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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: jmaroneps37
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.

Am in agreement with you. Yet I've pulled back from donating to any political party (group) and instead prefer to donate time and money directly to those candidates I wish to support.
61 posted on 08/08/2014 6:55:03 AM PDT by Resettozero
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>> grassroots corruption.

Yeah, that makes sense...

Dougherty, oops... “Michael Brendan Dougherty”, is an idiot with an agenda.


62 posted on 08/08/2014 7:14:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The Tea Party is essentially a landlord class; its fiefdom is the truly felt convictions of others.

I have no idea what the hell this means except that the author felt the need to throw a few Marxist terms in there to keep the faith. I mean, there is a far better representation of landlords and fiefs in the modern labor union, or in inner-city Democrat politics.

63 posted on 08/08/2014 7:39:12 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: skeeter
Not only are they too stupid to act in accordance with their own survival instincts but they're crapping their own nest on their way to extinction.

How perfectly Malthusian.

64 posted on 08/08/2014 7:48:01 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: uncitizen; Jim Robinson
There is no organizational hierarchy.

There are organizations however that grabbed the name "TEA Party" to raise money and run with it. These are professionals in the field of political publicity. They have house payments and kids to send to college too. They do provide a service for which they should get paid: publicizing candidates, organizing events, and branding are all worth money. The real question is "How much money," about which there is legitimate reason to question. If I were Sal Russo, I'd throw open my books.

To the left, ANY is "too much," which is what we are seeing here. They know how averse to the whiff of corruption conservatives are, having none themselves. So, in the hope of killing the TEA Party, using our propensities, and getting a good laugh out of it, they call it that, and throw in some names as if they know what they're talking about. It's easy.

65 posted on 08/08/2014 7:55:44 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Yes this is a Soros-funded rag. But I have been telling FReepers for 4 years to not give one dime to Move America Forward, Tea Party Express OR the fundrasining scam knows as TeaParty.net, which people continue to stupidly fund. They use the money to buy fancy cars and an extravagant lifestyle. Out of hundreds of thousands, only hundreds goes to candidates.

Another such fraud in immigration is called ALIPAC. In 2012 they took in $300,000 and gave only $2,000 to candidates. It is disgraceful.

66 posted on 08/08/2014 8:14:25 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Carry_Okie

Hey I’m just a interested observer.


67 posted on 08/08/2014 8:22:16 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Sal Russo is that pimp that sold out to the GOPe amnesty crowd.


68 posted on 08/08/2014 8:46:32 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: afraidfortherepublic

an article written by one from the giant Liberal-Left pot of financial opportunism - pushed by government assistance and direction calling the kettle of a few Conservative hucksters black


69 posted on 08/08/2014 11:47:15 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: afraidfortherepublic; KC_Lion

The Tea party is a “Stand Alone Complex” and isn’t some monolithic org, and it is not these subset orgs either. It is a large coalition of people bound togetehr by a basic framework of idealology.

While you have different orgs under the “Tea Party” umbrella, any one organisation DOES NOT speak for the Tea Party in General. Unlike the DNC and the RNC.


70 posted on 08/08/2014 11:57:13 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: GraceG

Like it it or not, the new movement is going to need a charismatic leader to move it forward....Just having a rudderless group of individual politicians isn’t going to work, if you want to uproot the current uniparty system.


71 posted on 08/08/2014 11:59:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gene Eric

>> grassroots corruption.

And the Institutional Corruption of the DNC and RNC is such a better alternative.....

At least his so called “Grassroots Corruption” is only in a few of the Tea Party groups and not all of them, CORRUPTION IS AN EPIDEMIC in the DNC and RNC!~


72 posted on 08/08/2014 11:59:40 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: dfwgator

[ Like it it or not, the new movement is going to need a charismatic leader to move it forward....Just having a rudderless group of individual politicians isn’t going to work, if you want to uproot the current uniparty system. ]

True, in a way we need our Abraham Lincoln....

We need some upstart Senator who challenges the status quo in washington from some midwest state who is really good at debate and is very solid idealogically...

Hmmm....

Whigs, Republicans.......


73 posted on 08/08/2014 12:01:51 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I believe we have the best tea party in California. But I’m seeing wrinkles from some egomaniacs who believe they are better than others.

The Tea Party Patriots are the better group, IMHO.


74 posted on 08/08/2014 1:09:31 PM PDT by Loud Mime (arguetheconstitution.com See if the video makes sense to you.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Sal Russo is the liberal medias favorite tea partier the way colin powell is the liberal medias favorite republican. The man is a fake.


75 posted on 08/08/2014 1:11:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: afraidfortherepublic
A Charity “Scandal”, not a TEA Party One
76 posted on 08/08/2014 1:33:31 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Elsie

Because there is no “the,” only they. And they run the gamut.


77 posted on 08/08/2014 4:13:07 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: GraceG

OR


78 posted on 08/08/2014 7:17:44 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The left has a policy of infiltrating any and all organizations. Weather it be the GOP, The government as a whole, or the Boy scouts, The churches, or the tea party or whatever. They plan the infiltrations and they infiltrate and destroy. It is the way it works.


79 posted on 08/08/2014 7:39:01 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Resettozero
"hard taskmaster"..."flail around with that whip so hard"..."lashing out at the FR choir."

What's with the over the top drama, "fella?"

"you seem to have made up your mind that I am a leftist"

I'd be interested in seeing a link to confirm that. I'm sure we have had discussions here at FR before, but I don't recall ever making a judgement such as you claim. A link could set me straight.

"Just because I no longer trust or support Tea Party Express does not disqualify me from remaining a true believer"

Maybe not (strange phrase "true believer") but it does indicate you have bought into the Alinsky talking points about the TPX.

There is no reason not to trust them.

"...some posters do not fit your pre-conceived notion..."

I deal with things as they happen and generally stay on track dealing with posters responses in real time, and have a pretty good handle on who is and who isn't a supporter of our Constitutional Republic--a good indictor of a person's depth of conservatism.

I don't think I have judged you one way or another. From the beginning of your postings on this thread I have just reacted to what you posted. Starting with quoting from the article negative material as if you accepted it as truth.

"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..."
More drama, you really have it in for me, don't you?

Yes, I don't discriminate. If someone is wrong, I will point it out. I don't really care if they are some highly touted individual, I will engage them and not cower because of their position.

Heck, just a couple of weeks ago I called Obama the "Coyote in Chief" (I thought that fit quite well as one of his titles is the C.I.C) with well over a million people watching and listening.

"...and who you mistakenly hit."

Very rare, and when I do I apologize.

80 posted on 08/08/2014 9:35:19 PM PDT by Syncro (The Tea Party is Dead---MSM/Dems/GOP-e -- LONG LIVE THE TEA PARTY!)
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