The article leaves out how the number of people who make up the Big Money GOPe could be gathered together in a large banquet hall while the Tea Party compromise millions of individual voters. So the Establishment has the ability to coordinate and select a favorite that is impossible for the Tea Party and other ideological subsections of the GOP.
It is time to the leave the GOP as the GOP has left us a LONG time ago...
Curious. I’m a Tea Partier, and those opportunistic political demagogues will never own me because they don’t have what I want, which is freedom from government interference in my private life.
Anyone in the Tea Party like me, and there are many, are also immune to these guys.
How can they “own” Tea Partiers like me who don’t put blind faith in any politician? How can they own those of us who believe there’s ONLY ONE language politicians understand and it’s the language of ACTION: voters throwing misbehaving politicians OUT OF OFFICE. Nothing else matters to them.
People like me believe politicians and politics are about political profitability. Politics is a competitive business just like anything else and politicians are interested in extending their livelihood just like everyone else.
Many of us agree with what Milton Friedman had to say about politics and political parties:
“People in Congress are in the business of buying votes and competing with one another to get elected. The same Congressman will vote for a different thing if he thinks it is politically profitable. People think you solve problems by changing Congress and electing the right people. It’s nice to elect the right people but that isn’t the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEVI3bmN8TI
They won’t crowd us out. The revolutionaries were a minority also. But they believed in freedom as we do. These political establishment “bigwigs” don’t believe in anything and can, therefore, be defeated. We, who have faith, patience, and courage, are stronger than they.
Only when they pry my tea cup from my cold dead hands!
Fast forward to October 2016.
“Tea Party people please vote for our Rino. Please, please, please vote.You don’t want a Democrat to win. Do you? Pllleeeeaaassssee!”
Nov 2016
“Who in the #&^%&% is the Tea Party, and why should we listen to them”
However, no one is in charge of it. It is completely a truly grassroots operation. People who have tried to gain control of it have been happily outwitted by a higher power.
If you - bloomy and gop country-clubbers - think you can use an old commie tactic to marginalize it, then we'll all just see if y'all can do it.
There are not enough of us
Rush is right
Republican bigwigs, through their minions, are insinuating themselves into positions within our Tea Party groups and influencing directions and outcomes as best they can. Many of our Tea Party rank and file are relative political newbies, and can be misled if they believe that some like-minded someone with leadership skills is supporting a certain issue or candidate. I have personally seen this happen in a 2014 Primary campaign.
Can’t own a TEA Party voter if they aren’t voting GOP.
I will never again vote for another GOP candidate and feed the liberal eGOP beast. They don’t own my vote, I do!