THERE IS NO TEA PARTY POLITICAL PARTY. NEVER HAS BEEN. What you have a re a few “national” organizations trying to glob onto the mantle for their own sheister ends.
Rick Santelli referred to having a tea party in the same sense as the Boston Tea Party. Concerned citizens all over the country found a common call and formed hundreds if not thousands of small local groups and marched on DC organizing by word of mouth. When I saw that Dick Armey had just been named the visual head of what is called The Tea Party Express when the bus arrived, I knew this was not good. I have direct knowledge of how Jennie Beth Martin screwed all of those little local groups who aligned themselves with her Tea Party Patriots. Even though funds were sent to the TPP with promises of residuals coming back for local issues, it sounded too much like sending taxes to DC. My fears were spot on as the group I was with never received anything from them. Politicians received virtually nothing as evidenced in the IRS filings but the administrators most certainly received their fine salaries along with the political strategists. Now for Freedom Works, I have always been suspicious of Matt Kibbe. When I found out that he too is a political strategist by experience that sent off the warning bells. Sure they have gotten behind good people and staged some very good events, but they continually have their hand out and peddle in words far more than actions.
Ever since the rise of these national groups, I have received the endless streams of e-mails with their dire warnings and the bottom line was always send them money so they can fix the problem. A stunning thing happened with the Can’tor loss. Brat was outspent to the tune of somewhere around 40:1 by an incumbent second mot powerful Republican tagged to be the next Speaker. Brat’s arsenal was comparatively nothing more than a clearly defined message and a sincere heart that never wavered, and the people knew it right away.
We have heard the excuses all over the map from the media, one of which they all tried to sing was that low turnout sunk Can’tor. The reality is that somewhere around 50% more turned out for this primary than they did for the 2012.
So for you to say that the Tea Party is this monolithic national political party, by your definition, you could not be more wrong, because they never came calling on Mr. Brat, even when his campaign called on them.
Many worried at the time of the GOPe co-opting the tea party groups to bring them together as one entity under the guise of coalescing a message on a national level but those at the time warned this would do nothing but define a target for both sides of the Ruling Class establishment to blame for all the woes we faced ten and are even worse today. True, they have had some success in doing that, but in no way did brat turn them away, they just never answered the phone, but worse, never picked it up to call.
The bottom line is that one of Reagan’s main themes of painting with bold colors instead of pale pastels virtually works every time it is tried. The problem is the establishment is nothing but a bunch of lawyers who are more impressed with listening to themselves speak to a bought crowd and the media than they are to get into the crowds on Main Street.
There in, lies the problem. Like I said on another thread, until this movement organizes, coalesces, and consolidates, the GOP(e) will not take us seriously.
There in, lies the problem. Like I said on another thread, until this movement organizes, coalesces, and consolidates, the GOP(e) will not take us seriously.
That's the part no being talked about - I'm hoping A LOT of RATs get washed out with the tide in November ...
This message has to go out to the people.
Any Tea Party organization has simply co-opted the name. I honestly wish we could call ourselves something else but guess we’re stuck with it. I’d rather be called Patriots or something anyway but like I said, stuck with it.
“So for you to say that the Tea Party is this monolithic national political party, by your definition, you could not be more wrong, because they never came calling on Mr. Brat, even when his campaign called on them.”
I never said anything of the sort and I disagree with the second half of your sentence which doesn’t even make sense to me, linguistically. But it’s of zero importance.