Posted on 10/24/2011 7:19:18 PM PDT by Bokababe
The Tea Party was a beautiful happening! So beautiful was the sight of watching our citizens rise up in opposition to a federal government that has lost any sense of restraint that it is easy to forget that the enlightenment, which made it all possible, came at a heavy price – the expansion of government, debt, and an obscene redistribution of wealth from the people to a few select financial firms and companies. All the hope that the Tea Party provided, along with the labor, sacrifice, and treasure that was involved in organizing it, will be for naught if we do not examine how it was that the purveyors of big government got into power with our support to begin with...I write this because I feel we are on that same tired road; the same road that gave us the bailouts and a fourteen trillion dollar national debt. We are traveling this road because we are forgetting the lessons of the past. We are engaging in the very behavior that cost us dearly in the past and will burden generations to come. We are allowing those very people who the Tea Party sought to remove from influence to regain their power.... If you think my words embellished, ask yourself the following question: why is it that the top three candidates in the Republican Presidential Primaries are the only ones in the “conservative” field that supported the bailout of Wall Street?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogforliberty.com ...
“What you mean ‘we,’ kemosabe?”
How about telling the rest of the story?
None were in a position to vote on it and were relying on the same information the rest of us were. All be it that many of us opposed TARP from the beginning. Only one came out and quickly withdrew his support when he realized what we were sold was not what was being delivered.
I was Tea Party from the beginning. He’s right — the bailouts were what galvanized the Tea Party. And yet the three highest vote getting Republican presidential candidates now are all ones who supported the bailouts. Did we learn nothing?
Why the excerpt? I’m not going over there to read this tripe.
Not to worry the Tea Party is doing just fine,
It only reveals it’s true power at election time,
Like water no man can grab and hold it by hand,
But when the time comes it’s a tsunami across the land
The most constitutional and conservative
will be the Tea Party pick who remains
and since the good Lord himself ain’t running
that pick will be President Herman Cain.
I didn't write the blogpost, but he does a pretty extensive description of "the rest of the story".
And qualify it however much you want -- they all did support TARP.
Pahleeze, this is getting old. Just because you don’t see the tea party around, maybe you run in the wrong circles. And since you might be hanging around with the squirrels, you might be a lib plant. Past tense, ick. Go away, and don’t come back until after election.
I have said before. The Tea party is basically in bed with the bankers and the corrupt financial system. That is why they will not survive in any meaningful form. The tea party calls the corruption, Capitalism. we have a back door redistribution of wealth from the every day tax payer to the wall street bankers that created this whole mess and the tea party has its head buried in the sand.
The Tea Party was going great guns, and getting encouragement from a variety of quarters... all the way up until the November 2010 elections. Then, it was of no use to the GOP establishment types, and they’ve been joining in with the media, discrediting it and backstabbing its supporters ever since.
With all the insane Obama stimulus corruption and sleaze, the Tea Party ‘should’ be roaring back with a vengeance. But instead, everything is being consciously tamped down, concurrent with the attempt to pawn off the likes of tired, uninspiring political hacks like Romney and Perry to the GOP primary electorate. A really depressing turn of events, to be sure.
How’s things going in NYC? I guess the Tea Party is the new JEWS to the lefties.
kthxbye
Anyone looking for any ideological consistency might as well be searching for the Holy Grail.
The Tea Party began with ZERO input from pols. But it was boosted by Hannity and Beck and Cavuto on FOX. The very first rallies on 4/15/09 were covered in such a way on FOX that Beck et al were the rally hosts. Pols were not present to any degree at 9/12 and only began to appear at the Anti Obamacare rally in 3/2010. The primaries and general elections in 2010 were the peak of Tea Party power. The deluge of negative coverage has made being a tea partier less attractive and the lack of any locus of attention like TARP, Porkulus, and Obamacare has made organizing difficult. No “leader” will solve this problem. The Tea Party arose from the people. The pols caoght the wave. It doesn’t work the other way around.
Well, it needs to be qualified. There was TARP1, TARP2, and TARPx. If you or anyone else cannot distinguish between them, then it betrays a fundamental failure to understand the issue.
Even Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC was (largely) about one of Obama's mortgage plans . . . not about any of the TARPs as has become to be the conventional wisdom.
IMHO Palin deflated the Tea Party the way she quit.
She did a disservice to conservatives, and the tea party, with her retreat.
I hope the enthusiasm can be recaptured. Palin really should get off her duff and figure out how to reverse some of the damage.
Soon.
The Tea Party was deflated well before Palin announced, going back to earlier this year.
And what about all those so-called polls saying that something like 72% of the Tea Party ‘didn’t’ want her to run? The circa-2011 Tea Party remnants were flitting around like aimless moths, stupidly buying the media meme that Palin was ‘unelectable,’ and embarrassing themselves by jumping from Trump to Bachman to Perry to Cain and whomever popped anew each month.
I wouldn’t blame Palin for thinking she had relatively little support, and that might have actually contributed to her decision not to run. Maybe she should indeed take a bit of the blame, for not proclaiming herself more forcefully as a ‘leader’ of the movement. But that’s what made her so different. She was always out there supporting and encouraging the movement, not like other slimeball pols who were running out in front of the parade and basically proclaiming themselves to be leader.
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