PHILLIPS: The tea party didn’t lose — it was hijacked!

washington Times ^ | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | Judson Phillips

[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

[HiTech RedNeck]

You might be able to hijack tea, but you can’t hijack God.

[Republican1795.]

The tea has been watered down now.

[Deagle]

Heh, don’t listen to all of this media anti-Tea Party hysteria, it is because they are losing.

If you look at any and all of the Republicans running, what are they professing - Conservatism! Look at McConnell with his fake gun thing (and that was funny), they are all trying to move to the right.

It’s only a matter of time and effort! The problem remains is will they actually govern conservative or will they continue to go for the money (bribery and all)!

[Mozilla]

The big problem is the infighting between tea party groups and the choosing of candidates. Either four tea party or conservatives run in a primary or one is selected and then some tea party groups start trashing them.

[Mozilla]

I believe some tea party groups have been watered down and Hijacked. The Tea Party Express is now an establishment group. Be cautious of them. One of the people running the Express supports Amnesty. The TeaParty.net is no good either. Niger Innes maybe a nice guy but his thinking is awful. He was the first guy out of the box attacking Matt Bevin. he and his group endorsed McConnell ahead of the rest without even properly vetting Bevin. So the tea is poisoned. And guess what? That Tea Party Express then came out and endorsed McConnell. So now you know we have some Benedict Arnolds in the tea party.

[Mozilla]

I should also add that amid the criticisms against the Tea Party Express over endorsing McConnell Amy Kremer quit the group and, haha, she joined McConnell campoaign. Cha-Ching. And the phony Tea Party Express is left to be run by a guy supporting Amnesty, Sal Russo. These are no friends of mine. They are all traitors.

[Mozilla]

I stand corrected. Amy didn’t join Mitch’s campaign. She was working with Bevin. She quot over the fact the Express endorsed McConnell. Sorry for that I misread the info on a website. But the fact still remains that some tea party groups have been hijacked.

[Mozilla]

I stand corrected. Amy didn’t join Mitch’s campaign. She was working with Bevin. She quit over the fact the Express endorsed McConnell. Sorry for that I misread the info on a website. But the fact still remains that some tea party groups have been hijacked.

[Mozilla]

Another correction, The Express did not endorse anyone in the Kentucky Senate primary race. The other group endorsing Mitch McConnell was the Tea Party Nation. But Amy had issues with the Express and quit to work with Bevin.

[Gene Eric]

Too early to say what happens with TEA; however, it’s a force not to be ignored.

[Mozilla]

This Joshua Phillips guy started out well, then he became a jackass. He is the Laura Ingraham of the Washington Times. He is actually trying to defend the tea party groups that endorsed McConnell and did not endorse Matt Bevin. And he is trying to justify the reasons why Bevin was not a tea party candidate. What a loser.

[VerySadAmerican]

Without the tea party voters the gop is going to find out what it’s like to lose big!

[Nextrush]

Much of the “Tea Party” was astroturf for the Republican Establishment and special interests like the hospital industry that want Obamacare to be more like Romneycare.

Palin and Cruz and Rand Paul could get together, issue a joint declaration along with Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, and marshal their combined fundraising-organizational strength into a potent force to fight the GOPe.

Do they all want to???????

Perhaps we need a new leader, a Nigel Farage of our own to start the United States Indpendence Party.

[staytrue]

The author has it wrong.

The republican party has always been the republican party.

The teaparty is too weak to stand on its own and tried to hijack the republican party by winning a few selected primaries.

So now that teaparty failed, they are all mad. Well boo hoo, the republicans were here first.

[22202NOVA]

God is a Tea Partier? I must’ve missed that memo.

[Doug Loss]

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

[kenmcg]

The T Party is not a formal party. It represents millions of common sense Americans who believe in American exceptionalism. The T Party has not been high-jacked and is not dead. All over the country the T Party has been holding GOP politicians accountable forcing them to the right side of politics.

[onedoug]

“Follow the money”

Unfortunately, this appears to be true even for “conservatives”.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

The Tea Party either needs to leave the GOP or it will be absorbed by the Rove insider types in the GOP.
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