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MARK LEVIN: TEA PARTY ONLY THING THAT STANDS 'BETWEEN LIBERTY AND TYRANNY'
Breitbart ^ | Nov 16, 2012 | By Tony Lee

Posted on 11/17/2012 2:12:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Conservative scholar, talk radio host, and former Reagan administration official Mark Levin said conservatives need to first overthrow the Republican establishment to more successfully take on President Barack Obama and the institutional left.

“We cannot get through Obama and the left until we get through the Republican Establishment,” Levin said, railing against establishment consultants who attack the base and politicians who know nothing of “Burkean reform” because they have spent their whole careers “clawing their way to the top.”

In a talk at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday with his mentor, former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, for whom Levin served as Chief of Staff, Levin said the Republican Party is, “devouring the conservative movement,” and the old bulls need to step aside in favor of a new generation of conservatives who are fluent in conservatism.

“It’s time for the old bulls to get out of the way and for the fresh faces who believe in conservatism and liberty and originalist principles to step up,” Levin said, criticizing those like House Speaker John Boehner for “yielding territory” to the left in negotiations.

Levin said the Tea Party consists of constitutionalists, libertarians, Evangelicals, and those who are against the rigged establishment, beltway culture that for too long has not embraced conservatism and, as a consequence, lost national elections (George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney).

“The Tea Party is the only thing that stands between liberty and tyranny,” Levin said. “We have to defeat the Republican establishment mush in Washington, D.C.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; cruz; elections; marklevin; palin; reagan; reaganism; teaparty
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To: itssme

African National Congress.


141 posted on 11/19/2012 1:00:54 AM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Glenn Beck is damn good at what he does...listen to him every day on radio and read www.theblaze.com daily. Beck has been responsible for the vast amount of what we know about oboma and the socialist/communist/marxist/revotutionary/jihadist/sharing loving thug that oboma is. Thank you to Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, and every other conservative talk show host for what they do.
142 posted on 11/19/2012 1:02:51 AM PST by itssme
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To: Jim Robinson

We need to do this. We need to clean this mess up and get back to the constitution.

But how? Who?

We probably need a strong political party with freedom in its name — hey, a Free Republican Party — and we need to have the strongest spine that ever existed, because we will be Alinsky mocked to shreds. We have to have gonads bigger than the planet.

And we need to teach, teach, teach, and patiently teach — what this country really means, historically and personally , to each citizen.

We need to drop any emphasis on anything not in the constitution and stick to a government that doesn’t have any powers not enumerated therein.


143 posted on 11/19/2012 1:45:02 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Bryan24

Whoa, sad boner story. Thanks — I didn’t know that. We need him gone — or we need to forget the stupid old party.


144 posted on 11/19/2012 1:46:09 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Windflier

For PRECISELY those reasons.


145 posted on 11/19/2012 3:55:04 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: McGruff

I have a fantasy that Sarah is secretly learning Spanish.


146 posted on 11/19/2012 5:54:16 AM PST by kanawa
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To: superloser

Ping reality bites


147 posted on 11/19/2012 7:31:21 AM PST by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: LS
Now who's being silly?

It's disingenuous of you to insist or imply that the Tea Party is invalidated because it didn't control the Republican party's nominating process in the last election.

It's a decentralized, grass roots, activist movement - not an organized political party. Yes, they have the power to affect the outcomes of elections by various means, but they don't have multi-millions of dollars at their disposal, massive influence in the halls of power, or members elected to government office.

The Tea Party may have enormous potential to affect the future direction of center-right politics in this country, but it's absurd to indict them for the failures of the Republican party, while that party is still firmly lodged in a position of power.

Perhaps the Tea Party will one day become a political party, but until it does, the Republican party owns the responsibility for its own stupidity, corruption, collusion with Democrats, and failures to support the kinds of candidates who honestly represent the center-right.

148 posted on 11/19/2012 9:36:38 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Jim Robinson; holdonnow

Levin is correct.

The Republican Party in Maryland is a prime example of this.


149 posted on 11/19/2012 9:44:14 AM PST by sauropod (For Barack so loved the poor, he created millions more of them.)
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To: McGruff

Awe jeeze not that crap again.... true conservatives are never going to vote for a C-list reality TV star...


150 posted on 11/19/2012 10:23:43 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Jim Robinson
“We cannot get through Obama and the left until we get through the Republican Establishment,” ....

Truer words have not be spoken in a long time in this battle with the establishment blue blood Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney, et al styled obstructionist RINO Republicans cabal inside the rusted beltway.

“It’s time for the old bulls to get out of the way and for the fresh faces who believe in conservatism and liberty and originalist principles to step up,” ....

the old bulls are not going to go quietly. They will need to be shoved out kicking and screaming all the way. They will need to be defeated at the ballot box first and then in the arena of ideas in Washington and in America.

151 posted on 11/19/2012 10:29:24 AM PST by Ron H. (Democrats and Republicans - birds of a feather that are now flocking together.)
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To: sf4dubya
Here is what I said.

The tea party is made up mostly of social conservatives, and without social conservatism, economic conservatism is impossible.

It is true, the tea party movement is mostly made up of social conservatives. The very people that you despise.

""The Tea Party, Religion and Social Issues

by Scott Clement, Survey Research Analyst, and John C. Green, Senior Research Adviser, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

""The Tea Party movement clearly played a role in rejuvenating the Republican Party in 2010, helping the GOP take control of the House of Representatives and make gains in the Senate. Tea Party supporters made up 41% of the electorate on Nov. 2, and 86% of them voted for Republican House candidates, according to exit polls. But the precise nature of the Tea Party has been less clear. Is it solely a movement to reduce the size of government and cut taxes, as its name -- some people refer to it as the Taxed Enough Already party -- implies? Or do its supporters share a broader set of conservative positions on social as well as economic issues? Does the movement draw support across the religious spectrum? Or has the religious right "taken over" the Tea Party, as some commentators have suggested?

