Ensuring Liberty PAC: Creating a Tea Party Caucus [Post Nashville: TEApublicans advance]

BigGovernment.com ^ | 2/12/2010 | Bill Hennessy

[SeattleBruce]

If you followed the news out of Nashville, you probably heard that some Tea Party folks are creating a Political Action Committee that will win 15 to 20 key Congressional races in 2010 and, perhaps, in years beyond. What you didn’t hear at the press conference was that several grassroots tea party organizers are so strongly in favor of this move that we have agreed to serve Ensuring Liberty PAC through its organizing parent, the Ensuring Liberty 501.c(4). Our local tea parties will continue unchanged."

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Who the ELPAC Will Support

Back in February 2009, we thought, as did many of you, that we might need a new party in America—one comprised of the great many people who were fed up with business as usual.

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2. A third party would have created a permanent ruling majority of statist and progressives. As I studied the matter and spoke to people smarter than I am, I realized that the 3rd party move could only help those who want socialism. Just creating a 3rd party would consume most of the center-right’s energy, time, and money for at least 2 years. And after that, at best, the 3rd party would pick up a few seats in Congress while splitting the center-right vote in hundreds of other states and districts giving Democrats a massive majority in both houses. Sorry, people, but that’s not standing on principle: it’s standing on our brains.

ELPAC will mostly support conservative candidates running as Republicans who have a reasonable chance to win with our help. For candidates like Doug Hoffman, we will provide the third element he lacked: a serious, well-coordinated ground game. In these races, we believe ELPAC will be THE difference...we believe all of us will be part of the margin of freedom’s victory.

[SeattleBruce]

Let's roll!...let's get involved in our precinct caucuses - mine starts today in 1 hour 15 minutes...!

[SeattleBruce]

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[AuntB]

FYI

(Black) Tea Party Candidate Goes After Meghan McCain

Feb. 12, 2010

Here’s one example of how little the McCain brand is cherished by the conservative grassroots. Les Phillip, the self-identified Tea Party Republican candidate challenging party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.), just fired off a lengthy statement attacking Meghan McCain — who’s become a sort of a spokeswoman-without-a-constituency for GOP moderation — for comments attacking apparent racism inside the Tea Party movement.
“Myself, and several other black conservative candidates, have enjoyed broad and growing support from the tea party movement. While any movement has bad eggs, the Tea Party movement has shown itself, as a whole, to be a movement of the people against massive government spending, infringement on personal rights, and job killing regulations. It’s a movement of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. It’s a movement of all races, creeds, and colors. Just this week, a young black woman from Mississippi announced her candidacy for U.S. Congress, after appearing at nearly every Tea Party event held in the state over the past year. This young woman, Angela McGlowan, wrote a top-selling book about how the left has used false accusations of racism to drive blacks into the arms of the Democrat Party, and away from the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. McGlowan is the face of the Tea Party movement for many in the deep south state of Mississippi, a true testament to the attitude of most Tea Partiers,” Mr. Phillip said.

“I have spent the last year attending and speaking at Tea Parties myself, here in the 5th district, and throughout Alabama. I attended the monumental rally in Washington D.C. on September 12 and I’ve heard from Tea Party activists from all over the United States. Here in Huntsville, the Tea Party rallies have been organized by a hard working 26 year old girl, Christie Carden with the help of several others in their 20’s and 30’s. These young patriots are not thinking about race when they rally against trillion dollar stimulus bills, the massive government takeover of health-care or the “cap and trade” bill that would drive many of them onto the welfare rolls with thousands of dollars in new taxes and increased energy costs. They are thinking about the future and they are thinking about the jobs we will need to survive. Ms. McCain has led a life of privilege and couldn’t understand the pressures of living from paycheck to paycheck. I respect her father’s service to this country, but she ridicules what she cannot understand.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/76528/tea-party-candidate-goes-after-meghan-mccain

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Thanks!

[rbmillerjr]

Excellent idea.

It’s time for the working and middle class to get organized against the establishment that has frittered away our national prominence and standard of living.

[Syncro]

Who is Bill Hennessy I thought:

Bill Hennessy

Bill Hennessy edits www.stlouisteaparty.com and helps lead a small but hygienic and peaceful band of rebels known as the St Louis Tea Party Coalition. After nine years in the U.S. Navy's submarine force (not so hygienic), Bill wrote The Conservative Manifesto (Right Press, 1993) and was a Town Hall columnist from 1993 to 1996. Bill has appeared on Fox News and numerous St. Louis television and radio programs. He lives in St. Louis County with his wife and four of their five children.

