Posted on 05/23/2013 7:45:04 AM PDT by ctpsb
".......Since 2006, with the beginnings of the breakaway of populist conservatives from the national Republican Party via the Tea Party movement, the GOP has been trying to figure out how to co-opt and capture it once again, just as George W. Bush did with many elements of the conservative movement in the early years of the 21st century."
".......Men and women of the Establishment Republican Party like Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who previously regarded the Tea Party Movement as something unpleasant and unsophisticated, are now trying to be their friends."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
In sports, you try to take away your opponents’ strength. Same here. The Dems knew the Roves and the RNC were useless. It was the Tea Party strength that produced 2010. Hence the strategy. IMO.
Well Harry Reid would come out every week and tell us how evil the Tea Party is and how it was controlling government
I suspected that, too.
George Bush appointed that POS Schulman to head the IRS when the TEA Party persecution began. Anyone watching his performance before Congress should ask why he was ever given a job that required intelligence and responsibility.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some of the establishment GOP types were in on this attack on conservative Americans.
I wouldn’t either.
I've been saying this all along too. I remain convinced the GOPe, if not directly involved, tacitly approved.
to avoid fratricide?
Someone said Shulman resigned, only to be reappointed by the Marxist.
Great article. And another tidbit that I didn’t know about Ronald Reagan.
Me three. I think the gop-e hates us worse than the RATS.
If there is a special prosecutor we’ll be seeing letters from John McCain and Lindsay Graham asking for IRS investigations of the Tea Party before all is said and done.
I think TIIC are afraid of a viable third party.
Well Harry Reid would come out every week and tell us how evil the Tea Party is and how it was controlling government
Govern = control
Ment (mente) = mind
perhaps someone should educate harry.
con = against
gress = growth
bttt
Republicans and Democrats are just two sides of the same coin.
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