Posted on 05/22/2013 8:02:49 PM PDT by BreezyDog
As the old saying goes, beware of Greeks bearing gifts; but as the new saying goes, beware even more of Republicans bearing bribes. In either case, one could get destroyed (or at least corrupted) from the inside by trusting the wrong people.
Since 2006, with the beginnings of the breakaway of populist conservatives from the national Republican Party via the Tea Party movement, the GOP has been trying to figure out how to co-opt and capture it once again, just as George W. Bush did with many elements of the conservative movement in the early years of the 21st century.
But with the unofficial (and official) rise of the Tea Party movement, this development has struck fear in the Washington establishment because it represents an intellectual challenge to the anti-intellectual status quo of the Democrats and the Big Government Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cause the GOPe is no threat to Obama.
I thought the Tea Party was dead. Apparently a lot of DC hacks consider
the Tea Party a real threat. Enough of a threat to play dirty, illegal politics
to limit their influence.
“Cause the GOPe is no threat to Obama.”
That is crystal clear.
The Tea Party flame may sometimes seem to be gone but the spark isn’t going to go out.
ha! Sometimes I think they are working with Obama.
Yeah, and it's also a little more clear why the MSM was so ready to pull the white sheet over the face of the TEA Party last year.
very true
I'm not convinced they didn't. I've heard lots of anecdotal stories that make you go, "Hmmmmmm" over the past couple years with regard to Republican donor types. It would be interesting to compile statistics on audits and compare them to party registration, as well as things like political donors, or partisan activists.
Well worth the read.
Many questions are begged. Did outside liberal groups conspire with the IRS against the Tea Party? Did Republican Establishment types conspire with the IRS to censor the Tea Party? If so, how high up did the conspiracy go inside the two major parties, both of which had something to gain with the marginalization and/or destruction of the Tea Party movement?
As far as the Tea Party and it sympathizers are concerned, nearly everybody in Washington is a suspect. The Tea Party has found the enemy, and it is the Washington Establishment.
Isn’t it ironic that the Tea Party now stands for the rule of law and that elements of the United States government and the Washington establishment have become the rogue, criminal element in America?
GOPe = Mensheviks
The dear reader can fill in the rest of the actors.
The attacks on TP movement has brought the TP movement BACK to life.
Did Republican Establishment types conspire with the IRS to censor the Tea Party?
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That’s a legitimate question that I’d like to know the answer to.
Just like the GOPe refuses to fight for Voter ID, Election Fraud or the other types of criminal election methods....they are either complicit, incompetent or traitors.
This is the greatest question of the hour!!!
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