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Were (are) the Tea Parties effective or what?
Vanity | Jan 25, 2010 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 01/25/2010 11:55:30 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Can they hear us now?

They tried and tried to ignore us and pretend we did not exist, but they're not ignoring us now. And there's gonna be hell to pay this November. The Tea Party has declared war on the political ruling class and, IMHO, it will be an effective war.

Incumbents beware!

Just vote them out in 2010!!

Meanwhile, Chief Justice Roberts is cleaning house!!

Woo hoo!!

Rebellion is brewing!!

What say you?


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: teaparty; teapartyexpress; teapartyrebellion
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To: Crooked Constituent

Have a heaping helping of our hospitaliTEA.


21 posted on 01/25/2010 12:07:38 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Jim Robinson

The protests got America’s attention, although with little and misreported coverage. The true power of the Tea Parties/912 groups are in the grassroots political activism. That is what is getting the policitians’ attention. We must continue and push harder. Never, never quit.


22 posted on 01/25/2010 12:08:29 PM PST by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The silent majority silent no more.


23 posted on 01/25/2010 12:08:31 PM PST by DogBarkTree
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To: Jim Robinson

The Tea Parties are awesome, and just what we needed!

BTW, if anyone is going to be in central NC the weekend before tax day, I’m in the process of organising another Tax Day Tea Party this year, for that Saturday before!


24 posted on 01/25/2010 12:08:31 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Jim Robinson
The Tea Party Patriots are winning!

We need to find a *lot* of new candidates on all levels - local, state and national. That is the most effective thing the Tea Parties can do. Then the pubbies can support our candidates or die a whimpering death of impotent irrelevancy.


25 posted on 01/25/2010 12:08:42 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Jim Robinson

By the looks of all the RAT heads spinning, yes it is effective.


26 posted on 01/25/2010 12:08:59 PM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: YankeeReb
Look for the RINOs to start trying to co-opt the movement.

They are taking a two front assualt to us. First, they are playing nice and acting like they have our concerns at heart but then again like in the AZ Senate race, they are trying to split the TP groups by making false and misleading claims about the TP favorites.

27 posted on 01/25/2010 12:11:32 PM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - Dockery for Gov. - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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To: Boardwalk

We’re here! We’re tea-bagging! Get used to it!!


28 posted on 01/25/2010 12:11:43 PM PST by Crooked Constituent
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree. And what the Tea Parties and the townhalls didn’t accomplish, the left leadership did, with their unabashed contempt for Americans, which they put on full display while criticizing the tea parties, you know, patriotic Americans.


29 posted on 01/25/2010 12:13:17 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Jim Robinson
If anything, the damn democrats should be grateful that the American people aren't coating them with boiling tar and chicken feathers, and throwing them out of DC with boots up their asses.

That's what our ancestors did with tyrants back in their day, and the damn democrats should be glad that We The People haven't taken such appropriate measures (yet).

They would be wise to STOP intentionally destroying our beloved Country.

30 posted on 01/25/2010 12:13:29 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Were the Tea Parties effective??

Yes and No.

It got both political parties attention and got people like myself,who had NEVER protested before,involved.

But they should have been held in the front lawn of EVERY politician who voted for these stupid bailouts and silly stimulus proposals.

In Texas, we should have been in Kay Bailouts front lawn and Lloyd Dogetts backyard.


31 posted on 01/25/2010 12:13:37 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Jim Robinson

...my first gave me great hope, that there were many just like me...April 15th 2009..(smiles) and got me on you tube

32 posted on 01/25/2010 12:13:38 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Jim Robinson

The Left always lets you know of whom they are most afraid. Sarah Palin and the Tea “Baggers”. They demean and dehumanize them incessantly. If they were not afraid, they would ignore them. The Tea Party phenomena has the left in a thumb-sucking tizzy...................


33 posted on 01/25/2010 12:20:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Their first inclination is to ignore, then to denigrate us as racists. Now that they can neither ignore us, nor denigrate blue state citizens who had previously voted for Obama as racist, they are going to become very, very dangerous.

Obama has never had anyone tell him no, nor do anything but supplicate before him, and the “progressives” are not going to just sit back and watch their best chance in 50 years for totalitarian state control slip through their fingers.

The next 3 years are going to harder than the first. And they have a couple of tillion of our dollars in a slush fund to guarantee that it gets ugly and expensive for anyone that doesn’t go along with their plans.


34 posted on 01/25/2010 12:20:20 PM PST by spodefly (I have posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

More Tea Jim!!
You’re a big part of it.

Pray for America and the Tea Parties


35 posted on 01/25/2010 12:21:10 PM PST by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: bray

We need to be holding more tea parties, and rallys in front of congress ppl offices... sorta died down here in San Diego..


36 posted on 01/25/2010 12:25:15 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Jim Robinson; All

VIVA REVOLUTION

RINO Hunting Season is Open. I do so hope and pray McCain is so on the way out.


37 posted on 01/25/2010 12:29:20 PM PST by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots at best!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!


38 posted on 01/25/2010 12:31:17 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Jim Robinson

A magnitude 12.0 earthquake prediction with epicenter Washington, DC!


39 posted on 01/25/2010 12:34:46 PM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes sir, they’re working... Certainly postponed a lot of the agenda. Forcing new milestones and keeping the issues on the news.
IMHO, there are a lot of people that have finally found their voice.


40 posted on 01/25/2010 12:36:56 PM PST by RedMDer (Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012...)
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