Posted on 11/03/2013 8:58:51 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
On Sunday’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan argued that the tea party was a new fixture in American politics, a movement that doesn’t want to usurp a major political party but eliminate it.
The comment came during a discussion of electoral forces going into the 2014 midterms, with former Bush consultant Matthew Dowd arguing that demographics were shifting in the Democratic Party’s favor.
“Candidates matter,” ABC News’ Jonathan Karl responded. “They’ve nominated far-right candidates.”
“Lesson for the tea party?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“A lot of people may be cruisin’ for a brusin’,” Noonan replied. “Big difference for the tea party now and say ’64 and Goldwater and ’76 and Reagan—’64 and ’76, Goldwater and Reagan both wanted to seize and control and win over the Republican Party. The tea party now shows signs of not wanting to win it, but of wanting to topple it over, wanting to do away with it. That is something new in our politics. It’s going to get fought out over the next few years.”
Whatever it takes, Peg. Whatever it takes.
Entrenched liberals getting fearful. Suddenly the Tea Party is relevant again, because Obama needed a straw man to blame the shutdown he caused on.
She’s right. The Republican Party is unsalvageable because the Statists have a hammerlock on the party leadership and won’t be dynamited out regardless of how many Conservatives win in the House or Senate.
Freedom loving Americans outgrew the Whig Party, we’ve outgrown the Republicans the same way. There is not a dimes difference between them.
Peg’s got our number.
That’s right. Lead, follow or get the **** out of the way, GOP-e.
And they chose door number 3.
ONE CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY.
It may come to that, because the leadership of the Republican Party refuses to share power with a large number of middle class people who are demanding a share. Romney actually thinks they can win with a guy like Christie? He’ll be another Wilkie—to give him more than his due—who will support 90% of what the Democrat proposes.
And...?
I am at a loss, I see the Tea Party as a mixture of Repubs, Dems and Independents. They are not a Party, they are a movement seeking total change from the present status quo. Damn Media Press as usual have their head up their butts, and if they don’t, then its permanently stuck up Obama’s.
i guess the’re beginning to understand that the goals and principles of the tea party have absoulutely nothing to do with party and has everything to do with God, the Constitution and the country.
PEGGY NOONAN I HATE YOU, DROP DEAD.
Romney was reported just today as leaving Ted Cruz off his list of electables for President in 2016. Can’t be any more clear than that.
RINOS have got to go for the salvation of the Republican party. The moderates have got to move aside and make way for people who love America and its Constitution.
Whether that means topple, purge, eliminate, evacerate or fumigate, whatever it takes for Americans who love their country dearly to restore the values of freedom they hold so dear.
FUMR, FUPN.
Peggy was crowing about Christie over the weekend. et tu Noonan.
The ‘tea Partiers’ are the Goldwater Republicans who eventually got Reagan elected.
Why Georgie and Pegs, it seems like just yesterday you were dismissing the TEA Party as a thing of the past, an ancient anomaly.
Now all of a sudden out of the blue it’s so awesomely powerful it’s going to topple the Grand Old Party.
Make up your simple little minds.
Well, Peg...I like the word “topple”. It brings many fond images.
Let’s all hope her next utterance is Tea Party TOPPLLED the GOPe.
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