Reid: Tea Party will fade away in time

The Hill ^

[Sub-Driver]

Reid: Tea Party will fade away in time By Michael O'Brien - 08/14/11 11:39 AM ET

The days of the Tea Party's influence on American politics are numbered, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this weekend.

The Senate's top Democrat told a home state newspaper that he expects the conservative activist moment's grasp on the GOP to diminish, a bold prediction given the influence that group showed Saturday in Ames, Iowa, where Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a Tea Party darling, won an influential presidential straw poll.

"The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy … I've said that many times, and I believe that," Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in an interview published Sunday.

"That [the Tea Party] will pass. They will lose a number of seats next year," he said.

[annieokie]

When and IF that day every comes, we will already be calling ourselves something else, and YOU won’t see it coming.

[duffee]

Right On. I believe the Tea Party will merge into and set the Republican party back on the RIGHT path. This is the only way we will be able to survive and beat the liberals and progressives. We cannot afford to divide with a 3rd party and this is our only recourse. I believe that most of the Tea Party members are self described Republicans and or conservatives and have been voting prediminatly Republican anyway. Of course I have described myself and the vast majority of my family, friends, and Tea Party co- conspirators. I describe myself as a Tea Party, Conservative, Republican. I’ve never missed an election and have never voted for a democrat. I welcome the Tea Party members to the Republican party, It’s what we need.

[duffee]

Right On. I believe the Tea Party will merge into and set the Republican party back on the RIGHT path. This is the only way we will be able to survive and beat the liberals and progressives. We cannot afford to divide with a 3rd party and this is our only recourse. I believe that most of the Tea Party members are self described Republicans and or conservatives and have been voting prediminatly Republican anyway. Of course I have described myself and the vast majority of my family, friends, and Tea Party co- conspirators. I describe myself as a Tea Party, Conservative, Republican. I’ve never missed an election and have never voted for a democrat. I welcome the Tea Party members to the Republican party, It’s what we need.

[editor-surveyor]

TEA Party: “Reid will fade away in a short time.”

[duffee]

Please excuse my multiple post, I’m an old man and have difficulty with the computer.

[COUNTrecount]

Yes, he fell a few months ago.

[eyedigress]

Hey duff, Don’t worry about all that. If you have somthing to say, go ahead. I’m a boomer that respects your forced retirement. You are not unguarded by posting on Free Republic.

May God Bless

[cranked]

Yeah, will fade away soon after ReidIdiot and many others are literally tarred, feathered, and run out of D.C. =.=

[Grizzled Bear]

I find it interesting that when the Tea Party first started, Democrats thought it was just a fad. Now, the words “Tea Party” is on every Democrats lips.

Actually, the Libs use the contemptuous term "tea-baggers" when speaking about the TEA Party.

This means that all of the Democrats have "tea-baggers" on their lips.

Feel free to copy and paste this comment into an email to send to your Progressive (Commie) relatives and associates.

[mtrott]

He is such an insular ideologue that he has no idea what he is talking about. He has no conception that it is not a political party at all, but rather a huge, grass roots movement away from nanny government thinking, of which he is the worst example.

[so_real]

Who's got the "Baghdad Bob" picture? Seems appropriate to bring that out in Reid's honor.

[ridesthemiles]

I live in Nevada. We cannot get Reid to fade away fst enough.

[davius]

The Tea Party has no interest in the agendas and itineraries generated by the establishment channels. The citizens can see for themselves that the political system is broken and unresponsive, even as the system voices proclaim the system is vital and fully engaged. The problem for both parties is the Tea Party is not turning to them for validation. Rather, they are relying on their friends, neighbors, and peers for information and response.

It is not the fault of the Republicans or the Democrats or even of Obama that the Tea Party coalesced. It was the disconnect from reality and common sense regarding the stated aims of politicians and the core principles which inform the philosophies of the average American that provided the fertilizer for the Tea Party to flourish. If blame must be assigned, then it properly lies with Ronald Reagan. His administration embraced common sense solutions to problems and gave Americans their first glimpse of the concept that government does not have to be synonymous with idiocy. He showed that principals did not have to be filtered until they pandered to the universally lowest common denominator. No, it wasn’t a perfect embrace of the concept, but enough of an element celebrating ideals instead of mediocrity was displayed that it gave the lie to the Progressives and the media which propped them up.

The Tea Party is uncontrollable because it is people talking to other people that they trust, respect, and with whom they agree. Common sense, an exquisite sense of right and wrong, a dismissal of pop culture politics, and an intuitive belief that the affairs of human beings trump those of snails and frogs powered the rise of the party. Generations have watched as politicians were asked direct questions from which they danced and weaved only to evade the question in its entirety. The media pretended they got an answer and the pols pretended they gave a response. In time, many people learned to ignore both. A question posed to a politician by a citizen should be of the same caliber as a police interrogation and demand specific and unequivocal responses. Somehow, politicians have wrapped themselves in a mantle of deference that disallows uncomfortable lines of questioning. It should be their honor to serve the people and their duty to answer directly. A politician should be under oath at all times they are in office with a sword of perjury dangling over them. Answer the question. Answer it honestly or resign. How many cads would seek shelter in office if that were the rule of the land?

The Tea Party did not seek out the GOP. It was the GOP that sought us. If they want to change and come into compliance with our ideals, fine. But if they want use the party to continue their misbehavior then they will find themselves gutted from within. The establishment story line is that the Tea Party is about taxes. That is a gross and purposeful underestimation. Its aims are the same as millions of other clear thinking and unembellished Americans. Namely, God given rights, a free market, strict construction of the constitution, and limited government (aka personal freedom). So long as the façades of politicians like Reid, Durbin, Schumer, McCain, Romney, and Graham are draped over the political landscape, the Tea Party will grow in size and intensity. If they adopt the principles of the party; and they are sincere, they may well see a subsidence…in the next 20 years or so.

[Jack Hammer]

Opinion of one of America’s foremost World Class Idiots.

[dogcaller]

and in time the world will come to an end.

[dogcaller]

and in time the world will come to an end.

[Arrowhead1952]

"The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy …

Hey dingy hairy, nothing has changed lately, and Debbie blabbermouth Schultz said your party owns this economy.

[NoLibZone]

Last week the TP was more powerful than the president and Congress-combined.

Today , as we enter the next election, it’s done.

LMAO!

[CigarettesGolfandIceCream]

“We are just getting started!”

Amen to that.

[CigarettesGolfandIceCream]

“Mark Levin has been commenting that there is something wrong with Harry Reid. I don’t mean just his political views, but something is really wrong with him.

I have to agree.

And I will include Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi in there.”

Must be a pretty bad batch of that Kool-Aid