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Van Jones Urges Progressives to 'Steal' Tea Party Strategy
foxnews.com ^ | October 03, 2011 | Fox News

Posted on 10/03/2011 5:13:05 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Making no secret of his disdain for Tea Party ideals and ideas, ex-White House adviser Van Jones on Monday nonetheless urged liberal activists to "steal" the Tea Party's playbook.

The former "green jobs" adviser, speaking at the top of a three-day conference in the nation's capital designed to galvanize liberal activists, spoke interchangeably in harsh and glowing terms about the Tea Party movement. He described their cause as "the worst" and "silly" and other unflattering adjectives. At the same time, he said progressives can learn from what the Tea Party has accomplished, as he tried to steer the crowd toward his own umbrella group which he's been working on since the summer.

Using the pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps tone President Obama has employed in recent days, Jones pointed to the Tea Party movement as an example of grassroots activism done right. He suggested liberals have relied too much on one person, Obama, to fix everything.

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KEYWORDS: communistcrook; numero2jones; teaparty; vanjones
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1 posted on 10/03/2011 5:13:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Progressives must steal.

They do not have the ability to create.


2 posted on 10/03/2011 5:14:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Jones can play pretend all he wants but true grassroots don’t need top down organization like his little marxist minions.


3 posted on 10/03/2011 5:15:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wow!! Does this mean they are going to leave the venue they protest more pristine then it was when they came. I will not be holding my breath waiting to see that kind of respect.


4 posted on 10/03/2011 5:17:36 PM PDT by vicar7 ("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Didn’t they already try this with “The Coffee Party?”

Those original devils...


5 posted on 10/03/2011 5:17:36 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: cripplecreek
Yep. Those people can't do anything unless someone sends a bus, provides lunch and hands them a printed sign and a list of talking points.
6 posted on 10/03/2011 5:19:13 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We see the type of filth that Jones has in his army from the WI protests and this weekend rage events. There is no way that these losers have the capability to mimic the Tea Party. They are selling a message a majority of Americans don’t want to buy.


7 posted on 10/03/2011 5:19:28 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Let’s see... the Tea Party strategy.

Have real jobs
Clean up after ourselves
Organize peacefully
Be polite and curious to the law enforcement officers there
Preach freedom, liberty, and self-sufficiency

Nope, I don’t see them taking our strategy.


8 posted on 10/03/2011 5:20:13 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Jones cannot comprehend the Tea Party.

Joy to Thee and Me,
Confusion to Our Enemy

9 posted on 10/03/2011 5:20:58 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
LOWER MY TAXES

That's why the liberals won't go the way of the TEA Party.

10 posted on 10/03/2011 5:22:57 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Berlin_Freeper
There are also a lot more of us than there are of them.

10/2 Commie Rally

Beck 8/28 Rally


11 posted on 10/03/2011 5:27:26 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They already have one going on on Wall Street. The communists all have their own little groups that hate the US. They present themselves as slime and turn people off. They are trashy and most sound like little college robots fresh from Marxist 101.

Would not work for them.


12 posted on 10/03/2011 5:27:38 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Berlin_Freeper

IMHO, Van Jones is attempting to position himself as a future DemoRat candidate for President as a real Progressive/Soc/Communist leader. He might even challenge BOH in 2012 should BOH run for a second term and definitely be in the 2016 race for president. If BOH chooses not to run for a second term, Jones will be in the DemoRat primary fray.

What are your thoughts on thus supposition?


13 posted on 10/03/2011 5:28:40 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: LaMudBug

“IMHO, Van Jones is attempting to position himself as a future DemoRat candidate for President as a real Progressive/Soc/Communist leader”
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I dunno, but I heard Meg Whitman say “He is such a wonderful man”, as she met him on a cruise to Alaska....Barfff


14 posted on 10/03/2011 5:37:05 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Jaun Williams just outed these Astroturfers by saying Obama and the ‘Rats are creating “a pitchfork brigade” to take on the Tea party. Comments on The Factor.(as if we didn’t know)


15 posted on 10/03/2011 5:37:30 PM PDT by VTenigma
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To: Berlin_Freeper
A modern country in the 1930s succumbed to street thugs. Hussein employs the same sort of people, SEIU, Black Panthers, Van Jones, Eric Holder, David Axlerod . . .

History certainly rhymes.

16 posted on 10/03/2011 5:38:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Berlin_Freeper

A TEA party scenario on the Left could only arise with less and less representation of their statist views in the government.

When Republicans make idealogical moves, they tend to get less conservative and more centrist. They move leftward.

The TEA party arose in large part because the Republican party strayed too far from the Conservative base. The folks in the TEA party (myself included) felt like we had no representation, hence the movement.

Democrats, on the other hand, are already on the Left and when they move idealogically they move leftward. They become more socialist, more communist, more statist.

In order for the same spontaneous “straying” scenario which left the Conservative base of the Republican party with less and less representation to arise on the Left, the Democrats movement would have to be toward the center.

A leftist TEA party scenario would arise if the Conservatives got hold of the government and started shrinking it massively (say, by 20% a year) and democrat politicians began agreeing with that method of governing.


17 posted on 10/03/2011 5:43:25 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Cain 2012!)
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To: LaMudBug

Not that it stops these scum, but didn’t Van Jones go to prison? I would hope that this would be a speed bump for him.


18 posted on 10/03/2011 5:45:37 PM PDT by marygam ((Hurry November 2012, we might not make it))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I predict he will end up in jail after 2012, lets hope so!


19 posted on 10/03/2011 5:45:43 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Jacquerie
Yeah but those were small countries with homogeneous populations.

Not too many white communist leaders out there that arent already in DC calling themselves democrats, and they represent a small minority of United Sates Counties.

The domestic communists only need to be named and eliminated by brave men to be neutralized as an effective political force.

20 posted on 10/03/2011 5:46:03 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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