“the primary motivating spirit behind the Tea Party movement has been anti-incumbent, anti-Washington, anti-establishment.”
Pro Individual Liberty, Pro National Defense, Pro Capitalism, and Pro Individual Responsibility, will take care of the “anti’s”
Splendid analysis. “Taking back the GOP” is not going to be as easy as cleaning the refrigerator. We shall see.
No... not anti-incumbent, that would assume a degree of brainless decision making. We are anti socialist (anti forced collectivism), but that is just the beginning. Our support or opposition to an incumbent depends solely on their ideology and whether or not their ideology is compatible with real freedom and liberty.
We must not let others tell us who we are.
We know who you are.
We know how your past.
Old senile posers will be put out to pasture.
Either you’re with us or you’re against us!
We want our America back, with or without you.
I like the old expression better.
Thousands of volunteers were ridiculed by the California Republican Party, who backed Democrat Gov. Davis, until the California Republican Party realized that the recall vote was going to happen.
At that point the California Republican Party shoved the citizens aside and claimed the recall as their own.. and all we got was this lousy Schwarzenkennedy.
Beware Tea Party folks.. the political parities are prone to doing those things.
That new agenda for America or whatever it’s called is nothing but RINO rehash. Conservative candidates should trash it as not enough.
Tea Party candidates that get in, will get tiired of trying to get co-opted will find a bigger enemy than the GOP and Obama's Vetos...
K-Street
I am getting good at this prediction thing, my guess is somewhere between Nov 2010 and 2012 Tea Partiers get real pissed that nothing is getting done and the monkey wrench in the gear box will be K Street.
I can see T-Party movement against the establishment special interest being a potential channelling of their energies.
I do not know the shape it will take, possibly shaming them, and waking the American People up to the fact they are a big part of the problem.
I say we make SURE we vote, and vote for the most conservative of the two candidates, which is usually the Republican. We can't effect change, if there is no change in the power structure in Congress. We have the best chance this year to get conservatives in office than we have for almost 20 years. Let's not blow this in any fits of pique brought in by articles like this.
When we've voted conservatives into office, we can begin to remind those who may not be AS conservative, that we are a force to be reckoned with. Even if they don't agree wholeheartedly with is, they might just spend more time agreeing with us just to keep any conservative opponents at bay.
The Tea Party movement, our best, perhaps last, chance to save this country and return it to founding principles.
In the immoral words of Trent Lott: “when they get to Washington, we’ll have to co-opt them.”
Better that a real Communist-Democrat wins any race than a RINO, Because when the real SHTF....The fewer Republican fingerprints on the train wreck the better.
The US political Old Guard, like Lott, still refuse to open their eyes and see what is going on.
Sadly this also includes some of the most well know, radio hosts, bloggers and columnists on the Right.
They still think of this as just another round in the political game. They still do not realize this is no longer a game, this is war.
The Republic is in danger.
Never in our history has this nation been governed by a group so fundamentally at odds with the values and the beliefs of the average citizen as the 0 Democrats. In every other election the two sides shared some common values that linked them all as Americans. That is not the case this time. This time it is the Americans vrs the Anti Americans. Between those who value the exceptionalism of the USA and those who wish to destroy that exceptionalism and remake it in the style of a European Democrat Socialist country. The political old guard persists in thinking of this as just another election, just another round in the game where everyone shakes hands afterwords. That is not at all the case.
We are now engaged in a remorseless revolutionary struggle where by either the Republic is restored or it is forever lost. This struggle is not going to end with the elections in November, this struggle will be going on for years.
In that struggle there is no middle ground. One is either on our side or against us. I know that is hard for the “can't we all just get along” GOP Establishment types to deal with but that is the reality in US politics we are living these day