[pinochet]

Wasn't Dick Armey part of the GOP establishment that created the mess, that the Tea Party movement is trying to clean up? In this news story, Armey is telling candidates endorsed by the Tea Party not to use the party's label: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008010-503544.html

The Tea Party needs fresh people with fresh ideas, on how to cut the size of government. Old GOP has-beens cannot contribute much to the debate on restoring American freedoms.

[reefdiver]

Dick Armey is a party of one. He speaks for himself and gives direction to no one.

[cripplecreek]

Army chose himself but nobody noticed.

[donna]

Dick Armey is a libertarian - no traditional values.

[montag813]

Dick’s Army is indeed a party of one. I am sick of Armey lecturing us on how racist we are for wanting to secure the border and stop amnesty. I don’t care how many millions he and Steve Forbes raise and spend trying to manipulate me. I don’t buy it and never will. Why is he so obsessed with continuing the scandal of slave labor and lawlessness that adds perhaps 3% to our unemployment rate every year (according to CIS.org), and tens of thousands of unnecessarily victimized Americans? It is just despicable.

[Frantzie]

Marco Rubio puts Tea Party crap on his letters but he is against AZ law. He was also against AZ-type laws for FL when he was in the FL house.

[DCPatriot]

The Tea Party has NOTHING to do with the GOP!

Get over it.

Tea Party attendees are simply Americans who hate what this Marxist is doing to our country and the Constitution.

Get over it.

Conservatives don’t OWN the Tea Party.

Get over it!

[iowamark]

But Buckley and his National Review magazine later abandoned conservatives, and became mouthpieces of the GOP/Rockefeller establishment.

Quite incorrect. Buckley always strongly opposed Nelson Rockefeller. He backed Goldwater and, especially, Ronald Reagan.

Also, "RINO" is an acronym and thus should be all caps.

[KarenMarie]

When my state had it primary, one of the candidates labeled himself as endorsed as the ‘tea-party candidates conservative choice’. I emailed and asked who/which tea party endorsed him. No reply. I emailed the tea-party orgs I had previously worked with and was told by all that they did not officially endorse anyone. So, I asked on his facebook page. I was confronted by his supporters, questioning my membership and participation to the tea party.

It seems there is nothing to stop anyone from claiming themselves as a tea party candidate, is there? sigh.

[Freddd]

shouldn’t you know what your are talking about before you start journolisting?

[Tanniker Smith]

Oh, they may *think* that they’re getting in the front of the line, but they’ll find out soon enough that they’re not being followed.

[Lorianne]

YES

[AuntB]

Monday, September 14, 2009
Beware: Rinos in Conservative clothing...DICK ARMEY

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Dick+Armey

[snip]I got one of Dick Armey’s mass emails today about the march in DC which his group helped to promote. He says, “WE DID IT”.
My reply:

WE???? MR.ARMEY!
95% of those people oppose your soft stand on illegal immigration and AMNESTY!
You should be ashamed of hijacking this movement, you were one of millions promoting this rally.
You’re fooling them, just like Obama fooled his voters....they don’t know you that well.
And you should have listened to Milton Friedman, when he looked you in the eye and told you that NAFTA was NOT Free Trade, it is ‘managed trade’. QUOTE!.... “managed’’ just like Obama wants the government to ‘manage’ everything!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=+KNOW+THY+ENEMY%21+It%27s+the+media%27s+turn%21+Party+On%21

[JSteff]

There is an attempt by establishment Republicans to hijack the Tea Party, in the same way in which the original conservative movement was hijacked by Rockefeller Republicans.

This is all part of the way to cause enough strife in the Republican party and Tea Party to cause enough to doom the conservatives thorough the 2012 elections.

Old guard fighting, in the Republican party will leave (along with media assistance) will leave it looking weak and ineffective. Think back to the last 4 years of Bush. The media was able to create a ton of lies to poison America against Bush and Republicans, allowing O to be elected.

The storm you will see against the conservatives, whether or not they take the house and senate, will be a media storm beyond what they did to take congress in 2008. The voters are not strong enough to stay with the conservatives through the storm.

Then the dems will have at least 4 loyal voices on SCOTUS. Then if they can take back at least one house in 2012 they will have prepped the way for a 2012 O presidency to get further than it is even now. Only with the possibility for O ruling with 5 or 6 SCOTUS members (at the end of that term), and a house to do as he wishes.

Conservative may really be done then. How would we ever come back from that??? Can anyone else see the danger here???

[Nosterrex]

The Tea Party seems to have been co-opted by self appointed leaders with the aid of the MSM. There is not a single Tea Party, but it is composed of hundreds or thousands of Tea Party members.

[NormsRevenge]

To paraphrase Alexander Haig:

“Who’s in charge? I’m in charge!”

RIP and Salute!

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This is just political subterfuge at its ‘finest’ 2010, imo.

The left doesn’t know how to battle a ‘headless’ organization that is ripping ‘em a new one..

As to Rinos, sigh.. what a waste .. ‘green’ waste .. time to recycle this move to the middle and get back to business.. before the national debt hits 25 trillion.. we’re only at what? about 14 trillion now and with Obama’s Mo’Money Regime agenda, if he served 8 years .. but who’s worried about debt these days? hmmmm..

Certainly not Big Gubamint and the practitioners of their ‘religion’.? I don’t think so.. or Rinos.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Dick Armey's organization, the National Tea Party Federation..."

Where do you come up with that?