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Conservatives should oppose the hijacking of the Tea Party movement
Renew America ^ | 5 January 2010 | Tim Dunkin

Posted on 01/05/2010 2:03:27 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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1 posted on 01/05/2010 2:03:29 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
“The entity against which this warning is sounded, the one that the Tea Partiers fear will subvert the purity and autonomy of their movement, is the Republican Party.”

The GOP should NOT be allowed to subvert the Tea Party.

The TEA PARTY should infiltrate and subvert the GOP.

2 posted on 01/05/2010 2:07:58 PM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Take, for example, the new "Tea Party Party" that has been registered in Florida by an Orlando attorney named Fred O'Neal. The essential idea behind this new Third Party is to recruit fiscally conservative candidates to run against both Democrats and Republicans in elections. Based upon past discussions I've had with other folks who are pushing for the creation of a "Tea Party Party," this will be the case even when the Republican in the race is a solid conservative.

This is a monumentally poor idea, one which is practically guaranteed to allow liberal Democrats to stay in power so that they can continue to advance their radical agenda.

Yep.

3 posted on 01/05/2010 2:08:11 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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Also in the race is Joe Kennedy, a Libertarian who is also running as the "Tea Party Candidate." Wonderful. Though he is only currently polling about 1%, in a special election race in which general turnout will be low, every single vote counts that much more. Brown needs every anti-statist vote he can get to even have a shot at winning this. Yet, we have a "Tea Party Candidate" in the race who is no better on these important issues than the Republican. When it comes to Porkulus or Obamacare, Kennedy is basically a clone of Brown. A clone who could steal enough votes away to hand the race to Coakley. A clone who could end up subverting his own ideological position by running in this race, handing the Democrats back their filibuster-proof majority and their license to spend your and my (and his) hard-earned money.

Glad the author brought this up, I've been warning about Kennedy for a while. He is correct except, Kennedy is far worse than Brown. Kennedy is a life long Democrat, pro-choice, code pinko, who agrees with the Dems on most of the issues but is playing the 'tea party' candidate game by claiming he just doesn't want the federal government to pay for it. IMHO, he is a dem trying to split the Conservative vote.

4 posted on 01/05/2010 2:09:07 PM PST by mnehring
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To: GVnana

The tea partiers are largely GOP. Conservatives...


5 posted on 01/05/2010 2:10:31 PM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Spot on!!!
look no further than the Kennedy who is running in Mass.’ special Senate election for a prime example.

Liberals are in the business of stealing everything drom us....do NOT let them get their filthy hands on this...


6 posted on 01/05/2010 2:12:15 PM PST by SueRae
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Largely, yes. But many, many independents, also. That’s what is putting the fear of God into the Dems.


7 posted on 01/05/2010 2:12:28 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Agreed, the Tea Party should never allow the GOP to take control.... In the beginning, many in the GOP didn't want to be associated with people in the Tea Party. So why now? As we all know, people are fed up with feckless, inept, politicians who have had one agenda, self-preservation at the cost of destroying our republic.
8 posted on 01/05/2010 2:12:28 PM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: GVnana

“Orlando attorney” typical ASSHOLE Lawyer.


9 posted on 01/05/2010 2:12:31 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

GOP “leadership” is one of the prime reasons the tea parties started!


10 posted on 01/05/2010 2:13:34 PM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
One doesn't have to be one of these slicked-back, bonded-toothed Washington-insider politicos to have the savvy to realize that splitting conservative votes between two different Parties is a recipe for electoral and ideological suicide. Conservatives need to unite — to support conservatives in Republican primaries, to oust RINOs from positions of leadership, to advance the conservative principles that we all hold dear.

Long article just to get to the point.

11 posted on 01/05/2010 2:13:57 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free (http://teapartypatriots.org)
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To: SeattleBruce; New Yawk Minute; jveritas; Kate in Palo Alto; rep-always; Eddie01; paulycy; ...

TEApublican Ping List - Rejecting both Third Partyism and GOP Business as Usual - for Success in 11/2010!

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12 posted on 01/05/2010 2:14:33 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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To: mnehring

Exactly. They are trying to neuter the meaning of Tea Party, split the vote and render the work done thus far, meaningless.


13 posted on 01/05/2010 2:15:05 PM PST by SueRae
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

This writer who is a chemist by trade should stick to making glue. He doesn’t have a clue.

We have have tried the RINO way since Reagan and look where it’s gotten us.

I’ll hitch my wagon to the conservative Tea Party Movement.
And fear not, The Tea Party Movement will pick up a lot of Reagan Democrats and independents along the way.


14 posted on 01/05/2010 2:15:10 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: GodGunsGuts; marron; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; spirited irish

Ping!


15 posted on 01/05/2010 2:17:28 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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How many infiltrations and subvertings is the GOP supposed to undergo at one time?

We have evangelicals, Ron Paulies, RINO’s, and now Tea Partiers too? All wanting to subvert the GOP?

The GOP has to change, that’s for sure, but are we ready to rip it apart by all those who desire to “subvert it?”

I agree, the GOP should not take over the Tea Party, but I can see it working together, provided the GOP gets the message to wake up.


16 posted on 01/05/2010 2:27:10 PM PST by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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It is a power vacuum. When we have weak leadership, a lot of interests want to step in and take it their way.


17 posted on 01/05/2010 2:29:39 PM PST by mnehring
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I agree - and I’m an officer in the local GOP. Parties are good for running candidates and other things that group affiliation brings. Beyond that is the citizen domain and Tea Party/912 groups work in that arena better.


18 posted on 01/05/2010 2:30:35 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 awaits...)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

We must also not let the Dems infiltrate and direct the Tea Party movement. I suspect this is part of what is happening, too.


19 posted on 01/05/2010 2:37:31 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Roccus

>>GOP “leadership” is one of the prime reasons the tea parties started!

I agree. If the GOP leadership had been doing it’s job, it would have been hosting anti-Progressive rallies from Day One of Nancy Pelosi’s “Most ethical Congress ever!”.

Scratch that...if the GOP leadership had been doing it’s job, Pelosi would just be another leftist moonbat congressman in the minority party.

So, tea parties are proof of the absence of GOP leadership!


20 posted on 01/05/2010 2:44:49 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
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