Posted on 10/17/2013 7:43:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
No, we don’t want the left shaking in their boots. We want them partying and spiking the football. Sun Tzu, I think, said you always want your enemy thinking the opposite of what is true. When you ate weak, they must believe you ate strong. When you are strong, they must beliieve you are weak. It is to our advantage for the left to believe they have won, or at least are winning.
For my part, I see the opposite. There is not a soul I talk to anymore who is willing to sit on the sidelines and let foolish people run our country into the ground over some Marxist utopia that is so last century. The underpinning of conservatism is that it is firmly grounded in reality as God made it, and that is never going to change. Utopians and power mongers will rise and fall as they have always done, but in this age of rapid, uncontrolled communication, it is difficult and will become more difficult for them to sustain their illusions. The Ted Cruz quasi-filibuster, the national park closing nonsense, the endless soundbites of “we will not negotiate,” the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, the massive and way too premature leak of truth about the true cost of Obamacare, all these are building for us, one brick at a time, a bridge back to conservative sanity. It can’t be any other way, not for long.
Why? Because reality never really goes away, though it may be obscured from time to time. The left *should* be shaking in their boots. But if they can’t handle reality, and wish to live in their delusions a while longer, so be it. It will be their loss.
The Congressional fund raising committee called me for a donation just after it was announced that McConnell had caved to the Democrats. I asked the woman if she was kidding, she didn’t even know what had happened, but found out while we were on the phone. She tried to assure me that Boehner would not cave and that even if he did, we needed to stand together. I told her that withholding our donations was the only means of control that conservatives have and that it seemed to be the only thing that the Republicans politicians understood.
I was thinking the same thing. And it’s only because Cruz and Lee and the others did the right thing. I don’t think they did it to energize the tea party or for any other ulterior reason. Funny about doing the right thing: it has nice results.
LOL! My previous post, first paragraph:
“ate weak” and “ate strong” should be “are weak” and “are strong”
Sorry. Tiny little droid keyboard’s fault. Argh.
I thought John Boehner did pretty good in this shutdown battle. Just saying.
About Peter King, he was the idiot who was partnering with Anthony Weiner to push the 911 First Responder Bill, not the version that eventually passed, but the version that aimed at creating a single first responder union across the country and spread the high cost of urban benefit programs to rural towns and unincorporated areas across the country.
Peter King worked hard to get to convince Republicans to support that bill, but when he ultimately failed, King and Weiner had a very public, ugly argument on the floor of the House. We should never, ever trust Peter King.
Great idea! Fill it up with worthless tokens and return it. I am doing that.
We’ll all be getting pre-paid envelopes from the RNC soon, if not already, begging for money to help elect more Liberal Republicans, I know how I will use mine!!
I’ll do them like I do the AARP pre-paids, fill them with heavy waste paper, and mail them back to them...on their dime.
I hope the TEA Party is now going to become the 2nd Political Party in the USA, since the GOPe has become the junior partner in RATS, Inc.
We got a few nice jabs from Ted Cruz, opened up a couple of cuts around the eyes.
The body blows are coming next, as the focus changes to the implementation of Obamacare.
Round 3 will be in January, when the next fiscal crisis comes to a head.
GOPe will be TKO'ed during the primaries, and Obama's lame duck will be cemented in November with the addition of at least a dozen new Tea Party Congressmen.
It would be nice to win back the Senate, but there's way too many RINOs like McCain. Fortunately, Graham will be gone.
Just who heads the tea party and are they one group or several groups each doing their own thing? How can we unify America under one banner?
Maybe a tampon sent to them would get the point across better.
Just sayin’
The GOP-elite’s victory was putting Cruz in his place and by extension it was putting Americans in their place! This deal is nothing more than a reminder that we are subjects to be ruled!
Would love to see Tea Party’s name changed to Constitution Party. And yes, Tea Party is alive and well!
Primary the traitorous bastards and vote them out. Time for the Tea Party caucus to take over!
This deal is more than just politics as usual. It is in your face establishment politics. They are flipping off the American people for daring to speak out.
Ding! Winnah, chicken dinnah!
Time to forge the Tea Party Caucus of the GOP.
I will be sending every envelope back with a tea bag in it, I will pay the extra postage!!!
Just empty the contents. It’ll flatten out fine. :)
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