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UPDATED: 13 SC TEA PARTY LEADERS BLAST BACHMANN TACTICS – PATCH
sfluxe.com ^ | 12/17/2011 | sfluxe

Posted on 12/17/2011 6:49:10 PM PST by TBBT

Check out this interesting story: Updated: 13 SC Tea Party Leaders Blast Bachmann Tactics – Patch Nearly a month after a SC spokesman for Rep. Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich of trying to buy off the state’s Tea Party leaders by bringing them on as staffers, more than a dozen of the movement’s leaders are fighting back.

In a strongly worded letter issued Friday afternoon, 13 leaders of the SC Tea Party movement accused her of “attacking the tea party movement by accusing tea party supporters of Newt Gingrich of being bought off” and said she has escalated the battle by making it national news by discussing it with John King on CNN Wednesday night.

“Now that Michele Bachmann herself has decided to throw fuel on the fire, and this issue has become national news, we as leaders within the South Carolina tea party movement feel we must speak out to defend our integrity,” reads the letter, which was circulated on Twitter and on at least one Tea Party website.

They accuse Bachmann of trying to divide the Tea Party movement, and defended Gingrich, who has said time and again that the only real opponent is President Barack Obama

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; newt; teaparty
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To: TBBT

Michele-8%-Bachmann is starting to act like every mans ex-wife.

She’s cutthroat, crazy and she won’t shut up..


61 posted on 12/17/2011 7:49:37 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: txhurl

Riiight. You support him now that he’s out of the race and no threat to Perry.


62 posted on 12/17/2011 7:50:00 PM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Yeah, she’s a relentlessly dishonest defamer, effectively working for Romney.


63 posted on 12/17/2011 7:50:25 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: txhurl

The RNC created this mess on purpose to give mittens the
Nomination.They needed a nasty large
Pool of conservative options to eliminate each other and allow
Mittens to win With 20 percent.
The Dems in 2008 limited the candidates to prevent what we
Are witnessing which is a nasty splittered primary.
The RNC elites have created a trainwreck
Which helps the Dems and Obama media .


64 posted on 12/17/2011 7:50:56 PM PST by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: cripplecreek
Posting this with some trepidation...

We had the same thing happen at our local Tea Party...it turned out it was an RNC rep. We had to really dig to find out who the person was representing. Wasn't even a "local" RNCer. (Going to duck and cover now, lol)

65 posted on 12/17/2011 7:52:25 PM PST by berdie
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To: rintense

Riiight. You support him now that he’s out of the race and no threat to Perry.


He never was a threat. By getting out of this bloodbath early, now he is an asset to be courted.


66 posted on 12/17/2011 7:53:34 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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To: JimWayne

You mean “real” Tea Party like the “Tea Party” candidate who kept one more Republican out of the House from NY?

Who is real when it is an unplanned and uncentralized movement? This will become more and more of a problem and the Left uses this feature to create havoc.

TP vs TP will be a major tactics against the Right.


67 posted on 12/17/2011 7:54:06 PM PST by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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To: txhurl

Too bad he hates Perry with a passion.


68 posted on 12/17/2011 7:55:45 PM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal.)
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To: berdie; PieterCasparzen; cripplecreek

So now we have 3 freepers who have first hand knowledge of questionable influence. Thank you for coming forward.


69 posted on 12/17/2011 7:56:52 PM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal.)
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To: TBBT
Bachman's attacks on Newt seem hypocritical in light of her calling him the "architect" of the conservative movement and a "renaissance man" in this video

Newt should use it in his campaign to show her "flip-flop" on his qualifications.

70 posted on 12/17/2011 7:57:15 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: TBP

Gingrich was “Tea Party” before Tea Party was born. It is a Johnny-Come-Lately to conservative politics. Newt was right there with Reagan then continued the fight for another decade after Ronnie was gone.

The Far Right just keeps moving the goal line as to what a “conservative” really is.

I like Bachmann but if her tactic only muddies the water and takes the heat off Obama I like her less.


71 posted on 12/17/2011 7:57:33 PM PST by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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To: TBBT

Bachmann is a stalking horse for Willard. She could have gone after Mitt repeatedly at these debates, but she gave him a pass. She was all over Perry over Gardasil and Newt over ‘lobbying’ as a private citizen. Yet she says nothing about Willard “Abortion is settled law” Romney.


72 posted on 12/17/2011 7:57:59 PM PST by CASchack
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To: txhurl

“mittbots” are running Bachmann’s mouth?


73 posted on 12/17/2011 7:58:53 PM PST by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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To: TBBT

As an independent conservative, I am actually starting to lean toward Bachmann due to all these counterfeit conservatives whining and crying about how mean she is to their favorite progressive big government Republican.


74 posted on 12/17/2011 8:00:20 PM PST by EricT. (Is a country that would re-elect Baroke Hussein Owebama really worth saving?)
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To: Parley Baer

It’s interesting that Bachman is going after Gingrich far harder than she ever went after Mittens (if she ever seriously did at all). I am starting to think Bachman is running strictly for Vice President and figures Gingrich would never put her on his ticket, but maybe the liberal Mittens would. ...You know - - to balance out the ticket.


75 posted on 12/17/2011 8:00:42 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Liberal Bob

“So how do you get the job of being a tea party leader?”

Come on the answer is obvious, Tea leaves.


76 posted on 12/17/2011 8:00:46 PM PST by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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To: BCrago66

To
Romney learned he needed an attack dog like Good old Huck who teamed up with McCain .

Michele is broke and damaged goods but she is
Working like Huck to destroy anyone in Mittens way.


77 posted on 12/17/2011 8:01:34 PM PST by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: arrogantsob

Apparently Nikki Haley’s mouth, too, unless this is some sort of ultra-elaborate ruse we FReepers are too stupid to de-code.


78 posted on 12/17/2011 8:01:59 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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To: arrogantsob

Maybe you haven’t been paying enough attention to Newtie over the last 10 or so years.


79 posted on 12/17/2011 8:02:26 PM PST by EricT. (Is a country that would re-elect Baroke Hussein Owebama really worth saving?)
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To: Gator113

“Michele-8%-Bachmann is starting to act like every mans ex-wife. She’s cutthroat, crazy and she won’t shut up..”

You’re funny sometimes.


80 posted on 12/17/2011 8:02:41 PM PST by Marcella (Newt will smash Hussein in debates. Newt needs money.)
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