Posted on 01/07/2012 10:12:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It died on October 5 2010
With 14 debates behind us, no candidate seems to want to really punch Romney. It’s beginning to look more like scripted productions, than debates. Pillow fights instead of real punches.
Infiltration in the ranks and muddled thinking caused the splintering. Including-—the author’s. His article is mainly on the mark, but as one senator among 100, you have to work with reality as it is. SANTORUM’s constituents were being taxed, so he had to make the best of the situation. It is up to individual senators to make sure that THEIR state doesn’t get steamrolled, and it IS his JOB to decide how money is spent. NOT unelected bureaucrats.
Attitudes like the author’s come from the Neverland, and to some extent, it reflects Utopian thinking to believe that a congressman can be effective if he holds himself above the fray. Bob
Not dead, hibernating.
“The Tea Party is not dead by a long shot”
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I consider myself to be a tea party type conservative.
If I were still living in the US, I would have been right in the thick of Tea Party activities.
I am now, however far away and thanking God every day that
I am not back there.
The Tea Party represents the last vestige of true American values and heritage.
If they are gone, America is gone.
I truly believe that it will take an act of God to save the country.
A lot of dumb stuff went on in the debate/love fest. And the thought of borrowing another trillion from China to go back into Iraq was one of the dumbest. A few drones and a few hundred well placed hell fires would fix the mookie problem.
Give it a reason to come back and it will. Bigger than before.
It died because the people we worked so hard to elect, turned on us so fast that we said why bother.
Yeah, Alan West, Pat Toomey, Charlie Bass and the rest of you that compromised (i.e., sold out) your principles, I’m calling you out. Normally, I’d say “We put you in, we’ll take you out”; but why bother, the next person will be just as bad.
Time to realize that government isn’t going to change, no matter who is elected. The regime won’t go away, until and unless, we the people take it upon ourselves.
...”The Tea Party is alive and well. Even if there is never another big gathering, the ideas and ideals of traditional American values, Freedom and limited government by the people will live on”...
YES! Because freedom is an instinctual longing in every human being..Am I wrong in my impression that the Tea Party was never really an organization?..My opinion is that many people are laying low to see whether the nation is going to survive..These same people will fight for freedom when and if the time comes.
The Tea Party is only as dead as it wishes to be. And judging by the energy at the meetings I attend here in VA, there`s plenty life left at the grassroots level. However, the movement doesn`t represent the majority of America. Sadly, that majority is comprised of a wide range of attitudes ranging from apathetic to perpetually dependent to strident leftist.
No, he is not right.
The TEA party is a voting block. We voted in the mid-term elections and sent the elected officials to do what they could.
We don’t need endless rally after rally to “express” ourselves.
The sentiments of the TEA party don’t disappear
T-Party has made the determination that both crappy parties need to die, along with the majority of the bureaucracies.
As a born Tennessean I find this saddening.
Tennessee has always been a great conservative state, at least the eastern two thirds. I think we all know the problem with west Tennessee.
Keep in mind that stupid Gore did not carry Tennessee when he ran for POTUS.
We always knew him and his family to be frauds and crooks.
Absolutely not.
What is the tea party supposed to do when there are no elections, like in 2011?
Don’t worry. We are there.
It happens every four years. The Conservative candidates split the Conservative vote and the Moderate (John McCain, Mitt Romney....) wins by a plurality in the early states and that momentum carries them to the nomination. Perry should have gotten his ass out, but he’s too dumb to know that.
Even Ann Coulter 2.0 drank the kool-aid.
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Yeah, promoted Christ Christie first and now endorses Romney and disses the Conservative candidates every chance she gets. The biggest surprise of 2011 for me; how she became such a political whore so quickly; almost overnight. NOTE: I said “political” whore.
Even Ann Coulter 2.0 drank the kool-aid.
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Yeah, promoted Christ Christie first and now endorses Romney and disses the Conservative candidates every chance she gets. The biggest surprise of 2011 for me; how she became such a political whore so quickly; almost overnight. NOTE: I said “political” whore.
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