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How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes
This Week ^ | 8-7-14 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 08/07/2014 2:26:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: Syncro
Well Syncro, you have much more self control and class than I have!!!

I forgot the bible verse, I think it's a Proverb, that says, "a soft answer turneth away wrath."

You're a good man and I sure am proud of what you have been doing for the cause!!!

41 posted on 08/07/2014 4:50:27 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Obama is mad! He's getting madder with each crisis and now he's a real MADMAN with no temper left!!!)
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To: Syncro
There is NO Tea "party" so no one can give money to that "useless" party.

Now, you know that is not what I meant. I simply prefer to give to the candidates directly. Personal preference.

Although I have never commented on Move America Forward until now, it seems they are doing a good work worthy of financial support. But, unfortunately, the name of the organization does sound like some leftist group's name, in some posters' opinions.

Give you money anywhere you like, starting with free republic being as you make use of it so much.

Thanks; excellent suggestion for all FR posters. FReepathon is going on right now. And, Syncro, you also have made much use of FR posting in times past; moreso than you have lately.

What is the recommended limit of posts per day or week? I've never heard.
42 posted on 08/07/2014 5:00:03 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: SierraWasp

Oh yeah they are out in force recently.

I’ve been sockin’ it to ‘em since they started a day or two ago.

Same ol’ talking points that were refuted completely over the last few years when ever they came up.

When you are over the target, then the flack comes.

MAF and Tea Party Express are so effective that the left/dems/GOPe hits them the hardest.

Crickets about the Tea Party Patriots (who were more involved in infighting and raising money back in the day, plus attacked TPX because they—TPP—wanted to be THE leaders of the Tea Party Movement) and Dick Armey’s Freedom Works (slid back into GOPe mode but still consider themselves a “tea party” org.)

The prevailing thought is that this an attack from the left.

Well it sure is, the dem left, the Soros left, and the GOPe left. Rove/Romney etc’s fingerprints are all over these attacks.

I’ve been collecting *crickets* when I set some of the low information FR members and the leftist “concern trolls” straight with facts.


43 posted on 08/07/2014 5:08:30 PM PDT by Syncro (The Tea Party is Dead---MSM/Dems/GOP-e -- LONG LIVE THE TEA PARTY!)
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To: SierraWasp; Syncro
KSRO 1350AM and 103.5FM.

Morgan also co-hosts the morning show.

-PJ

44 posted on 08/07/2014 5:18:15 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SierraWasp

Monday through Friday from 6am to 9am.

Same hours she had in SF.


45 posted on 08/07/2014 5:24:50 PM PDT by Syncro (The Tea Party is Dead---MSM/Dems/GOP-e -- LONG LIVE THE TEA PARTY!)
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To: kabar
There is no Tea Party, just groups of concerned citizens who agree on certain basic principles. Each group does its own thing. There is no organizational hierarchy.

That bears repeating.

This is similar to when our founding fathers began to gather and exchange thoughts and plans. For the liberals, it's a big headache now, just as it was for the British sympathizers a couple hundred years ago.

What we call RINOs were called "Tories" and like today's RINOs they were deeply ($$$) invested in the status quo.

Their "tea parties" were afternoon "high teas" rubbing elbows with the British occupiers.

46 posted on 08/07/2014 5:35:53 PM PDT by capt. norm
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To: afraidfortherepublic

hilarious really


47 posted on 08/07/2014 5:36:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Resettozero
Now, you know that is not what I meant.

Nope, that is exactly what I thought you meant.

When your first post c/p's a big lie from the article...

...financial (and moral) corruption of a Tea Party group operating under the name Move America Forward...
and you do not counter it (therefore legitimatizing it imo) I just take you at your word of what you said.

Just to put the record straight, MAF has NO financial or moral corruption and is NOT a Tea Party group.

...the name of the organization does sound like some leftist group's name, in some posters' opinions.

Well, if that influences you, so be it.

Yeah there is a Soros group with "Move" in it's name.

So what?

And another poster said that "forward" is a communist word.

LOL, I have no problem with Move America Forward, sounds good to me!

Oh and BTW, I have never bought into the homosexuals' taking a great word--gay--and tacking it to their evil, immoral, sodomistic HOMOSEXUAL deathstyle.

I've never heard of a limit on posts here, but I imagine posters are taken to the woodshed for repeated spam and leftist posts.

