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Democrats declare the tea party ‘over’
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Posted on 11/05/2012 10:19:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Democrats declare the tea party ‘over’ By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 1 hr 27 mins ago

MADISON, Wisc. -- The tea party, at least its widespread influence on Republican congressional candidates, "is over," declared the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party group charged with electing Democrats to the House.

"House Republican incumbents — and their candidates — are running as far away from the Tea Party as they can," a pre-election DCCC memo provided to Yahoo News reads. "Regardless of whether [Republicans] win or lose, the Tea Party of 2010 is over. They've been forced on defense in the message fight all cycle long, and now those who win will have done so by giving up on the Tea Party."

The memo argues that Republican lawmakers who arose from the tea party are now promoting bipartisanship and willingness to compromise in their re-election bids instead of embracing the hardline messages that propelled their campaigns two years ago.

It is possible, of course, that this Democratic declaration is premature. Tea party-backed candidates dominated Republican primary contests across the country in 2012, launching what could be a new class of future Republican leaders. In Texas, Ted Cruz defeated the establishment candidate backed by Gov. Rick Perry, and in Indiana, Richard Mourdock forced longtime Republican Sen. Richard Lugar into early retirement. Looking to 2013, tea party groups who are begrudgingly backing Romney have vowed to press him, should he become president, toward conservative positions.

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Oh, ok............
1 posted on 11/05/2012 10:19:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Alan Colmes is getting a boner over this notion.


2 posted on 11/05/2012 10:22:40 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: Sub-Driver

This makes how many times the RATS/Media have declared the demise of the TEA Party?


3 posted on 11/05/2012 10:22:45 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Be cheerful, be confident, and VOTE!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

By my estimate, this is the ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONth TIME the Left has said the Tea Party is Over. They want it so bad. They have to keep saying it, thinking that will make it so. They believe in unicorns and fairies that way.


4 posted on 11/05/2012 10:29:55 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Sub-Driver

The Democrat party is over.


5 posted on 11/05/2012 10:32:34 AM PST by ILS21R (We stand at the precipice, looking into the abyss.)
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To: WashingtonSource

In other words, no limit to spending, taxation and cronyism.


6 posted on 11/05/2012 10:32:38 AM PST by whitedog57
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To: Sub-Driver
Someone forgot to tell the TEA Party.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

7 posted on 11/05/2012 10:37:10 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Sub-Driver

The TEA party was FOUNDED on opposition to Obama and his policies.

This is our FIRST chance to vote against him!

And Romney is by no measure a TEA party candidate, he’s a good candidate running to win, and that gets my support.


8 posted on 11/05/2012 10:37:15 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Hold My Beer and Watch This!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Keep on dreaming the dream there Leftards... The TEA Party doesn’t win every battle, but we ARE here to win the War.


9 posted on 11/05/2012 10:37:24 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

funny- this article came out of Madison, Wisconsin...remind me; what happened during the recall election in that state last June and what were the results???


10 posted on 11/05/2012 10:44:32 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s not as over as Occupy Whatever.


11 posted on 11/05/2012 10:45:52 AM PST by Maceman
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To: Viennacon

How is that possible when Colmes doesn’t have any?.... oh, well you know.


12 posted on 11/05/2012 10:46:39 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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These fools thought 2010 was the last party...

Hey skippy, THAT was just the Hors d'oeuvres!

2012 is the beginning of an eight course banquet!

They have no idea what's coming their way!

On a side note, FReerepublic has become nearly totally useless and irksome with the current problems. This needs fixing yesterday!

13 posted on 11/05/2012 10:48:05 AM PST by JDoutrider
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The TEA party is as dead as al qaeda!


14 posted on 11/05/2012 10:51:04 AM PST by null and void (Day 1385 of the Obama hostage crisis - Barack Hussein Obama an enemy BOTH foreign AND domestic)
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Democrats declare the tea party ‘over’

It ain't over till it's over, so I guess we'll see tomorrow.

PRAY FOR AMERICA!

Clingin' to my guns and religion!

15 posted on 11/05/2012 10:51:46 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Win One For The Gipper!!!!!! Nov 6, 2012)
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How many times *is*( this, that the DemoGenerates and their lying, suck ass “media” have declkared the TEA party “dead”?

Must be well into the double digits by now.


16 posted on 11/05/2012 10:52:47 AM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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To: God luvs America

16,000 to 18,000 dims attended this morning’s Bronco/Boss barnburner here in Madison. A far cry from the 75,000 that turned out when Kerry the Traitor did the same. Woot! There’s no love out there!


17 posted on 11/05/2012 10:53:41 AM PST by februus
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To: Sub-Driver

Just more wet dreams as the maggot infected left wing mediots go whistling past their future graveyard.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2955201/posts

The Tea Party’s Moment
620wtmj ^ | Nov 5, 2012 | Charlie Sykes

Posted on Monday, November 05, 2012 9:59:31 AM by LucianOfSamasota

The president who famously embraced the “Occupy” movement, closed his re-election campaign this weekend by sneering at the Tea Party.

After failing to mention the Tea Party by name on the stump in 2012, President Barack Obama mentioned the movement during at least five stump speeches on Thursday and Friday.

Noted Politico: At three events Thursday and two on Friday, Obama said that Romney is “pledging to rubber-stamp the tea party agenda in Congress.”

“That’s not change,” he added at a high school gymnasium here. “That’s what we need to change.”

Perhaps this explains the president’s comment to admirers that “voting “is the best revenge.” He might have been referring to the Tea Party, since they have obviously been much on his mind.

And understandably so.


18 posted on 11/05/2012 10:55:51 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are the 53%, who pay taxes and keep this country going inspite of the 47% rat moochers!)
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To: WashingtonSource

“By my estimate, this is the ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONth TIME the Left has said the Tea Party is Over.”

I know, it’s beginning to have the same status as Obama’s “I’m focusing like a lazor on jobs” repeated over and over.......


19 posted on 11/05/2012 11:01:44 AM PST by Forty-Niner (The barely bare berry bear formerly known as Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Apparently, these are the same clowns who told us Rush Limbaugh was washed up and finished 20 plus years ago.


20 posted on 11/05/2012 11:02:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer
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