I've gone to protests and quietly stood among the moonbats to listen to what they were up to. Its how I get pictures like this.
Posted on 10/30/2013 3:58:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's instructive to remember that when the Tea Party first began to gather steam, the name referred to a "party" in the celebration sense – the Boston Tea Party, specifically: an event of planned chaos, a protest that masqueraded as an Indian attack. Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
The government shutdown proved that attempts by the GOP establishment to co-opt the Tea Party as a source of energy just created a network of political sleeper agents. With its own mechanism for drafting (and supporting) candidates, its own agenda, and its own media eco-system, the Tea Party is a third_party by almost any criteria but ballot affiliation–and leadership. The absence of any official organizational structure might be one reason the Tea Party has remained so lively despite a terrible national reputation and negligible policy achievements. When something goes wrong, those identified with the failure fade for a time and the attention of Tea Party-identified voters shifts smoothly to someone else. There's also no demand for positive policy victories or signature legislation: no one has to win a debate, just spoil the outcome.
Thus it's no surprise that Ted Cruz is the current face of the Tea Party: All his achievements are proudly in the negative, all his goals are set resolutely in the past. But the Tea Party's fickle and hive-like nature virtually demands that Cruz cycle out of the spotlight eventually. He will either fail to stop something from happening or, perhaps worse, accidently cause something to get done.
For when that happens: here's a look at some of the Tea Party's once and perhaps future leaders....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
A combination of ignorance*, condescension and underestimation. I pray they actually think this way.
*They mention Rep. Cotton as having “quote[d] John Wilkes Booth approvingly” when he said “sic semper tyrannis” over the corpsified Hugo Chavez. That’s like saying I’m quoting the Klingon General Chang if I repeat any of the Shakespearean lines spoken by Christopher Plummer in that role (”Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?”, for instance). Either they don’t know it’s the state motto of Virginia, or they don’t care, as long as they can tar Rep. Cotton as a wannabe assassin....
You weren’t one of the two.
I for one thank you for posting this. Anybody who does not understand the enemy will lose. Sun Tzu is still relevant. You post lots of stuff I find interesting.
I was an intelligence analyst for many years. Do you think we were busy studying US, British, French, Japanese and South Korean forces? Of course not! We were looking at the Russians, North Koreans, Red Chinese and other hostiles.
I know, I was funnin’ ya.
I wonder why Liberals continue to repeat slogans and false statements over and over?
The GOP shut the Government down
Obama killed Osama
Bush invades Iraq with no international support
ObamaCare is good and cheap
Guns kill people
They never, ever stop lying.
Yankin’ my chain? Ya scamp!
They’re just ticked that Cruz and the Tea Party have been dead on target with obama.
I am so happy to hear that Cruz is not the only one.
I was so afraid that he was all alone.
Except for me, of course.
That’s all the left has going for them. Lies.
If they ever told the truth, they wouldn’t be elected to dog catcher.
Ana Marie cox is a stupid shallow bimbo who used to blog as washingtonienne. She is basically a no talent opinion maker wannabe
these elected officials have been lauded as Tea Party leaders
...Governor Chris Christie
Quick! Someone call for help. I think I'm dying of laughter.
Whoever wrote this article (Ana Marie Cox who??) is out of her mind or she writes lousy satire.
If she was trying to look amazingly ignorant, she succeeded.
She had a spell check FAIL! ROFL!
Resistance is futile Ann Marie Cox. You will be assimilated.
Ana Marie Cox. I remember her name being mentioned a couple months ago, possibly referring to an earlier column of hers.
If I remember correctly, she’s a far-left hag.
Anyone got good info on her?
That’s her!
They must be hard up at the Manchester Guardian.
Bump!
thanks for fightin’ the fight until the rest of us got mobilized ...
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