Posted on 12/17/2011 6:49:10 PM PST by TBBT
Check out this interesting story: Updated: 13 SC Tea Party Leaders Blast Bachmann Tactics – Patch Nearly a month after a SC spokesman for Rep. Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich of trying to buy off the state’s Tea Party leaders by bringing them on as staffers, more than a dozen of the movement’s leaders are fighting back.
In a strongly worded letter issued Friday afternoon, 13 leaders of the SC Tea Party movement accused her of “attacking the tea party movement by accusing tea party supporters of Newt Gingrich of being bought off” and said she has escalated the battle by making it national news by discussing it with John King on CNN Wednesday night.
“Now that Michele Bachmann herself has decided to throw fuel on the fire, and this issue has become national news, we as leaders within the South Carolina tea party movement feel we must speak out to defend our integrity,” reads the letter, which was circulated on Twitter and on at least one Tea Party website.
They accuse Bachmann of trying to divide the Tea Party movement, and defended Gingrich, who has said time and again that the only real opponent is President Barack Obama
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Could be.
I have followed politics enough in my life that I finally learned...nothing is as it appears on the surface.
Usually we find out years later what really went on and why..and sometimes never.
Gingrich supported the individual mandate, supported versions of cap and trade, has supported various Big Government programs. He has a very similar record to Romney’s. Remember, it was conservatives who threw him out as Speaker.
Nobody is moving the goal posts, and you know that. It;s just that Newt’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric.
I give him a lot of credit for leading the GOP to a BIG victory in 1994 (running, BTW, as out-and-out conservatives), but he didn’t really deliver much for us.
Newt’s overall record says that he’s a progressive, not a conservative, and his praise of FDR, TR, and Wilson (on foreign policy, anyway) backs that up.
There is a real dilemma here. Why is the "Establishment" scrambling with all their surrogates, talking heads and pundits to undermine and bash Newt while, at the same time, heavily promoting Romney, the so-called "outsider"?
By the same token, why is the "establishment" promoting the candidate who, as a super-rich guy fits right into the Obama campaign playbook of rich versus poor?
Just askin'.
“...keep Conservatives divided...” herding cats is less difficult than keeping Conservatives together. No one is ever conservative enough if he is capable of winning a statewide campaign. Look at the attacks on Newt who was the FACE of conservatism during the nineties, the Grinch of that era to the Left. Gingrich LED the conservative revolution of the nineties and was mercilessly attacked for it.
Now the Left has the far “Right” carry the attack against Newt while laughing its ass off at the gullibility and ignorance that implies.
Newt’s support of Dede Scozzafava shows that he’s no friend of conservatives.
No one can hijack the TEA Party. We have so many independent groups of them, no central leadership. There are tons of TEA Partiers who never even joined a local group...like me. The hallmark of being a member is your independence. We have all articulated that we are sick of the insiders in DC....now is the time for us to show it.
You win an election and you are part of the “establishment”? Wow, that doesn’t take much.
I guess the idea of people having their own ideas is unthinkable since the “establishment” controls all.
That’s why any attempt by Newt, Romney or any other RINO to ‘buy’ votes or influence must be exposed immediately.
Yep.
For example, Ann Coulter is dead to me.
Please check out the link in my Post #70.
Careful now, some folks around here will say that you’re a nasty ankle biting shark jumper.
You’re not supposed to notice when Republican politicians are full of crapola.
What Michele said about Newt regarding Fannie and Freddie is sadly true.
While I like them both neither has a chance at the nomination. One is a pale reflection of Sarah and the other could not even retain his Senate seat. It politics that is deadly and presidential politics fatal. It is also a damn shame in Rick’s case.
“questionable influence”
That sounds a little bit cryptic to me.
Why would the RNC not court our vote? I really didn’t pay to much attention to the visit. Anymore than I pay attention to robocalls from various candidates from both parties. Or a gnat flying around my head. :)
She called BOTH Romney and Gingrich “frugal socialists.”
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1331767039001/bachmann-romney-gingrich-frugal-socialists/
She’s talked about Newt Romney — indicating their similarity.
I never predicted Ann would go zombie on us, but she was the first to turn!
Way too interesting times we live in.
Don’t confuse Effect with Intention.
Michele attacks Mittens on abortion:
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