Were Tea Partiers Taking Notes at CPAC?

Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2010 | Joel Mowbray

[Saundra Duffy]

“It is precisely that kind of skillful guidance that will be needed for the tea party movement to coalesce and realize its enormous potential. “

B.S. The beauty of the real tea party is our disorganization and grassroots activism. This piece was written by a GOP bureaucrat.

[Theophilus]

It is precisely that kind of skillful guidance that will be needed for the tea party movement to coalesce and realize its enormous potential.

To me, tea partys are not and will never be organic.

[wolfcreek]

“This piece was written by a GOP bureaucrat.”

A bunch of condescending elitists looking to steal the TP thunder.

This can not pass.

[EternalVigilance]

Most of these organizational technocrats have been handsomely compensated from the billions of dollars sucked out of hardworking conservatives in the last few decades.

I wonder how many of them would work for free.

[avacado]

The Tea Party is a state of mind. A state of mind of like individuals who want a fiscal conservative federal government.

There should never ever be an officially registered Tea Party. Individuals of the Tea Party mindset should only contribute directly to candidates.

Any officially registered Tea Party should be known to be tainted and avoided at all costs!

[MaryFromMichigan]

Bunk.
CPAC and the GOP better be taking notes about the Tea Party.
It's a sea change.

[9YearLurker]

Exactly the kind of condescending establishment pablum that ticks Tea Partiers off.

[Revelation 911]

There should never ever be an officially registered Tea Party. Individuals of the Tea Party mindset should only contribute directly to candidates.

Any officially registered Tea Party should be known to be tainted and avoided at all costs!

agreed - many dems are now TP's too - I dont see a common home for the disgruntled in that respect.

It should remain grassroots....too many heads to cut off the beast to battle it effectively from their side

[panaxanax]

“For their sake, let’s hope the tea partiers were taking notes at CPAC.”

I think it is the Repub-RINO’s like Steele that should have been the notetakers.

We’re not going away. We are a political force that nobody can deny.

[Diogenesis]

"Phoney conservatives they are."

CPAC/ACU is run by David Keene, involved by scandal.
“”Palin-bashing CPAC/ACU Chair donated $2,000 to Arlen Specter, endorsed Romney””

“”Exclusive: Conservative group offers support for $2M”

“”Palin rebuffs CPAC, Keene””

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“Washington Insider David Keene Disses Governor Palin, Claims to Speak for Grassroots
“Keene’s ACU also puts on the annual CPAC conference in Washington.

.In the last three years CPAC has devolved into nothing more than
an annual love fest for the most established of establishment
Republicans, Mitt Romney. It should come as no surprise that David
Keene supported Mitt Romney in 2008. “

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“David Keene Endorses Romney“

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“ACU President David Keene Endorses Romney
Long courted by Romney, Keene agreed to formalize his endorsement of
the former governor during a face to face meeting in Florida on
Tuesday, according to knowledgeable sources.“

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“David A. Keene (born May 20, 1945) is the current chairman of the American
Conservative Union, a position which he has held since 1984. Additionally, he is the
managing associate at the Carmen Group Lobbying, a lobbying firm based in
Washington, D.C. In December 2007, Keene endorsed Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. “

[TADSLOS]

If the tea partiers doubt the importance of experienced hands steering the ship, they should look at the incredible success of this year’s CPAC. Many things could have spiraled out of control, yet these possible flare-ups ended up as minor blips.

uhm...wow. Pure unadulterated clueless arrogance. CPAC was a freak show on parade.

[Smokin' Joe]

It is precisely that kind of skillful guidance that will be needed for the tea party movement to coalesce and realize its enormous potential.

Another one that just doesn't 'get it'.

If we were to coalesce and become another top-down led faction, we will be treated just like another pimple on the GOP's hindparts.

The T.E.A. party (let's start spelling it right) is from the ground up and its real strength lies in its state and local influence.

On the right issue, nationally, all the local water droplets will be a tsunami--of their own volition. But we will become just another smear under the GOP bus if we let those who do not understand us or our movement dictate who we are or how we organize.

[muawiyah]

You do need some help ~ people who can look into the way these guys speak and see what they really mean.

This was a hit piece ~ the target was the young man, Ryan Sorba, who was BOOED as he got up to speak. That was the issue. If the homosexual privileges crowd booed him afterward, that wasn't the issue ~ it was the "before speaking" part.

CPAC, or was that some other kind of "packing operation" we were looking at, blew it when they let the homosexual activists ACT OUT.

Now, how do I know it was a "hit piece"? Well the second paragraph tells us that "experienced leadership" made everything run well. BTW, it was that same "leadership" that brought in the homosexual activists who then went outside the program to BOO a speaker BEFORE he spoke.

What the writer is telling us is that was the plan of their "experienced leadership" all along ~ that the BOOS were exactly what they wanted for this particular speaker.

YAF ought to think about that and disaffiliate itself from further involvement with CPAC.

[MrB]

Just confirmation that there are elitists in the GOP that need to be cleaned out before we move on to clean them out of the government in general.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Let's hope the Tea Partiers were taking some notes on what not to do, as well...

[pajama pundit]

I repost a comment I made on another thread:

“The MOST critical issue of all is the homosexual issue. Hopefully it was an aberration at CPAC and we will push back hard enough to get them back in the closet. It is our Waterloo as a nation. If we lose this battle and accept the homosexual lifestyle as normal, then we’ll just accelerate the path to national destruction.”

[NoGrayZone]

"But the secret ingredient to the enormous success of this year’s largest-ever CPAC was the steady hand of experienced leadership behind the scenes that ensured everything went smoothly."

Bullcrap!!! We have been doing just fine without ANY "steady hands of experienced leadership".

Those so called "steady hands of experienced leadership" is what got our country into the mess it's in!!!

"that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

[Beagle8U]

“CPAC was a freak show on parade.”

Next year they can call it FudgePAC.

[Kaslin]

You know what, I am tired of your anti Romney rant. all you do is smear him.

You claim to be a Palin supporter, but I never see any post by you defending her. Freeper presidio9 posted recently a column by that leftwing lunatic Richard Cohen who was smearing Sarah Palin.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452922/posts?page=1>

I went through the entire thread and there was not one post by you defending her

Now go ahead and flame me