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GOP operatives crash the tea party
Politico ^ | 4-14-2010 | KENNETH P. VOGEL

Posted on 04/15/2010 6:24:41 AM PDT by Brookhaven

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This story is being pushed hard by the left, and it is something we should discuss.

The left is trying to cause dissention within the Tea Party movement, so they are going to jump on everything they can find and spin it to their benefit. I have no problem with someone involed in the Tea Party movement making money. Even the Bible says "the laborer deserves his wages." It takes at least some full time staff to run any organization.

The other big criticism in this story is that the Tea Party Express actually had a plan. That's a bad thing?

On the other hand, we need to be vigilant. There is no doubt there are people that would love to co-opt the Tea Party movement for their own purposes. And I'm not just talking about the GOP. There are also plenty of 3rd parties and movements built around a single person (Ron Paul supporters, for example) that are trying to co-opt the Tea Party movement for their own purposes.

1 posted on 04/15/2010 6:24:41 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: Brookhaven

What is there to discuss. Telling people that have organizing skills and understand the political landscape to take a hike.
As long as they have shared values and goals ofcourse they should be welcomed.

You never turn away talent.


2 posted on 04/15/2010 6:29:42 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Brookhaven

The only way to defuse this tripe is to attack liberal GOPers just as vigorously as we attack the Socialist Democrats.


3 posted on 04/15/2010 6:31:25 AM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: Brookhaven

I saw this was the lead story on Olberman last night. He is pushing it as some evil plot.

PS

I occasionally flip to Olberman bacause (1) I have an uncle that watches MSNBC religiously, and gets no news from anywhere else; and (2) I feel like I need to know what the spin comming from the hard left is.


4 posted on 04/15/2010 6:31:45 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: Brookhaven

Nothing ever written in Politico is reliable. They have no credibility as they are a wholly owned entity of the far far left.


5 posted on 04/15/2010 6:32:22 AM PDT by Carley (I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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Perhaps this is the problem with the PAC.

" Before its tea party days, however,
the PAC aired ads praising Palin,
both during and after her unsuccessful GOP vice presidential campaign,
“for serving the people of America with a servant’s heart,
” standing up to “the liberal media” and teaching her son
about “the honor and valor of serving in our nation’s armed forces.”

6 posted on 04/15/2010 6:33:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Syncro; Jim Robinson

ping


7 posted on 04/15/2010 6:34:27 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Carley

Politicio (sic) is proRINO proROMNEY anti Gov.Palin.


8 posted on 04/15/2010 6:34:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Marty62

I agree with you, but the left is pushing this story as though it is some evil plot. Not everyone is that politically astute. We need to counter the idea the left is putting out that there isn’t anyplace in the Tea Party movement for professionals.

You saw this same type of story popping up with that Tea Party convention that happened in Nashville. The press was critical of the organizers because (gasp) they were charging admission and might actually (gasp) end up making a slight profit.


9 posted on 04/15/2010 6:35:02 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: Brookhaven; Jim Robinson

Is that the way it happened?


10 posted on 04/15/2010 6:37:23 AM PDT by Ingtar (Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
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To: Diogenesis

Politico prints nothing that isn’t directly from the WH fax machine.


11 posted on 04/15/2010 6:39:02 AM PDT by Carley (I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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To: Brookhaven

on fox and friends today they had a story about the counter tea party where the rats plan to join the tea party but then make stupid signs with misspelled words and to cause fights and shout racial slurs at people.

So they are trying to devalue the tea party brand from within. It’s an all out attack from the liberal power base from each party.


12 posted on 04/15/2010 6:39:52 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Carley

True words!

LLS


13 posted on 04/15/2010 6:44:10 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Carley

Sad to say, you are right on about the “Obama” communications organ known as “Politico”. “Politico” founders, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen are nothing but major spinners for Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party. Those two gentlemen would not know political objectivity and fairness if it struck them in the face.


14 posted on 04/15/2010 6:46:59 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Brookhaven

When I attended the Tea Party Express event in Jackson, Michigan last summer, I wondered how they could afford the big, plush, custom-painted buses. Who was bankrolling them?

The bottom line, though, is I showed up. Nobody paid me, nobody offered me kickbacks, bribes or freebies to be there. I did the research for the event myself using my own time and computer. I wasn’t given a sign paid for by a group or union, and I even bought a “NOBAMA” button from an enterprising young man selling them.

These events are dependent on people SHOWING UP. The only buses I saw were the two belonging to the Tea Party Express, and I’m sure nobody was “organized” with promises of a day off work if they went.


15 posted on 04/15/2010 6:47:17 AM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Brookhaven

So the argument is that we shouldn’t link up with and use the talents of people who are good at organization?

I don’t think I’m buying that.


16 posted on 04/15/2010 6:54:37 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Brookhaven

>>You saw this same type of story popping up with that Tea Party convention that happened in Nashville. The press was critical of the organizers because (gasp) they were charging admission and might actually (gasp) end up making a slight profit.

Bingo!

And as someone who was there, I can say this was discussed at length among many of the attendees. No one I talked to had a problem with it, and people generally thought that the pricing was reasonable. And these are people who had typically been to similar events for professional society conventions, continuing education and the like.

You don’t like the price of admission? Don’t go! How hard is that?


17 posted on 04/15/2010 6:54:42 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: Brookhaven

Sometimes, when they attack like this, the correct answer is, “So what?” or, “What’s wrong with that?” instead of people getting defensive.


18 posted on 04/15/2010 6:55:47 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: Brookhaven
The Left is scared to death over this truly grass roots movement, because they know it can and will produce effective political results. It's exactly how our democratic Republic is supposed to work — unlike the constant phony and staged “protests” orchestrated by their left wing “groups”.
19 posted on 04/15/2010 6:56:58 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Brookhaven

Actually, a lot of the criticism of the Nashville event came from the leadership of many local tea party leaders who were leery of an outside group canniblizing the tea party name. Turned out that those concerns were mostly unfounded but the profit issue does undermine the grassroots format somewhat.

It’s hard to present yourself as a non-profit group that welcomes all when somebody else presents their self as part of your movement, and seeks to turn a profit while doing so.


20 posted on 04/15/2010 7:02:34 AM PDT by meyer (It's time...)
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