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Posted on 11/16/2011 11:04:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin offered some unsolicited advice last night to Mitt Romney, the red-headed stepchild of GOP presidential frontrunners, encouraging him to more openly embrace the fiscal and social conservative side of the Republican party, and to develop a more robust relationship with the Tea Party movement. This morning on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, host Martha MacCallum asked Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson and liberal “embed” Alan Colmes to discuss Romney’s strategy in engaging the powerful Tea Party contingent, which Carlson put in remarkably stark terms.
After openly questioning why Romney hasn’t made more of an effort in including an energized side of potential GOP voters sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, Carlson boldly stated what he felt to be an under-told story in the evolution of conservative politics, saying of the Tea Party:
Well I think the explanation is a little broader. Leaderless movements don’t endure because they can’t. This is basically a leaderless movement. But I think it’s had a huge effect, and its biggest effect that almost no one ever mentions is that the Tea Party destroyed the Republican establishment. All the people Republicans and conservatives have looked to for guidance have been basically discredited by the Tea Party, which has alllowed this current chaos to flower. That may be a good thing, it might be a bad thing. I don’t even know. But that is the legacy of the Tea Party. No more Washington establishment on the right.
One of the leitmotifs of the 2010 midterm election was what we called the GOP Civil War, and was perhaps best evidenced by the ongoing rhetorical battle between GOP operative Karl Rove and Tea Party Senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell. Carlson makes the astute point that business as usual inside the D.C. beltway is a thing of the past, which is evidence of a Tea Party victory in the battle for the soul of the conservative movement.
Given that Carlson has a lengthy resume of defending the GOP and conservative movement, it’s not difficult to imagine that when he says that he isn’t sure if this is a “good thing or bad thing,” he really is shooting a cannonball across the bow of the USS Tea Party, especially when Tea Party endorsed candidates like Herman Cain (and Sharron Angle of last fall) brought embarrassment to some in the GOP ranks. Perhaps the Tea Party has won the GOP battle, but some might suggest that they will lose the eventual war against their Democratic foes.
Watch the clip below, courtesy of Fox News:
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If that were true we wouldnt have Bayner (sp) as Speaker and a gang of 12 politburo decide the fate of our nation right now.
Well, not yet....but we're working on it!
Not yet, be we are working on it
Tucker Carlson: The Tea Party Has Destroyed The Republican Establishment,
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Oh dont worry Tucker...
You still have Willie Mitty...
Given that Carlson has a lengthy resume of defending the GOP and conservative movement, ...
I say BS. Carlson is an establishment RINO.
The Tea Party Has Destroyed The Republican Establishment?...
Thank God!...
Another mainstream idiot, backed by a supersized ego.
I have been saying it for a year- We need a TEA Party march ON GOP HEADQUARTERS
—Not yet, be we are working on it—
My sentiments exactly.
Beat me by 8 seconds!
I really wish this was true, but . . .
Not quite yet.
Yay me!!! =)
The RINOs are accusing the conservatives and tea party folks of the same crap they are doing.
We stand for conservative values and support candidate who are conservative. They stand for RINO values which are democrat/liberal values and power at all costs.
Not Yet. But soon. Then we destroy the democrat establishment, God willing, and then destroy the socialist state.
Make no mistake, comrades. We have been living under socializm for a very long time, probably since the thirties, but it didn’t really start to kick in until medicare in the 60s.
The Washington establilshment was never on the right to begin with. That's the whole reason we have a Tea Party.
All the people Republicans and conservatives have looked to for guidance have been basically discredited by the Tea Party, which has alllowed this current chaos to flower.
Yay!
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