Maybe its a case of Democrats suffering from temporary sanity once in a while.
Good time for this article - just in time for (what I hope will be) the 2014 ebb.
What the author doesn’t consider is a subsidence in Democrat voter turnout - especially minorities who quickly became complacent thinking that obama now elected - everything was in the bag...
Then we did most certainly have a surge of Conservative voters lead by hugely visible Tea Party activities - who turned out to vote in November 2010 and elected 63 mostly Conservative Members to the House of Representatives — taking the House from the Democrats - and thank God they did.
One could not have lived through 2009 and 2010 and failed to have noticed the dozens and dozens of large Tea Party rallies in cities all over American beginning on April 15th.. This wave of demonstrations and protest culminated with a Tea Party Caravan and ending with the one million people March on D.C. 9/12/09 ... Freerepublic.com held its annual meeting there and many of use were there marveling at the turnout.
The Tea Party efforts continued - more organized throughout 2010 ... In October 2010 Glenn Beck held a huge rally in D.C. where many tens of thousands of Conservatives showed up ... Some say it was another million person turnout....
Then the electorate voted in November and the rest is history - real history -— not the fantasy version in the article.
Why the Tea Party and other Conservatives did not continue this method of rallying Americans though the 2012 Elections - I will never - ever understand... Because if the Tea Party had pushed big demonstrations instead of sitting back and acting like conventional political groups - obama would have been defeated... But the Tea Party stopped what worked to my amazement.
The author of this article is a propagandist... nothing less.
Just because Belcher is belching, doesn’t mean that his prediction will happen.
GAVE UP! ... when the huge Tea Party rallies were primarily responsible for garnering the attention of the conservative electorate and was primarily responsible for taking the House away from the Democrats by motivating the BASE thereby putting a great hindrance to obama ever since... Just think how badly it would have been it that large conservative surge had not taken place...
Anyone who says or thinks that the Tea Party movement did not provide the major impetus for the election of 63 members to the U.S. House of Representatives is simply in denial of recent history... Dems and their minority underlings failure to come out in the numbers of 2008 was not even remotely the full story.
What made me upset with the Tea Party was that they STOPPED doing what worked - for what? That is why I got discouraged with them ... they became part of the standard political machine - doing things the way everyone else did and it DID NOT WORK in 2012.
Does anyone remember that the Tea Party so scared the Democrats that they went into full throttle for the entire year of 2011 - up until the elections of 2012 Demonizing the Tea Party ... the Leftist used every opportunity to turn the Tea Party into 3 headed racist monsters. The leftist media - which is most all of the news media went full bored to lampoon the Tea Party as knuckle dragging Neaderthals with no concern for the poor, or minorities ... They made the word Tea Party into Tea Baggers, etc. You folks remember all that don’t you? Do you think that the monumental effort to permanently stain the Tea Party was done because the Dems lost in 2010 due to a Democrat ebb? Maybe you should believe that Tea Party was seen as a force greater than the GOP because of populism when the RNC cannot even spell the word. And that the Leftist vowed to totally shut down any chance that the potential of the Tea Party could become greater... Some folks better take a closer look at recent history. The Tea Party became an absolute threat to Leftism - Socialism and had to be destroyed and it mostly has been ... even the GOP / RNC hates the Tea Party - because they fear being replaced.
Just one more obituary of the tea party. Could it be that rallies don’t accomplish goals? Also the tea party never caught on to the liberal version of a rally, call the press, show up for coverage, and go home. The tea party brought front and center the failure Obamacare is and raised awareness to the over taxation of anyone left working. This article is a rally cry to lazy democrat voters. Telling them if they don’t vote their freebees are at risk. The coordinated liberal/democrat message is conservatives stay home they are all the same and liberals get off your a** we need you to continue stealing tax dollars from conservatives.