Posted on 01/07/2012 10:12:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m afraid that reports of our death are rather premature.
If the TEA party was dead, it would be the first group in human history, after having won the biggest political battle in our time did it just say ‘well, that was fun, but we’re sure not going to try THAT again.’
RATS are whistling past the graveyard.
The Tea Party is a way of life, like being a 60’s hippie but the opposite. It can’t die as a party, it just means FOLLW THE US CONSTITUTION for once.
There are other avenues for activism and protest beyond mass demonstrations.
It’s just astroturf anyway. We will be organized by Spring and everywhere by Summer. The left is going broke.
I remember bringing that little point to the attention of the close to 1.2 million gathered on the mall that afternoon.
I was there, the number and pictures showed that amount or more, the MSM had it at a couple hundred thousand.
We’re here and it ain’t over yet.
We are working underground!!
Having been to several Tea Party events in the last few years in the WDC area, I can attest that it is not dead. It is just law-abiding. It is under the radar of the MSM and the politicos. The Tea Party will elect conservatives down to the dog-catcher. If worse comes to worse Tea Party folks will maintain the Constitution and freedom.
No, he is not right. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I will not vote for Romney under any circumstances. Even if he is the candidate facing Obama, I will not vote for him. I will write in the name of Sara Palin or someone else, but I have, for the last time, voted for a candidate I Do Not Want.
This is a decision that hasn’t come easily to me. The prospect of another four years of Obama’s rule is frightening to comprehend, but I ask my self if Romney would really be all that much better, if he actually could win, which he can’t. I say he would not be all that much better, he might even be worse.
I plan to vote for the “D” facing my own congress-critter, Cantor, and I’m urging all of my friends to do likewise. I think that it will be much easier to fire the “D” in two years than Cantor after he has another two years to dig his trench a little deeper.
I’m sending money and volunteering to make phone calls etc. for candidates all over the country. I want to see so many U-Haul’s being loaded in Jan. that they have to bring them in from out of state. I no longer care a whit wether someone has a D, R, I, or any other letter in front of their name, it doesn’t make any difference anymore. A skunk by any other name smells just as foul, to borrow a phrase.
Is the Tea Party dead? Well, I may be a party of one, but I’m still here.
First, because the tea party is a collection of ideas and not a political party, there was no death of those ideas.
Second, there is however a realization on the part of many that this is not a one or two election fight. The progressives were at this for over a hundred years before they got a dictator in power.
Finally, without a change in the indoctrination of our children, there is really no one left out there who would know freedom if it were given back to them.
Franklin said that they had given us a republic only if we could hold on to it.
I’m not dead, but I am pissed beyond belief.
You Rearden are "the first bull who speaks".
AN AESOP FABLE
A fable that every Conservative voter in 2012 should read and think about.
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A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughterhouse. And the butcher came with his sharp knife.
"Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns," suggested one of the bulls.
"If you please, in what way is the butcher any worse than the dealer who drove us hither with his cudgel?" replied the bulls."
"But we shall be able to attend to the dealer as well afterwards!"
"Nothing doing," replied the bulls firm in their principles, to the counselor. "You are trying, from the left, to shield our enemies -- you are a social-butcher yourself."
No, he is not right.
Rove and Romney have attempted to destroy the Tea Party.
They are evil and their minions are Legion.
Even when the Republican nominees have the facts about “RomneyCare” receiving millions in Federal money they do not attack. Romney’s argument about the 10th amendment & State’s rights does not hold water since from the beginning RomneyCare has been supported & continues to be funded with MILLIONS, over a billion total in Federal funds. It sickens me to see Romney pushed by so many people I once had some respect for.
Tea Party is an idea NOT an organization but rather thousands of small community groups of independant like minded NON partisen active voters. The GOP who thinks IT is the tea party died a long time ago, the establishment is going to spend billions trying to keep it on life support under the “care” of Dr. Romney-care.
Just say NO and let the GOP GO away.
Paging Rick Santorum..... Rick please pick up a white courtesey phone the REAL Tea party patriots are calling to invite you to the White House.
Is the time overdue for such methods? The politicians of both parties have stacked the deck to keep their power. The corrupt cesspool of Washington, DC is destroying man's last, best hope for liberty and freedom. Perhaps these scumbags need serious reminding that all power is fleeting?
I just don't know if anyone would have this kind of courage and guts.
Thanks for saving me the trouble - folks are feeling despair over the thought, but the Tea party is alive and well.
I’ve warned my state rep several times that the encroaching federal government is threatening his job. So far, it has fallen on deaf ears.
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