Posted on 01/08/2012 12:38:39 PM PST by Rufus2007
The Iowa Republican caucuses turnout numbers were slightly higher in 2012 than they were in 2008. However, without a Democratic presidential caucus to compete with, some are asking why the turnout numbers weren’t significantly higher. The suggestion is that the enthusiasm for the field is lacking.
That could be a problem, according to Washington Post columnist George Will. On Sunday’s “This Week,” Will chalked that deficiency up to the tea party not being passionate about Republican politics.
“That’s right, because Iowa is on everyone’s list of 12 to 14 swing states that you have to carry to win the presidency, the Republicans should be alarmed at the — I want to call it depression, but the absence of passion,” Will said. “We all know that the passion and the Republican Party is in the tea party — the tea party just isn’t an important part of the Republican base, it is the base at this point. And there is no one on the stage … the fact is, someone has to find the voice of the tea party.”
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And people wonder why the Republican Inside the Beltway RINO establishment has a bad name. Ask George Will.
George Will is proof no one should live within the Beltway for more than 20 years. There’s some brain-destroying substance in the air or water there.
He just wants to be invited to dinner with Barky again.
If George Will advises something, better do the opposite
George:
You need to hire a nurse who can follow you around all day and wipe that unfortunate drool off your face while she feeds you “Ensure”.
You are an addled old man.
some are asking why the turnout numbers weren’t significantly high
Maybe they don’t want to invest a lot of energy into something that appears to be predermined?
Which is kind of a self fullfilling profecy.
“We all know that the passion and the Republican Party is in the tea party — the tea party just isn’t an important part of the Republican base, it is the base at this point. And there is no one on the stage … the fact is, someone has to find the voice of the tea party.”
Ok, moving beyond the obligatory anti-George Will comments, what is wrong with what he pointed out? Since the 2010 elections (and even during) didn’t the Republican establishment tell the tea-party folks to shut up and go home? And aren’t they doing as their elders said to?
There’s certainly plenty to criticize Bush for; still this idea that Republicans shouldn’t criticize Obama is foolish. The tea party doesn’t want to see Republicans infighting. That’s just stupid. Obama is The Problem.
Republicans should just start talking about Rezko, Larry Sinclair, missing records, birth certificates, Fast& Furious, Muslims in America, and Marxism. We don't need to make accusations. We don't need proof. We should just talk about that stuff as if this is the air the country is breathing right now.
OR we could talk about how the problems started when we last put a Republican in the White House.
Maybe it's just me, but I think Will's strategy is not as good as mine.
When TEA hit with a vengeance,, the GOP gave us Scazzafva,, they supported Murkowski against a TEA repub. They cut Sarah off at the knees every chance they got. They worked against Rand Paul, and after he won treated him like crap. They supported Crist in Florida.
They made very sure to not let Bachmann into any leadership post. They minimized the role of DeMint.
They went out of their way to make sure nobody associated with TEA had any leadership role in the GOP.
Then they told TEA that we better support them because Obama is worse. The GOP is cynical and tells me at every turn that that they have a right to my vote, and feel no obligation to even pretend to earn it.
The Founders' principle was LIBERTY. The virtue among the people often referenced by the Founders was linked to this love of liberty referenced by John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
"Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty . . . be the soul of this constitution, and it will become he source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy it."(Quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution" Essay entitled, "Virtue Among the People" available here
Rediscovering and understanding the principles which made the American Constitution a protection for liberty may be the most important task of our day, and time is running out. The "enemies" already have censored these principles from the nation's textbooks and much of our public discourse.
If every person on this thread and every person involved in the TEA Party movement would commit himself/herself to understanding and then sharing the ideas of liberty with at least 3 people, what a difference that might make!
Will's analysis doesn't go far enough. Tea Partiers and other citizens who care about their country, of whatever origin or political persuasion need to become passionate--about liberty--before it is lost!
Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny," Schweikart's "A Patriot's History of the U. S.," and Stedman and Lewis's "Our Ageless Constitution" lay out these principles in easy-to-understand language and are an excellent means by which our own "dumbed-down" generations can be exposed to the truly revolutionary principles by which our liberty was obtained.
The LAST thing we need right now is a public circular firing squad. The rhetoric must be directed against Obama and what his crew has done to the country. There'll be plenty of time to bring the public up the learning curve on the 10th Amendment if we win. If we lose, it won't matter that we had a nice "argument".
That's not very coherent. Especially the last sentence. But a lot depends on the context.
Democrats are going to say, "Where was the Tea Party when Bush was overspending and running up deficits?" and that's something any Republican candidate has to have an answer for.
It won't be the main message, but the answer to that objection has to be in the Republican message somewhere.
The answer is that the TEA party movement was formed in reaction to the democrat congress, Bush and the entrenched GOP establishment screwing things up. Obama is the target, obama with the democrat party pushed this crap on the nation and obama should get the blame at every opportunity. Blame Bush, not obama; what a bunch of crap! The democrat party and obama deserve and should get absolutely NO respect at all.
FUBO & FAD
I got so mad (drinking coffee right now) that I decided to look at the video. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND ALL FREEPERS watch the video. Here is the link,
George Bush was without a doubt a big government Republican. Even outside the September 11th spending Bush DID GROW the Federal Government the fastest since LBJ.
No Child Left Behind, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, comprehensive immigration reform and TARP are all Bush RINO policies
Conservatives separated themselves from Bush by moving to his right before the 2008 election. That is why is McCain selected Sarah Palin as a VP. To rope the conservatives (aka Tea Party) back in to the GOP tent.
“The LAST thing we need right now is a public circular firing squad.”
Isn’t that exactly what we have had ever since the debates started way back last spring when Pawlenty and a bunch of others were still in it?
Seems to me like George Will is complaining that TEA people are refusing to get their heads shot off in the currently- active circular firing squad. And that really chaps him!
The headline is very deceptive. I admit it got me fired up until I watched the video.
The sooner conservatives accept this reality the sooner we can turn things around. Right now as it stands you will not see any change in Washington policy unless there is true conservative in the White House. The last real conservative there was Ronald Reagan.
So voting for the Republican candidate will not put us on the right track. Mitt Romney, if elected, will continue with the globalist policies that Clinton, Bush and Obama have been pushing through.
The time is ripe for a new party.
I’d trust Obama futher than I’d trust George Effin Will.
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