Posted on 01/07/2012 10:12:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Part of the problem is the same problem it always is and that is the media manipulatitons and distortions.
I realize that that is part of the battle but it has to wear some people down.
Look how they made the Tea Party out to be a bunch of crazies and extremist.
Meanwhile the OWSers who are camping illegally in public parks and crapping on cop cars make Times Person of the year???
The medias version of good cop bad cop. They portray the left as the good cops and the right as the bad cops. No matter what they do and no matter what the truth is.
THEY elected a President that had NO RECORD of accoplishment.
At the same time Palin’s who had many more accomplishments and was not even running for President but VP..heer retarded child was somehow consideered fair game???
Probably the scariest part of it all is the fact that it has only had a minimal effect on people’s overall assessment.
Why is Obama’s approval rating as high as it is?
Does any reasonalbe person not think the press has manipulated them into thinking marxist radical with no record of accomplishment was a great choice?
No, I don’t think the Tea Party is dead.
Regrouping perhaps?
Are problems are too deep and systemic to be solved by political means.
The bountiful supply of useful idiots who pull the Republican lever every time without thinking will ensure that the GOP stays around for a long, long time.
The Tea Party can only do so much because it doesn’t command the same resources as the establishment. They can funnel money to Romney, force “conservatives” such as Nikki Haley and Ann Coulter to cough up endorsements, and steer media coverage toward their golden boy. They also have the unconditional loyalty of the party-line legion.
What can we do? Write angry letters and try to explain things rationally to an irrational and corrupt audience? It’s nothing by comparison. If we were able to make any kind of a difference, then Crybaby Boehner wouldn’t cave to Obama every other day and Romney would be a blip on the radar.
The fix is in. Willard Romney the open socialist WILL be our candidate because we’re up against an enemy too powerful. I’m trying to cheer myself up with the prospect of flipping the Senate, but it’s a lousy consolation prize to putting a true conservative, or even a mere RINO, in the White House.
The Tea Party was killed by a cabal of the RNC and the DNC. They destroyed it with lies and by breaking its supporters. People believed they were racist yahoos who spit on black people (it never happened) but it wasn’t about truth—it was about power. They broke Sarah Palin, they pulled apart Glen Beck, they limited the movement until it is a hollow shell of itself. But, I fear they were wrong and in the end the Tea Party will spawn a new movement —maybe a 3rd Party or a reform movement within the GOP. The RINO Party won the battle—and will force Mitten down our throat—but they have not won the war.
How can you write an article alike this and not mention Beck? How can there be 100 + comments and not mention Beck ( forgive me if I missed in scanning)? The marginalization of Beck , he believes by Soros, is a major factor. Plus I believe he lost focus, and has been hampered by Huntsman being in the race. I don't even know what he's saying these days. If he comes back on strong in some venue, a lot of Tea party themes will be re-invigorated.
He’s wrong, the TEA Party VOTES, it is not Occupy Wall Street.
Groups in our area are working inside the 9/12 groups and the GOP. This month they are meeting with the new district Congressman Jim Renacci for our area and there is a luncheon with Grover Norquist planned. They are also reading, “The Original Argument, The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century”
It seems they are doing what we had discussed, attempting to take the party back. Sure some expected a huge swing from the efforts, but that was a bit of delusional thinking. It has taken us decades of neglect to get to this point today...it will take more than a few elections to fix it. Unfortunately though there is a whole culture to undo and that is where I am not sure conservatives have the ability and stamina to make the needed changes.
The Progressives/Communists set in motion a 45 point plan and plodded along all these decades to accomplish it. The psyche of conservatives does not lend itself to stopping people from going down this road. Our keep government out of our lives and I'll stay out of yours mentality doesn't lend itself to pursuing a free state without a revolution. And even then we'd be happy to push the communists into one corner of the country to keep our refound freedom, rather than educate them.
I think for a while we will be very seriously one election away from tyranny, but we have a lot more to do than win elections.
Hey, 2DV! Happy New Year, Brother.
The afforementioned puke is dead wrong. The media forgets who the Tea Party is. They are under the impression that the TP is a small, well financed conglomerate of talking heads.
WRONG! We are a large portion of the population whos’ alarm clocks ring at zero-dark thirty, and bust our collective asses to make a dime, and finance the leviathon known as guvmint...we ain’t got the time to march on DC every damned week.
That being said, I hope you and yours are doing well.
Right now, the Tea Partiers are quietly attending local meetings. Right now, they are working in the trenches in preparation for the next national election.
In most of the country, wintertime is NOT the time to stage huge outdoor gatherings just to impress. The intervening holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's are a time for family......and political things are still a little on hold at the moment.
The Tea Party movement is not dead. You can't kill an idea. The temporarily-hibernating TP adherents will be back in open action in a couple of months. I attended a TP rally last fall on a gorgeously-sunny day. Although hardly publicized, the turn-out was amazing. The movement is NOT DEAD!
Obama is at his most dangerous now. He'll be trying to ram through whatever commie/socialist/radical measures he can in the waning days of his term.
The Tea Partiers will galvanize into action to block him by the same means they were largely successful in 2012 midterm.
Leni
I thought it died when the RONULANS took over...
townhall went left, eh?
I wouldn’t expect a lesser posting from 2nd though. Always, always sure to post everything negative about Sarah Palin...
attacking the Tea party isn’t new. It doesn’t take the spotlight off of Obama’s failures, no matter how hard they try.
We remember the $ Trillions and $ Trillions Obama, Pelosi and Reid indebted our offspring, to. And the death panels too.
How else do you explain it?
The Tea Party went underground. After being mischaracterized, meligned, insulted, degraded and villified the tea party’s only effective battle has been at the polls. As a member of the Tea Party, I understand that the most effective power we have is the power that cannot be taken away or villified, the power of the vote. The Tea Party does not need popularity or media coverage, they will flex their muscle with their vote and leave the libs scratching their heads. What they are trying to do is make us feel alone and powerless again. That will never happen , we know there are a lot of us out there and we will show up where is counts, at the polls.
It died because we have no legitimate spokesperson running for president.
It died because anyone who was elected on their principles quickly found out the Old Guard in the GOP quickly put the new puppies in the kennel of “go along to get along.”
The other reason is that the Tea Party did not organize into a single group with a potential for that group to organize into a third political party if no one conservative enough was selected (notice I did not use the word elected) by the presidential nominating committee of the GOP. We already know who is selected.
If the GOP selectee is not compatible with conservatives, the Tea Party will only survive if a conservative third party rises by the name of “Tea Party” or some other name that indicates freedom. If not, the party will simply fade away.
Once again, you are right...a named leader of the Tea Party should be selected and become the focal point of the party.
I just don’t know if anyone would have this kind of courage and guts.
The problem is the Harry Reid-Democrat controlled senate, not the congress. (We definitely need to get rid of Boner though.)
Harry had to pull out all the stops to win against a weak candidate. Don’t tell me they’re not scared.
Most people in the TEA Party had jobs to go back to, mortgages to pay, and families to take care of. I hope they come back this yea. They did excellent work in 2010, but their job hasn’t been completed yet.
Nice analysis CF!
Thanks! : )
If you know any members of the TEA Party, please give them an e-mail or phone call. We need them now even more.
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