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Dems' Risky Tea Party Smear Strategy
American Thinker ^ | August 13, 2011 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 08/16/2011 9:49:07 PM PDT by neverdem

I was sitting in my office, checking my email, minding my own business, when I was suddenly assaulted by a most bizarre news item: Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) had blamed the Tea Party for S&P's downgrade of America's credit rating. No, Kerry didn't blame President Obama, or Congress, whether the current divided Congress or past Democrat or Republican Congresses, or even President Obama's favorite culprit: George W. Bush. He blamed "the Tea Party."

My initial thought was that Kerry's allegation was fortunately so absurd that even the most emotional, robotic liberals would not buy this whopper. But then it happened:

Mere seconds later, I started reading the responses to an article I had just posted on Vice President Joe Biden allegedly calling Tea Party members "terrorists." And there, at the top, was this reader response:

The Tea Party is responsible for our country's credit rating being downgraded because they are unwilling to offer a solution to our current budget problems. They can't offer a plan to cut enough money to balance our budget, and they won't compromise on any tax increases to add revenue. Now we are faced with poor credit that is going to cost taxpayers even more money, making the already terrible situation even worse. They in fact are terrorists. They are doing everything they can to destroy America...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: teaparty; teapartymovement; teapartypatriots; teapartyrebellion

1 posted on 08/16/2011 9:49:13 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

What? No racist accusations?


2 posted on 08/16/2011 9:59:51 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: neverdem
The Tea Party circa 2012 is the Great Silent Majority circa 1972. The GSM was ridiculed and dismissed back then too, at least until election night, when Nixon's landslide buried the smug media and destroyed their sense of humor.
3 posted on 08/16/2011 10:00:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

The Tea Party circa 2012 is the Great Silent Majority circa 1972.


I hope so. May 0bama be McGovern.


4 posted on 08/16/2011 10:17:27 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: neverdem

I would LOVE to see John Kerry get unseated next election, even to another Dim. It would just tickle me pickle.


5 posted on 08/16/2011 10:20:38 PM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: neverdem

It’s all they have.


6 posted on 08/16/2011 10:22:15 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: mylife
What? No racist accusations?

OK, since you asked:

The Democrats who are part of this smear campaign are racists.

7 posted on 08/16/2011 10:24:48 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: mylife
What? No racist accusations?

OK, since you asked:

The Democrats who are part of this smear campaign are racists.

8 posted on 08/16/2011 10:24:57 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: neverdem
The Tea Party activists are not the Kool-Aid drinkers Zer0's followers are. We know how to read, analyze, think for ourselves and make our own decisions.

We The People are awake. We will no longer be misled by office-holding criminals. We will not elect a one-trick circus-clown president or RINOs again to office in 2012.

USA-Revere-4sm
  Tea Party USA - Modern Day Paul Reveres - Growing by the day!

Countdown until Obama leaves Office: 521 days as of August 17, 2011.

9 posted on 08/16/2011 10:27:05 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: neverdem

The Big Lie. Kerry is used to it. An expert actually.


10 posted on 08/16/2011 10:55:43 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: neverdem
President Obama spoke about Sept 11 attack concerns - but NOT from AlQaeda, He felt AlQaeda had been weakened. A billion dollar, multinational terrorist organization had been weakened, and that left what? A nut in Idaho who might be a Tea Party member?

Is that who Obama's afraid of? Not a large world wide terrorist organization, but of ONE Tea Party member? Are dems nuts?

Obama expressed fear of a 'lone wolf' attack. It smelled like paranoid fear of the Tea Party. ....

Obama's not concerned about Muslim terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans. He's worried about Tea Party conservatives?

A reporter with balls needs to ask dems and Obama exactly who they see as the enemy ...

11 posted on 08/17/2011 12:37:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (One ring to rule them/one ring to find them/one ring to tax them/and in indebtedness bind them.)
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To: GOPJ

“A reporter with balls needs to ask dems and Obama exactly who they see as the enemy ... “

and where are you going to find that?

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. “


12 posted on 08/17/2011 2:53:54 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: neverdem

Never put anything past these scum. They’re getting really desperate. A staged terror attack blaming a “right wing fanatic” might be next in their playbook.


13 posted on 08/17/2011 3:09:24 AM PDT by wolfman
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To: neverdem

It’s a pity the Tea Party isn’t a terrorist organization, the thought of a youtube of Kerry getting emergency surgery to remove the màlignancy on top of his shoulders just makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over...Lipton Akbar ;)


14 posted on 08/17/2011 3:25:04 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: GOPJ
A reporter with balls needs to ask dems and Obama exactly who they see as the enemy ..

Actually, they need to ask the Obama and the Democratic party why they don't want crossover votes? Why they feel they don't want Republican or Tea Party crossover voters?

American political parties thrive on amassing as many types of voters as possible. Yet the Democratic party seems intent on driving wedges between themselves and anyone who is not purely progressive.

It is a very risky political strategy because it drives away crossover voters.

15 posted on 08/17/2011 3:27:05 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: FlyingEagle

The Big Lie. Kerry is used to it. An expert actually.

You are giving Kerry ay too much credit. We all know he is a liar, and that fact doesn’t make him an expert...just scum.


16 posted on 08/17/2011 5:51:08 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: neverdem

This is like watching primitives cursing and shaking their fists at the storm coming their way. It will have no effect. They know their backwards culture is about to be swept away, and there’s not a thing they can do about it. So they curse.


17 posted on 08/17/2011 6:14:58 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: sr4402
...why they don't want crossover votes? Why they feel they don't want Republican or Tea Party crossover voters? American political parties thrive on amassing as many types of voters as possible. Yet the Democratic party seems intent on driving wedges between themselves and anyone who is not purely progressive.

Obama and crew have gone more paranoid than Nixon and his merry band of crazies...

Almost as laughable as Clinton and his 'vast right wing conspiracy' theory of conservatives putting the stains on Monica's dress - when he knew (KNEW FOR A FACT) that he was the one who put the stains there.

Same kind of crazy projections going on now with the new paranoid dems.

Look at the black bus Obama's using - it looks like something machine guns would be mounted on... Then his wacky comments about AlQaeda being weakened but his concern about a 'lone wolf'. That 'lone wolf' stuff is a hang over from the Clinton 'vast right wing conspiracy' stuff. We all laughed at Clinton and his black helicopter insanity - but it looks like Obama's brought it back.

It wold be the same as if some Republican took the man who climbed a Texas tower decades ago and shot at students - as an excuse to spy on liberal citizens.

The MSM would know that was wrong. But they'll miss this - conservatives are their 'enemy' too.

Dems going paranoid - they don't want our votes because they're becoming totalitarians. Chew on that for a second or two...

18 posted on 08/17/2011 9:54:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (One ring to rule them/one ring to find them/one ring to tax them/and in indebtedness bind them.)
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