Tea Party under attack

[Accountable]

It's not the left's frontal assault that the Tea Party activists need to worry about, it's the GOP.

Chuck Baldwin -- A Warning To The Tea Party Nation

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]But now many of the Tea Parties are distancing themselves from Dr. Paul and embracing establishment players such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Even Newt Gingrich is being courted. Watch out, Tea Party Nation: you're in danger of losing your soul! Newt Gingrich is not one of you. He is not your friend. He is an imposter. He will destroy you just like he almost single-handedly destroyed the Conservative Revolution of 1994.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Plus, be careful about Sarah Palin and other establishment Republicans. Palin is currently playing both sides. She is promoting Big Government neocons such as John McCain on the one hand, and sincere conservative-libertarians such as Rand Paul on the other hand. But if one wants a real barometer of Palin's true colors, look no further than her endorsement of Rick Perry in Texas.[/FONT]​

I don't get how Glenn Beck is supposed to be establishment, but whatever.

The last thing we need is the republican party lending "legitimacy" to this grass roots movement. I wish to God that we could get someone nominated without tying them to a political party, but I don't think that's possible today. The best thing that could happen for America might be for Obama & co. to keep fucking things up until the gov't falls apart and revolution takes over. That might be what it takes to get back to the Constitution.

 

[Accountable]

Republicans are doing their damnedest to destroy the movement.

2 articles:

Tom Tancredo claims to be a Tea Party guy yet calls to bring back literacy tests.

This Week in Bizarro Politics: Ron Paul is TOO LIBERAL for the Tea Baggers! Time to Eat Their Own!

They're laying claim to the Tea Party brand, which amounts to stealing the flag their enemy is supposed to rally under. This "National Tea Party Convention" was put together by Tea Party Nation, which doesn't let you see anything unless you sign in.

Not that I blame them. Republicans have more to fear from them than do the democrats because they're in danger of being exposed as big gov't, big spending, anti-freedom dem-twins.

 

[MoonOwl]

The sold-out GOP jumped on Ron's movement cuz they saw the support he had w/his principles.

Sarah Palin = Tea Party movement?:24::24::24::24::24:

Kinda like Huckabee swiping Ron's talking points when he realized Ron was beating him in the polls. Then presenting them as His Idea.... pppfffttttt.......

No, we get the sold-out mess we deserve.......... Those who long to go back to our founding principles:usa: are quickly becoming 'terrorists' in the government-we-have-now's eyes...

Funny what happens when you willingly give up Liberty for temporary Security. It's not like we weren't warned.... Oh so long ago........

 

[nova]

Selling out to the the screwups with R after their name will be like pouring Roundup on the grass.....

 

[Minor Axis]

Acc, what does the Tea Party movement mean to you? What do they realistically want? How about a discussion of what you expect your tax dollars to achieve, instead of mindless "lower taxes". How low of taxes do they want? Do they want the country to function as a country or just as regional states, counties, or fiefdoms?

Tea Party protests, 2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regarding good ole Sarah, as I recall the Republican she stumped for in N.Y. lost...

 

[Tuxx]

Acc, what does the Tea Party movement mean to you? What do they realistically want? How about a discussion of what you expect your tax dollars to achieve, instead of mindless "lower taxes". How low of taxes do they want? Do they want the country to function as a country or just as regional states, counties, or fiefdoms?

Tea Party protests, 2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regarding good ole Sarah, as I recall the Republican she stumped for in N.Y. lost...

 

[Minor Axis]

Zero Taxes! Cut Taxes Not Defense! LOL! Is this YOUR tea party? (Acc's)

 

[Strauss]

Just be thankful we don't get the amount of government we pay for or we'd really be screwed.

 

[Accountable]

Acc, what does the Tea Party movement mean to you? What do they realistically want? How about a discussion of what you expect your tax dollars to achieve, instead of mindless "lower taxes". How low of taxes do they want? Do they want the country to function as a country or just as regional states, counties, or fiefdoms?

