Posted on 06/16/2010 5:17:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sound politics, but surprising nonetheless coming from a guy who’s positioned FreedomWorks as a sort of Tea Party HQ.
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“Exactly, that is the beauty of it. Dick Armey is proving himself to be clueless as to what the Tea Party is all about.”
If you study the TP movement, you’ll learn Dick Armey was among the first to be involved, whatsoever.
In fact freedomworks.com may well have initiated the idea.
All the comments here on Armey are nail on the head. He is a lip service RINO epitomizing exactly where the Republican party has gone wrong. Republicans like him (almost all of them) keep the liberal and conservative at each others throats only to keep themselves in power. They care about their country only for the pay checks they can pack away. They certainly do not give a rip about true conservative ideals.They have been a distraction for 25 years and it can be argued they have done more damage to this Great Country than the Democrats they “opposed”. We had only crap to vote for for that entire time frame.
Armey is a big supporter of illegals. Expect nothing good from him.
CNN to Dick Armey:
“Shut up and ...”, um what is it Armey does, anyway?
” Maybe it’s time to ease off the “tea party” label”
This two faced old fool. The tea party has ‘eased off’ him! They are wise to his tactics.
Monday, September 14, 2009
[snip]I got one of Dick Armey’s mass emails today about the march in DC which his group helped to promote. He says, “WE DID IT”.
My reply:
WE???? MR.ARMEY!
95% of those people oppose your soft stand on illegal immigration and AMNESTY!
You should be ashamed of hijacking this movement, you were one of millions promoting this rally.
You’re fooling them, just like Obama fooled his voters....they don’t know you that well.
And you should have listened to Milton Friedman, when he looked you in the eye and told you that NAFTA was NOT Free Trade, it is ‘managed trade’. QUOTE!.... “managed’’ just like Obama wants the government to ‘manage’ everything!
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Beware: Rinos in Conservative clothing...DICK ARMEY
[snip]Time to listen up, Tea Party people!!! We’ve warned you before that political opportunists will hi- jack your movement for their causes! And Dick Armey did just that!
“In a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, FreedomWorks’ chairman, delivered a surprisingly harsh assessment of Hayworth, with whom he served on Capitol Hill:
” It’s hard for us to believe that J.D. Hayworth could mount a credible challenge to John McCain. Obviously, we’ll watch the race. But J.D. had a fairly short, undistinguished congressional career with virtually no initiative on his part. I just don’t see any reason why we should be concerned about that race.”
So...what is this really all about??
AMNESTY, that’s what.
Armey is one of the squatter support squad of the GOP. He wants to do away with enforcement. He wants amnesty. That’s why he won’t support Hayworth.
In fact, Armey wants to increase immigration!
The McCain camp likes to throw the non issue Abramoff accusation at J.D. of which he was totally cleared, but one of Armey’s top advisers, Horace Cooper, actually got indicted for taking Abramoff bribes. OH! The irony!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=dick+armey
I never liked dick army. Never.
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““Don’t ask for more of what you really don’t want,” Armey said. Pointing out that Paul “ran as a Republican – he won the Republican primary,” Armey suggested that Paul and other tea party-backed candidates can remain true to the movement’s limited government principles without becoming targets by declaring themselves tea party leaders.”
Armey gets it. The tea party may back a candidate, but that candidate is not “The Leader” of the tea party.
Well what ever he is he is right about that, the strength of the movement is that it has no identified leader and that is a good thing.
And the turd keeps sending me email from Freedomworks. It’s about as useful to me as Gingrich’s garbage.
What democrat follows the Constitution or does not believe it is a living document?
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My brother for one who is a circuit court judge. He is a moderate liberal when it comes to humanitarian issues; but conservative in his views of the Constitution, law and economy. He is a registered Democrat.
Does anybody else roll their eyes when they see “tea party” capitalized, as if it’s a real, trademarked organization with “leaders”, etc.? I think the rats are working through their newsrooms (and with a lot of help from clownish political wannabes and libertarian malcontents) to turn the effective tea party protests of 2009 into “The Tea Party” and evolve it into the same kind of marginal laughingstock that the “Move On” campaign evolved into ten years ago.
Armey is right here - - embrace the “tea party” issues but steer clear of self-proclaimed “leaders”.
What does that mean?
Sound politics, but surprising nonetheless coming from a guy who’s positioned FreedomWorks as a sort of Tea Party HQ.
Not really since the Republican establishment has only even (the majority of the est.) been one to use the Tea Party movement, not really support it!~ They’re playing games (~still~) losers..!
A moderate liberal is a liberal that believes in continuing social programs but within a level of fiscal restraint.
I get it - - a little bit of cancer (socialism) is okay...
But how is that different than the Republican philosophy or “compassionate conservatism”?
I get it - - a little bit of cancer (socialism) is okay...
But how is that different than the Republican philosophy or “compassionate conservatism”?
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You know, that’s a good question. He and I have discussed it and decided that is where we overlap. He is a moderate liberal and I’m a compassionate conservative. Keeps the family gatherings peaceful! : )
He’s confused, I’ll pray he see’s the light and runs away from those socialists.
He’s confused, I’ll pray he see’s the light and runs away from those socialists.
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I can only hope.
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