Posted on 11/18/2014 1:05:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 11/18/2014 1:14:38 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Dana Milbank calls this the “Tea Party of the left,” but that’s not quite correct. Politically, the Tea Party grassroots couldn’t be more different than their progressive counterparts in the Democratic Party. One wants the federal government constrained in favor of individual and local prerogative, while the other wants to expand federal power to trump individual and local prerogative. Even the populism that runs through both movements comes from polar-opposite approaches.
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I think there is actually. Most folks here on FR fit the TEA party mold more or less. And those that don't feel part of it are at least sympathetic to it. TEA party folks disagree with RINOs, GOPers, country clubbers (or whoever), but they don't want to kick them out of the party. They want to be heard and have a seat at the table. When a TEA partier wins a primary the TEA party wants the GOPe to support them like we support the GOPe candidate in the general.
It's not like that on the other side of the aisle. Over there, disagreement means banishment.
Stephen Lynch is not well liked by the moonbats in his party. He voted against Obomacare.
With the Democratic Leadership locked in place from before the midterms. I agree, they will probably purge every non-progressive from their committees that they can otherwise they will face much too much criticism. And it's criticism the party of "tolerance" cannot tolerate right now.
They and the Mainstream Media will try to hide it, but without fresh leadership and new ideas - lockstep they will be.
Lockstep on Stupid.
I know of no LIB/DIMs who are “wonderful people”. I question the sanity of anyone who describes these Destroyers as such.
don’t be an ass
I would hazard the guess that even today a near-majority of Dem voters are closer in their thinking to GOP voters than to the Dem leadership. They just haven’t fully realized that yet. I’m thinking of Democrats who hunt, or remain pro-life, but vote on other issues, or who just generally think government is too big. But as I said they haven’t fully realized just how far their party has veered left.
But it’s happening, as the recent elections showed, and under the current leadership of Pelosi/Reid/Obama, it will continue to happen. As long as the leadership remains so far to the left of the general public the Democrat Party will continue to shrink.
I think an effort to get Tea Party types to run in the Dem primaries would be good especially in open primary states adn overwhelming democrat districts. Make the Dem party move to the right.
That’s just silly
The liberal GOP must be politically destroyed.
I will continue to work toward that.
The liberal Lt. Gov of Texas, Dewhurst(R), lost his election to Governor. He was the favorite of the GOP-E.
I'm glad he lost, considering how much work so many of us put into politically destroying him.
Now Texas has a real Conservative Governor.
/johnny
I keep trying to convince them that there is no such thing as a disinterested bureaucrat. They don’t heroically serve he people, only themselves.
It’s very difficult getting them to see this.
Pelosi and the leadership won't let pregnant Tammy Duckworth vote by proxy.
The commie useful idiot Dana Milbank was so upset after the Berlin Wall fell that he aimed a .357 at his head to blow his brains out and missed.
Personally, I prefer CINO, Conservative In Name Only. RINO makes the laughable assumption that the republiCrat party is some how a conservative organization, well if it`s actions are to be judged objectively, it most certainly is not conservative!
In CT’s CD1 William Cotter and Barbara Kennelly (before John Larson) were conservative Dems, also Ella Grasso and William O’Neil.
The war on women is still going on...
Leftists can’t get enough government. The purists on the Left are a mix of Marxists, socialists, and fascists. Nothing they want is within the government’s constitutional authority. They want man to be ruled by man, not by law.
Sorry. I know several dem libs who are deceived. Does that make them evil? Sigh. Maybe. But it doesn’t make them unredeemable.
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