Posted on 09/26/2010 5:02:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the U.S. midterm elections five weeks away, the Tea Party movement is already the big winner of 2010.
This anti-government, grass-roots Republican offshoot has rattled the party establishment — making the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, the party’s most prominent 2012 presidential possibility — and has dominated the debate this campaign season.
The Tea Partiers believe they are on the cutting edge of a revolution: the “future of politics,” as Ms. Palin says. More likely, they are a short-term catalyst for Republicans and a long-term problem.
Nevertheless, their victories are impressive — toppling the Republican Party’s choices in Senate primary races from Alaska to Delaware, with Nevada, Colorado and Kentucky in between. Scores of candidates for the House of Representatives around the United States have embraced the Tea Party agenda.
The effect on non-Tea Party Republicans is palpable. The party’s 2008 presidential nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has shifted right on issues like immigration and tax cuts after being challenged by a Tea Party-type candidate. The former maverick is going to the Tea Party’s rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Oct. 9.
Mitt Romney, a presidential hopeful and former governor of Massachusetts who is always a good weather vane, is assiduously courting the group. Immediately after the Tea Party candidates Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware won upset victories in Senate primaries, Mr. Romney embraced them with campaign contributions.
The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, a non-movement conservative, has embraced the Tea Party’s general anti-immigration posture; he actually endorsed changing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to bar citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.
Karl Rove, once an arbiter of conservative sentiment, in a moment of serious analysis on Fox News, criticized Ms. O’Donnell...
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The NYT has been working with many of these RINOs all along.
Cleaning out the Republican party sounds like its helping it to me. Sure it hurts the statists but the party itself is made better.
“Tea Party Doesn’t Need Votes to Win U.S. Elections”
BU!! SH!T
Vote
VOTE
VOTE!
drive your neighbors, drag your friends to the polls and VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Without reading this (I can’t believe Al Hunt is still alive, sad), and not to be a bummer, but I gotta say, WE NEED TO WIN IN NOVEMBER!
Ok, maybe we won’t win them all, but we need to win a bunch.
That is all.
Al Hunt is still alive? This idiot has yet to be right on anything in his political life.
The New York Times is hereby invited to go ‘bleep’ themselves whenever they want. They have no idea, they don’t know what or who they are talking about, they have not spent a ocllective 10 minutes in the company of tea party patriots, and they are just making it up as they want it to be.
And by the way—they are projecting when they say the tea party movement will flame out and be a big problem for the Republican party even before it does. Because it is OBAMA who has already flamed out and become a MONSTER PROBLEM for the New York Times’ political party of choice.
Re-Elect Palin 2016
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