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Is the tea party movement being hoodwinked by the establishment?
American Thinker ^ | March 28, 2010 | Brian Shoemake

Posted on 03/28/2010 8:01:00 AM PDT by ejdrapes

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To: Kimberly GG

Wow! I went to your home page, you are very talented - I LOVE your furniture painting. That’s beautiful!


121 posted on 03/28/2010 10:00:15 AM PDT by alicewonders
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To: o_zarkman44

You are so right - and like some things said by El Rushbo - you have said what I was thinking. Sarah seems to be a good spokewoman and has a nice way ofr expalining an idea - DEATH PANEL for example. That is what a hockey mom does, puts on lipstick and goes to war.


122 posted on 03/28/2010 10:01:25 AM PDT by q_an_a
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To: alicewonders
Oh thank you very much! It's just a therapeutic hobby ;)
123 posted on 03/28/2010 10:11:44 AM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: Steamburg; ejdrapes; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker
You better not be shooting the horse you are riding.

What if it's a Trojan horse?


124 posted on 03/28/2010 10:12:09 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: BiggieLittle
"If a genie gave Obama three wishes he’d make two wishes that Palin would be the GOP nominee in 2012. The third wish would be that she’d continue to generate all that heat she’s generating to the detriment of really viable candidates.

And this explains the "foaming at the mouth" hatred and bile coming from the left precisely how?
125 posted on 03/28/2010 10:13:25 AM PDT by Pox
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To: MNJohnnie; ejdrapes; Thermalseeker; o_zarkman44; Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer); rae4palin; ...

The actual struggle for the soul of the republican party is embodied in the tug a war between mccain & jd hayworth — with Palin being the one who will take the state policy issues — national

If conservatives can get jd hayworth over on McCain.

Palin will shift to very strong borders.

If McCain wins Palin’s border policies will not be so much.

The most important battle of this election cycle is the one between jd hayworth and J McCain.

The best case outcome for the survival of the USA is the ouster of McCain.


126 posted on 03/28/2010 10:13:31 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: ejdrapes
I'm with him.

I'm deeply suspicious of Palin.

127 posted on 03/28/2010 10:18:21 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Democrats were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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To: ejdrapes

My concern is that, as much as I love Sarah, the media has demonized her to the point that the sheeple will never vote for her. Her support of McCain is concerning, too, but it seems to me it is a loyalty thing.

But she should remember that, if she ever makes it into the WH and Juan McCain is still in the Senate, he will be her greatest opposition on issues like repeal of the healthcare bill, drilling, and stopping illegal immigration.


128 posted on 03/28/2010 10:19:17 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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To: ejdrapes

After you and the presstitutes destroy Governor Palin, I hope you all are happy with that Romney/Crist ticket in 2012! Fools!!


129 posted on 03/28/2010 10:20:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, the Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: MNJohnnie
If you Palin hating posters tried making a calm rational argument for your views, you might get some traction with Freepers.

You are incapable of such a post, as you have demonstrated in your first sentence.

130 posted on 03/28/2010 10:20:29 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Democrats were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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To: alicewonders

What in my post trashed anyone???

My only question to those who are busy saying not sarah not sarah is this——when in the heck did she ever say she was running???

My gut says I don’t think she will because she can be more effective outside than in.

AND that presumes we will have anything left in the way of freedoms come 2012


131 posted on 03/28/2010 10:20:44 AM PDT by the long march
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To: ejdrapes
"Watch what we do, not what we say," - John Mitchell, Nixon’s first Attorney General in a press conference at the onset of the Nixon presidency in 1969.
132 posted on 03/28/2010 10:23:08 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Democrats were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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To: BiggieLittle
If a genie gave Obama three wishes he’d make two wishes that Palin would be the GOP nominee in 2012.

Funny, with all the stuff coming out from Axelrod and the drive-by's, I could have sworn that Romney is their candidate for 2012.

133 posted on 03/28/2010 10:25:13 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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To: Thermalseeker
If we don't vote for the 'repeal' candidates, how will we get a veto proof congress next time?

We have to go for it this November - an unchecked obungler can do way too much damage before January 2013.

134 posted on 03/28/2010 10:27:51 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying Planned Parenthood to murder babies! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: ejdrapes

The Tea Party movement is not about Sarah Palin. It’s about the people and smaller government. Where I live the Tea Party movement is actually split between Libertarians and conservatives. You really can’t blame Sarah Palin for supporting John McCain after being on the same ticket with him for President. Palin would look like the biggest hypocrite in the world, or the biggest idiot, if she didn’t think McCain was good enough to even stay in the Senate.


135 posted on 03/28/2010 10:30:07 AM PDT by Eva
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To: savedbygrace

A nice press release saying he’d continue to make a fine Senator would have been plenty. Claiming that McCain somehow embodies the tea party movement is just an insult to any thinking citizen.

I like Palin too and was a big backer of hers over the last year. But while the writer of this piece is obviously a rude and obnoxious snot, I don’t think it would hurt to take a hard look at Palin’s actions—such as her saying this week there’s no daylight between Mccain’s immigration position and hers—before putting all our Obama-opposition eggs in her basket. Seems to me like she had an impressive record of accomplishment while she was governor, but it wouldn’t hurt to examine her record a little more closely. For example, was that her good-government ethics legislation that the Dems were able to get her all knotted up in? I’ve read that she was actually considered a moderate when governing in Alaska and it would be interesting to understand a little better why some have had that opinion of her.

What I want is someone who really will stick to shrinking the role of the government and says forthrightly that’s what we should do—but comes across as serious, intelligent and thoughtful when making the case.


136 posted on 03/28/2010 10:32:30 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dirtboy

Aw, you’re only saying that because you have no real argument against the core point I’ve made, that the organization should not have invited a McCain endorser to speak.

Your argument on another issue, that you can understand why Palin would endorse McCain, because he played a key role in helping her gain national popularity, is not persuasive.

To carry that off with consistency, you would have to ‘understand’ her willingness to endorse others who have played a role in helping her gain national popularity: Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, and even Barack Obama, who attacked her so venomously after her convention speech, and who seemed to campaign in significant part as though he were running against her instead of McCain.

Yeah, I agree it’s silly to suggest she’d support those people, but that’s the point. Your argument is silly, because she wouldn’t support anyone and everyone who played a role in helping her gain national popularity.

To argue that she endorsed McCain as loyalty for helping her become nationally popular overlooks the fact that she has endorsed a non-conservative instead of a conservative. Many, perhaps a majority of TEA Party movement supporters should find that offensive on its face, rather than buy the spin.

Now let’s see if you can muster an argument without the name calling.


137 posted on 03/28/2010 10:33:03 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if people follow. Otherwise, you just wandered off.)
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To: ckilmer

If Palin is such a policy weathervane, she shouldn’t be leading the charge.


138 posted on 03/28/2010 10:33:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BiggieLittle
"If a genie gave Obama three wishes he’d make two wishes that Palin would be the GOP nominee in 2012. The third wish would be that she’d continue to generate all that heat she’s generating to the detriment of really viable candidates."

How did I know you were a newbie before I even looked? How's the weather in Chicago? What other conservative sites and blogs do they have you working? Do you all really think that "Obama wishes Palin would run" meme is working? What's that job pay?

139 posted on 03/28/2010 10:33:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, the Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: 9YearLurker

I supported her until she endorsed McCain.


140 posted on 03/28/2010 10:34:53 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if people follow. Otherwise, you just wandered off.)
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