Posted on 08/28/2012 5:23:35 PM PDT by upchuck
Is the tea party changing the Republican Party from the inside -- or selling out to the GOP?
As Republicans prepare to officially roll out Mitt Romney as their party's presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention this week, major tea party groups and figures have descended on Tampa, Florida, to schmooze with party bigwigs and rally for Romney.
But Romney's conservative credentials have long been viewed with suspicion by the movement. So it came as a surprise when, before at least one event, tea party organizers committed what some activists would consider heresy: seeking approval from establishment Republicans to rally.
All of it has opened up a once unthinkable charge: the movement that's rabble-roused and rocked the GOP establishment since 2009 is now too cozy with it.
"The top national groups have already sold out," said Judd Saul, a prominent Iowa activist associated with the Cedar Valley Tea Party. "They don't truly represent the grassroots."
"Even before the caucuses, these guys were all pushing for Romney even when the primaries were going on," Saul added.
"It's a pretty widespread (sentiment). A lot of activists have noticed that."
But presidential historian Douglas Brinkley doesn't see this phenomenon as anything new.
"I think it happens all the time in politics," said Brinkley, a political analyst and professor at Rice University. "The grassroots people are the people who are hypermotivated. They are people willing to go to rallies and hold bake sales and ... and they're always later kind of seen as auxiliary players once it gets to the main game when the elections come in the fall."
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“Perhaps the elite among us should cease acting like democrats.”
There are elite among us? Who knew?
Anyone willing to vote for Romney has sold out the conservative movement even if many don’t realize it.
IF there is anything to it (and I believe it’s just media p*ssing into the pot) remember something: this is still politics and even within a Party, deals will be made, usually to the discontent of the members.
Ditto.
“Johnny has traded brains for fear. The easily herded win us NOTHING. Ever.”
The people who traded the fear got cheated.
“Romney people are really mean, which is not unexpected since most of them are liberals.”
Culture of death, too.
Patience Grasshopper, “The Master has Awakened”
“Right CNN is really worried about the future of the Conservative movement.
When are you people going to stop being the willing foot soldiers of the Democrat propaganda machine?
Maybe you people might finally start fighting the enemies of everything you stand for instead of spending ALL your time shooting your allies in the back.
You people are the useful idiots of the Democrat party.”
Exactly! As you said.
What is it about you and pigs, Johnnie? If that is what you think about the rest of us maybe you should go join a mosque where those types of insults are more acceptable.
There are no good guys in this fight for the presidency. It’s a quick death under Obama or a very slow torturous death at the hands of those who call themselves elite. It’s not really a choice. We must find an alternative if we want to survive as human beings and not as you like to be squealing about pigs.
Would have replied sooner but your handle is too dang long. ./
Goats butt things, like tree stumps. Some stumps are tall, some are short. Depending on one’s argument which stump one should butt.
Thank you very much for saying that I make you laugh.
;b. Rita
Our group, the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party threw out 2 people from the Romney campaign out of our meeting last week.
They showed up uninvited and thought we were going to let them waltz right up to the mic and speak.
We made it clear to them that we don’t work for the Romney campaign or the GOP. They asked, “Is this because of your 501 c 3 status?”
I told them we are not a 501 c 3 group and that the reason is because Romney isn’t a Conservative and we ONLY BACK CONSERVATIVES.
The Communism News Network is in the tank for Obama, i don’t really see much value in reading what they spew except to rebuttle it.
“Would have replied sooner but your handle is too dang long. ./”
You can always copy/paste it. :-)
Thank you for the laughs. Sheesh! Now I’m laughing again.
It's getting old.
Hard to tell which are just too full of themselves and their ‘conscience’ and which are sleeper trolls
Sum total!
Primaries are over. WE have a team.
THEY have a team.
Matthew 12:30
You betcha!
I understood him perfectly...
I am sick of so called conservatives fighting to re elect Obama..
Vote your conscience..I am voting for Romney and Ryan.
How special
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