You need to speak a bit louder, to get through the sand in the GOPe's ears:
Posted on 05/23/2014 5:18:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ha!
At this point, and strictly out of disgust, I’d vote Tea Party on any candidate or issue JUST because of the way the GOP has reacted to Tea Party issues and candidates.
ALSO, because of the way the most uninformed and shallow idiots who know NOTHING about politics in this country seem to know ABSOLUTELY everything about the Tea Party! Really??!!
The GOP’s top guy in the Senate has 40% of his own party’s voters in his own state vote *against* him?
Against a poor candidate?
I’d say that this should be a good scare for the GOP.
That fluidity is its strength.
In its case fluidity is lack of definition
You need to speak a bit louder, to get through the sand in the GOPe's ears:
The GOPe is staying in mostly under the power of incumbency. Look for the Tea Party to capture at lease a couple of open seats.
Exactly what I’ve said as well.
With the additional caveat that we need to get people like Cruz into positions of authority, Committee and Subcommittee Chairs, where they can do a lot more than shape things by by throwing bombs.
That means taking the Senate, and by a commanding enough margin where Cruz etc can claim a mandate. Unfortunately, it means running to win everywhere there’s a Republican on the ballot (including, yes, KY) trusting that within a GOP majority Cruz etc can drive change from within while the various Tea Party groups can provide support from without.
Good news, the seeds coming from the TP movement have been planted. Give it time, they will grow and come to life.
That will happen.
Thank goodness this guy is a better writer than he is as a talk show host.
He replaces Bill Bennett every Friday here locally, and never fails to irritate the hell out of me.
He was ragging on the Mexican imprisoned Marine for “driving around with an arsenal” in his truck - he had 3 guns !! Oh, NO !!!
He may make it DullAss, but he really belongs in New York, or Massachusetts. He sounds like a northern fast talking liberal whiner, NOT a Texan.
They are sooo wrong.
It was cute and fun back in 2010 to have it be like that, but it is time to get serious. One reason is that there are too many of these tea party groups that seem to do little more than make money off the name and then beg for more donations to do little more than ask for more donations.
No structure means that they can pick off little targets easily.
UKIP knows how to get it done. We should be following their lead.
I think that we've missed the boat and that the time is now passed in which to get organized into a real political party to take on the libs. That time was in 2009 and 2010, when the TEA Party movement was at its fiercest, but instead, the folks who wanted to "work inside the Republican Party" to change it from within won out. Now look where that has gotten us!
How would you solidify the form of the TEA Party? That lack of definition is a feature and a benefit.
LOL
Good point!
I would make them an official conservative caucus within the Republican Party as were others through time.
As a caucus they would have official principles to which one would agree and they’d officially endorse, support, and organize for those they’ve officially endorsed and they’d be less enthusiastic about those they hadn’t endorsed.
That’s interesting, but don’t we have de facto that right now? What’s the benefit of formalizing it within the GOP?
If a half of the party had said last time, “we won’t endorse or work for Mitt Romney” that would, at a minimum, have told the gop-e where they stood.
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