Posted on 03/20/2010 9:24:17 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
On a bright, brisk afternoon in mid-February, with snow still thick on the ground from storms that had battered Washington the week before, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele met with more than 50 members of the Tea Party, the Twitter Age conservative movement that is reshaping the U.S. political landscape.
Steele, RNC chairman since January 2009, had invited them to the plush Capitol Hill Club, built as a clubhouse for the party's top brass next door to RNC headquarters.
According to several accounts, not long into the meeting JoAnn Abbott, an activist from Virginia who calls herself the 'Tea Party Grandma,' raised her hand to ask a question.
She asked about a web page on the RNC site where visitors could send their member of Congress a postcard with a tea bag. On the tag at the end of the string were the letters 'RNC.'
"Respectfully, sir, while we do not have a trademark on the tea bag, you are well aware that people associate it with the Tea Party movement," Abbott, 50, recalls saying to Steele. "If you co-opt that image, you damage our brand and weaken our movement."
Lest there was any confusion, she added: "It does not belong to you, it belongs to us as an independent movement."
Abbott said within an hour of the end of the meeting the page (www.teaparty.gop.com) was gone -- and the Grand Old Party was finally aware of conservative frustrations she and others felt with Republican leadership.
"The GOP now knows we're not asleep anymore," Abbott told Reuters. "The giant has been awakened."
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Who in recent times would that be, if you could name one.
Selfish
Irresponsible
Narcissistic
Counter productive
Childish
And
STUPID
For any self-described “leader” of the “conservative movement” to insist on a 3rd Party strategy.
Those who do so must be treated as mental cases or morons.
What they are doing, to the conservative cause, is far more harmful than anything any liberal could ever come up with.
You are demoralizing the troops, your are a “false prophet” confusing your EGO and psychological need for revenge with some kind of weird path to political “enlightenment” -—
It won't work.
It CAN'T work.
There is no excuse for such irresponsible talk, especially not now, when our entire way of life is at stake.
Good try al Reuters, FAIL.
What are you talking about? What talk?
Who in recent times would that be, if you could name one.
You mean like battling for our legitimate sovereignty, secured borders, and supporting strict laws that would prohibit employers from hiring millions of illegal aliens?
Feel free to answer the above questions this time, instead of ducking and dodging them.
I have ducked and dodged nothing.
Your questions are pointless.
You don’t need to know how to build a watch to tell time.
You don’t need to know how to overhaul an engine, to drive a car.
You have focused on points that make no difference.
If you do not wise up, whatever candidates you support will surely lose.
More to the point, if you and those like you don’t wise up, the Democrats will win big!
Stop whining and pouting and answer the questions.
Look, you made the statement. Please name one.
EVERYONE who actually gets elected, is a strategist in one form or another.
Nobody who has ever WON an election will agree with you.
Take your pick.
Enough said!
I am not whining or pouting.
I am dealing with foolish questions from a person who does not know what he is talking about.
This is total BS, don’t buy it folks. This is the campaign by the left and the media to sway you into thinking that the dems have an edge.
They do not.
Please name one.
You mean like battling for our legitimate sovereignty, secured borders, and supporting strict laws that would prohibit employers from hiring millions of illegal aliens?
Please answer the above questions I have repeatedly asked you.
And, MOST Republicans ARE fighting for all of those things.
No political Party, large enough to matter, will ever be able to control 100% of its members, 100% of the time.
It is the job of VOTERS, in the PRIMARY to control who gets the Republican Nomination.
By bolting from the Republican Party, you only make the RINO problem worse -— and you solve absolutely NOTHING!
There is no justification for your point of view.
You have no plan for success.
Why won’t you answer the questions?
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I did.
Hopefully after today, some of you folks have finally figured out their all riding in the same limo.
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