Infiltration in the ranks and muddled thinking caused the splintering. Including-—the author’s. His article is mainly on the mark, but as one senator among 100, you have to work with reality as it is. SANTORUM’s constituents were being taxed, so he had to make the best of the situation. It is up to individual senators to make sure that THEIR state doesn’t get steamrolled, and it IS his JOB to decide how money is spent. NOT unelected bureaucrats.
Attitudes like the author’s come from the Neverland, and to some extent, it reflects Utopian thinking to believe that a congressman can be effective if he holds himself above the fray. Bob
Not dead, hibernating.
Give it a reason to come back and it will. Bigger than before.
The Tea Party is only as dead as it wishes to be. And judging by the energy at the meetings I attend here in VA, there`s plenty life left at the grassroots level. However, the movement doesn`t represent the majority of America. Sadly, that majority is comprised of a wide range of attitudes ranging from apathetic to perpetually dependent to strident leftist.
No, he is not right.
The TEA party is a voting block. We voted in the mid-term elections and sent the elected officials to do what they could.
We don’t need endless rally after rally to “express” ourselves.
The sentiments of the TEA party don’t disappear
T-Party has made the determination that both crappy parties need to die, along with the majority of the bureaucracies.
Absolutely not.
What is the tea party supposed to do when there are no elections, like in 2011?
Don’t worry. We are there.
It happens every four years. The Conservative candidates split the Conservative vote and the Moderate (John McCain, Mitt Romney....) wins by a plurality in the early states and that momentum carries them to the nomination. Perry should have gotten his ass out, but he’s too dumb to know that.
Even Ann Coulter 2.0 drank the kool-aid.
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Yeah, promoted Christ Christie first and now endorses Romney and disses the Conservative candidates every chance she gets. The biggest surprise of 2011 for me; how she became such a political whore so quickly; almost overnight. NOTE: I said “political” whore.
Even Ann Coulter 2.0 drank the kool-aid.
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Yeah, promoted Christ Christie first and now endorses Romney and disses the Conservative candidates every chance she gets. The biggest surprise of 2011 for me; how she became such a political whore so quickly; almost overnight. NOTE: I said “political” whore.
I’m afraid that reports of our death are rather premature.
The Tea Party is a way of life, like being a 60’s hippie but the opposite. It can’t die as a party, it just means FOLLW THE US CONSTITUTION for once.
There are other avenues for activism and protest beyond mass demonstrations.
I remember bringing that little point to the attention of the close to 1.2 million gathered on the mall that afternoon.
I was there, the number and pictures showed that amount or more, the MSM had it at a couple hundred thousand.
We’re here and it ain’t over yet.
No, he is not right. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I will not vote for Romney under any circumstances. Even if he is the candidate facing Obama, I will not vote for him. I will write in the name of Sara Palin or someone else, but I have, for the last time, voted for a candidate I Do Not Want.
This is a decision that hasn’t come easily to me. The prospect of another four years of Obama’s rule is frightening to comprehend, but I ask my self if Romney would really be all that much better, if he actually could win, which he can’t. I say he would not be all that much better, he might even be worse.
I plan to vote for the “D” facing my own congress-critter, Cantor, and I’m urging all of my friends to do likewise. I think that it will be much easier to fire the “D” in two years than Cantor after he has another two years to dig his trench a little deeper.
I’m sending money and volunteering to make phone calls etc. for candidates all over the country. I want to see so many U-Haul’s being loaded in Jan. that they have to bring them in from out of state. I no longer care a whit wether someone has a D, R, I, or any other letter in front of their name, it doesn’t make any difference anymore. A skunk by any other name smells just as foul, to borrow a phrase.
Is the Tea Party dead? Well, I may be a party of one, but I’m still here.
First, because the tea party is a collection of ideas and not a political party, there was no death of those ideas.
Second, there is however a realization on the part of many that this is not a one or two election fight. The progressives were at this for over a hundred years before they got a dictator in power.
Finally, without a change in the indoctrination of our children, there is really no one left out there who would know freedom if it were given back to them.
Franklin said that they had given us a republic only if we could hold on to it.
I’m not dead, but I am pissed beyond belief.
No, he is not right.
Rove and Romney have attempted to destroy the Tea Party.
They are evil and their minions are Legion.