[Syncro]

More by Hennessy:

Fight Against ObamaCare

by Bill Hennessy

Republican leadership, at all levels, should have learned a quick lesson about the mood of America’s conservatives from the Dede Scozzafava debacle in upper New York state. Unfortunately, the GOP House Leadership might need some remedial instruction. And a group of conservative Republican lawmakers met Tuesday to draft that lesson plan.

 

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been one of the more vocal opponents of ObamaCare. Last week on Sean Hannity’s television program, Ms. Bachmann announced the “House Call on Congress.” She urged Americans to come to Washington, DC, to a press conference on the Capitol steps at Noon on Thursday, November 5.  After the presser, Ms. Bachmann will lead the citizens through House office buildings to confront Democrats on their own turf. She hopes to draw thousands to DC to tell the Democrats to their faces, “We don’t want a government takeover of our healthcare.” Yesterday, Ms. Bachmann announced that conservative talk radio host Mark Levin would join her.

The Tea Party’s Focus: Elections

by Bill Hennessy

For the Tea Party movement, 2009 was about coming together, meeting our brothers and sisters in arms, and standing athwart socialism, yelling, “Stop!”  It worked. President Obama entered office promising socialized medicine, card check, and cap and trade all before the August recess.  He went 0 for 3 thanks a grassroots uprising that came together like spattered quicksilver.

In our desire to fix things, we also launched a lot of legislative initiatives.  These initiatives included various sovereignty amendments in the states, petitions for Constitutional Conventions, petitions for redress of grievances, petitions of right, and state laws exempting states from any national healthcare legislation.  Each of these was a bold and important step, and such laws, amendments, and petitions should continue.  Next year.

Let’s not fool ourselves. While the Tea Party movement has been very effective, it has been effective only when focused on a very narrow set of compelling causes.  Our quick responses to card check and cap and trade convinced the White House to suspend those initiatives until we weren’t looking. Our overwhelming attack on ObamaCare took the last bit of energy and time from each Tea Party patriot.  We left it all on the field.

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[WOSG]

“A third party would have created a permanent ruling majority of statist and progressives. As I studied the matter and spoke to people smarter than I am, I realized that the 3rd party move could only help those who want socialism. Just creating a 3rd party would consume most of the center-right’s energy, time, and money for at least 2 years. And after that, at best, the 3rd party would pick up a few seats in Congress while splitting the center-right vote in hundreds of other states and districts giving Democrats a massive majority in both houses. Sorry, people, but that’s not standing on principle: it’s standing on our brains.

ELPAC will mostly support conservative candidates running as Republicans who have a reasonable chance to win with our help. For candidates like Doug Hoffman, we will provide the third element he lacked: a serious, well-coordinated ground game. In these races, we believe ELPAC will be THE difference...we believe all of us will be part of the margin of freedom’s victory.”

Well said .. now if you can get Libertarians to figure that out too, the wasted effort in the Libertarian Party could be usefully directed towards winning primaries in the GOP and taking on Dems with pro-liberty republicans.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Cool - bump.

[Munz]

I like that statement. Thanks for posting

[Munz]

That photo just grabs me by the heart strings.
Thank god there are people waking up.

[Munz]

I wish Bachmann would run for a higher office to represent more of us.
Silly thought, but a representative who actually represents her constituents might just catch on.

I have been following her for the past few months. From all I have seen I think she is nothing short of great.

[painter]

Bump for later.

[Syncro]

I do like Bachmann quite a bit.

[moodyskeptic]

hold all candidates to this test

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, and Lipton always, never Nestea.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Somebody freepmailed me this video....LOL - so am passing it along to others...maybe you’ve already seen it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LO2eh6f5Go0

Good for an early morning laugh....and for passing around to any of our beloved libbers who just don’t get it yet....

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Can you please check this out and pass the word to as many others as you possibly can???

Effective, Godly group working to give Nancy Pelosi another job....LOL.

I’ll come back tonight and do a more extensive ping list - but if in the meantime you can ping as many FReepers as possible - and find ways to let this go viral - well - that would be a good thing!

[left that other site]

Darn, You beat me to it! I was going to post this! LOLOL!