Posted on 01/07/2012 10:12:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You’re welcome!
10-4!
Note the editorial reviews savaged the book. However, look at the customer review comments instead of the editorial writer's rantings for objective evaluations.
[Note to Vince: You know you're over the target when you're getting the maximum flak.]
After reading the article thoroughly I don't believe Kevin McCullough is qualified to make the prognosis. I see too many signs that like so many he doesn't really have a core understanding of what the Tea Party really is.
Ok, you go vote for Romney! RINO.
That expresses the problem quite well.
The TEA party originated from Rick Santelli's rant about bailouts, debt and Obamacare. It is/was a fiscal concept.
Due to it's lack of hierarchy various groups with non-fiscal agendas were able barge in on the movement in order to cash in on it's popularity.
In the real world, those groups should have iniated their own grassroots rallies to promote their agendas and judge their instrinsic worth (or lack thereof) among the voting populace as a whole.
I believe this election can be won via a focus on drawing from both sides to the center rather than a focus on increasing turnout in your own base as Rove did with W.
That's what the tea party caused originally. It was a movement that drew from adjacent centrist groups for fiscal reasons.
As groups from the outer left and right with non-fiscal agendas glommed on to the Tea Part movement, however, it has caused the dilution of focus from it's fiscal roots, as your phrase illustrates.
Exactly. I think the rallies were how the Tea Party became aware of itself, and now that that awareness has been established, things can kind of percolate with no overt public displays needed.
“Is he right?”
Yes. The tea party was co-opted by the gop. It’s dead-parrot dead. It’s not even pining for the fjords.
Two points to consider:
First, the “Perfect Tea Party Leader and Grand Poobah” would sound an awful lot like Ron Paul, except for the whacko foreign policy stuff. A fierce restoration of the Constitution would stomp on many, many toes and bring a lot of scorn from all directions. (One can easily argue that Social Security isn’t Constitutional, ya know!)
Secondly, setting up the Tea Party as a “third party” — as delightful as that sounds — should have been done the day after the 2010 election. Starting up something so big and radical as a new political party requires time for people to accept it. But it’s much too late now. Any third-party bid now, even by Sarah Palin, would gift-wrap another term for Obummer.
That being said, the Tea Party MOVEMENT has never ended. I’d love to hear them make some noise, so we can keep our spirits up, but I’ll still vote like a Tea Partier in any case.
During the first two years of Obama’s presidency, he had super majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate. This gave the Obama and the Dems unchecked power to ram through virtually any piece of radical left-wing legislation they wanted. The Republicans were powerless to stop anything. That’s where the Tea Party came in... We formed to start keeping Washington accountable for their reckless out-of-control spending and to adhere to the U.S. Constitution. We also made sure we were going to make a dramatic impact in the November 2012 elections and help put the brakes on Obama’s agenda. We succeeded not only by electing the largest wave of GOP and Tea Party candidates in 70 years, but we recaptured the House and gained in the Senate.
Now that Congress at least has the ability to keep Obama and the Dems’ radical left-wing agenda in gridlock mode, I think many Tea Party people are taking a breather. It’s difficult to sustain the feverish intensity required to oppose this left-wing regime for years on end, especially when we have family and jobs to attend to. And the Tea Party knows full well 2012 is going to require every ounce of fight we have left in us to throw Obama out of office. It will be intense. It will be draining. And the Tea Party knows it. And that’s why I think many of us have been concentrating on restoring our energy over the past year for the epic battle to come in 2012.
The Tea Party hasn’t gone away. Not at all. And don’t for one second start buying into the media narrative that is has. It’s simply rekindling its fire and getting ready to unleash itself once again for the United States of America’s last stand against left-wing tyranny in 2012. You just watch.
Amen, amen, amen!
Well stated, DestroyLiberalism.
Yeah...I get those solicitations too....they go in the trash.
We WORK for a living. Just wait till next September. We'll be back.
It was never quite what most thought it was anyway. You don't get that kind of immediate nation wide presence without a lot of organization and money from somewhere.
Another reason is that the GOP saw the Tea party as a much bigger threat than the Dems did. And rightly so.
God, I HATE crap like this. How else do you explain it? Is he kidding? The Tea Party not only didn't die, but it's probably stronger now than it ever was. But even THAT doesn't stop GOP establishment betrayal. Nothing will stop their betrayal while they're in office. And there will continue to be betrayal until we vote out the likes of Boehner and McConnell (not to mention senators like Collins and Snowe).
How dare this nitwit presume that the Tea Party is dead simply because our representatives and senators screwed us once again? Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid. This guy's drinking the media Kool-Aid, barfing it back up, and saying, "Look, I told you the Tea Party was dead."
We're here, we're growing stronger, and we'll throw out even more of the bums this November. In spite of idiot articles like this or, even, Ann Coulter 2.0.
Yes, he is. The Tea Party celebrated a bit too much after the mid-terms, got fat, and went home to watch American Idol with the rest of the country.
I must also admit that I believe the negative coverage from the media was demoralizing and played a part in keeping it from becoming a lasting movement.
BTTT
No. :)
Hitler came to the rescue of Germany, Germany did not die, it survived to be reborn. I fear we may have to go through the same sort of rebirth.
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