STOP Funding the Enemy

Pascal Fervor ^ | 28 August 2013 | Pascal

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I received yet another email request for funds from the Tea Party "Patriots" Citizens Fund.

Here is the maddening segment of Jenny Beth Martin's reasons for her request for funds.

2) We need to bombard targeted Senators with ads. The constituents of every single wishy-washy “Republican” need to understand what is at stake. We just don’t yet have the funding we need to buy these ads. 

Someone this stupid has no business being in the business of fighting the Establishment. As far as I am concerned, she is essentially an antidisestablishmentarian. 

Hey, maybe I'm overly sensitive, but am I wrong is this? Speaking as a reluctant blogger, one who would rather be gardening and visiting his children among other things, my primary reason for blogging has been to provide counter-arguments, meager as they are, to the relentless propaganda issuing from the Soviet-style media (SSM).

I cannot see any gain in providing funds to run ads that will only provide those same rotten institutions material to editorialize against. But worse, if it is true that their ad revenue IS falling, why oh why would we help sustain them in any way? It's one thing not to storm their offices on a daily basis in protest, but it is another diametrically opposite thing to give them money. Sheesh -- this is NOT rocket science.

Ok. Tell me how to get through to this person allegedly on our side. If she is permitted to go on without the millions she is emailing hearing this perspective, that is potentially tens of millions of dollars she personally will funnel to our enemy for an ad campaign we already know our politicians will ignore because they listen to the people who actually give the pols money, not the SSM.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I don't know what to say. Are the Tea Party Patriots on our side or are they simply the other side of the coin to Rahm Emmanuel's "never let a crisis go to waste." The email which stoked this post began with a breathless "In just 34 days Obamacare will go into effect. I need your help now more than ever."

I want to hear how others view this. Is there a way to achieve a compromise that so that much fewer of our funds wind up funding (putting it more mildly than in the post) the anti-conservative media?

How is this different from the GOP doing the same thing year after year? What do I mean? How the GOP chose to go through the SSM to get out its message rather than every other means. Who here needs to reminder what a shambles the SSM made of the GOP debates so that we wound up with two Progressive GOP presidential candidates?

If we continue to do what we did before and expect a different result, you know what that defines us as.

[JimRed]

They may have a point. Ads, it would seem, are less effective at getting the attention of politicians than direct contact from multiple constituents. So ads, besides “aiding the enemy” are wasting money and are a waste of time. Unless, that is, they motivate the constituents to get in the politicians’ faces.

[Mr. K]

TEA party is grass roots

Certain types are trying to raise money off of the TEA party efforts, just like party establishment

Just do what you always do- talk to friends, neighbors, go to town hall meetings

the TEA party patriots don't send money and sit around waiting for others to do our work for us

Fundraisers are making money in some cases just for the sake of making money

Be careful who you donate to.

Most of the REAL TEA party activity I have seen is more of a ‘call to action’ rahther then a “send me money”

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Ads, it would seem, are less effective at getting the attention of politicians than direct contact from multiple constituents. So ads, besides “aiding the enemy” are wasting money and are a waste of time.

I'm relieved that you see it too.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Fundraisers are making money in some cases just for the sake of making money.

Be careful who you donate to.

Most of the REAL TEA party activity I have seen is more of a ‘call to action’ rather then a “send me money”

Boy, wouldn't it be nice to have the multiple email list of Jenny Beth Martin just so we could follow up her request with your common sense?

[Wuli]

I don’t know which is worse, really, the Email from the Tea Party Patriots Fund and what they want donations to do, or the just as unintelligent and unorganized lead argument in this thread against that Email??

If there is a good argument against the Tea Party Patriots Email, someone besides the originator of this thread needs to put that argument forward with a lot more organized and rational sense to it.

[RitaOK]

Well said. Action trumps cash. Our cash is going to be needed to help our candidates.

I noticed even Donald Trump tried to sic the Tea Party onto the NY attorney general, on his (Trump) behalf. Everyone wants to use us.

Caution.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

If there is a good argument against the Tea Party Patriots Email, someone besides the originator of this thread needs to put that argument forward with a lot more organized and rational sense to it.

Please, do it.

[central_va]

RINO’s are not “our” candidates. Go Tea party. Rock the boat.

[Standing Wolf]

Are we showing enough respect to the Soviet Republican party?

[RitaOK]

That goes without saying on FR. Didn’t realize it needed to be said. Oops.