SAL RUSSO: What the Tea Party Movement Means for Conservatives

HumanEvents.com ^ | December 1, 2009 | Sal Russo

[Syncro]

What the Tea Party Movement Means for Conservatives

by  Sal Russo

12/01/2009

As I have travelled across the country on the Tea Party Express buses, I have been struck by the similarity to the early days of Ronald Reagan.  The explosion of interest by every-day Americans in taking their country back, as well as the biased mainstream media trying to portray conservatives as crackpots, is all hauntingly familiar.
   
Will the tea party movement be the beginning of another Reagan Revolution, as I think it will, or will the left-wing media be right that we are nothing but a collection of fringe players who don’t represent America -- like the Obama administration does?
   
I had the good fortune and good sense to temporarily abandon my college education to work for Ronald Reagan during the 1966 Primary Election for Governor of California. Stationed in Los Angeles, I was charged for bringing out crowds for Reagan’s events in Southern California.  It wasn’t hard work.  Crowds were huge and enthusiastic everywhere we went.

Conservatives today have forgotten how desperate we felt after the Goldwater defeat in 1964.  While we were gratified in taking over the GOP from the Rockefeller, me-too wing in favor of “bold colors,” many activists felt we faced a hopeless task.  You couldn’t go to a conservative gathering without someone handing out brochures about Australia or New Zealand becoming the next hope for freedom-loving people.
   
At one rally in Orange County a gentleman asked Reagan what would we do if he lost?  Reagan without missing a beat said, “I’ll come back to Orange County and we will secede.”  That brought thunderous applause -- not unlike what you hear in Texas today.  It was many years later before I realized that Reagan was only joking.  He was convinced that we would take our country back.
   

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[Syncro]

The tea party movement has captured America’s attention, and it isn’t going away.  There are a few nuts that have attached themselves to the movement, as some did to Reagan also; there are some bad leaders, much as we have had mixed in with good ones in the past.  But the heart of the tea party movement is to get America back to the principles that made her great.  I think Ronald Reagan would have been a proud tea partier too

[ElkGroveDan]

This Sal Russo guy sounds like a pretty smart conservative. Unfortunately with most of them you later learn that they have a bust of Stalin or Lenin on display in their office.

[o_zarkman44]

Ya think?

[Syncro]

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Tea Party Express

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Human Events: What the Tea Party movement means to conservatives

The Chief Strategist for the Tea Party Express, Sal Russo, penned a column on the tea party movement for the popular conservative website, HumanEvents.com - Please take a moment to read Mr. Russo's column and share it with others who might also be interested: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34620

The cnn article was posted at Free Republic the other day:

Tea Party Express, Part Three

Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:26:06 PM · by BAW · 31 replies · 424+ views

CNN ^ | Dec 3, 2009 | Paul Steinhauser

[Syncro]

I believe it is Lennon in this case.

I drew a mustache on it last time I was there.

Yoko threw a fit.

[Impeach98]

Let’s vote the liberals out in 2010!

[ChildOfThe60s]

Let’s vote the liberals out in 2010!

We had better be a hell of a lot more proactive than waiting for November 2010. It will be too late by then.

April 15, 2010. SHUT DOWN THE CORRUPT CITY OF WASHINGTON, DC.

It's your last chance people. No excuses. Be there.

[research99]

If you mean to say that guys like Russo are also part of the problem, then you are correct.

Remember, Sal Russo ran “the worst campaign in California history” as he was taking millions of dollars from Bill Simon in 2002. Gray Davis was so bad, that Simon only lost by 5% (and likely would have won if Sal’s incompetence didn’t sabotage his own candidate).

We have to be reminded who are the political hacks with their hands in the political “cookie jar”, when they try to get in front of a grassroots movement (and pretend that they led the parade).

[research99]

Remember the name of Sal Russo, next time you hear that California is going bankrupt.

In the meantime, the tea party movement is a great thing. Hopefully, the grassroots can keep the hacks out of it.

[ElkGroveDan]

Don’t blame Sal for any of that. It’s the fault of the bozo he hired to handle conservative coalitions.

[research99]

The central message of the Tea Parties is accountability.

Why should Russo escape responsibility (for the mess that he helped
create in California, while he was stuffing his pockets with millions of dollars)?

Based on his own track record how is Russo different
(from the corrupt political hacks, who are the Tea Parties’ targets)?

[ElkGroveDan]

[Cacique]

ping

[Impeach98]

Since I work with Sal I can tell you that he’s 100 times better than the fools that were brought in during the General Election who took over the Simon campaign!