[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Beware who Tea-Party Express endorses and what they say going forward.

[Tennessee Nana]

Eh ????

[9YearLurker]

The big tea party machines were more astroturf than we’d like to admit. Dick Armey and Sal Russo are just two examples of long-time GOP insiders running things.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sorry to repeat myself but:

Bring back American jobs.

[Timber Rattler]

Contentious discussion here...

Exposing Tea Party Express Co-Founder's Amnesty Ties

TPX has made NO statement (that I'm aware of) refuting Sal Russo and his pro-amnesty column. Consequently, its credibility as a TEA Party organization is completely blown as far as I'm concerned.

[grania]

The Tea Party label is useless. So many people think that all the tea party is about is low taxes for upper-wage earners. Those folks totally abandoned other "tea party" issues after rallying conservatives to their agenda.

For most people I know, the primary thing that needs to be done is send home invaders who are in the US, don't let people into the US illegally or stay here when they shouldn't, and make EVerify the law to make sure jobs are going to US citizens. Groups like TPE do not support anything that cuts into that cheap labor supply.

Solution....there is no tea party. We need to look carefully at the records of candidates who say they're with us in wanting to save the US. They've got the publicity to be viable, it's up to them to articulate the issues and win. There have been so many candidates that said they're conservatives, and just didn't have the principled vision to run a winning campaign.

[Linda Frances]

Was “constitution” on the be on the lookout, phrases the IRS was targeting?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Anyone who says that the illegal aliens need to “come out of the shadows” has been brainwashed by the commie lib “media”. They really need to get out some time and see what’s going on with “the little people.” Believe me, the illegal aliens do not hang out “in the shadows” except for when they are getting ready to rob, rape or kill somebody.

[Tennessee Nana]

According to this thread he didn’t make it over the shark...

he stayed and played with the shark and made him a FaceAcheBook FRiend...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3157626/posts

[skeeter]

I am really getting tired of having my intelligence insulted by republican pro-amnesty cheerleaders being turned out by the Chamber of Commerce.

Always with a throw-away shot at the 'liberals' and a nudge in the ribs. We're not like 'them' doncha know.

Their arguments fail even a rudimentary logic check yet they never tire of offering them up like we're idiot drones.

Worse, they're taking us to exactly the same place as the progressives are.

[JimRed]

So, question: Is Tea Party Express a fake Tea Party organization, or just one that differs in opinion?

Once the WALL is built and monitored, I can fall between the “every one of them gets thrown out, and their kids nd dogs too” and the “let them all stay and become citizens except the criminals” (yeah, I know, coming in was criminal, but you know what I mean). Border security FIRST. Then decide who gets to stay, who has to go, and enforce it.

None of that will happen under the current regime.

(Donning flameproof NOMEX garb)

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Finally, we need to make the 11 million people who are here illegally obey the law, pay taxes and come out of the shadows. We have to get them right by the law in exchange for legal status, but not unbridled amnesty. This should include penalties, background checks to root out criminals, and the requirement that they learn English, understand the Constitution and be committed to our basic freedoms. We must ensure there is no special pathway to citizenship that puts them in front of people who waited in line.
Every dishonest phrase here has already been said by Rubio and co. Every point here has already been discredited. But that doesn’t stop Russo from using the same exact language that was worked out years ago by pollsters and consultants to sell the same rejected message.”

Yep, Rubio lied about all of that.(and no-one in GOP contradicted it either)

Any amnesty that includes path to citizenship without leaving the country is a jump ahead in line.

Yesterday I heard Rubio saying we need a higher retirement age for medicare and Social security, naturally starting 10 years from now ala Ryan. Now that really mixes well with amnesty.

[Waryone]

Trust no TEA party that says they have a leader. Anyone making pronouncements and calling themselves the leader of a TEA party is suspect. If they do not have multiple govt. investigations in their history, ie. IRS, FBI, etc., because of their TEA party activity, they are establishment plants.

[headstamp 2]

Somebody waved a huge load of cash under Sal’s nose.

[FR_addict]

We went to the first Tea Party march and one other. After that the Tea Party seemed to become disorganized. There evidently was an organized effort to discredit the Tea Party. The Dems were calling it racist, the RINOs were trying to disassociate with the Tea Party, and the IRS was destroying it economically. I get request for donations from many of the Tea Party groups but haven't donated yet because I didn't know which ones were a waste of time.

What do Freepers think of the Tea Party Patriots? Or are there other Tea Party groups that are better?

[Blood of Tyrants]

This should include penalties, background checks to root out criminals, and the requirement that they learn English, understand the Constitution and be committed to our basic freedoms.

But it won't. The penalties will be waived, the FBI will be given 3 months to do 11 million background checks and all the ones not done will be given a pass, English will not be required, our own legislators don't understand the Constitution, and the only thing they will be committed to is getting free stuff from the Rats.

[McBuff]

Tea Party Express was always a Republican operation to try to take advantage of the Tea Party wave and leverage it toward the party agenda. The real Tea Parties are grass roots and are as hard to lead as a room full of cats.

[GeronL]

Apparently 1/7 of the prison population are illegals who are in for murder, rape, robbery, drunk driving etc etc.

It is not the law that needs fixed, it is the law that needs enforced.

[Taxman]

I was so hopeful that the Tea Party would not get compromised by the likes of Karl Rove and the GOPe!

It would appear that they AND Ophonybama’s thugs “Got to” Sal the same as they got to Chief Justice Roberts!

So, Sal, are you gonna miss the big bux ($2.5 million, reportedly) you took FRom TPE in recent years?

LIEberals and GOPes paid you more, did they?

TPE is officially on my sh!t list!

No more Taxman money, turncoats! And I hope that other donors drop you, as well!

We conservatives are screwed unless we can find another voice out here in the wilderness.

[montag813]

Tea Party Express was always a B.S. scam fundraising ploy. Their ads always sucked, and had zero impact. Tea Party Patriots is a serious TP organization, that is NOT for sale.