Posted on 01/25/2011 5:14:42 AM PST by ejdrapes
No, she doesn’t speak for the GOP...TRENT LOTT did when he derisively said “we have to immediately co-opt these people when they get here”. This is the same weasel that wormed around the country looking to apologize to every democrat for an offhand remark he made. I learned all I need to know about how “the GOP” feel about us Tea Party folks when that decrepit old a**hole made that statement.
Mrs Bachmann speaks for ME, and hundreds of thousands of other AMERICANS who are tired of business as usual, tired of “reaching across the aisle to our colleagues in the Democrat Party” AFTER we bitch-slapped them in an election...tired of back-room, last minute compromises that always wind up with US, the American People taking it in the rear end...back-room deals that only enrich those concerned and enhance their positions and personal power.
They play their DC games, cut their deals, “go along to get along” and WE wind up paying for it...with our livelihoods, our homes, our businesses, our hard-earned money, and sometimes our lives. Enough is enough.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are tired of blue-blood elitists from both parties trying to tell us what we can and can’t own, carry for self-defense, sell, buy, eat, smoke, drink, where to stand, walk, talk, think, feel...
No, you’re right. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and the rest of us other Tea Partiers don’t speak for the GOP.
But on every occasion that I’ve heard them speak, they speak for ME. And yes, we Tea Party folk DON’T speak “for the GOP”.
Yet.
But we will. Count on it. That started in November.
If the GOP “leadership” wants to be Demo-Lite, they can go to hell. Compromise is for the loser. We WON the election in November. And the damned GOP better realize that without the Tea Party, they’re going nowhere in the next election.
Nothing against Paul Ryan. He seems a decent enough gentleman. But he’s not a lightning rod (yet).
I realized many years ago that the Democrat party were turning into communist a**holes, and NOT a “loyal opposition” party. If the GOP wants to play nicey-nicey with people who are trying to cut our throats with a hideous ideological political system, then I’ll have no parts of them either, and will work day and night to actively oppose them and put Tea Party people into the leadership positions.
I want my country back. Whomever speaks FOR my country, against all enemies foreign and especially domestic at this point in time, is who I am for.
If Paul Ryan is that man, fine. If it is Michelle or Sarah, fine as well.
But we’re on the brink of National disaster here, right now, at this moment in history - and as far as I can tell, there’s only a few people playing Horatius at the Bridge - and they’re ALL Tea Party candidates.
Amen!
It’s like the old saying: “Either lead, follow, or get the f*ck out of the way...”
That’s what the Tea Party is saying.
Very good post!
It's gone, immigration, globalization, affirmative action, all took it :
She wants to go home, but nobody’s home.
That's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
“..It’s gone,...”
No, it ain’t, good bro...not until WE say so.
Not by a long shot.
Jim Rogers moved his family to Singapore after his daughters learned Mandarin (Chinese). He said the schools over there expect the kids to learn Math and Science by 6th grade at the equivalent 12th grade level of the USA. The one thing they do miss over there is the courses in advanced self esteem and climate change, and diversity that are taught in US public schools.
Rome fell once too. Nothing is forever.
Right. But it is going to take a few elections. Weeding out the collaborators until the people have a choice between Americanism and Communism. Those who cuddle with the communists at the speech should be removed in the next primary.
if we dont hoist a pirate flag and start slittin throats [metaphorically, of course *^} ] all is indeed lost as we once knew it...the hourglass is in need of a flip before it runs dry...
You may have missed this:
but its aint over till we 'die tryin'...
So say we all. Unfortunately, that's a recipe for losing elections. The best we can do is support those who profess many of our core values and hope they appeal to enough voters to win office and stick to their guns when they arrive. If you want "the exact same values" that you believe in, you'd better announce your own candidacy.
” One set of commentators on NBC/MSNBC are baiting Republicans to go after cutting entitlements first including libs Joe Scarbouro, Gregory and Matthews. The other group of MSNBC progressives Schultz, Maddow, Cenk Uygur are all beating the drum for seniors daily warning them that Republicans want to cut ‘their’ entitlements to pay for tax cuts for ‘the rich’.”
And no doubt, the STUPID PARTY will make the SS repair pitch in 2012, just in time for Obama to grab another 4 years.
My good brother Sickolibs, Rome fell because it was an Empire built on force, slavery and coercion.
We’re not.
Rome wasn’t about human liberty, freedom, and the right of the “little guy” to live his life as he pleases.
We are - and were founded that way from the start. And established ourselves in just fashion to be able to remove any threat to ourselves and our posterity, should the need arise.
“If we are mark’d to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour...” Those are brilliant words, good brother, spoken by men who were looking at imminent extinction - and chose NOT to be the “guests of honor” at their own demise...
