I'd hit it.
Posted on 05/06/2010 5:03:31 AM PDT by rockhardo
No one doubts the sincerity or power of the tea party movement anymore. We get it: free market principles, limited government and individual liberty.
Those are the three fundaments of the tea party's "Contract from America," to which any serious Republican must subscribe, nay, sign in blood. Make it real red.
Nowhere is this new power-to-the-people imperative in starker relief than in Utah – one of the nation's reddest states – where three-term conservative Sen. Bob Bennett seems likely to lose the Republican Party nomination this weekend.
This, despite the fact that Bennett earns an 84 rating from the American Conservative Union, an A ranking from the National Rifle Association – and is nothing like a liberal.
But Bennett committed the ultimate sin in tea party circles. He voted for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), a.ka. "bank bailout," during the George W. Bush administration. And he advanced a market-driven health care reform bill as an alternative to the Democratic plan that, alas, also included an insurance mandate.
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A political and intellectual subversive, that proclaims certain beliefs while undertaking laser shots at those who are more sincere and stronger in their cause for a conservative agenda.
‘Republicans and free marketers felt that TARP was crucial to keep the economy from capsizing.’
A free market would not have capsized. But then again We are far past being a “Free Market”
Trap was nothing more than Privatize the profit and Socialise the loses. “Big Government bails out Big Business” has been the norm for years.
CEO’s and Board Members who participated in the Housing Scam being stripped of all their wealth, tared and feathered by the bond and stock holder instead were rewarded with large sum of money. Our Lawmakers who laid the foundation for the housing scam will not admit their roll or apologized to the tax payers. The lawmakers are still allowing the housing scam to continue. (FHA) Freddie and Fannie have how lost more money than they have ever made their liabilities are “off book” and still growing.
And My “overlords elites” (both parties) wonder why this Tax paying Tea Party member is still angry.
That photo is from a long time ago in a galaxy far,far away with lots of Photoshop filters and airbrushes.
Absolutely. From here on out.
Yes, she has aged a bit.
” All votes equal but some votes are more equal than others.”
I have no problem with her favoring a different candidate than the Tea partiers, but to characterize their choice as a “purge” is beyond stupid. People have a right to vote for candidates they prefer. It’s not a purge, it’s an election.
I know of no admission on his part that those were wrong, and have heard no promise to change his stance on those issues.
Frum syndrome sufferer. The Tea Party must avoid any association with the GOP if it doesn’t want to be co-opted and neutralized by the GOP elites.
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Wrong. Conservatism is what distinguished Republicans from democrats before the rinos crept in. Let the rinos find a new watering hole. The Tea Party is not interested in being a third party.
This is a transparent attempt to drive a wedge. These attempts are getting old and pathetic.
Parker is a leading basher of conservatives, yet we’re supposed to take advice from her on how to conduct the Tea Party? What a hag.
Ms. Parker seems to have a problem with the basic concept of the whole Democracy thing...
The best way to ensure that the Dems stay in power is to create a three-party system. There are many new entrants into GOP politics this season. Find their campaigns, work in those campaigns and help keep them on a starboard tack.
Don’t you love their “verbal virtuousity”?
They use loaded words against conservatives, true Americans,
and then refuse to use words that actually mean things when describing Islamic terrorist attacks.
Ms Parker must be too young to remember when many Democrats also believed in “free market principles, limited government and individual liberty.”
The primary people pushing the Tea Party to form a third party are leftists for the very reason you state.
They also can’t seem to fathom a bunch of individuals gathering behind a purpose instead of some “leader”.
They are so humanistic that they must have some elite in charge in order to feel comfortable.
Bennett voted for amnesty and many other egregious things.
But that’s enough.
Kathleen WHO??
Good column - it disagrees with the Tea Party agenda against Bennett while recognizing the legitimacy of their grievences and refrains from Parker’s Beltway-tinged patronizing.
No kidding. These Luddites compare voting to Stalin's purges because they don't like the American people actually utilizing their constitutional rights to vote for the candidate of their choice.
And it's a weak argument that a politician is a conservative if they voted for bloated and invasive government in the form of TARP.
I'd hit it.
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