Mitch McConnell
It's over, Mitch.
Do you still think the Tea Party movement is a tool of the Republican Party? Have you started to think again? The recent primary elections have made a statement to the contrary.
In Alaska, Delaware, South Carolina, and New York, Tea Party-supported candidates have upset the party-supported candidates, much to the consternation of the Republican establishment.
And how about that jerk Mike Castle in Delaware? Won't call and congratulate Christine O'Donnell and won't support her. You talk about a sore loser!
"You talk about chickensh--!!"
(Hat tip to the late, great Jim Healy)
To me, this represents a confirmation that the movement was not just a reaction to Obama, the Democrats or liberalism in general. It was also a reaction against the Republican establishment politicians who had betrayed the conservative principles they had been elected to represent. People want to throw the bums out-both Democrats and Republicans.
Now we hear the grumbling of the Republican honchos and the grudging pledges of support. They'd better wake up or they're gonna be gone the next time (like Mitch McConnell. That's why his picture is above).
Bye Mitch.
ReplyDeleteYou do realize that Tea Party candidates have very little appeal outside of hardcore conservative Republicans, right? Don't expect them to pick up very much of the independent/moderate vote. The Republicans might have shot themselves in the foot with this one. A lot of analysts are saying that this has taken the Republicans from winning a majority in Congress to just closing the gap the some.
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ReplyDeleteWishful thinking? We shall see.
The Tea Party are going down in history as the bums who took the Republicans down in flames in a year that started with so much promise. I count four senate seats that the Democrats will take or retain because of the Tea Party, starting with Right Angle making it possible for Harry Reid to be re-elected.
ReplyDeleteFade stage right, where the Know Nothings exited about 150 years earlier.
Once again, Siarlys. This is not about the Republicans and whether they get their majority. If it means having people like Mike Castle there, to hell with it..
ReplyDeleteGary, you've been had. The high-profile "Tea Party" candidates have all been sponsored by "Tea Party Express," a self-appointed body offering this one-time spontaneous movement "We've come to be your leader."
ReplyDeleteWho is really behind it? A long-time Republican insider named Sal Russo. One of the senior associates of Russo Marsh and Associates, Sacramento California, sketched out a proposal for how the firm could "latch onto" the nascent Tea Party movement. He hoped to breath life into his firm's own faltering PAC, and use the Tea Party for the firm's goals "to frustrate the political ambitions of Barack Obama," because their cash flow had dropped significantly.
Now, when you can show me a genuine grass-roots movement making real gains against the establishment, rather than this wolf in sheep's clothing, I really will pay attention. I do have some conservative reservations about the manner in which federal bureaucrats (and local social workers) run away with what, in essence, are reasonable and appropriate programs.
(Source? The New York Times, Sept 19, page 22. Unfortunately for any efforts to dismiss the data by shooting the messenger, its pretty well documented, and has some direct quotes.
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I will look into Sal Russo, whom I have never heard of. However, how does that explain all these tens of thousands of people who show up to voice their opinions?
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I will shoot the messenger cuz the NYT is totally biased in favor of the Dem partry and progressive politics.
OK, now I know a bit about Russo.
ReplyDeleteSo, what kind of dirt do you have on Russo? Is he a crook? My, how shocking that tea party candidates would have a political pro helping run their campaigns!!Shocking!!
Is that the best you can come up with?
"how does that explain all these tens of thousands of people who show up to voice their opinions?"
ReplyDeleteSun rising in the east? What sun rising in the east? What makes you think the sun rises in the east?
Tea Party, phase one:
A lot of Americans objected when George W. Bush committed billions of federal dollars to sustaining a number of private sector financial institutions.
Tea Party, phase two:
A lot of Americans who didn't vote for Barack Obama took to the streets to protest the fact that he is exercising the powers of the office he was elected to. (One complaint is that he hadn't abandoned enough of the Bush policies.) Some people from phase one stuck around.
Tea Party, phase three:
Several competing cabals of political opportunists, plus some hucksters just out to make a buck, offered to give some "form" and "leadership" to the inchoate "Tea Party movement," and were instantly crowned by The Liberal Mainstream Media as the official Voice of a New Movement, with the assent of the Other Mainstream Media, Fox News.
Tea Party, phase four: A political consulting firm with close ties to the Republican establishment taps into people enthused about one or more of the first three phases, to run their own version of What We Think The People Want, raising millions of dollars, and running candidates that about 8 percent of the voters will support if huge TV advertising campaigns tell them to.
This political consulting firm with close ties to the Republican establishment has nothing to do with electing Republican candidates, which is the furthest thing from their mind.
Gary: The point is, a spontaneous movement has been paraded, pimped, prodded, used, by sophisticated hucksters who could care less about what started the whole thing in the first place, or the "real people" who first turned out for it. The movement didn't hire Russo, Russo told Chicken Little and Turkey Lurkey et al. "step right in here to tell the king that the sky is falling."
As ye sew, so shall ye reap.
"As ye sew, so shall ye reap.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what Sam Ervin quoted before he told the witness,
"Shut up and answer the question, boy."
Although I was alive and a legal adult at the time of the Watergate hearings, I was not one of those glued to the TV set watching every word on CNN. I have no idea what Sam Ervin said when.
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