Posted on 04/20/2012 2:09:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Former Obama administration adviser Van Jones said the country should re-elect President Barack Obama to “stop the tea party” because former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would “govern as a tea party president.”
Jones also said that some of Obama’s supporters misunderstood Obama as a “social movement leader” after his victory in the 2008 presidential race rather than as “head of state.” (RELATED: Full coverage of the tea party movement)
“We have to win politically in November to stop the tea party. We don’t want a tea party presidency, and I don’t care what you think about Mitt Romney. If we wins, he’ll win because the tea party got excited enough — that base got excited enough — he will have to govern as a tea party president so we don’t want a tea party president,” Jones said Friday at The Center for American Progress during a discussion about his The New York Times bestseller “Rebuild the Dream.”
“You’ve got to build an independent progressive movement that can both help to re-elect the president, but it also can re-energize the movement because we’re going to have to be able to both have somebody in the White House — who will listen to the people and who can be moved by the people — but we also have to have a movement to do the moving. And the last time we came out of the voting booth cheering; this time we’ve to come out of the voting booth marching. I mean, we’ve got to be very clear. We’ve got to pivot right into another big fight.”
Jones said that there was a “misunderstanding” among Obama’s supporters when he assumed office.
“There was a center for gravity that said Obama is MLK [Martin Luther King, Jr.] who ran for office and now
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It's obvious from that remark that Jones understands nothing about the Tea Party. Doesn't know much about Romney either.
VAN, you already tried to STOP THE TEA PARTY with the OCCUPIED OUTSIDE aka PEE PARTY and you can see what happened there. You can’t stop the TEA PARTY because it only rises up to CRUSH ANTI AMERICAN COMMUNISTS like you, obama and the SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY. You socialist democrats think 2010 was politcally bad, you ain’t seen bad yet, but it’s coming real soon.
Whenever his name is mentioned I think of Basketball Jones.
“I’ll go one on one against the world, left-handed
I could stuff it from center court with my toes
I could jump on top of the backboard
Take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents change
I could, I could dribble behind my back
I got more moves than Ex-Lax I’m bad.........”
Your lips to God's ears, Mister Commie.
“Tea Party” (code for Thinking Whites) by Liberal Progressives (code for Negro/Fascist/Stateist/Poverty Pimps) MFs.
“Glad” Van Jones thinks Mitt is a conservative.
Your TEA Party Independent ticket for 2012:
Sarah Palin for President.
Rand Paul for Vice-President.
‘Get in the fast lane Grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll.’
Jones also said that some of Obama's supporters misunderstood Obama as a "social movement leader" after his victory in the 2008 presidential race rather than as "head of state." ... "We have to win politically in November to stop the tea party" ... "You've got to build an independent progressive movement that can both help to re-elect the president, but it also can re-energize the movement because we're going to have to be able to both have somebody in the White House -- who will listen to the people and who can be moved by the people -- but we also have to have a movement to do the moving. And the last time we came out of the voting booth cheering; this time we've to come out of the voting booth marching. I mean, we've got to be very clear. We've got to pivot right into another big fight."That asswipe has a NYT bestseller?
“Vote skin color! But we are not the racists! They are!”
Not to worry, the astro turf Rinos are in the process of finishing off the teaparty, damn shame it happened so fast...
Gee....and I thought they have been saying that the “Tea Party” was just a fad, there are fewer people joining “the movement,” and they no longer hold sway with ‘current thought.’ Don’t tell me these were just more lies. LMAO!
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