Posted on 09/04/2011 6:16:08 AM PDT by maggief
(09-04) 05:55 PDT Berlin, N.H. (AP) --
Bulling its way into 2012, the tea party is shaping the race for the GOP presidential nomination as candidates parrot the movement's language and promote its agenda while jostling to win its favor.
That's much to the delight of Democrats who are working to paint the tea party and the eventual Republican nominee as extreme.
"The tea party isn't a diversion from mainstream Republican thought. It is within mainstream Republican thought," Mitt Romney told a New Hampshire newspaper recently, defending the activists he's done little to woo, until now.
The former Massachusetts governor is starting to court them more aggressively as polls suggest he's being hurt by weak support within the movement, whose members generally favor rivals such as Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Romney's shift is the latest evidence of the big imprint the tea party is leaving on the race.
Such overtures come with risks, given that more Americans are cooling to the tea party's unyielding tactics and bare-bones vision of the federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Love it when two self described intellectuals have to write an article together because on their own they are morons,
Words without actions are just empty words.
More emptiness from the mouth of Mitt.
Vote for Odumbo because he’s the safe status quo guarantor of zero job growth and multi trillion dollar deficits. Against which the “extremist” tea party Republicans will screw things up... We can’t allow that.
My goodness, the horror!
Isn't that what politics and deee..mocracy is all about?
Poor AP, the rest of the MSM, the Rats, Hollywood, and other anti American perverts, ..ya all might not get to pick the Pubbie candidate for 2012.
The headline screams BIAS.
When has the media ever claimed that the gay agenda or communism “bullied” its way into Democrat politics?
Using negative connotation to assist the liberal campaign......nice work, AP!
They know we are growing (Tea Party) and are a force to be reckoned with.
Romney’s quote is correct.
The problem is ROMNEY isn’t within mainstream Republican thought, but the MSM thinks he is.
romney promises are like satan’s promises... GET THEE FROM ME romney!
LLS
Matthew 4:1-11
“Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, and saith to him, ‘All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me. ‘ 10 Then saith Jesus to him, ‘Go - Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shall serve.” 11 Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.”
“Bulling”? I’m not even sure that’s a word.
Without the Tea Party there will be NO “GOP.”
If you knock of their first names the article is written by: Peoples Blood. Creepy.
Might as well. You fight fire with fire, bully with bully. The dims always bully, so lets bully back.
The Tea Party folks will determine who the next President is. Those folks will determine how many Senate seats will be taken over by conservatives (15 I hope). TP folks will determine how many more seats will be turned over again in the House. These folks are hated because some smart and not so smart folks see the Tea Leaves coming and know the jig is up. Be resolute folks and multiply yourselves because your country depends on it.
Bulling?
Didn’t those brain trusts mean “bullying”, you know the
newest PC word to use when anyone disagrees with you?
That evil Tea Party.
Just like they were in 1773!
.. chants the amoral leftie, unable to sleep, afraid of that certain Something in the dark that won't go away, that keeps poking at what little is left of their conscience, incessantly mocking the idol of their inane utopian dreams . . .
A short article, long on bias.
Loaded words from the article ...
bulling
parrot
agenda
jostling
extreme
activists
risks
unyielding
tactics
bare-bones
This will be the new talking point. “Bulling” implies “Bull in a China shop” as in “Just mindless aggression and no subtility.”
We are just not ‘nuanced’ and certainly not thoughtful or reasoned, you see. Just flailing around with no direction and destroying everything in our path. Like the country perhaps.
Words mean things and the use of that word was intentional. Plant the idea and let people’s imaginations do the rest. Pure propaganda technique straight out of WW2 Germany.
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