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Georgia Tea Parties' Police Targets GOP
WeArePolitics ^ | 12/13/2011 | Charles Jackson

Posted on 12/13/2011 5:38:55 AM PST by Billlknowles

A few years ago, I was an early, enthusiastic supporter of the Tea Party movement. Its essential belief in limited government and individual freedom form the core of conservative principles. The group's message of low taxes, deficit reduction and fidelity to the Constitution resonated with me.

However, my Tea Partying days are over.

The shot gun wedding between the Tea Party and the Republican Party after the 2010 midterm election has been consummated. It definitely wasn't a match made in heaven.

Unelected Tea Party police chieftains are calling the shots. They demand acquiescence to their agenda and intimidate Republican officeholders adhere to it or face a primary challenge.

The Tea Party purist police - with their rigid ideological orthodoxy - presume to know who's a "true" conservative. Now various Tea Party groups, most notably the State of Georgia Tea Party, wants to purge the GOP ranks of heretics.

Tea Party groups around Georgia are mobilizing to challenge Republican state elected officials they’ve deemed RINOs - Republicans In Name Only

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TOPICS: Georgia; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: davidralston; teaparty
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1 posted on 12/13/2011 5:39:06 AM PST by Billlknowles
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To: Billlknowles

Seems to me that the tea party has been co-opted into the GOP.


2 posted on 12/13/2011 5:44:21 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Billlknowles
Now various Tea Party groups, most notably the State of Georgia Tea Party, wants to purge the GOP ranks of heretics.

I hope the purge is true and is happening.

Hey, the RINO's are free to form there own moderate party if they want. But I would prefer that the RINOS' buck and support the Conservatives, RINO's have no place to go.

3 posted on 12/13/2011 5:45:39 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Billlknowles

>> The Tea Party purist police - with their rigid ideological orthodoxy - presume to know who’s a “true” conservative.

We have plenty of those right here on FR.


4 posted on 12/13/2011 5:46:30 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Billlknowles
His sin? Ralston supports a regional transportation sales tax referendum and that's “fiscally irresponsible.”
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It seems to me that the Tea Party is doing its job. Good for them.

The article doesn't state it but I bet that “regional transportation” could be solved though private means with a single penny of tax money.

5 posted on 12/13/2011 5:49:08 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Agreed.


6 posted on 12/13/2011 5:49:32 AM PST by GOP_Harley_Guy
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To: Nervous Tick
We have plenty of those right here on FR.

So what does your comment mean? Does Jim Robinson make it clear what FreeRepublic's vision of conservatism means? You have a problem?

7 posted on 12/13/2011 5:50:36 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Nervous Tick

“We have plenty of those right here on FR.”

Yes indeedy! ....unfortunately.


8 posted on 12/13/2011 5:53:18 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: central_va

Why, yes, I **do** have a problem.

Please allow me to illustrate.

Is Newt Gingrich “conservative enough” for you, Oh Great Arbiter Of Conservativism? Oh Divine Keeper Of The Conservative Flame, please impart your wisdom upon me and answer this question.


9 posted on 12/13/2011 5:54:37 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Billlknowles

So Mr. Jackson likes liberals. If he doesn’t quit the Tea Party, I hope they throw him out.


10 posted on 12/13/2011 5:59:59 AM PST by kitkat (Obama, rope and chains)
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To: Billlknowles

The Georgia Republican party is full of RINOs. The current governor and previous governor were at one time a Democrat.


11 posted on 12/13/2011 6:01:44 AM PST by Dacula
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To: Nervous Tick

Newt may not be perfect but he’s about the best chance we got from the choices left. Too bag Perry couldn’t debate. He might have had a chance. But it’s too late now baby.


12 posted on 12/13/2011 6:01:44 AM PST by McGruff (Hold the House, retake the Senate.)
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To: McGruff

Yeah, Perry and Gingrich are my picks too — in that order.

Perry would make the best president of the two (IMHO) — unfortunately he makes a lousy *candidate* for POTUS. :-( So for me, it looks like Gingrich at this point.

But these two are often disparaged by those self-appointed Keepers Of The True Conservative Flame as not being “conservative enough” — which is my point, actually.


13 posted on 12/13/2011 6:05:48 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Billlknowles

The author sounds miffed that the Tea Party’s messin’ with the GOP establishment’s fun and games.


14 posted on 12/13/2011 6:06:20 AM PST by Nickname
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To: central_va; Nervous Tick

>> So what does your comment mean? Does Jim Robinson make it clear what FreeRepublic’s vision of conservatism means? You have a problem >>

Wow, in addition to being a shameless attempt to polish the teachers apple - that misses a couple huge points:

A: JR allows for much dissent from his version of conservatism to go on freely on FR.
B: JR’s version includes a full throated support of Newt - which I’m betting CVA missed.

And man oh man, what a brown noser.....


15 posted on 12/13/2011 6:09:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Moderator of Florida Tea Party Convention Presidential Debate)
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To: Nervous Tick
Is Newt Gingrich “conservative enough” for you,

No.

“Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works”

Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.


-Newt Gingrich
16 posted on 12/13/2011 6:13:46 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Nervous Tick

That is pure bs. It’s people like you who want to stir up trouble. Now we have the word purist. Oh what fun. You know as well as anyone what conservative means and if you don’t want America to make it; leave.


17 posted on 12/13/2011 6:14:07 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Dacula; kitkat

From the article:

“My Tea-Partying days are over” and “The Tea Party’s a malignant Achilles’ heel on the body of the Republican Party, to wit:”Achilles’ heel is a deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, that can actually or potentially lead to downfall.”

Translation: I am a career Republican Party Hack who is tired of dealing with citizens who do not look at elected Republican politicians as owning “their seats”. I do not want to have to work primary campaigns once my boss is elected to office and somebody challenges him from within the Republican Party.


18 posted on 12/13/2011 6:15:45 AM PST by ngat
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To: freekitty

>> It’s people like you who want to stir up trouble.

“People like me” in what way?


19 posted on 12/13/2011 6:21:34 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Billlknowles
Rinos like Romney are the Benedict Arnolds of 2012. They must be dealt with FIRST before we go into battle with our HONESTLY DECLARED enemies.

God bless the Sons of Liberty !

20 posted on 12/13/2011 6:21:54 AM PST by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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