Posted on 03/05/2014 7:11:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
That’s because they allowed the Liberals to define what the “Tea Party” is.
Once you let your opponent define you, it’s over.
This kind of illiteracy--at NATIONAL REVIEW!
According to the media...
Tea Party didn’t exist
Tea Party was just astroturf
Tea Party is racist
Tea Party is dying
We had some very large rallies that didn’t even extist according to the media.
We had elections won that didn’t happen according to the media.
Blah, blah, blah. The Tea Party is alive and doing well with people in office now fighting for the things that we as Americans believe in all levels of government.
The Tea Party helps to form national debate as well as local, statewide and national policies and laws.
you did not talk to me
The republican insider meme has gone out to the media.
Cornyn “crushes”
Tea party “flounders”
Tea party “wanes”
etc. etc.
this is the RINO BS of trying to split conservative into social and fiscal. Conservative is conservative there is no division.
This is about protecting the RINO staffers who are DC homosexuals.
If the government has unlimited social objectives it’s a little difficult to focus on just the spending. It’s treating the symptom not the disease. Oh, and liberals have the ball, so it’s their agenda that we are paying for.
I agree with you and the article. Most people can get behind the original, economic message of the TEA Party, but not when the social issues get attached. I have watched people who used to admire the TEA Party but now they are against it simply because of the abortion and gay issues. Now fiscal conservatives have lost an opportunity to take back some control from the liberals, and social conservatives gained nothing while weakening the influence of the TEA Party. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Como?
Lots of tea party candidates won down ticket races. Just because Cornyn won, with his ~12 million dollar budget ** doesn’t mean the tea party didn’t do a great job in the lower rung races. The tea party did not have a strong candidate, he didn’t start early enough and seemed pretty disinterested. That’s no way to win a campaign.
As many on FR have said, this is a long haul, grass roots effort to clean out RINOs from the bottom up.
Now whether our country will last long enough to accomplish this is another question entirely, but it doesn’t mean we should give up.
** http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00024852
If you want to find socialist voters, then look to the social liberals.
Immigration is economic.
When you lose a state to democrat voters, such as California, it is a loss to the left, to socialism and big government, anti-Christianity, and the more democrat voters, the farther left we move.
Unemployment, taxes, welfare, and on and on, without immigration the democrat party as it is today, would have died years ago.
this article appears like clockwork every six months and after every single election.
This has all the charm of “1984”. Your 20gram ration of chocholate is now increased to 20grams.
Do Tea Party voters have to be monolithic? Can’t different Tea Party voters support different causes depending on their interests, or more than one cause at the same time?
In 2010, the tea party was made up of social conservatives, more religious than the GOP, and with about half of them identifying as the “religious right”.
This article is bogus.
Survey | Religion and the Tea Party in the 2010 Elections
September 2010:
Nearly half (47%) also say they are part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement. Among the more than 8-in-10 (81%) who identify as Christian within the Tea Party movement, 57% also consider themselves part of the Christian conservative movement.
They are mostly social conservatives, not libertarians on social issues. Nearly two-thirds (63%) say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, and less than 1-in-5 (18%) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.
If we don't stop it, we're through. What's going to happen when the Mexicans in the US protest and turn violent? Are the feds going to let it happen in the name of "peaceful protestors"? Because that's the standard the US has set under Obama for the rest of the world.
We got played and it still sings. Elitists screaming "tea party" got all conservatives to rally to stop tax rates on upper-wage earners from being increased. A fine goal, for sure.
But what happened after they got that? Why they side with their Chamber of Commrerce buddies and still work to enable the invasion, for their cheap labor lust.
Easy to understand when they post the answer to the problem. Libertarianism is ≠ to Conservatism, in fact it is easy to understand why Goldwater lost so badly.
Absolutely.
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