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Chick-Fil-A, Not Cruz, Shows Enduring Strength Of Tea Party (Don't read while eating)
The Fort Worth Weekly ^ | August 2, 2012 | Andrew McLemore

Posted on 08/02/2012 11:47:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I love how clueless they are about what's going on right in front of their faces.
1 posted on 08/02/2012 11:47:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huckabee? LOL.


2 posted on 08/02/2012 11:49:16 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: FReepers; Patriots

"We'll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution, our TEA Party and Chick-fil-A."

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3 posted on 08/02/2012 11:50:16 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They say it was thousands . No it was millions of Americans who stood up for freedom by supporting Chick fil a yesterday.
4 posted on 08/02/2012 11:54:06 PM PDT by rurgan (Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, that article is so vapid it could have come directly from the White House...


5 posted on 08/02/2012 11:54:24 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: onyx

Exactly! If they think Gomer Huckleberry is the standard-bearer of the Tea Party movement, I don’t think we should correct them in their mistake.


6 posted on 08/02/2012 11:58:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Tea Party star Mike Huckabee

What a steaming load that is. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Huckabee endorse the non-TEA Party candidate Dewhurst?

7 posted on 08/02/2012 11:59:30 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m still laughing over THAT one!
Good night. God bless and keep you.


8 posted on 08/03/2012 12:00:04 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: South40; onyx

But he’s a heavy-set hick Baptist preacher with a Southern drawl who used to eat fried squirrel ... he must be a Tea Partier, right? After all, wasn’t Elmer Gantry a proto-Tea Bagger?


9 posted on 08/03/2012 12:04:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin should have run. Who was it that told her not to run ,Bristol? Thanks Bristol for destroying the U.S.A.


10 posted on 08/03/2012 12:07:48 AM PDT by rurgan (Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey! Having grown up with a pecan orchard in my back yard I have eaten a lot of fried squirrel.

I recall when Huckabee was considering a run this time around I wrote him and tried to discourage him from doing so. He eventually announced he would not run and I know it was because of that letter. :-)

11 posted on 08/03/2012 12:08:41 AM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: piytar

Those on the outside trying to see in do not have the slightest clue who the TEA Party is. They take wild guesses at what we stand for because they have no core values of their own and stand for nothing. They don’t understand independent thought because all they do is follow.

Without intending to invoke tim mcveigh, Invictus pretty much covers it. We have our souls.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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This, they cannot destroy no matter how hard they try and their lack of understanding is our greatest weapon.
Free men will die to remain free.


12 posted on 08/03/2012 12:14:15 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: rurgan

She’s only in her forties! President Reagan was nearly 70 when he took office!!


13 posted on 08/03/2012 12:15:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: South40

Correct me if I am wrong but didn’t Huckabee endorse the non-TEA Party candidate Dewhurst?
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Yep, Tax Hike Mike backed Dewhurst rather than the tea party candidate. Not that it should surprise anyone familiar with his record.


14 posted on 08/03/2012 12:19:07 AM PDT by SUSSA
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when thousands of Americans swarmed Chick-Fil-A restaurants across the country,

Thousands? More like thousands PER LOCATION. Try "millions".

15 posted on 08/03/2012 12:20:06 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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Let’s be honest, there was nothing at stake here. Those mayors were never going to forcibly close down a Chick-Fil-A. It was cheap grandstanding. And whatever the Fox News heads say, a bunch of people showing up to buy chicken sandwiches isn’t exactly a referendum on gay marriage

The problem for the author who is attempting to trivialize yesterday's spontaneous outpouring of grassroots sentiment is that we have had referendum after referendum on gay marriage and the results of those referenda have been consistent, indeed they have been unanimous in their overall results opposing gay marriage. We have heard the voice of the people expressed at the polls. We now see "those mayors" speaking out against the will of the people who, just as state legislators and state and federal judges, have not only ignored the will of the people but legislated and ruled contrary to the "exact" will of the people expressed in referenda.

The author denies that gay marriage causes harm to advocates of the status quo:

the biggest effect of their [The coterie of gay marriage-supporting mayors] Tweeting idiocy was to give the religious right exactly what they have long sought: evidence that gay marriage has victims.

The point is that the victim of the gay marriage movement is democracy itself, its component rule of law, and its ultimate reliance on the rules of the game which we call the Constitution. The public is spontaneously reacting to an overreach, as much a Bolshevik overreach as a fascistic overreach, which threatens the very system of law upon which our civil society depends.

I would say that is a very real harm indeed.


16 posted on 08/03/2012 12:41:33 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Let’s be honest, there was nothing at stake here. Those mayors were never going to forcibly close down a Chick-Fil-A. It was cheap grandstanding.”

The author is quite naive and has obviously never had a business.


17 posted on 08/03/2012 12:49:11 AM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: rurgan

I agree with you that Bristol has a lot to answer for, and really threw a monkey wrench into her mother’s vp campaign.


18 posted on 08/03/2012 12:53:00 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why would I eat at this time of night?

Oh wait! No! it’s not Friday, I might be eating leftover chicken or pizza cuz eyes bored....


19 posted on 08/03/2012 1:59:17 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: onyx

Yeah, funny... but it was a good point.

No telling if they actually believe that, or just want others to believe it. I’d like to hope they are that dumb, but that’s probably not the way to bet. It’s what they want people to believe. The question is why.


20 posted on 08/03/2012 2:09:23 AM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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