[Hildy]

Have you ever been to a tea party? Have you read the platform? They have said, since the beginning, they will endorse the candidate who will follow the Constitution. PERIOD. They have said this isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing, it’s a PATRIOT thing.

That being said, most of the effort is of course in the Republican party. We were succcessful here where I live to sign up so many people for precinct committee positions which is the first step in taking back the party. But this endorsement is nothing surprising.

[Ingtar]

Why is it not surprising? Does his voting record justify this? I’ve seen no reports for a dissenting Dim in the House, but that does not surprise me.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Problem is, by supporting a Deomcrat, they’re helping Pelosi maintain her speakership and the Democrats their majority.

Folks, it’s time to get our heads screwed on straight. The time for this “I’m non-partisan” bull hockey has ended. Find conservative REPUBLICANS and vote for them. Voting for a Dem, even a conservative Dem who voted against health scare and porkulus, is still enabling Pelosi and Co. to maintain a majority and forward their opposition.

Where would the Obama agenda be today if each of those 38 “conservative Democrats” had instead been replaced by conservative Republicans? Where would the Dem majority be? Where would Pelosi’s “mandate” to rule be?

[kbennkc]

Have you ever been to a tea party? Have you read the platform? They have said, since the beginning, they will endorse the candidate who will follow the Constitution. PERIOD. They have said this isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing, it’s a PATRIOT thing.

Yes I have been to a tea party .I have have fought for their right to assemble and petition for redress and to be milked by Sal Russo like holsteins . Yes . Most of my neighbors in Idaho and Utah , don't drink tea or coffee . But that's what it was called Tea Party .

From the article

People at Boise's tea party rally were divided about the Minnick endorsement.

I would say we were about evenly divided . Half couldn't believe it and half couldn't quit laughing . Walt is great .Congressman Minnick has voted with the Democratic majority for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 [7], the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 [8], the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [9], the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act [10], and against establishing spending caps through fiscal year 2014 [11].

He not only votes against what we want , he wants to be a club for growth hero and make Idaho the Poster child for " Oh spend the tax dollars somewhere else ,we're so poor a state now we won't notice" We are like West Virginia without the incest, as far as you know,and without the Pork Senator Byrd brought home . Can you name a congress critter from Idaho . Anyone ? Anyone ? I knew you would say Larry Craig . Well he is gone . The other one you have heard of is Frank Church . Ring a bell ? Remember why the CIA is now a branch office of the NY Times and is filled with people like Valery Plame ? That is the kind of rat ag states get for some reason . Must be the fertilizer . McGovern, Dashell , You know the rest . Walt is a Washington State carpet bagging Harvard law , non-law practicer . You know what kind of dirt goes to law school and does not serve his neighbors by practicing law A RAT . A Statist rat . A statist rat who uses statist connections to get rich and then find some hillbilly state like Idaho to get a seat in government . I never had a birthday party . But in addition to the tea party , I have been to a blanket party and I have been to a pig party . I have had enough of your tea party . I am starting a new party . Based on the parties I have been to , I have decided to call it the pigs-in-a- blanket-party . Like Sal Russo the pirate repugnican public relations firm owner who has co-opted your party of dupes , We will set out to find rat candidates in other peoples districts and endorse them because we don't want Chris Matthews to say we only endorse repugnicans and must be racists . The first rat candidate the pigs-in-a-blanket party endorses is Zoe Lofgren . Califa Dist 16 . Sorry San Jose area . . You have to understand , it is not about repunicans or democRATS , It is about Patriotism ,co-opting a movement for the RINOs even if it means sacrificing some little old district to the rats . Do any of you know who defined patriotism as being the last refuge of a scoundrel ? He even said it about 150 years before John McCain .

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... said Sal Russo, a veteran GOP political consultant and one of the forces behind the Tea Party Express. "

One of the things the Tea Party movement must do to keep itself pure as a grass roots movement of real Americans is to NOT involve themselves with political consultants. They are the ones who always do a poll and then advise moving toward the center, to the left in other words, to attract the moderate undecideds. That just makes us another ho-hum political activists group.

Was this guy appointed or just self-appointed?