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Where the Tea Partiers Should Go From Here (by Karl Rove in the WSJ)
Wall Street Journal ^ | Apr. 1, 2010 | Karl Rove

Posted on 04/04/2010 1:29:56 PM PDT by SmartInsight

Democrats are attacking the tea party movement because it is a new force that's bringing millions of here-to-fore unengaged Democrats, independents and Republicans into the political arena. If there's something a ruling party doesn't like, it's a new political player converting spectators into participants.

To maintain their influence, tea partiers will have to maintain their current energy and concern over health care and federal spending.

But tea partiers will have to do more than surf discontent with the Obama administration's policies. They will also have to coalesce around a positive agenda.

The unhinged quality of the White House and the DNC attacks show that they understand how much the tea party movement can affect this year's elections. Now is the time for the movement to ensure its energy - and influence - stay high.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; doasearchnexttime; elections; government; healthcare; obama; obamacare; rove; teaparty
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To: Mr Rogers

Rove doesn’t carry the blame alone. The Media gave Obama a complete pass along with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cheerleading. Then the American people voted for a guy who is a Crook County Democrat appointed to run for IL State Senator, a position only a “YES” man can fulfill.

I warned everyone I know about how Obama is. They wanted change.

At what point to we simply admit the people were willingly fooled and move on to victory?


121 posted on 04/04/2010 7:12:31 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: TigersEye
The Tea Party movement doesn't need to be marketed. It isn't a political party. It grew by leaps and bounds without any marketing at all. Why? Because people are fed up and the TPM is a vehicle to express it.

What, you think the colonists didn't market their beliefs? Ever heard of the Declaration of Independence?

If it isn't a political party, why should anyone pay attention to it. If that's the case, it's just "community organizing", i.e., toothless. Either it becomes a political party that can gain power, or it becomes a revolutionary movement. Otherwise, it will die on the vine as the Dems and Republicans play us as pawns against each other. It's already happening, in case you didn't notice.

122 posted on 04/04/2010 7:15:09 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: Joe Boucher

“Carl Rove is not a conservative.
His boss was G.W. Bush also was no conservative.
And their “compassionate conservatism” was a croc.”

Great example of “ignorance is bliss”...President Bush is a great conservative, but don’t let facts get in the way of a good delusion...


123 posted on 04/04/2010 7:21:43 PM PDT by Wpin (I Choose Liberty)
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To: grey_whiskers

Rove is the handler, not the guy making the decisions....

I blame the Social Conmen in Bush, Delay and Frist for the failures.


124 posted on 04/04/2010 7:34:43 PM PDT by misterrob (Have you tea bagged a liberal today?)
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To: AuntB

I blame the Social Conmen.....


125 posted on 04/04/2010 7:35:18 PM PDT by misterrob (Have you tea bagged a liberal today?)
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To: Rutles4Ever
If it isn't a political party, why should anyone pay attention to it. If that's the case, it's just "community organizing", i.e., toothless.

You got it. It's been the RINOs wielding the club for way too long.

126 posted on 04/04/2010 7:38:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Without God in the equation nothing adds up.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Rove got a less than inspiring candidate who had a problem speaking English like an educated man elected in a time of an economic boom.

He went on to get the same guy elected who was the face of a deteriorating war in Iraq and against a very hostile media

In 2006 Iraq had drained a lot of support for the Repubs and in 2008 the Repubs had a terrible candidate standing for office.


127 posted on 04/04/2010 7:42:16 PM PDT by misterrob (Have you tea bagged a liberal today?)
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To: Wpin
President Bush is a great conservative

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

128 posted on 04/04/2010 7:44:29 PM PDT by misterrob (Have you tea bagged a liberal today?)
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To: EternalVigilance
Do you approve of what Mr. Rove did to the GOP during the near decade he had the whip hand over it?

It wasn't just Rove. The GOP indeed lost its way on fiscal and illegal-immigration issues when they held Congress and the White House. Anyone with an IQ over 50 understands that, if they're honest that is. I never said otherwise.

Still, I've only One Master. How's that Keyes thingy working out?



129 posted on 04/04/2010 7:45:51 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: rdb3
Keyes isn't my master. You're mistaken.
130 posted on 04/04/2010 7:47:25 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Without God in the equation nothing adds up.)
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To: rdb3

So, your first appearance on this thread was to defend Rove and attack me. If you realize what a disaster the Rove power center was that really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, seems to me.


131 posted on 04/04/2010 7:49:32 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Without God in the equation nothing adds up.)
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To: Joe Boucher; mkjessup

Sometimes I wonder if Rove wasn’t a highly paid subversive, working for the DNC.


132 posted on 04/04/2010 7:54:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Rutles4Ever

You do. I was using their term for effect, dumass.


133 posted on 04/04/2010 7:55:21 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The left was never afraid of W, or specifically, conservatives’ allegiance to him. And they aren’t afraid of Rove, and they fawn over McLettuce.

They fear the tea partiers and Sarah.

The establishment RINOs are the reason we are where we are, because they didn’t heed our advice or pleas, now why the hell should we heed theirs?


134 posted on 04/04/2010 8:19:51 PM PDT by txhurl (The Ron Paul Crowd makes perfect senselessness.)
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To: txhurl

We shouldn’t.


135 posted on 04/04/2010 8:20:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Community organizing is toothless? Tell that to the President of the United States. ROTFLOL


136 posted on 04/04/2010 8:40:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: Wpin
...President Bush is a great conservative, but don’t let facts get in the way of a good delusion...

Fact like No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, Amnesty ...

137 posted on 04/04/2010 8:50:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

And won’t.


138 posted on 04/04/2010 8:55:59 PM PDT by txhurl (The Ron Paul Crowd makes perfect senselessness.)
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To: EternalVigilance
So, your first appearance on this thread was to defend Rove and attack me.

Quite wrong. But you do realize just how weak you sounded?



139 posted on 04/04/2010 9:08:17 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: rdb3

In our weakness God’s strength is perfected.


140 posted on 04/04/2010 9:10:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Without God in the equation nothing adds up.)
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