Posted on 01/15/2010 11:17:07 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger. Now, Tea Party activists are trying to take over the establishment, ground up.
Across the country, they are signing up to be Republican precinct leaders, a position so low-level that it often remains vacant, but which comes with the ability to vote for the party executives who endorse candidates, approve platforms and decide where the party spends money.
A new group called the National Precinct Alliance says it has a coordinator in nearly every state to recruit Tea Party activists to fill the positions and has already swelled the number of like-minded members in Republican Party committees in Arizona and Nevada. Its mantra is this: take the precinct, take the state, take the party — and force it to nominate conservatives rather than people they see as liberals in Republican clothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This is what I've been saying for almost a year now.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Patriotic, honest, wonderful people, freedom and democracy lovers, are trying to take over the Republican Party Apparatus.
Like of like how the communists seized the democrat party.
Yes! This is how WE win and the commies LOSE! Throw them all overboard....
“The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger.”
Uh...no. How about “anti-socialist/Marxist/Communist/statist anger”?
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Sounds awesome to me.
A party within a party.
Great idea. I have been saying that for a very long time.
I agree with this tactic, and it's the only way to take back the GOP. It's going to have to involve a long march through the party machinery.
So how do I contact someone to be active in this effort locally? I’m in eastern North Carolina.
“Not all Republicans agree. Some say the party needs to broaden its reach, not cater to the fringe.”
They just don’t get it, do they?
“I don’t necessarily think there’s been global warming,” one candidate objected.”
I have a feeling the writer meant this as an insult. Kind of like...look how ignorant these people are. Just wait and see
Exactly, literally true.
I just pray it doesn't take us as long - because we'll all be in gulags long before we're successful.
In 1981, as an investigative reporter for a statewide paper, I infiltrated a "NO PRESS" meeting of the DSOC (Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) in our capitol.
The main speaker, our state senate majority leader (dem) at the time, stood up and, pulling a card out of his pocket, said: "I, like you, am a card carrying socialist..."
He then went on to lament that they were not yet strong enough to come out in the open but would have to devise a new strategy - infiltrate and take over the democrat party, from the ground up.
None can deny their success.
I have been preaching, for 3 decades, that we need to do the same thing. I'm glad I've lived long enough for it to at least be recognized.
Now that we're doing it - the Rats are wringing their hands. How AWFUL! the PEOPLE are going to finally exercise their Constitutional Rights! OMG!
Coakley should stress how much she wants to raise everyone’s taxes again....
As the article states, most Republican precinct positions are vacant, and can be had by simply showing up and putting your name in. They are often vacant because they are unpaid, and they don't come with the kind of power that would interest the lawyer-types who infest the other elected offices.
From the “ground up”?
You mean the tea party IS a grassroots movement?
Silly me. I thought it was a conspiracy by power hungry evil Republican elite hiring and mobilizing deluded fools.
The comments after the article are sickening. What a bunch of statist sheep.
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