Tea Party struggles to regain political traction

Yahoo! News / Agence France-Presse ^ | March 6, 2014 | Michael Mathes

[2ndDivisionVet]

National Harbor (United States) (AFP) - How do you win the White House? US conservatives and Tea Party faithful launched their annual convention Thursday seeking to answer that gnawing question after several setbacks in Washington.

Born of a grass-roots thirst for small government and greater protections of constitutional liberties, the Tea Party movement celebrated its fifth anniversary last month amid deep divisions within the Republican Party in a mid-term election year.

Internal battles have uncomfortably pitted the party's politicians against one another as the far-right seeks to oust establishment Republicans in the Senate and House that the movement deems insufficiently conservative.

But the movement's luminaries pushed a message of youthful can-do idealism before thousands of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington.

"You want to lose elections, stand for nothing," boomed Ted Cruz, a Tea Party rockstar mulling a 2016 presidential bid...

[Admin Moderator]

Tone down the tagline please.

[cripplecreek]

I see that the atheist "conservative" group showed up at CPAC anyway. They weren't allowed in but I see they were happily pimping atheism outside.

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“We still wanted to spread the message,” he told us. That message, he said, is for conservatives to stop tying Christianity (“prayer in schools”) to other conservative principles (such as gun rights). He said doing that will broaden conservatism’s appeal.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just see my tag line.

[Howie66]

Okie dokie.

[cripplecreek]

I had to change mine once. I personally thought it was funny.

[Howie66]

Admin Moderator must have seen your post.

:-)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Self-righteous much?

[Amendment10]

How do you win the White House?

Sometimes I think that the Tea Party does not understand the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

More specifically, if the Tea Party was to enlighten citizens with the federal government's constitutionally limited powers by referencing constitutional clauses and key statements in Supreme Court case opinions, then voters would hopefully exercise their voting muscle to force corrupt Congress back into its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited power cage.

Constitutionally indefensible federal taxes would then drop and corrupt politicians who were following the tsunami of illegal federal taxes to DC to rip off taxpayers would lose interest in getting themselves elected to Congress in the first place.

Citizens would ultimately have to guess who the incumbent president is.

[marsh2]

If the Republicans ever realize that their base is largely libertarian/conservative (small government, protection for individual liberties and lower taxes) the party might rise from the ashes in a major way.

Push out the progressives and the old country club guard and convince the Christian “Conservatives” that we don’t need to establish a theocracy to enforce their Biblical vision and we might just have a viable party.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What was it?

[cripplecreek]

convince the Christian “Conservatives” that we don’t need to establish a theocracy to enforce their Biblical vision

Where is that happening? Surely you must have some examples.

[Kevmo]

convince the Christian “Conservatives” that we don’t need to establish a theocracy to enforce their Biblical vision

Well, now that's a bizarre outlook. I would dare to say you'd be lucky to find enough christian conservatives who want this to fit in a phone booth.

[Howie66]

The GOP Establishment Pukes have no desire or motivation to WIN.

To be the WINNER is to be in charge. To be in charge brings ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, and the OBLIGATION to actually DO SOMETHING!

In the current arrangement, the GOP Establishment doesn’t have to do anything except tell us that since they don’t have the votes, the RATs can wipe their butts with our Constitution all day long and we just have to take it.

In the meantime, the GOP Establishment can attend their slick Washington Parties, take nice Junket trips to far away exotic sites, have their Healthcare and Retirement funded by us. We pay for their haircuts, travel and everything else and they are not accountable to anybody.

Why on earth would they want to give all that up just to be expected to actually DO SOMETHING?

[napscoordinator]

The only reason they say this is because of the loses in Virginia and Texas (Cornyn specifically). As if to have a group you need to win every race.

[Howie66]

It’s all good.

I’m just in one of those moods right now. lol

[From The Deer Stand]

TEA Partiers are out there just laying in the weeds waiting to strike. Liberals can’t understand why this group isn’t out protesting in mass, making fools of themselves, yelling, “hey hey, ho no” whatever. With no public display they assume the TEA Party is weak. Sorry, Libs, you’re gonna be surprised!

[Howie66]

“Shhhhhh....we’re hunting wabbits....”

[bimboeruption]

Please don’t refer to a group of Patriotic Americans in a sexually perverted manner.

[Hostage]

It’s a parody on how democrat media agents treat the Tea Party. Further most people do not know or associate some sort of perverse sexual act with this reference.

What it does it is make their derisive name calling look foolish and shallow.

Because there are progressive writers who keep reporting how the Tea Party is dead or dying or in decline, they look foolish and throwing in their name calling makes those calls look foolish also.