Tea Party protests, 2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regarding good ole Sarah, as I recall the Republican she stumped for in N.Y. lost...

I don't know what state you're from. I don't care what state you're from. Unless you're from Texas, you can do as you wish, be as socialist as you wish, tax as much as you wish, without one peep from me. Knock yerself out.

But social programs and services are not roles of the United States federal government. I know you're not interested in hearing more; more than likely nothing I've written thus far has even made it through your microfilters, so I'll stop there.

 

[Minor Axis]

But social programs and services are not roles of the United States federal government. I know you're not interested in hearing more; more than likely nothing I've written thus far has even made it through your microfilters, so I'll stop there.

What if those same social programs and services were being proposed by the state you live in? Then it would be ok? Is the issue, who administers or who is making you pay taxes?

 

[Strauss]

What if those same social programs and services were being proposed by the state you live in? Then it would be ok? Is the issue, who administers or who is making you pay taxes?

Yeah it matters, it's called the U.S. Constitution and a state government that is more accountable and responsive to its citizens.

 

[Accountable]

Exactly, Strauss.

 

[MoonOwl]

hehehehehehehehehehehehehe..............

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Pretty darn much~

 

[Minor Axis]

Moonowl's link say among other things:

But that GOP limited government rhetoric is simply never matched by that Party's conduct, especially when they wield power. The very idea that a political party dominated by neocons, warmongers, surveillance fetishists, and privacy-hating social conservatives will be a party of "limited government" is absurd on its face.

 

[Accountable]

hehehehehehehehehehehehehe..............

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Pretty darn much~

Nailed it! :clap

 

[MoonOwl]

It is my hope that one day, one day, people will wake up to the political manipulation and vote everyone out. Finding good politicians to put in their place is the hard part.....:willy_nilly:

It seems an impossible task.....

 

[MoonOwl]

grrrrrr.......... I just saw this headline and thought I'd post it:

Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. (AP) -- Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/st...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-27-15-34-09


I didn't even read past the first sentence. Sarah Palin has nothing to do with the TeaParty that Ron Paul started. NOTHING!

I am tired of something that started as an embrace of going back to our Constitution with Ron at the helm being turned into a neocon excuse.

ppppfffffftttttttttttt

I so don't identify w/this takeover. None of these people speak for me.

Gee, a lifelong democrap who turned repug just to vote for Ron. A ProChoicePagan who still got behind Ron because at least he embraced taking abortion back to a states right issue and wanted us to go back to the Freedom our Founding Fathers gave to us. I got behind Ron because he was willing to put WeThePeople back as the first priority before any corporation or any foreign nation. Ron Paul. A politician who at least had the stones to admit that it was possible that, if elected, he couldn't guarantee that he too wouldn't be assimilated into the sold-out mess our government has become....

His ideas made sense. Yet he was ridiculed as a coward and a lunatic. Until after the election of course, then the media made it seem like he was the smartest man in the room w/the bailouts.. :surrender

None of those traits have anything to do with Sarah Palin or any other ProWar/MIC politician that has jumped onto the 'movement' that they had previously shunned on the campaign trail.

:mad

Just another freaking sold-out takeover........ :fing27:yuk hehehehehehehehe..... It was hijacked by idiots!!!

ok, I'm done :horse

 

[Accountable]

Big reps for that!

 

[Minor Axis]

Well, a Tea Party candidate won a primary apparently shaking up the Republican Party. Does this movement have the momentum to go all the way? Just what are it's motivations? Does it have realistic goals? Just thinking out loud. Not asking for answers.

 

[Accountable]

You realize that the "Tea Party" isn't a political party, right? As much as everyone longs to build a box to put all these people in and generalize about, "it" isn't the correct pronoun so much as "them".

Wouldn't it be great (and completely impossible) if We the People completely rejected party politics and started vetting individual politicians?