Reports of the Tea Party's Death are Greatly Exaggerated

American Thinker ^ | 02/21/2012 | Sally Zelikovsky

[SeekAndFind]

According to some in the press, the Tea Party is all but dead.  Or is that just wishful thinking?

On February 16, 2012, approximately two hundred San Francisco Tea Party members stood outside of the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco to protest Barack Obama.  Standing behind the barricades next to the Tea Partiers stood a motley crew of Occupiers, pot legalizers and environmentalists, also protesting the president.  The press was all over the place.  After all, Obama was in town.  

You couldn't miss the Tea Partiers -- they had about 100 bright red foam fingers that read "NOBAMA 2012."  The protest and accompanying fingers were inspired by SF Weekly journalist Erin Sherbert's jab at Jan Brewer on January 27, 2012 entitled "Obama Coming to San Francisco, Where Nobody Will Wag Their Fingers in His Face."

The San Francisco Tea Party viewed it differently.  They considered it prime opportunity to wag their fingers in the face of the man who can celebrate being the first downgrade President, the overseer of one of the longest-running periods of unemployment over 8% since the Great Depression and the man responsible for our $15 trillion deficit, record spending, and a stalled economy yielding consistently lower GDP and tax revenues.  And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

This finger waggin' at Obama -- for driving the economy over the cliff and watching it plummet towards the bottom at lightning speed -- is long overdue.

Fueled by fear they won't be able to retire, sell their homes, educate their kids, afford top notch health care or the cost to drive to work; and motivated by increasing levels of anxiety that their children won't have the same opportunities their parents had, Tea Partiers came out in droves

[SmileRight]

I think the media has just stopped covering them. If the media ignores them, they don’t exist, right?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The Tea Party is not dead but its sad that we are not getting more success on halting the insane levels of government spending. We need a radical cut in spending, period. And no one is doing it. None of the GOP candidates for president is good on limited government. Newt is probably best and even he has flirted with big government.

[DeaconRed]

OH the wishful thinking of ZERO and his minions. . . .
Tea Party will be out in force in November. Count on IT.

[wayoverontheright]

You can no longer judge the strength of the Tea Party by counting heads at protests. We somewhat like the fact that we’re being underestimated, and are patiently waiting for election day.

The left clearly hasn’t learned the lesson they should have learned from the 2010 elections.

We’re still angry, perhaps more so than in 2010. Election day will be our protest.

[DeaconRed]

"halting the insane levels of government spending"

I agree that is a good priority. Until we get a majority in both the house & senate it is impossible, especially with goofy in the WH.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We’ve gone to ground (which only makes us more dangerous)

[BitWielder1]

The big difference is that most TEA party people have jobs and responsibilities to tend to and don't have the time to loiter on public property for months on end.

[DeaconRed]

"Election day will be our protest."

You get an AMEN from Voter#537

[mountainlion]

Tea Party has merged with the Silent Majority.

[Scythian]

No, they’re dead, supporting Romney and other crackpots, the Tea Party movement it turns out was a bunch of brain dead Main Stream TV-BOTs...

[Joe the Pimpernel]

The Tea Pary ain’t a party. It’s a tsunami.

[Son House]

our $15 trillion deficit, record spending, and a stalled economy yielding consistently lower GDP and tax revenues

Another difference is the specific economic goals are common sense and attract folks who will reason out the better solutions and understand our Constitution;

whereas the Occupy crowd just want someone else to pay for their perceived misfortunes.

[bossmechanic]

The Tea Party doesn’t have to pander for votes every 2-4 years. It came together on it’s own and just IS.
For anyone, RINOs included, to think fiscal conservatism was just trendy or has had it’s day in the sun, well...they do so at their own peril.
We’ll know when we’re over target when the media restarts tea party radical right wing racism teasers.

[upchuck]

I was at a local Tea Party meeting last night. We are certainly not dead. The press and politicos fear us. We ask embarrassing questions and demand adequate answers. We will not stand for their political BS. Naturally, the press will not willingly cover our activities.

Go Tea Party!

[DaveinOK54]

We’re alive and well thank you. Why do you think Willard is having such a hard time? I believe it’s because we’re not going to put up with the gop-e selecting our candidate again, and it shows.

[TheOldLady]

Please note that all donations
at this point will go to update
Free Republic's computer system
We have the need for SPEED before the election!


Donate Just One Monthly
And Become a FR Hero

Sponsors will contribute $10
For each new monthly sign-up

[Norseman]

>>We’re alive and well thank you. Why do you think Willard is having such a hard time? I believe it’s because we’re not going to put up with the gop-e selecting our candidate again, and it shows.<<

Excellent point!

If Romney were capable of convincing Tea Party voters that there was at least a 50% chance that he believed as we do, he’d be doing far better now, but he’s incapable of doing so. The number one reason: his failure to disavow RomneyCare.

Supporters of the Tea Party and supporters of RomneyCare/ObamaCare are oil and water; they don’t mix, at all. You can shake them together as much as you want, but in the end they go their separate ways.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Tea Party will be out in force in November. Count on IT.’

Maybe, but shouldn’t the TP have been a viable force during the GOP primary season? Come November the die will have been cast.

The bad legislation and the overspending and all else unconstitutional needs to be stopped and reversed YESTERDAY, not at some point in the future.

The NDAA, Food Safety Bill, illegal immigration, Drone authorization, TSA debacle, obamacare, massive creation of ‘money’ out of thin air, et. al., has already taken place. And there’s nine months until November; plenty of time to put the final nails in America’s coffin.

On the other hand, America has a history of pulling a rabbit out of a hat, so there’s still a chance, God willing.