If there’s one thing we should do in our lives, it’s leave this country better than we inherited it - and our forebears, while not perfect, did a pretty damned fine job for us and left us a treasure.
I’ll not go lightly, nor quietly, nor easily. I’m an American. So are you. And every other joe out here who spends his/her days working and toiling and eaking out a living to make life a little better for his kids, busting his ass amd trading his/her years and sweat and minutes just to get a little piece of something decent, proper, and good that God set before us while we’re here in our temporary home.
We’re NOT made to wear the yoke they want to fashion, indeed have already fashioned, for us. We’re Americans, and there’s NEVER EVER been ANYTHING or ANYONE elese like us before on this Earth. We’re a quarrelsome, rambunctious, can-do, impatient, strong, vain, compassionate, generous, decent and virile people who NEVER let anything or anyone get the better of us. We’re a race of people who left other places and other times to begin anew HERE, in this land, in this place, and swore an oath to uphold, protect, and defend what our ancestors bled for.
That’s worth something. It’s worth MORE than any of us, any of our lives, and our pursuits - because if WE let it slip away, if WE let it go into the history books as just another failed experiment, and let THOSE bastards on the other side win without putting up THE mother of all battles, then we truly don’t deserve to call ourselves Men...nor Americans.
Why does a man die to pick up the flag from a fallen buddy, after that buddy has been shot through the head right in front of him? Because of pride; because of courage; because of duty, and honor, and loyalty. Because he KNOWS that at THAT moment, all eyes are on that little rag of color that symbolizes all the hopes and dreams of the people before him - look at Iwo Jima as an example. Every Marine on that island, every ship offshore LIT UP when that flag went up. And the Japs targeted those guys immediately.
Look at any Civil War or Revolutionary War battlefield. The Color Bearer was ALWAYS targeted.
Well, WE’RE the Color Bearers right now, in this generation, and this time.
Why? Because WE’RE here. Just us, and no one else.
And because we KNOW that those on the OTHER side, if set free and let unchecked, are going to rape, and pillage, and slaughter everything and everyone we know and love if we fail. How do we know that? They themselves have been telling us what they are going to do to us if they get the chance, for over a hundred years now.
I take the enemy at his word.
My father taught me the three virtues of a Man - Duty, Honor, Courage. He lived those virtues throughout his short, troubled, combative life. And I never forgot it.
This country is being stolen from us, piece by piece, by people hiding under the very protections set in place to ensure it’s continuance.
We talk, out here, about sheepdogs, about first responders, about rights, about everything under the sun - EXCEPT about “The Day”.
Well, “The Day” is already here - but not as we all thought. It didn’t come with massed 4am flashbang assaults or checkpoint body cavity searches (yet) - it came with legislation, and with calls for “civility”
and sly, sinister threats from perverted bureaucratic douchebags of questionable sexuality and low morals who couldn’t hold a job at a Burger Joint. People who hate just because they enjoy hating.
So we need to take that high ground back from them. The same way they took it. Failing that, it’s money-where-the-mouth is time.
Live Free or Die? We’ll see.
Molon Labe? We may just get the chance to prove the “courage of our convictions”.
I turned 50 this past week. I’m not a kid anymore. I lived my life, trying to make ends meet, raise my family, stay alive, trying to play by the rules, even when the bastards kept changing the rules and telling me to just shut up and suck on it. I wake up every morning, go outside, and see my American flag flying above my house - that’s MY flag. That’s OUR flag. And no leftwing liberal socialist traitor is EVER going to make me take it down or soil it. Too many good, decent, young men died for that flag. I owe them. We all owe them.
I’ll not spend the rest of whatever years I have left hiding from my responsibilty as a Citizen, as an American, and as a Man - we ALL have that responsibility.
If we truly want to believe we are Free Men, then we each must live and act like it.
Yeah, it’s bleak at the moment.
Well, I say “f*ck ‘em.”
It ain’t over brother. No way, no how. Not till WE say it’s over.
Look in the mirror.
Remember who you are - and remember who WE are.
We’re Americans.
Nothing’s impossible to a willing mind and a brave heart. And for well over three centuries, WE set the standard for brave hearts.
They’re right, you know.
The party’s response comes from the voters.
And the voters have spoken once — so far — this past November.
And we will speak again, and again, and again.
And the jokers trying to cling to power in a party they don’t support in the first place are going to hear from us, as we send them to the unemployment line.
and those are the decent gobmint employees...
color bearers indeed my FRiends...
I don't see any harm in the Tea Party getting their views out.
Love the graphic!!!!!!!! Thank you!
I read both of your excellent essays to Hubby over breakfast this morning. You articulate our feelings exactly.
I said, “Nathan [unladylike word] Hale!” Hubby blushed.
Do you have a ping list? May I be on it please?
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