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Tea Party Movement Resets The Table: Less Complaining, More Campaigning
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/15/2010 | David Hogberg

Posted on 04/16/2010 7:14:32 AM PDT by Slyscribe

They may both loathe the Democratic agenda, but a cool distance has divided the GOP establishment and Tea Partyers, whose scorn for the status quo is not limited to the party in power. But after the April 15 Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations across the country, the two may be pulled much closer, whether they are ready for each other or not. A tide of Tea Party activists, eager to turn Washington's course, may flood into Republican campaign offices. Though not a perfect fit, the GOP's views are much nearer to their own than the alternative. Whether the two camps learn to work together may decide how big a role the movement ultimately plays in November and beyond.

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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; protests; teaparty

1 posted on 04/16/2010 7:14:32 AM PDT by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

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Cut taxes.

Shrink government.


2 posted on 04/16/2010 7:19:22 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Slyscribe

Republican RINOS need to go. It’s that simple. At least at the leadership level they need to go. If they want to remain in the party and help carry states like NY or California for us then great. But they MUST NOT be allowed in any leadership position.


3 posted on 04/16/2010 7:22:01 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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It is not for the party supporters to come to the beliefs of the party. It is for the party to come back to the beliefs of its supporters. The GOP had better learn that lesson post haste or the United States will only slip further into the mess we are getting into. Hell, we all know that the Dems don’t give a damn about what the people believe.


4 posted on 04/16/2010 7:25:45 AM PDT by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: Touch Not the Cat
Cut taxes.

Shrink government.

Drill here, drill now.

5 posted on 04/16/2010 7:33:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Slyscribe

You mean Tea Partiers are not stooges of the evil Repugs?


6 posted on 04/16/2010 7:54:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi)
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Adopt your precinct!!

You don't have to get elected precinct captain. In fact, go ahead and call yourself "Self-Appointed Tea Party Precinct Captain" just for laughs.....but then go do the serious work of visiting EVERY residence in your precinct between now and November...ask for volunteers as you go. Print and copy some of the great resources that are on the net.

And if you are in an "already safe for conservatives" district, adopt another district where our chances are more iffy.

7 posted on 04/16/2010 8:12:43 AM PDT by cookcounty ("When they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," --"Brawls for Radicals" --by Barack Alinsky)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

the Tea Party really needs to add Olympia Snowe and Lindsay Graham to theit target list


8 posted on 04/16/2010 8:48:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Cut taxes.

Shrink government

Deport now.


9 posted on 04/16/2010 9:02:26 AM PDT by Vaduz
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