Conservatives should oppose the hijacking of the Tea Party movement

Renew America ^ | 5 January 2010 | Tim Dunkin

[UCFRoadWarrior]

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.

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Good point...and this is what the “No Tea Party Third Party” RINO-Liberals are afraid of.....the Tea Party will start bringing in Reagan Democrats and Independents.

I am totally wary of anyone who wants Tea Partiers to join the GOP....staying GOP will only ensure McCain, Graham, and other Liberal RINOs get elected.....the GOP will just try to marginalize the Tea Party voters to continue to run RINOs.....in fact, this is already being done. The marginalization of the Tea Party by the GOP and its RINO supporters are doing this every time they whine about a Tea Party Third Party

[ronnie raygun]

Here is a suggestion, race will not be an issue and niether will love of country and his conservative values!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6Ms

[ronnie raygun]

Sorry bout that, utube vid Allen West!

[stephenjohnbanker]

CURRENT HIJACKINGS

MASSACHUSETTS

FLORIDA

[SoCalPol]

I have seen first hand at various Tea Party events and have heard the same from others in different states.

The anti war Ron Paul loons have high jacked the Tea Party group.

Many Conservative Republicans won’t return especially seeing the Ron Paul loons handing out 9/11 Truther papers
to see a Truther movie.

[marron]

There are two groups who would like to see an independent Tea Party. One is the DNC, because it would split the conservative vote and give them a permanent majority. The second is the GOP leadership, because they would finally be rid of the conservatives who keep spoiling their party.

Sure, the GOP leadership would like to win, but if winning means having to pretend to be conservative, they’d rather be McCain, they’d rather be the graciously loyal opposition, forever reaching across the aisle to magnanimously help the majority Dems enact their only-slightly-watered-down agenda, year after year into perpetuity.

The writer is right. The Tea Partiers need to seize control of the precinct where they live. Did you get a crowd at your Tea Party shindig? Thats who needs to show up at the precinct meeting, just about that rowdy and ready to rumble. Its your party, and you know what you need to do.

We need a new GOP leadership in the worst way. We need principled leadership, and that principled leadership has to come from us. We’re the party, not them, not the Steeles, the McCains, the Grahams, the guys who keep embarrassing themselves and selling us out year after freaking year.

Its time for them to go. Its going to be rough for a while. But they’ve got to go.

[fr_freak]

The TEA PARTY should infiltrate and subvert the GOP.

Even better - the Tea Partiers should infiltrate both the GOP AND the Democrats. Think of how much progress we could make if we got conservatives to run as Democrats, both locally and nationally. Spout the party line while running for office, and then vote your conscience. That's what the commies did to the Democrats, and what they're doing to the GOP now.

[tennmountainman]

in fact, this is already being done.

We almost got a scalp in New York.

And we GOT a scalp today in Fla, with that arrogant, Son of Crist, Jim Greer.

[ZULU]

“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.”

When it lost control of Congress in 2006, the GOP didn’t get it.

When it lost the Presidency AND even the votes to filibuster in 2008, it STILL didn’t get it.

The same pack of poltroons is running the GOP now as under Bush II and THEY STILL DON’T GET IT!

The GOP is sick. Only very strong medicine can revitalize it.

Unlike the other groups you mentioned, the Tea Party people represent what the GOP leadership has always CLAIMED were their values but never delivered on.

If the current GOP leadership is able to take over the Presidency and Congress, we will have the same old crap. They won’t institute new leftist programs and may rescind a few the Democrats created, but the ESSENCE of the inevitable drift leftwards will remain.

That is no longer acceptable!!!

We want a revitalized and reinvigorated GOP which will bring America BACK to its political and cultural roots, BACK to the concept of limited government, back to the values of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and even Teddy Roosevelt. Back to the vision of the UNABASHEDLY patriotic and God-Fearing Founders of this Republic.

And Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, etc simply have neither the will, nor the guts nor the intellect nor the vision to accomplish it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!