Posted on 08/17/2010 6:17:47 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover.
On Feb. 9, 2009, Mary Rakovich, a recently laid-off automotive engineer, set out for a convention center in Fort Myers, Fla. with protest signs, a cooler of water and the courage of her convictions. She felt compelled to act, having grown increasingly alarmed at the explosion of earmarks, bailouts and government spending in the waning years of the Bush administration. President Barack Obama, joined by then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, was in town promoting his plan to spend a trillion dollars in borrowed money to "stimulate" the economy.
Mary didn't know it, but she was on the front lines of a grass-roots revolution that was brewing across the nation. More than 3,000 miles away, Keli Carender, a young Seattle school teacher and a member of a local comedy improv troupe, was feeling equally frustrated. She started to organize like-minded citizens. "Our nation's fiscal path is just not sustainable," she said. "You can't continue to spend money you don't have indefinitely."
Today the ranks of this citizen rebellion can be counted in the millions. The rebellion's name derives from the glorious rant of CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who in February 2009 called for a new "tea party" from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. By doing so he reminded all of us that America was founded on the revolutionary principle of citizen participation, citizen activism and the primacy of the individual over the government. That's the tea party ethos.
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Why any conservative wants to remain with the very party that has tossed Conservatives to the side for decades defies logic. It is the political version of battered wife syndrome.
He got me off the couch. I went to the Castor town hall in Tampa that got it going and the Tampa T Party rally. I was amazed at what effect a few angry taxpayers had. The Liberals went in to panic when confronted by actual taxpayers. They normally only have to deal with taxtakers.
I'm hoping that a *hostile* takeover isn't necessary. Armey is a bit too aggressive with those whom we want as voting allies.
RINOSs need to get the self-preserving clue that voting with Tea Party interests is actually in their own best interest, too. Threatening them with hostile takeovers is not very politic now, is it?
Stang: The GOP, Red From The Start....
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F. the RINO’s and F being “politic”...
I have but one appeal for the socialist M’er F’ers... Die quickly.
F. the RINO’s and F being “politic”...
I have but one appeal for the socialist M’er F’ers... Die quickly.
ugh.. double post...
My apologies.
You still don't get it, do you?
It's what RINOs do, it's what they've always done.
Good point. Why waste time stating the obvious, I guess.
Let’s face it—the Two-party system is just a two-headed coin, the same coin...
A choice between Mr FLIM or Mr FLAM!
We’re actually better off w/hussein at the wheel—at least there’s a few more (real) Americans out there that a duck when it’s obvious—not that there’s all that many real Americans around these days.
It goes way beyond RINOs...
Real Americans Vs AINOs...
Armey is a RINO who is trying to take over the Tea Party movement. Freedom Works has got involved in over 60 Congressional primaries supporting various candidates. Curiously, the AZ senate primary between McCain and Hayworth is not one of them. Armey is a big amnesty supporter. I don’t trust him one bit.
It was worth repeating.
“Civility” has gotten us nearly totally enslaved to a massive out of control federal government.
“F” “Civility”
Don’t trust any of the tawdry terd basterds!
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The fight is against the elitists who think they have the ability and the duty to impose their notions on the rest of us.
The elitists are democRats and Rinos. They must be purged.
Hopefully we all mean the same thing regarding “purged.”
Best I not define it here.
;)
It doesn’t defy logic at all.
“Purged” - removed from positions of authority where their ideas can have any effect on my life.
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