Posted on 01/19/2010 10:35:52 PM PST by neverdem
they will attack .. and it will be brutal.. it chicago style... so lock and load....... here it comes..
The author makes a number of essential points. One of the chief among them is to discount the stated viewpoint of any nitwit or Leftist mole who says there’s no difference between the Republican and Democrat Parties.
“The Democrats and the Obama administration will be more determined than ever to hold on to the power necessary to transform the United States into their image.”
The harder they try to hold on to power the more violently it will be ripped away from them. There is a force greater than they are that is destroying them and whose will cannot be resisted.
The author obviously doesn't understand the Tea Party movement or the anti-incumbent mood of the electorate. It will be up to the GOP to decide if it wants to "join" the Tea Party movement, which has no intention or desire of taking over the local Rep party or establishment. The Tea Party movement is a non-hierarchical confederation of many local grassroots groups. It has some basic principles and beliefs that the GOP must gravitate towards or face the prospect of an eventual third party movement. It is up to the GOP to tap into the movement, not the other way around.
The campaign for November has to repeat the need for openness and transparency in government, along with fiscal restraint. Almost like a 2010 version of the Contract With America, but this time the winning party has to remember that:
1) There was no expiration date on the CWA, and
2) If you say that you are going to bring positive change to Washington, do it. And behave yourself in your personal life, so that you don't become the problem.
3) One vulnerability in the US Constitution is the lack of term limits, because the Founding Fathers never expected their successors to become lifers. People need to pledge to retire after a certain number of years, and then do it.
Spot on right!
To be merely anti-incumbent without understanding the issues and probable outcomes of ones choices is to be intellectually derelict because, for one, that viewpoint often enables the greatest of possible evils.
I got the impression that the GOP didn’t really help Brown out that much. I’m sure Steele will be on T.V. taking credit tomorrow, though.
Absolutely right. The GOP needs the tea partiers worse than the tea partiers need the GOP.
After all, the GOP left conservatives first and gave us window dressing losers. Well I’m tired of being on the losing side, or compromising way beyond my normal ideology so some party who panders to special interest can say they are for the little guy.
A little compromise is acceptable because nobody can be everything to everyone. But the GOP has sold us out one too many times for me to trust anyone they try to pass off on us as a candidate.
I disagree. The Tea Party movement got behind Scott Brown within the Republican Party because he espoused their views of smaller government, lower taxes, opposition to obamacare, etc. They, in effect, took control of the Republican Party on the grass roots level, in spite of the state republican leadership, and directed statewide support toward Brown's conservative view points.
This is what must happen in every state - Tea Party movement people, or just people who empathize with their views must simply “take over - get involved and get to work” within the republican party and direct it themselves. Scott Brown demonstrated how this can be done. The republican party is the most open to conservatism, but it must be directed by conservatives within the local precinct, district by district. Weed out the rinos - it can happen. We just saw this happen in Massachusetts.
In Power Push, Movement Sees Base in G.O.P. (Tea Party Movement)
HOLLAND, Pa. — 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...
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Conservatives took the Republican retreat as a victory, but also saw the power of the party structure in deciding who the candidates will be. The rallying cry for more local involvement has been “No more NY-23’s.”
“We don’t want to see what happened in New York happen here,” Ms. Przybylski said.
The forum here drew nine candidates and a standing-room crowd in an auditorium built for 1,200. The questions organizers had drawn up for the candidates hinted at the issues important to so called Teapublicans.
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Each was asked to define the 10th Amendment, and to cite examples of where it “might have been violated.” “It’s my favorite amendment in the Constitution,” exclaimed one candidate, Ira Hoffman. “I can’t believe it!”
--snip-- Ms. Stefano, a stay-at-home mother and former television reporter, will have to get 10 signatures and put her name on the ballot to run. But the National Precinct Alliance estimates that about 60 percent of the roughly 150,000 local Republican committee seats are vacant and can be filled by essentially showing...
Some good lessons in this article, some I disagree with: such as “Tea Party” folk should only become involved in the Republican Party; where practicle and necessary I think they should get involved in the Democratic party as well..
just my 2..
Just listen to the delusion and lies he’s telling ...as if they’ve worked with the Republicans AT ALL. They’re going to ramp it up even harder, to be even more partisan, autocratic and forceful .. unreal.
Howard Dean on the Brown Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVP6HICRbbc
This has nothing to do with being “intellectually derelict.” Voters are angry because their representatives are ignoring the wishes of the majority of their constituents. The only way to hold them accountable is to vote them out of office.
The GOP sent secretly over $500K to the Brown campaign. They intentionally [and correctly] stayed below the radar so Brown could attract independents.
Further to the point ...
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President Obama plans combative turn
Excerpt:
President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.
This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt, a senior administration official said. It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.
A defeat by Martha Coakley for the seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy would be embarrassing for the party and potentially debilitating, since Democrats will lose their filibuster-proof, 60-vote hold on the Senate.
A potential casualty: the health care bill that was to be the crowning achievement of the president’s first year in office.
The health care backdrop has given the White House a strong incentive to strike a defiant posture, at least rhetorically, in response to what would be an undeniable embarrassment for the president and his party.
There won’t be any grand proclamation that the era of Big Government is over; the words President Bill Clinton uttered after Republicans won the Congress in the 1990s and he was forced to trim a once-ambitious agenda.
The response will not be to do incremental things and try to salvage a few seats in the fall, a presidential adviser said. The best political route also happens to be he boldest rhetorical route, which is to go out and fight and let the chips fall where they may. We can say, “At least we fought for these things, and the Republicans said no.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31629.html
Tomorrow you will see a host of the GOP on T.V. saying that the GOP message is being heard by America, blah, blah, blah.
You'll soon be thinking Obama was a moderate this first year.
Mark my words. The Dems know no limits to their lust for power.
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