Posted on 04/04/2010 1:29:56 PM PDT by SmartInsight
Democrats are attacking the tea party movement because it is a new force that's bringing millions of here-to-fore unengaged Democrats, independents and Republicans into the political arena. If there's something a ruling party doesn't like, it's a new political player converting spectators into participants.
To maintain their influence, tea partiers will have to maintain their current energy and concern over health care and federal spending.
But tea partiers will have to do more than surf discontent with the Obama administration's policies. They will also have to coalesce around a positive agenda.
The unhinged quality of the White House and the DNC attacks show that they understand how much the tea party movement can affect this year's elections. Now is the time for the movement to ensure its energy - and influence - stay high.
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“So does Axelrod and Rahm”
And we should learn from them too — we need to understand the enemy, to defeat him. I don’t recommend the underhanded techniques they are using, but we need to prepare and stop it, such as voter fraud.
“The object of politics is to win,not only to make a statement.If the Tea Party does not find a way to join with GOP,we are sure to lose, ie. Ross Perot gave Clinton a 43% win in 1992!”
Exactly.
“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing” — Vince Lombardi
Losers don’t have any influence in politics — witness the Obamacare cramdown. In order to influence anything, first you must win.
Thanks for the advice Karl “prescription drug benefit” Rove. One of the main reasons the republicans lost heir way in congress. He and his boss single handedly spent the country into oblivion. The only bigger fraud is the current occupant of the oval office.
Rove helped to give us Bush II
That would be a typical response that a Liberal would give during a call-in to a talk show--------a dozen questions in response to a single assertion by the show host.
If I were to answer one of your mindless questions you would come back with another dozen.
You guys out yourselves so easily. Have you no pride in what you were commissioned and paid to do here?
I think the goal should be simple and “non-ideological”.
First, make a tax system where everyone shares the burden. No more freeloaders. No more “make the rich pay” as if only rich have to pay. It is our government and if we can’t afford it, no one can afford it.
Second pay down the debt. Not just reduce the deficit but pay down the debt itself over ten years. There is no good reason for us to be on the hook for >$1,000 interest per person every year and leaving our children with $30,000 of debt after we die.
“Rove helped to give us Bush II”
Your short post is not clear whether you imply that it’s a positive or negative, I am leaning on interpreting it as a negative, the way you phrased it.
Would you have been happier with President Gore or Kerry?
Your post indicates the obvious: we have no choice
He let the moonbats and the verminous Communists in the press control the agenda and undermine support for the war on terror and spread the meme that "9-11 was an inside job"; he let the press define the terms and not call them on vetting Obama, including natural-born citizenship status ("who's your daddy?", not birtherism); and he let the press define 4.8% unemployment as a "recession".
Oh, and Bush never groomed a successor to follow on. Sporadically placed "Miss Me Yet?" billboards do not make up for the socialization of banks, the financial rapine of GM bondholders and the nationalization of major industries, Obamacare, the Dems solidifying their hold in the House and Senate (and around Reid/Pelosi at that!), leftists on the Supreme Court, a nuclear Iran, a resurgent Russia and militaristic China, abandonment of Israel, and government-paid abortions.
...in the first 14 months.
Yes, we do have a choice — fight among ourselves and let the Dems continue destroying the country, or unite and put the GOP into majority, THEN pick off the RINOs, from a position of strength and incrementally make the GOP more conservative.
Bullshit.
McCain -- of McCain-Feingold -- enabled the Soros-inspired tidal wave of shady money behind Obama, and the drumbeat of "Bush lied people died" and other lies, which were behind the call for undefined "change".
McCain was a shill for Amnesty too.
And told us "we had nothing to fear from President Obama".
What kind of politician does THAT?
Nice try.
Some of these posters make me laugh. They care more about WHO is growing the govt rather than the fact that both parties equally guilty in this mess.
Sure gwb is better than maobama, however gwb and rove are directly responsible for a large portion of not only the mess we are in, but that fact that we have such an uphill battle to face gooing forward since the republican brand is so horribly damaged.
And before anyone calls me names, I worked on gwb campaigns as well as mccains.
Of course the "natural born citizen" charge is serious.
Recall the scandal over the original "October surprise" when it was claimed Bush '41 was flown across the Atlantic in an SR-71 to negotiate with our enemies to embarrass a Democrat...?
And the Democrats got away with proclaiming "it's not the nature of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charges."
In the meantime, here is the list of background material hidden up like a bank vault on behalf of Obama:
Click here. (Thanks, TigersEye).
In any other setting, he'd be called a "mole".
And if you don't like the "birther" thing, go after the "Who's Your Daddy?" thing.
Dual citizenship at or by birth is also held as a bar to the Presidency as well.
Cheers!
“Two senior congressional Republicans on Sunday declined to express confidence in Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele after revelations that the RNC spent $2,000 entertaining potential contributors at a sex-themed nightclub.”
On another note, this should help “us” keep the infighting down.../s
He never really fought for anything. Did he put in 1/10 the energy into social security reform that Barry did? Did he veto one irresponsible spending bill? And why did the dems get control of congress? At least partly because there was no perceived difference between the parties. Republicans were dems lite. As far as the stock market is concerned it hasn’t functioned as a truly free market since 1987. No the death knell of the party was the prescription drug benefit. It showed the party truly lost it’s way.
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