Posted on 09/26/2010 5:02:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the U.S. midterm elections five weeks away, the Tea Party movement is already the big winner of 2010.
This anti-government, grass-roots Republican offshoot has rattled the party establishment — making the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, the party’s most prominent 2012 presidential possibility — and has dominated the debate this campaign season.
The Tea Partiers believe they are on the cutting edge of a revolution: the “future of politics,” as Ms. Palin says. More likely, they are a short-term catalyst for Republicans and a long-term problem.
Nevertheless, their victories are impressive — toppling the Republican Party’s choices in Senate primary races from Alaska to Delaware, with Nevada, Colorado and Kentucky in between. Scores of candidates for the House of Representatives around the United States have embraced the Tea Party agenda.
The effect on non-Tea Party Republicans is palpable. The party’s 2008 presidential nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has shifted right on issues like immigration and tax cuts after being challenged by a Tea Party-type candidate. The former maverick is going to the Tea Party’s rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Oct. 9.
Mitt Romney, a presidential hopeful and former governor of Massachusetts who is always a good weather vane, is assiduously courting the group. Immediately after the Tea Party candidates Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware won upset victories in Senate primaries, Mr. Romney embraced them with campaign contributions.
The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, a non-movement conservative, has embraced the Tea Party’s general anti-immigration posture; he actually endorsed changing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to bar citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.
Karl Rove, once an arbiter of conservative sentiment, in a moment of serious analysis on Fox News, criticized Ms. O’Donnell...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
ROFL.
Albert wet his pants, but by golly, he managed to include almost all the players and almost all of the notable rinos up for reelection in 2012 too.
Hello Orrin Hatch. Be careful about reaching across the aisle...LOL. Even Albert Hunt has warned ya. HAR!
Notice that the NYT reprinted the article from Bloomberg News. The out-of-work RINO strategists are positioning Bloomberg as an anti-Tea Party leader.
Exactly. That was my point. And the ‘RATS keep saying that we’re all immigrants. That’s bull****! Anyone who wants to believe that needs to get the hell out and turn this continent back to the dinosaurs. That includes the native Americans. The ‘RATS’ argument is nothing but stupidity.
OK - it’s late - now I think I’ve got it;) LOL!
What the heck was Albert Hunt doing at CPAC?
Illegals aren’t immigrants anyway. They are trespassers.
The first thing they do when they come to America is break the law.
LOL..makes me think of the Times’s ‘Year in Pictures’..where they didn’t include any mention of this ‘vast conservative conspiracy’ called the Tea Party...ROTFLOL!!
How did we go from not even existing, to the most influential political movement in the history of mankind?
Gads...the media in this country is such an utter joke!
You are so right!
From nonexistence to most influential!
Gotta be “witchcraft”!
“Gotta be “witchcraft”!”
ROTFLOL!!
This is just a tiny sampling of the MSM FUD that will arrive after the election.
You usually see these sorts of articles under the heading “Analysis”.
Bloomberg?! Hahahahaha! How does that work? What states does he take away from the GOP? He’d hurt the Dem’s nominee, if anyone.
I know you post a lot of article but do you actually read them? This one is not “garbage” even though it did come from the NYtimes. It was a pretty straight forward, articulate article on the tea party’s grand efforts this year.
I didn’t call the whole thing “garbage”, just the part about the Tea Party hurting the GOP. And yes, I do read them.
Thank you God!! It is about time; Snowe and Collins days numbered-- Knowing their voting record they will just switch to (D). Good Riddance to rubbish!!
Myth Romney.
Yeah!!!
And, from the new york times.
The rinos like mccain gramahm snow collins et al are as bad as rats.
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