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Chris Matthews: Tea Party "Un-American" For Not Compromising
RealClearPolitics ^ | November 30, 2011 | NA

Posted on 12/01/2011 11:38:48 AM PST by neverdem

In an appearance Tuesday at Washington, D.C.'s Politics & Prose bookstore, MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews told a standing room-only audience that his new book "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" was important because it taught "leadership," and that's something many people today don't know about - especially under President Barack Obama, Jeff Poor at The Daily Caller reported.

Chris Matthews on the Tea Party: "This crowd doesn't want to deal because they believe the word 'deal' is bad," Matthews said...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; teaparty; teapartyexpress; teapartymovement; teapartyrebellion
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When did Obama even attempt to compromise? When the GOP compromised in the past, the only thing they got from the rats was zero, zilch, nada.

There's a video of this boob, Chrissy, at the source.

1 posted on 12/01/2011 11:38:58 AM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Where would America be if the original Tea Partiers (and related revolutionaries) “compromised” ‘like Americans’??


2 posted on 12/01/2011 11:40:06 AM PST by JSDude1 (December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
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To: neverdem

Who is Chris Matthews?


3 posted on 12/01/2011 11:41:50 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: neverdem

His ilk looted this country out of 16 trillion dollars, created a perpetual underclass, zombie legions of takers, and we are the ones that won’t compromise?


4 posted on 12/01/2011 11:41:50 AM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: neverdem

I think the Tea Party should compromise. Instead of fighting to the death to cut Federal Spending 30% we should compromise and accept a mere 15% next year.


5 posted on 12/01/2011 11:42:02 AM PST by DManA
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To: neverdem
Just like everything being spewed by the lefties that are out to destroy our America - only the conservatives are required to COMPROMISE. There can only be one winner in this struggle to save America and it won't include COMPROMISE.
6 posted on 12/01/2011 11:42:12 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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zombie legions of takers

You mean like this?



‘Somebody Needs to Pay for All My Children’
8 posted on 12/01/2011 11:45:40 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: neverdem

When you get right down to it, compromise and accomodation are both forms of moral weakness.


9 posted on 12/01/2011 11:46:24 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: neverdem

The “no compromising” attribute of the Tea Party is what could save us. If Mitt or Newt does become president, both of whom are too liberal, then we’ll need to stack the House and Senate with Tea Party people just to keep the president in check.


10 posted on 12/01/2011 11:46:45 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: neverdem

This from the jihadi-loving, “Don’t question my patriotism!” bunch.


11 posted on 12/01/2011 11:47:09 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (You're it.)
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To: neverdem

It tough to lead or compromise “from the back seat of the car” as imposed by Zero.

Remember that quote ?


12 posted on 12/01/2011 11:47:09 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ( (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11) by GlockThe Vote)
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To: neverdem
So why do the 20% of the population that are liberal think they have the right to tell the 80% how things are supposed to be done in a democratic/republic type society. Demorats and liberals are the ones that are un-AMERICAN!
13 posted on 12/01/2011 11:52:36 AM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: neverdem

What a bizzare statement.

The TEA party is a block of voters.
We vote for candidates, not legislation.
We apply pressure to legislators who vote to raise taxes.
We support legislators who understand that a further increase in taxes damages the country.

Is Chris Matthews suggesting the TEA party voters compromise on who they vote for?

Or is he suggesting that we abandon the application of pressure on legislators, thus making us a meaningless group?

Or does Chris Matthews misunderstand, or purposely misrepresent, who the ‘TEA party’ actually is?


14 posted on 12/01/2011 11:52:36 AM PST by kidd
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To: neverdem

Last summer, Chris said he stood alone, staring up at Mt Rushmore for two hours.

Uh ... the man has serious issues.


15 posted on 12/01/2011 11:55:33 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Ding! Frog's done!)
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To: neverdem

I don’t seem to recall Krissy Tingles blowing a fuse over “deem and pass”, “I won- I’ll trump you on that,” the passage of cap and tax, stimulus, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, etc. with no (or almost no) Republican votes, endless Executive Orders, and on and on...


16 posted on 12/01/2011 11:55:53 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: neverdem

Come a long way from “I won,” haven’t we, Chrissy?


17 posted on 12/01/2011 11:56:25 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: mountainlion

When pure compromises with the impure, what do you get?

When good (individual freedom) compromises with evil (communism), what do you get?


18 posted on 12/01/2011 11:57:24 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: neverdem

Matthews idea of compromise is like a rapist asking their victim to wear something special before their big date.


19 posted on 12/01/2011 11:58:01 AM PST by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: neverdem
To to Matthews, “Americanism” is compromise.

That would mean that America should have compromised with Hitler. America should have compromised with the Japanese. America should have compromised with the Ku Klux Klan. America should have compromised with the Muslim terrorists before they attacked us on 9/11.

All that would have been “very American” in Matthew's view.

20 posted on 12/01/2011 11:58:01 AM PST by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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