Posted on 07/19/2010 7:30:17 AM PDT by kristinn
Who died and made Skoda king of the Tea Parties, anyway? TPE can continue on, with or without the jerk. Thing is, though, it looks like those who wanted to create divisions among the Tea Parties have succeeded. If it hadn’t been Skoda, it would have been some other egomaniac.
The Marxist will come in to divide and conquer the Tea Party.
Nobody has hijacked the Tea Party ‘movement’ - except in the sense that someone ‘self-proclaimed’ as a ‘leader’, and the Media sucked it right up...
The truth is that there are as many Tea Party Movements as there are Tea Partiers - and I certainly haven’t been hijacked.....
I admittedly did not read all interviews, but on its face if someone is trying to put themselves in charge of the Tea Party, it s not a good thing. The Tea Party movement, IMHO, is not about leaders. People are needed for organizing, but putting a personality before message is not what’s needed.
Although I don't like bigotry or anything anyone is accusing anybody of, I want responsible spending and taxation from Washington. I want a strong national defense for all America and safe and controlled border based on one (or a two or three layer) big freaking fence.
The left can seek to divide us, but if we stick to the fiscal policy, national defense and the border, we will knock the anti-Constitutionalists democrats out of the park in future elections.
The tea parties are about leaderless resistance so...
Dear Mark
And the horse you rode in on.
“Like Williams, Skoda is a local talk radio host in love with the sound of his own voice.”
Is there a problem with having a “radio talk show host” as head of the movement? Limbaugh and Beck are both, essentially, radio talk show hosts. Here in NJ, NJ101.5 is articulating the anti-tax sentiment.
Okay, these guys all make money by driving their Arbitron ratings higher. They are all doing their jobs for straight-out profit. But at least they are up-front about why they have their jobs: for the money. And if they make money by leading the movement, is that a bad thing?
Can someone explain to me why having radio talk show hosts as leaders of the Tea Party is wrong?
...and so it begins. Once you have “leaders’ of movements you invariable have division, factions and conflict. The beauty of the Tea Party movement is that it is not an organization nor does it have bylaws or membership lists. It should remain that way.
I’m also going to go out on a limb here and say the Tea Party shouldn’t be endorsing either. Members should certainly throw their weight behind their favorite candidates, and local groups should put out announcements about how they are all piling on to help someone or defeat someone else, but they need to leave it at that.
I’ve met a whole lot of Tea Party people and groups and in my opinion the one who “gets it” best is Mark Meckler.
Thanks, kristinn
Ed Zachary! The Tea Party movement is made up of like-minded, engaging conservative individuals. The Tea Party, as a whole, is doing just great! I have no idea who this Skoda guy is, but if he wants to play politics with the Tea Party Express, he'll lose! Big time!
Where does the Tea Party Federation come off dictating who can and cannot belong? Frankly, I had never heard of them until this weekend.
Maybe we should all dissociate ourselves from TPF!
I believe that you're right. An attempt is being made to create the illusion that the Tea Party Movement is fragmenting and falling apart. The Tea Parties must continue moving forward and not allow that illusion to become a reality.
Republican astro-turfers fighting for control of the fake grass.
LA is bifurcated all right....Mexican and Black, everyone else is either moving or dying.
Where does the Tea Party Federation come off dictating who can and cannot belong? Frankly, I had never heard of them until this weekend.
Maybe we should all dissociate ourselves from TPF!
Remember this National Tea Party Federation is a group of people, organizations, Tea Parties that banded together to form a federation. They don’t represent or even have included all the Tea Parties by any means. The Tea Party Express which Mark Williams is a member of joined this NTPF. It is from this Federation that they have expelled the Tea Party Express.
The individual Tea Parties still exist under their own leadership. They will do as they please and aren’t controlled by the NTPF......
You can see the press releases about their formation at the bottom of this page.
http://www.thenationalteapartyfederation.com/press_room.html
Here is a list of members of the Federation:
http://www.thenationalteapartyfederation.com/Membership_List.html
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