Posted on 09/15/2010 8:47:28 AM PDT by Scythian
Excellent, good for you for donating.
Rush mentioned her site, I hear the site it so overwhelmed with donations folks have to keep trying and trying just to get through to donate.
Christine is now 79% on her revised (upward) goal of $350k, simply amazing.
Already happening. Mentions of a couple of Republican/conservative PACs raking in the money. DeMint was one.
I think you folks are missing the point.
Individually these folks are doing things. I’d like to see some structure behind it.
Set up a mirror leadership council. Name people to all the offices the RNC has. Make joint statements that criticize the Republican Party decisions.
If the (exiled) RNC Chairman doesn’t like what Steele is doing, make a press release. If the party treasurer does something that is out of line, the (exiled) RNC Chairman can raise the issue, and the (exiled) RNC Treasurer can explain in depth why.
The press would eat it up. The RNC would be embarrassed into responding, or modifying their actions. Voters in the next RNC appointments meeting, could be courted by the (exiled) RNC office holders. They could then decide who they wanted to run the RNC.
If they wanted the RINOs to lead, fine. Over time the RNC would destroy itself as it ignored sound management suggestions.
These PACS are good. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to poke holes in them. I’m simply trying to elevate the visibility of Conservative objections to what the RNC is doing.
What a piece of scum, Medved. A DemocRat's best friend.
Sheeze, I used to listen to Medved alot when I lived in Seattle, he was always kind of middle of the road, but now, he’s jumped the “Rove” ...
That is quite amazing. It took less the 24 hours.
Today? As in, 1 day?
She is over 600K. I say she should go for a Million! Bless Rush for his steadfast support.
Not at all. I think that the Tea Party movement is developing very much analogously to the original Revolutionary War Patriot movement. Started at the grass-roots AND among some of the "intelligentsia" (who may not have been so recognized at the time, cf John and Sam Adams). The structure grew organically as it was needed.
I'd personally say that with the Tea Party, things are well into the "Committees of Correspondence" stage. Of course, things will develop FAR more quickly today, given the speed and ubiquitousness of today's communication channels.
On another thread, I made a connection to the "Great Awakenings" of the past. Most historians connect those only to religious movements, but I think there have also been political ones. The first and greatest political "Awakening" was the above Patriot movement, and it resulted in the Revolutionary War. The second was the anti-slavery movement (and Civil War). I think the "Tea Party" has a good shot at being of equal magnitude and consequence.
The real need here is to flush out the so called Republican leadership that keeps putting cadavers like McCain or Dole up for high office. Their agenda sucks therefore they suck.
Maybe waking the dead is easier....
When it comes to fiscal responsibility, I think the Tea Party movement is sound. When it comes to other Conservative policies, I’m not so convinced.
When the Tea Party took a pass on McCain, but couldn’t come up with the stones to back Hayworth, it told me this may be a nice moment, but I have a serious concern it will blossom to something we’re going to find sound overall in the long run.
Them allowing Palin to claim he was a Tea-Party enthusiast without question, didn’t impress me at all.
I hear what you are saying, but I’m not as convinced as you are that this is a defining moment. If it is, I’m not as convinced as you are that the definition is what we wish it were.
This election was going to go well for Republicans no matter what. Obama being ripe for the ‘Carter effect’, Congress was bound to see reversals.
It remains to be seen what the Tea Party will result in.
The proof that it is a defining moment for me was the Beck Washington gathering, and seeing the types of people there. These are the "good" folks, the ones who work hard, keep their noses clean, and make the wheels of the country turn. Most of them have NOT been politically active, but they have finally seen that things are going badly wrong, and something has to be done. The political parties are not correcting the situation, so they are beginning to gather, exactly as the same sorts of "good people" did before the Revolution. There will be fits and starts, and mistakes made, but the fact that matters has already happened....THEY ARE NOW AWARE....and the "establishment" had best BE-ware.
I am certainly supportive of what Beck tried to do, and I do recognize that as evidence of a huge mood swing in the nation.
I’m not trying to say that there isn’t anything good going to come of the Tea-Party. What I am trying to say is that there are a lot of Democrats in that mix too. How this all shakes out in the end, I’m not sure. I merely want folks to keep both eyes open and not get too disappointed if at some point this leads to less than we had hoped for.
Certainly this year there have been some real nice outcomes. I am hoping for a lot more, and think we have reason to.
My defining comment was more reflective of my caution concerning the Tea Party, not Beck’s endeavor.
I’ve seen things like this pop up before and fissile out. Perot was looking real good for a period there. You just never know how these things will wind up.
For now, I say we should support it. It’s certainly giving both parties fits right now. Nothing wrong with that.
Tuesday this week as a great day, and the Tea Party had a big hand in that. Excellent.
It was the NRSC, led by Cornyn, that initially refused her any support in the general election.
While Steel is mushy on most conservative issues, the real culprits at the RNC are the actual "committee" people, the entrenched RINO anonymous string-pullers, many of whom are sent by state Republican committees.
To clean this mess up, people have got to get and stay involved in their local precincts, county, and state Republican organizations, throughout the electoral cycle. Otherwise, the snotty RINOs will continue to work behind the scenes to control the funding and candidate issues.
I can't agree with you. I've followed politics since Goldwater (though I couldn't yet vote), and I don't recall ANY movement with as wide a base as this has. Perot, John Anderson, etc. aren't even in the running by comparison. The only one I can think of that is comparable is the civil rights movement in the 1960's.
On the way to $1.5 million now!
If your prediction is proven to be right, we both win. I hope it is. We will see.
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