I was apalled to find 10% of Republicans vote in the Texas primary. THAT is the problem.
Won’t be well received here on FR, but the guy is absolutely right. The Tea Party was very influential in 2010 because its message on taxes, deficits and government’s role in the economy resonated with a broad section of people. That is no longer the message.
More GOPe hit pieces on the Tea Party from the water carrying National Review. Seems the Ones Cruz endorsed won or are leading in the runoff.
That's big...
To get out the real "tea party" vote, a candidate has to be uncompromising about sending invaders home and keeping them out of the US.
Rick Santelli started the Tea Party with his rant about the housing meltdown and taxpayer bailouts. See a link here:
Rick Santelli Started The Tea Party With A Rant Exactly 5 Years Ago Today — Here’s How He Feels About It Now
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-santelli-tea-party-rant-2014-2#ixzz2v6OIZUTk
I still have my homemade sign I used at on of the first gatherings:
Taxed
Enough
Already
I completely disagree. Just like everyone else, this guy is reading things into the Tea Party. How does he know they strayed from fiscal restraint???? Their original goal was to CUT SPENDING. They did not take libertarian positions on social issues. They probably had a mix of views on social issues. Some people who labeled themselves “Tea Party spokespersons” tried to leverage the brand to push their own issues, but there never has been a formal “Tea Party” that sets positions on issues. The Tea Party was an unorganized protest movement in the best sense of the phrase. It was average people who were tired of Democrats and Republicans spending like there was no tomorrow and then wringing their hands and looking at the floor when people told them they needed to cut back spending. This article is complete BS.
Its be fine if they won on the social issues, but we keep getting these embarrassing routs like over that recent AZ law and the birth control mandate play in 2012.
When your team keeps heading for the hills under massive fire its time to recalibrate and try a different attack approach.
According to the most recent Gallup poll, just 30 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the movement, the lowest level in its history. This seems particularly unsettling when polls also show that the public still overwhelmingly supports the Tea Party objective of limited government. In fact, a recent Gallup poll shows a record 72 percent of Americans feels that big government is the greatest threat to the future of the country. Voters who feel that way should be flocking to the Tea Party in droves.
They are not.
There is a tendency on this site for some folks to think their opinion which may be on the extreme side of an issue is the majority opinion of the country—and to denigrate anyone who has a different opinion as some kind of false conservative.
I call it the Pauline Kael syndrome. She was an editor of the NYT who said,”I simply don’t understand how Nixon got elected. No one I know voted for him.”
This from the "conservative National Review?
The short list of groups that want to see the Tea Party fail is:
Dhimmicrats
RINOs
Big Unions
Big Banks
Multinational Corps
Wall Street
The Chamber of Commerce
The ENTIRE Beltway media, including NR & WSJ
And of course the media/government complex
W/ this array of enemies its amazing, simply amazing, that we're still in the game.
NRO has gone down the drain.
stand by for attack from the social(ist) conservatives in 3...2...1...
This kind of illiteracy--at NATIONAL REVIEW!
The republican insider meme has gone out to the media.
Cornyn “crushes”
Tea party “flounders”
Tea party “wanes”
etc. etc.
this is the RINO BS of trying to split conservative into social and fiscal. Conservative is conservative there is no division.
This is about protecting the RINO staffers who are DC homosexuals.
Lots of tea party candidates won down ticket races. Just because Cornyn won, with his ~12 million dollar budget ** doesn’t mean the tea party didn’t do a great job in the lower rung races. The tea party did not have a strong candidate, he didn’t start early enough and seemed pretty disinterested. That’s no way to win a campaign.
As many on FR have said, this is a long haul, grass roots effort to clean out RINOs from the bottom up.
Now whether our country will last long enough to accomplish this is another question entirely, but it doesn’t mean we should give up.
** http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00024852
this article appears like clockwork every six months and after every single election.
This has all the charm of “1984”. Your 20gram ration of chocholate is now increased to 20grams.