Posted on 10/21/2009 1:06:08 PM PDT by Syncro
From: Sal Russo - Our Country Deserves Better Committee Date sent 10/20/2009 07:10:16 Subject: Responding to Attacks on Tea Party Express |
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The Tea Party Express is an effort made possible by the support of all sorts of different patriotic Americans coming together with basic, shared, common goals. We are generally "conservative" although some would bristle at that description and prefer to be called 'libertarians' or 'constitutionalists' or students of 'objectivism.' I helped start Our Country Deserves Better Committee, which is the lead sponsor of the Tea Party Express, during the last campaign season to call voters attention to the far-left policies we could expect if Barack Obama were elected President, and to rally Americans to oppose these policies and Obama's candidacy. The Our Country Deserves Better Committee continues to be a thriving project that wouldn't be possible if many different individuals associated with many different other groups didn't all work together to advance the shared cause we believe in. On the first Tea Party Express tour we had the fantastic support of individuals from Free Republic, FreedomWorks, local chapters of the Tea Party Patriots, the National Tax Limitation Committee, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, local 9/12 chapters (inspired by Glenn Beck), ResistNet, Smart Girl Politics, the new media outfit - Parcbench, the MultiCultural Conservative Coalition, and countless others. I could spend an entire email telling you all the different groups that had representatives, members and leaders helping to make the Tea Party Express a success. Not to mention, we had thousands of people who have become active in politics for the very first time in their lives. Many of these same individuals from these same great organizations are helping to put together the Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day. And you know what? We here at the Tea Party Express don't always agree with every single thing one of our partners' actions, beliefs or declarations - and they don't always agree with us. But what we are doing, and have done, is to work where we have common ground. Here are the issues we highlight on the side of our Tea Party Express buses which helpt to define what we believe: *End the Bailouts! *Reduce the Size & Intrusiveness of Government! *Stop the Out-Of-Control Spending! *No Government-Run Healthcare *Stop Raising Our TaxesThat list is meant to serve as highlights of the issues we are fighting for, and is by no means exhaustive. Those issues speak to what the real divide is in American politics now: those who believe in more freedom for the individual and those who believe in less freedom for the individual, and more power for government. With this second Tea Party Express tour we are going to begin serving notice to those politicians who face our opposition because of their actions to embrace big-government, higher-tax, socialistic policies, and we are going to ask the American people to join us in our efforts to defeat these 'worst offenders' in government. We don't have to agree with each other on every single issue in this tea party movement. We don't have to always like the leader of this-or-that group. We just have to understand that we are a stronger force when we unite for those values we commonly share. That was the secret to Ronald Reagan's success: he built alliances with those who agreed with him on the issues he was passionate about and never allowed his critics or detractors (whether Democrat, fellow Republican, or in the media) to stop him from fighting for what he believed in. I think a great humorous Reagan quote that sums up the battle we are facing in America is this: "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." |
We Florida Freepers will be booking at a hotel within walking distance of Lake Eola Park and will be getting together for dinner and Freeper Fun visit after the rally! See you in Orlando!
Look, you don't like Russo, we get it.
You don't like Reagan either I see from just some slight research.
I'm sorry you got hooked up with crooks in the past, but don't take it out on the millions of people that are coming out and attending teaparties to sock it to the criminals in power in Washington.
Sounds great, see you there!
You are as transparant as Obama said his administration would be.
You and your ilk won't stop the progress the real mainstream American citizens and tea parties, and oh yes The Tea Party Express included, have and will make.
You're a thorn in the side of the movement, just like some of the self appointed "leaders" (and no that does NOT include Russo). You are doing exactly what they want you to do...marginalize anyone else so they can raise to the top and get their fame and fortune.
So pluck your self out of the side of the movement, or go on MSNBC and thrill Maddow etc.
I'm sure they would hire you, you are pesistant and facts don't penetrate your spin.
Every one of your comments on this thread say the same thing, and Olbermann and his level of lifeform are cheering you on.
What a stupid, uninformed, ignorant thing to say.
Read this thread a few times and inform yourself then give it a rest.
You're mighty close to insulting me, and I don't really abide that very well.
Consider your own statements here.
Without any supporting evidence, you have libeled me here for being:
"bought and paid for"
"prejudiced against the Tea Party movement"
"hooked up with crooks in the past"
a "political hack"
"twisting words"
"(using) leftist talking points"
"(have) a lot of issues"
Then, you warn me of being "insulting" to you!
My question to you: Do you always accuse others, of what you yourself are doing?
If so, can you recognize your own double-standard?
You are practicing the same "Chicago style" tactics as those that are (rightly) criticized of Obama, in support of another moneyed hack (in the name of Sal Russo). I urge you not to fall for Sal's rhetoric, but instead look into his actual record.
The Tea Parties should go on, but without the association of the same group of oily political "consultants" that have already messed up our government (to where it now is).
Just sending your talking points back to you.
So it's interesting, because I was pointing out to YOU that you were accusing others of what you are doing.
Good try.
Your use of projection is transparent.
You are doing exactly what the left is doing to try to marginalize the tea party movement.
Let's not do that anymore here, do some research and start a thread with proof of your allegations.
BTW, some of the people your criticize have been welcomed by millions of American Citizens.
But not welcomed by you, not by leftists, and not those that proclaim to be "leaders" of the tea party movement.
Please stop already.
LOLOL!
I couldn’t have said it better myself...
Picture=thousand words in action.
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