Posted on 08/26/2010 9:45:12 AM PDT by lbryce
On a Saturday in August when most of the political class has escaped this city’s swelter, 50 Tea Party leaders have flown in from across the country to jam into a conference room in an office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, apparently unconcerned that the fancy address does not guarantee air-conditioning on weekends. They have come to learn how to take over the country, voter by voter.
Look for houses with flags, they are instructed; their residents tend to be patriotic conservatives. Marine flags or religious symbols, ditto. Take doggie treats with you as you canvass neighborhoods — “Now they are your best friend; it’s dog person to dog person.” Don’t just hand out yard signs and bumper stickers for your candidate — offer to plant them on the lawn or paste them on the bumper (front driver’s side works best.) Follow up with thank you notes, the handwritten kind. Be polite, and don’t take rejection personally: “Remember, it’s for freedom!”
This is a three-day “boot camp” at FreedomWorks, the Washington advocacy group that has done more than any other organization to build the Tea Party movement. For 18 months, the group’s young staff has been conducting training sessions like this one across the country, in hotel conference rooms or basements of bars, shaping the inchoate anger of the Tea Party with its libertarian ideology and leftist organizing tactics.
The goal is to turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get-out-the-vote operation in Congressional districts across the country. Sarah Palin made community organizing a term of derision during the 2008 presidential campaign; FreedomWorks has made Tea Party conservatives the surprise community organizing force of the 2010 midterm elections, showing on-the-ground strength in races like the Republican primary for the Senate in Alaska on Tuesday,
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Or the Washington Pist.
Did you mean "and" or "or?"
No, I didn't seen any biased reporting in this article, either!!
/sarc
The Tea Party has demonstrated that it can beat the regular Republican. But they have to beat Democrats to get elected. Issues to do this have to be communicated. What happens when the voters give them the ball. Do they revert to become part of the GOP club or do they set a new agenda and move the party focus from Wall Street to Main Street? An election year flash in the pan would be a waste.
personally... I am done with the street protests, I will do my talking at the voting booth come November.
My “tea party passion” got me to go Galt.
And in that are two obvious things related to dropping out:
1.Galt moved to Galt’s Gulch while I moved to Galt’s Plateau.
2. We both abandoned any hope for a political solution.
And behind those obvious things are the subtle things...
Missed it. I knew it had to be there somewhere. Thanks for demonstrating how the Times never fails to make us barf.:-)
This is why they are viewed suspiciously. That was the memo of the GOP too. Vote Republican because the other guy is worse.
I think the organization has been helpful but that attitude is why they remain "cousins" to the Tea Party rather then something closer. I do find the idea they are lookng to challenge Snow...interesting.
And just who appointed these 50 leaders? This is a usurption of a consensus driven outpouring of average citizens by Dick Armey as a way of returning to power.
This group's "young staff" are symbolic of that new class of people who live and breath politics rather than get real jobs that create things and serve people. The true Tea Party people do not need these pipsqueaks ". . . to shape the inchoate anger of the Tea Party with its libertarian ideology and leftist organizing tactics." Whose premise is that that equates the Tea Party to libertarian ideology and leftist organizing tactics?
These usurpers are no different than their counterparts in ACORN and MoveOn, other than they shower more frequently. Yet they will be out there taking credit for any successes in removing Pelosi, Reid, and Obama from power when in reality they are a bunch of dreamers looking for a way to advance themselves on the crest of a Tea Party tsunami.
There’s one BIG problem with Mr Armey...he is PRO-AMNESTY. Does the FW rank and file reflect this belief?
Yes
When you get rich people involved, they've got an army of Mexican slaves scrubbing their toilets, mowing their lawns, making their beds and raising the children.
The Rich Are Different.
And the rich love being waited on, but it also kind of makes them feel guilty. So, to assuage that guilt, they decide to hand over national sovereignty. We see this with the Bush family, with their wetbacks walking Laura's dogs and cleaning up the poop.
They'll never figure out that maybe they should 1) clean up after themselves or 2) pay an American or a legal resident alien HONEST wages.
Which one am I? I hate these video games!
Not sure I agree with that. At most it would only apply to some but not all or even most. I haven't noticed any that seem guilty about being waited on. Some even think that is what they deserve. Their houses and lawns are so big they can't physically take care of them themselves so they have to have help.
So, to assuage that guilt, they decide to hand over national sovereignty.
I don't think it is guilt and I don't think they intend to turn over our sovereignty. I think instead some may give to causes and politicians who promise good-sounding things rather than to go to the trouble of doing it themselves, just like they hire domestic help. Losing our national sovereignty is just a byproduct. Of course, that is not true of all rich people. Some truly so spend time, effort and money helping people.
We see this with the Bush family, with their wetbacks walking Laura's dogs and cleaning up the poop.
You don't know what you are talking about! They didn't have someone walk their dogs while in the WH and Bush even cleared his own land at the ranch in Crawford, TX. That would have been a perfect job to hire "cheap wetbacks", as you call them, to do. The Bush's also went to Maine recently on their own dime to be with the families of some of the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Rich Are Different ... They'll never figure out that maybe they should 1) clean up after themselves or 2) pay an American or a legal resident alien HONEST wages.
You are looking at the world through the green eyes of class envy. You sound as if you think others took something from you that should rightfully belong to you. How do the rich steal from you?
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