48 posted on 08/07/2014 5:40:59 PM PDT by Syncro (The Tea Party is Dead---MSM/Dems/GOP-e -- LONG LIVE THE TEA PARTY!)
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To: Syncro
When your first post c/p's a big lie from the article... ...financial (and moral) corruption of a Tea Party group operating under the name Move America Forward... and you do not counter it (therefore legitimatizing it imo) I just take you at your word of what you said.

Point taken. But, fella; you are one hard taskmaster and flail around with that whip so hard and without thinking things through, that you seem oblivious to the fact you are lashing out at the FR choir. What's with that?

Syncro, in some time past, you seem to have made up your mind that I am a leftist working against the principles of Constitutional conservatism of FR. If so, your mindset is wrong...180 degrees wrong. Real bad wrong.

Just because I no longer trust or support Tea Party Express does not disqualify me from remaining a true believer. I recognize that some posters do not fit your pre-conceived notion of what and who a conservative is.

I'm not the only one you've taken on over the years and, comparing notes, you are not always concerned who you strike at and who you mistakenly hit.
49 posted on 08/07/2014 5:58:07 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You wouldn’t say the entire Christian church is corrupt just because there are a number of fallen denominations, right? Neither do I believe that the Tea Party is dead just because of Tea Party Express, which is just one group within the Tea Party movement.

I distinctly remember being unimpressed with Tea Party Express back when it and Tea Party Patriots were jostling for mindshare. Tea Party Express seemed more like a whitewashing organization to paint dilapidated establishment candidates with a fresh coat of conservatism.

We certainly shouldn’t stick our heads in the hand and pretend that this isn’t a problem, though. Corruption has become so rampant in society that I literally will not donate to an organization unless I can see for myself exactly how it’s spending its money and what its costs go toward. We should view “conservative” candidates and organizations with a healthy dose of skepticism. Follow the money.

This site is as good a conservative cause as any. I’m proud to be a monthly donor, and I hope that those of you who can’t commit to that will at least chip in a small amount so we can keep going.


50 posted on 08/08/2014 4:49:41 AM PDT by Cato in PA (Resist!)
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To: Cato in PA
This site is as good a conservative cause as any. I’m proud to be a monthly donor

Me too.

51 posted on 08/08/2014 4:57:18 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Cato in PA

I seem to remember FReepers getting banned for being negative on the Tea Party Express, and TPE promoters gloating about it.


52 posted on 08/08/2014 4:59:12 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This article shouldn’t just have a “barf alert”, it should have a “disgusting, couldn’t be more transparently biased if you tried, barf alert”.


53 posted on 08/08/2014 5:15:14 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~ Albert Einstein)
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54 posted on 08/08/2014 5:23:12 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~ Albert Einstein)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Not so much as they like peaches.


55 posted on 08/08/2014 5:43:52 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There is no TEA Party. It’s we the people. If we’re corrupt, then the author is right.


56 posted on 08/08/2014 5:49:40 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I love these articles. What is “The Tea Party” that this article is talking about? There is no national Tea Party organization. It is about as much of a diffused, popular movement as you can get in this country. Are there some flim-flam men and con artists who go under the “Tea Party” label? Yes. But overall it still is a broad-based group who wants smaller government and less spending.

Anyone who makes broad statements about the “Tea Party” as some established, national organization, as if its the RNC or DNC, is just plain stupid.


57 posted on 08/08/2014 5:57:55 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

That’s it! I’m changing my registration. I can’t be a registered Tea party member anymore. Oh wait I must have forgotten, but there is no TEA PARTY - just a group of patriots who hold ideas that are dangerous to the Uniparty.

I have no doubt that these “TEA party” groups are not what we wish they would be, but that doesn’t change my love of the Constitution and demands that it be followed.


58 posted on 08/08/2014 6:00:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes
This Week ^ | 8-7-14 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on ‎8‎/‎7‎/‎2014‎ ‎5‎:‎26‎:‎34‎ ‎PM by afraidfortherepublic

This week, ProPublica released a report on the financial (and moral) corruption of a Tea Party group operating under....

 

 

 

THE is a hell of a lot different than A!

59 posted on 08/08/2014 6:16:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: skeeter
Liberals are the human equivalent of Raphus cucullatus.

'Refugee children' are like COWBIRDS.

60 posted on 08/08/2014 6:18:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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