Posted on 04/05/2010 5:36:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They heeded a pamphleteer's call for "manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny" — the 60 American colonists who stormed Griffin's Wharf and emptied 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. And with that, a revolution brewed.
Now, more than two centuries later, come the angry throngs of the modern-day tea party. They've gotten the nation's attention. Can they foment their own revolution?
Not yet.
The Associated Press reviewed tea party operations in almost every state, interviewing dozens of local organizers as well as Democratic and Republican strategists to produce a portrait of the movement to date — and its prospects for tilting this November's elections.
The bottom line:
Though amplifying widespread voter anger at the political establishment, the tea party movement is unlikely to dramatically affect the congressional elections — unless their local affiliates forge alliances with Republican candidates. And how likely is that? Republican operatives look at the possibility of GOP-tea party collaborations with some anxiety, and many tea party activists frankly don't want to see them.
Born of protest and populism, the United States is a nation of movements — people galvanized by causes, summoned with the latest technologies. But none of those causes — not abolition, women's votes, civil rights or anti-war — was certain to succeed in its first fateful steps, or even to leave a lasting mark.(continued)
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Political party affiliation isn't a marriage. You can dissolve it at any time for any reason. Clinton caused me to divorce the 'Rats. McCain did in my marriage to the Elephants. I'm tired of special interests picking our pockets while they scratch each other's backs. I favor a box on every ballot marked "None of the Above." When I go to the ballot box, I won't be conned by a 'Rat in an Elephant suit. (As a matter of fact, I'm changing my tagline for awhile.)
I spelled incorrectly in haste.
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a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist
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The democrats are in demonize mode. The Tea Party is the chosen target. I’m cynical enough to believe that the majority of the attacks and negative articles on the Tea Party in the MSM are to blunt dem losses at the polls this November.
The dems believe that the American anger won’t last, memories won’t last and with constant negative stories about the anger of the Tea Partiers, the electorate will fold back into a blob of couch potatos, dispirited sitting the election out.
"Patriots for Liberty," captures a revolutionary spirit, and it identifies what ought to be the "passion" of today's citizens, as it was of those of 1776 and 1787.
"The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." John Adams
The future of liberty in the world may rely on what happens in 2010 to turn back the forces of coercive government and return to the principles of the Patriots of 1776 and 1787.
The Progressives use the word "Party" to diminish the influence of today's lovers of liberty. The debate must be framed as being between love of liberty for individuals through limited government and expanded government power over the lives of individuals.
Where government expands, liberty contracts. Thus has it been throughout the history of civilization.
The Constitution begins with "We, the People," and our servants in government are attempting to turn themselves into "Masters."
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one." - James Madison
"Patriots for Liberty" (otherwise known as "We, the People") must send that message to members of all Parties who seek positions of power over us.
Lincoln said something similar about emancipation of our slave population.
Michael Steele is leaking to the AP on condition of anonymity (just like colin powel did as sec. of state)
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Assuming that this is saying that Tea Partiers won't necessarily vote for an "R", I don't see how it can be any other way in this election cycle. The goal is to kick the Dems out, then we'll deal with the weenies in the GOP once that is accomplished. I do not want another 2 years of Obama and a Democrat Congress, but I don't think there are enough "R" voters to get the job done. We need the Tea Party folks to put aside their indifference towards some of the "R" candidates for this election cycle.
"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"
???? Swipe?!
What are you going to do come election day? Raise hell and then stay home??
Right now the democrat party is the real enemy of this country and we have to stop it, and the only way we can is to kick these SOBs out of office. Voting 3rd party will NOT do it.
Yes, “SWIPE” is exactly it because when it comes to actually representing us, they ain’t it.
To be honest, I have no idea what I will do come election day. I will probably do as I did last election and hold my nose to vote for them. But I’m SICK OF DOING THAT!!
I’m sick of hearing how the GOP is supposedly FOR us and yet we have dumbo Graham (who has an “R” next to his name) discussing AMNESTY?? McCain so out of touch he claims that illegals only do the work Americans won’t do?? Yeah, that illegal on the roof of the house up the street is doing something that my unemployed roofer neighbor wouldn’t do, eh?
So yeah, the GOP is USING the disgust of the Tea Party and yet when they get done using us, they are right back to doing whatever they like.
So the Tea-Partiers are the revolutionaries, are they?
If I were Mr. Fournier, I'd look elsewhere.
Remember 60% of the housing in SC is TRAILERS, which may or may not be familiar territory, but if you start door to door, and remember trailers usually only have two doors, you could probably cover a lot of territory before the next election.
It's in the math of winning.
They underestimate, they will see in Nov. won’t they?
"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- 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."Abraham Lincoln,Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
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