Tea Party Leader Blames “Weak-Kneed” Romney, Republicans For Loss to Obama

A group Leaders of the Tea Party News Network and TheTeaParty.net offered an unflinching assessment of Election Day results. Todd Cefaratti, editor of the Tea Party News Network said, "We're disappointed in Governor Romney's loss. But this goes to the heart of what we have been saying all along. Bob Dole didn't win. John McCain didn't win. And now Mitt Romney hasn't won. The lesson the GOP and Americans need to learn is that weak-kneed Republicans do not get elected. Conservatives do."

"The Tea Party has not yet begun to fight. It's time for a wholesale reassessment of the D.C. establishment politicians and party grandees who have no commitment or courage to reduce the size of government. We now have another four years ahead of us with Barack Obama leading the charge against liberty," TPNN News Director Scottie Hughes said. "There were some bright spots tonight from Ted Cruz to Jeff Flake, to a decisive win in the U.S. House where Tea Partiers have a mandate to stand against Obama's big government second-term agenda. "

"I eagerly await the day the GOP establishment figures out that the 'safe' candidates are not getting the job done," stated Hughes. "The GOP needs to adhere to stricter ideological purity and put forth candidates that represent a significant difference in viewpoint from the Democrats that are creating devastating policies for Americans. The Republican Party has been shoving 'their' candidate down the throats of conservatives for years, and it's not working. It's time for them to wake up."

Cefaratti said, "We are disappointed tonight, but tomorrow morning the work begins. We will search every corner of this country for strong conservatives, not wishy-washy moderates. There's a change coming to our national politics, and the Tea Party will be on the frontlines waging this battle."

Question is, what are we doing for 2016?

Interesting you should ask as much of what we do now is right there in scripture. I received an e-mail from Grassfire Nation citing Jeremiah 28 and 29. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Those words sound so good. The future is bright. God has a plan for prosperity, for a real hope and a real future. On the eve of the election, it must have meant a Romney win, the GOP takes the Senate and we start the rollback of the Obama regime, right? Not exactly. + + The Plan Was 70 years of Exile. If you read Jeremiahs letter 29:4 you'll see the Lord (through Jeremiah) giving the Jewish exiles specific instructions on how to conduct themselves in exile:
Build houses and settle down.
Plan gardens and eat what they produce.
Marry and have sons and daughters.
Marry off your sons and daughters so they can have children.
Increase in number; do not decrease

Because Jeremiah's letter makes it clear that building and marrying is not enough. People in exile must do something else -- they must be a blessing to the land. So, First, the plan is exile. Second, build. Third, bless. Simple, clear instructions.

But why was this important? Why a "plan" for exile with specific instructions on how to act in exile?

It was the lessons learned during their time in exile which enabled the Jews to survive 2,500 years in exile. But not just survive -- but to thrive and become the most prosperous, most successful and most innovative people group in the history of civilization. "

There are lessons to be learned in exile. So that's why, today, I'm going to build. And I'm going to plant. I'm going to bless. And I'm going to pray. For that is the final piece to the puzzle for our grieving nation...

"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

That’s a little better! I like it much more than “weep”!

The key here is to “Build”.

Quit the pointing of fingers. It’s meaningless.
Might make you feel superior but let’s face it, we are all super heroes on the internet! We are the smartest beings ever existed! (aka: we are anonymous)

Build. Plan. Work for 2016.

You did the right thing! You voted for the best option we had.

7 levels of grief and you are at acceptance! “He wasn’t ready to compete at this level”. May be true. I think it’s more about uneducated people voting from the heart and not from the mind. My opinion.

Let’s face it. We are not the country we used to be. What we perceive as kids are the individuals calling the shots. You don’t have to like it but it is the reality that we live in.

Who is “cooler”? The guy who grooves with a smile, some basketball, and a good group of bands behind him? Or is it the guy who has ways to change a nation, not cool at all, who cares about where we are headed as a country, and has Kid Rock (Mr. 2003) as a band...?

This is where we are. It reminds me of Bush (Sr) vs Clinton. The guy on the back of a train or the guy playing a saxophone on the Tonight Show?

We need to educate the voting population on what is right and not what is cool. MTV... Cool in 1983. Rock the Vote? No.... Musicians are not your peers.

I’m angry and rambling. Going to bed.

Out.

Only an observation...but the chief sales point for a Democratic campaign is to divide everyone up and go for your special cause (being a woman, a union guy, a black, a Latino, a university kid, etc).

I believe in the end...Republicans have to grasp that they have to round the divisions back up and convince them that jobs, the economy, and success in life...isn’t determined by your special cause. In four years...blacks will still see a 30-percent unemployment rate for black kids 18-25 without a college education. In four years...a university grad will be standing there with $75k in debt and wondering how this $38k a year job will ever allow him to pay that off.

Republicans have yet to craft a message that draws people into one focused group.

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