A new analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that Tea Party supporters tend to have conservative opinions not just about economic matters, but also about social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In addition, they are much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on these social issues. And they draw disproportionate support from the ranks of white evangelical Protestants.""

152 posted on 11/19/2012 11:42:45 AM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: Jim Robinson
The reason Massachusetts liberal Romney was successful in destroying our chances in winning this election is because the RINO loving statists (including some right here on FR) pushed him on us during the primaries. I seem to remember you being one of the cheer leaders. But maybe I’m remembering wrong?

Jim, The functional maladroits of Team Mittens -- both online shills and campaign (*cough*cough*)"professionals" -- spent the entire first half of the campaign (when virtually every legitimate polling outfit showed them trailing Obama... badly) incessantly chittering and shrilling: "Don't Believe The Polls! DON'T BELIEVE THE EVIL, EVIL POLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS --!!!"

When the continual cascade of No Good, Very Bad Polling Data continued unabated regardless, said maladroits -- rather than dealing forthrightly with the increasingly dire reality of their candidate's situation -- actively CHOSE to relocate, en masse, to a happy, magical la-la land of talking bunny make-believe. (E.g. "unskewedpolls.com"; "Lunch Alerts!" featuring bucktoothed wish-casting from notorious grifter Dick Morris; etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum.)

... and now, today: rather than sacking up, like adults, and finally admitting that their cherished baseline assumptions ("Sacrifice the Conservative Base for 'Moderates'"; "You Really CAN Beat a Socialist with Socialist Lite!"; etc.) might have been, just maybe, wrong a teeny tiny little bit... they simply throw their hands up in the air, and huff exasperatedly: "Well, then, nobody could have won, gosh darn it!"

Never, ever again will you (or I) live to witness such a perfect storm of mulish, blinkered GOP-e electoral incompetence and insanity as we've been treated to, these past twelve months or so.

God willing.

153 posted on 11/19/2012 12:31:13 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: LS; INVAR; Jim Robinson
Larry, you are a scholar. I want you to consider something with a scholar's bias..... This is a quote from another Freeper who UNDERSTANDS what has happened in 2008 and 2012. I will use his words, because frankly, I do not feel like rewriting it. He expressed it well.

We need to think outside the box of normalcy that we continue to confine ourselves to.

Marxists control the government, the courts, the media and the schools. Do some research - ELECTIONS and ‘turning out the base’ is NOT going to EVER remove a Marxist from power.

Never.

We suffered a coup - and it BAFFLES me that American Conservatives CONTINUE to pretend it’s just another election we lost to a liberal Democrat.

If that’s the case, you DON’T GET IT, you don’t understand what happened in 2008 that made 2012 inevitable and will make 2016, 2020 and the foreseeable future an entrenched Communistic tyranny of ruination by design.

I said Cook County went national back in 2009. You cannot defeat the machine by playing by THEIR rules that arbitrarily change to benefit themselves (Tuesday at the RNC this year anyone?).

The cabal/Ruling Class Regime has played for keeps, there is NO WAY the ballot box has any voice or value any longer. Cognitive dissonance will keep most under the vain hope it still is, because to accept the reality is too much for a weak and lukewarm people to bear.

Understand what time it is. It is time to think past today - return to God in repentance - and draw the line on what is left of your liberty that is GOD-GIVEN and be prepared to defend it by any and all means.

This regime will attempt to regulate us, fine us and starve us into submission. If that does not work to their satisfaction - there is the WACO treatment on tap. If you do not believe that - you are not paying attention and have not understood history under Marxists.

It’s Red Dawn and instead of enemy paratroopers - they simply created the atmosphere and used the machine to get themselves into power.

But the end desire and result by the regime is the same as in that movie. You do not negotiate with, compromise with or play pretend elections with those who are about the business of stripping you of your right to worship God, your gifted liberty and make you a slave who worships the state.

That goes for playing along with the GOP-e Ruling Class who know where the power is going to lie under the Obama regime, and are doing what they are to ensure they can share in it.

We are under enemy occupation.

I suggest absolute and all-encompassing voter fraud has made the ballot box ineffective.

If want proof of my thesis, look at the 2014 election. If it is a blowout, and Democrats seize control of both houses, then it should be obvious to everyone what's really going on.

Since 1862, there have been 37 midterm elections held during the first or second terms of an administration. In 34 of those 37 elections, the opposition party gained strength in the House.

If this trend is suddenly broken, and the 91.89% probability is not played out, you know what time it is.

154 posted on 11/19/2012 12:41:55 PM PST by Lazamataz (Mankind must be extinguished. We are a pox on the universe.)
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To: timestax

156 posted on 11/19/2012 3:40:04 PM PST by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: sf4dubya
My posts are about the tea party, mostly made up of social conservatives. See post 152.

""A new analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that Tea Party supporters tend to have conservative opinions not just about economic matters, but also about social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In addition, they are much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on these social issues. And they draw disproportionate support from the ranks of white evangelical Protestants.""

=========================================================== NPR 2010-New Poll: Tea Party Overwhelmingly Christian And Socially Conservative.

157 posted on 11/19/2012 3:57:25 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: sf4dubya

I agree close the primaries. No liberals, no democrats, and no RINOS!!


159 posted on 11/19/2012 4:30:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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