Why Republicans Need the Tea Party - The movement provides an answer to the Left.

National Review Online ^ | February 26, 2014 | David Horowitz

[txrangerette]

There’s much truth in this piece.

But with the GOP-E, it isn’t only about tactics, or maybe it’s not about that at all.

They want THEIR power. They don’t want grass roots insurgents coming in.

Why all the stupid talk about “immigration reform” and legalized status but just not amnesty? When we all know it would become amnesty in a heartbeat.

They don’t go after the Democrats like they should, because they more fear and loathe US than they do the real enemy of all we hold dear.

[billhilly]

I strongly endorse what Horowitz says. Sometimes a little grey hair is a good thing and just maybe, some “old” guy who has circled the track a few times knows what he is talking about.

[LS]

My thoughts exactly. Many of them voted against Obamacare because they KNEW that’s what their constituents wanted, but they weren’t particularly opposed to it. So, it’s not about tactics. It’s about not having to engage in MEANINGFUL votes. The anti-Obamacare vote a couple of years ago was in essence easy for Republicans: it was going to pass anyway, so their votes weren’t needed. But if the issue had been in doubt, would they all have held the line? I can’t be sure.

[Envisioning]

Fighting fire with fire means throwing the Democrats’ atrocities — their exploitation and devastation of black and brown Americans — in their faces every time they open their mouths. It means accusing them of destroying the lives of millions of poor black and Hispanic children who are trapped in the public schools that don’t educate them — schools the Democrats run as jobs programs for adults and slush funds for their political campaigns.

It is not just the black and Hispanic children who are not being educated. They have successfully "dumbed down" a generation or two of all the children and we all will suffer for it......

[stanne]

Grey hair or no grey hair, he grew up communist and converted for all tge right reasons

And he’s brilliant

[fella]

"The White House is occupied by a lifelong anti-American radical who has done more to bankrupt this nation’s economy, take us down as a military power, and destroy individual liberty than anyone would have thought possible in January 2009 when he took office."

It just dawned on me as to where "The Great ObamaNation" is going to get all the equipment for it's private army.

[Kevmo]

Why does the Tea Party need the GOP? The vast majority of what the GOP is doing today is indistinguishable from what the democraps are doing.

[Cyber Liberty]

As a TEA Partier, I must say I’d have a lot easier time of getting along with the rest of the GOP if they’d stop trying to kill us off. Their cooperation with Obastard to keep the IRS hounding TP groups is going to take a lot to forgive.

Then there’s the matter of the Republican Party cutting off funds to TEA Party candidates that manage to defeat theirs in Primaries.

[txrefugee]

The worldly of all stripes mainly want to protect their “stash, “ which is anything that gives their life meaning.

As Jesus says, “They are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life.” Their worth depends on acquiring things or power, so they have to grab what they can before their hearts stop beating.

[Cyber Liberty]

They want THEIR power. They don’t want grass roots insurgents coming in.

I've noticed that too. They are more interested in protecting their sinecures than fulfilling promises to shrink government. They don't want smaller government, they want larger government (they aren't even particular about being the ones to run it, they're just as happy if the Rats are in charge).

It's all about the perks of office, the cocktail parties, the glamor, the hero worship by people who don't know what toads politicians are. IOW, their sinecures.

si·ne·cure
ˈsīnəˌkyo͝or,ˈsi-/

noun: sinecure; plural noun: sinecures

1.
a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.

synonyms: easy job, cushy job, soft option;
informal picnic, cinch, easy money, free ride, gravy train

"mowing the Ortons' lawn is a sinecure"

[eyedigress]

If the GOP-e doesn’t have my support, they also do not have the support of Reagan conservatives.

They will never go anywhere without it. Period.

[stevie_d_64]

There was NEVER a marriage between the Tea Party and the republican party...The republican leadership and elites resounded-ly rejected ALL aspects of this grassroots movement, because it directly challenged and threatened their “establishments” power...

Now the libertarians are infiltrating the republicans in droves, and the convention process leading up to the mid-terms this year will reflect that political moderation/mediocrity and other goofy aspects of the libertarian political ideology...

The republican party is pretty much on its death bed...And some of us are getting tired of doing what e could to bail it out of its feckless leaderships’ efforts to steer more to the right, instead of to the middle...

[TBP]

Why Republicans Need the Tea Party - The movement provides an answer to the Left.

That is exactly why Republicans hate the Tea Party.

[gaijin]

Bfl

[Graewoulf]

To paraphrase President Ronald Reagan’s comment to a journalist’s question about why Reagan left the Democrat Party:

‘The Silent Majority didn’t leave the Republican Party to form the vocal Taxed Enough Already Party, The Republican Party left them.!

[Eva]

This is an excellent article. I read it this morning, It made re-think some of my positions, but in the end, I still want Boehner out. As far as I am concerned Boehner is head of the circular firing squad.

[TBP]

Boner must go!

[Eva]

It is not just about power. There are some real policy differences, starting with immigration and freedom of worship.

[eyedigress]

The GOP has done nothing since Hussein has been elected King.

Support to the Fed is anyone’s personal call.