Posted on 08/19/2010 8:32:40 PM PDT by iowamark
The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover.
On Feb. 9, 2009, Mary Rakovich, a recently laid-off automotive engineer, set out for a convention center in Fort Myers, Fla. with protest signs, a cooler of water and the courage of her convictions. She felt compelled to act, having grown increasingly alarmed at the explosion of earmarks, bailouts and government spending in the waning years of the Bush administration. President Barack Obama, joined by then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, was in town promoting his plan to spend a trillion dollars in borrowed money to "stimulate" the economy.
Mary didn't know it, but she was on the front lines of a grass-roots revolution that was brewing across the nation. More than 3,000 miles away, Keli Carender, a young Seattle school teacher and a member of a local comedy improv troupe, was feeling equally frustrated. She started to organize like-minded citizens. "Our nation's fiscal path is just not sustainable," she said. "You can't continue to spend money you don't have indefinitely."
Today the ranks of this citizen rebellion can be counted in the millions. The rebellion's name derives from the glorious rant of CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who in February 2009 called for a new "tea party" from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. By doing so he reminded all of us that America was founded on the revolutionary principle of citizen participation, citizen activism and the primacy of the individual over the government. That's the tea party ethos.
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Leaderless resistance.
Mr. Armey and his closest associates controlled this government for a decade. What did they do with that historic opportunity? They spent like Lyndon Johnson on crack, and did little to restore the moral basis of our republic or to put the federal government back within its constitutional bounds. Why should we trust him?
Why should we trust him?
Got a point.
this is a take over of the republican party, not a partnership
Don’t trust Armey. He is the point man for bringing the Tea Party into the “junior partner” relationship. That is why the WSJ is giving him a platform on this. What the R establishment has in mind is treating the Tea Party just like they have treated socdial conservatives in the past. Bear in mind, too, that Armey doesn’t like social conservatives, who are the real heart of the Tea Party movement.
I tried to get the 9-12 organizations to pull the permits for the stage for the big DC march. They dilly-dallied, unfortunately, and Armey and company pulled the permits instead.
So, what you had was a million and a half to two million people marching in the streets saying "Give us our country back," and the Republicans who controlled the microphone saying "Give us our power back."
Two VERY different messages.
Well said!
That’s just what I was thinking.....Armey was one of THEM! How could I trust him???
“So, what you had was a million and a half to two million people marching in the streets saying “Give us our country back,” and the Republicans who controlled the microphone saying “Give us our power back.”
I agree. My dh and I were discussing this tonight. He said that if twice as many people had showed up on 9/12, it would have stopped the agenda that was pushed thru this past year. I disagreed. I feel that if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it....does it happen? There was practically NO coverage of the event last year. The Tea Party movement frightens the entrenched powers that be in both parties.
this sounds like sweet love talk. Not sure I buy it, tho.
The very idea that “Dick” Armey would author “A Tea Party Manifesto” is beyond laughable - it’s absurd!
He ia a political pariah in his former Congressional district entirely for his Washingotn-centric views, and the fact he had become a MAJOR defender of the status quo, big spending, business-as-usual politics. The “Tea Party Movement” is largely a reaction to him and people like him!
In a very recent visit to the Denton County GOP monthly committee meeting, an abortive attempt to give him a standing ovation was abruptly dropped because only 3 or 4 stood, while the other 80-some-odd attendees mostly sat with their arms folded!
DICK ARMEY a “Tea Party” lelader? ROTFLMAO!
There are only two viable political parties in America and we are unfortunately stuck trying to operate inside the Repukes party.
It worked as we ran up to 1980, and it did in part because we built better bridges to disaffected Dems than any of the establishment Repukes ever could have.
If the tea party patriots have the stomach for it, they could try the same thing—go get the disaffected Dems and maybe double their own numbers...and just steamroll the Republican party when the time comes.
But you need a leader, and that person is Sarah Palin and only Sarah Palin. She’s the only one with the stones for the job, and she’s the one who can win. The others either don’t have the name recognition, have no balls, aren’t conservative or just have no sizzle.
Start with Palin, then go for the Dem women who might naturally gravitate her way. Then look for those “bitter clingers” who are still voting Dem for some reason. Then, go for rank and file who are hearing more and more about how their union leadership are shafting them and pissing away their dues and pension money on leftie causes. After that, try the Jews—if they aren’t ready to elect a bona fide Zionist president....
It’s there. It can be done. Hell, it was in 1980. We took that party over back then and we can do it again.
Palin is a McCain Republican. Pro-choice for states on abortion. A judicial supremacist. Soft on amnesty. Soft on the teachers’ unions. I don’t trust her any more than I trust Armey. More of the same. No thanks.
Oh, she also supported TARP and the other bailouts, and the Law of the Sea Treaty, which is a huge transfer of power to the UN, giving them taxing authority for the first time, and control over the vast majority of the earth’s surface.
How does that represent the spirit of the Tea Parties?
I wish the Republican party was trustworthy but that isn’t the case.
The Tea Party better keep its distance from Dick Armey.
What Dick Armey should be is La Raza’s front man, he’s given enough speeches that sound just like them.
Dick Armey and Freedom Works is the antithesis of what the Tea Party Movement is all supposed to be about. You cannot change Washington, governement, etc....with Armey involved. Open Borders Globalism espoused by Armey is part of the problem
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