Mark Skoda
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
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!
Republican astro-turfers fighting for control of the fake grass.
Mark Skoda
Skoda just another PC idiot that wants to grovel and get on his knees.
Skoda and the NTPF are libs. How can I tell? They’re delusional, esp re their fantasies of running the TEA Party and moving it left.
The NTPF aka Coffee Party in TEA Party clothing will be flushed soon, just like the first Coffee Party...
Movements don’t need leaders. They can catch up later after we’ve stormed the barricades.
There is no leader to the Tea Party, or Parties, nationally or locally.
I am sick of these opportunists who claim they are the self appointed leader of some Tea Party group. Like this guy and Dick Armey and others.
The beaurty of the Tea Party is that it was a spontaneous consensus of like minded Americans who “were mad as hell and counldn’t take it any more”.
Even today Santelli of CNBC is claiming that he is the founder of the Tea Party. Santelli? Rand?? No way.
The Tea Party is a movement without a founder. If there was a seminal moment that could be traced as the origin of the Tea Party, it is not Santelli’s rant. It was the attempt by the rulers in Washington of both parties - Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Rove, Pelosi, Reid - to push through an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006-2007.
With 70-80% of Americans in violent opposition to an unwanted invasion, public outrage melted down the switchboards and Outlook boxes in the Senate and forced them to back off the amnesty program that cheap labor Republicans and Hispanic vote grabbing Democrats wanted to shove down American throats.
It was the first example of people power, and it awakened a vast majority to the fact that the people did have it within their power to take back the country. Santelli just got caught up in the wave - he didn’t create it. And the Tea Party’s future lies in remaining a spontaneous, popular (not populist) movement.
It doesn’t need self-promoting hacks claiming to be leaders who speak only for themselves and just want to get on TV because the talk show producers find it easy to call on the same few morons rather than do a real search for true Tea Party people.
Now all we need is for someone to start the International Tea Party Federation and kick the National Tea Party Federation out. Maybe followed by the Intergalactic......and so it goes.
We know they are going to make stuff up about us anyway. We should just loudly and repeatedly reject those claims and not let fear cause us to try to stiffle free speech.