019 10:50:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Bob434

Agreed.


19 posted on 04/07/2019 10:50:54 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Revolutionary
The Tea Party needs to really focus on the local secretary of state positions. Why? Because Soros is. Oversees a lot of key election items.

Yep - County Registrars of Voters, too.

20 posted on 04/07/2019 11:03:47 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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