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bobbyw24
11-03-2009, 08:37 AM
Tea Party Activists Are the New GOP

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:11 AM

By: Richard A. Viguerie


After withdrawing from the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, who had been the Republican candidate, threw her support to the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, rather than Doug Hoffman, a Republican running on the Conservative Party ticket.


That was one more example of the “closed tent” mentality of big-government, establishment Republicans who have worked long and hard to keep conservatives out of power at the national, state, and local levels.


The GOP leadership’s backing of Ms. Scozzafava was a slap in the face to tea party activists, town-hall protesters, and conservatives across the country. The Washington GOP establishment’s abandonment of fiscal responsibility led directly to the election of Barack Obama as president, Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House, and Harry Reid as Senate majority leader.


The American people see the GOP leadership and establishment every bit as much a part of the problem as the Democrats.


Doug Hoffman and N.Y.-23 is an earthquake in American politics, and is the first of many challenges to establishment Republicans that we will see for the 2010 elections and beyond. The stupid decision by Republican leaders to pour $900,000 into the race against a conservative has unleashed a fury that will lead to new GOP leadership.


Conservatives’ anger at Washington-establishment Republicans will cost the national committees tens of millions of dollars, as conservative money will start flowing directly to the tea parties and their candidates.


It’s clear that the main opposition to President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s agenda is not from Republican politicians, but rather conservative talk-show hosts, bloggers, cable TV hosts, tea party activists, town-hall attendees, and other grass-roots conservatives.


Tea party activists and conservatives feel betrayed by Republican leaders: John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Pete Sessions, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Michael Steele, and Newt Gingrich.


These GOP leaders would rather follow the advice of professional political consultants, who are not small-government conservatives. These people would rather satisfy their friends in the media than win — and win with principle. They are the same people who try to denigrate the tea party and town-hall protesters by calling them “teabaggers.”


It is that thinking, which actively opposes the rise of conservatives and others who challenge the old Washington political establishment, that will keep the GOP as a small tent. The tea party movement, like Reaganism, is the real big tent.


Over the last dozen years, Republican Party leaders have broken the bond of trust between them and the base of the party. It will not be restored until the GOP selects new leaders that represent the views and values of grass-roots Americans, not Washington D.C. views and values.

http://www.newsmax.com/viguerie/tea_party_gop/2009/11/03/280803.html

Jamsie 567
11-03-2009, 08:46 AM
We can get to them before the GOP can and teach them about the founders message, it may not be to late. I saw many of them wake up with my own eyes at the For Liberty movie premeier.

This website ran by the leader of the 9/12 Pat Jenkins is now promoting www.ThisNovember5th.com on his website. This could be a step in the right direction.

TheNational912project.org

Fr3shjive
11-03-2009, 08:53 AM
Too bad the neo-cons hijacked the tea parties. So the same old neo-cons are the New GOP?

AuH20
11-03-2009, 08:58 AM
the gig is up for the GOP party bosses.

YouTube - Gresham Barrett booed at Greenville Tea Party 4/17/09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQVNXfKujc)

jmdrake
11-03-2009, 09:20 AM
Too bad the neo-cons hijacked the tea parties. So the same old neo-cons are the New GOP?

Well it's up to us to take the tea parties back. The only reason they got hijacked in the first place is some of us have been desperate not to appear as "extremists". You see this desperation every time a thread that raises the mere possibility that 9/11 wasn't as we've been sold shunted off to HT. Even threads that don't go as far as to claim LIHOP or even MIHOP have been wrongly moved. The truthers started the tea parties. We'll need to look at the truthers as allies if we want to take the tea parties back.

jmdrake
11-03-2009, 09:22 AM
the gig is up for the GOP party bosses.

YouTube - Gresham Barrett booed at Greenville Tea Party 4/17/09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQVNXfKujc)

Cool. We need more of that. Start showing up at tea parties with "joker posters" of members of the GOP who have been just as bad for this country as the dems.

HOLLYWOOD
11-03-2009, 09:25 AM
http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee332/McLieberman/DSC01290.jpg

GunnyFreedom
11-03-2009, 09:31 AM
Honestly, Scossafava endorsing the Dem may be the best thing that has ever happened to us RP'ers. It lends all kinds of credence to our argument that there isn't a spit worth of difference between the Rep and Dem parties of the last 20 years, and that all the divisions being created between them are artificial. It also provides motive and ammunition for our mission to push into and take over the GOP leadership and use it to provide genuine conservative and Constitutionalist alternatives to the socialism that has been shoved down our throats the last 2 decades.

GunnyFreedom
11-03-2009, 09:32 AM
Too bad the neo-cons hijacked the tea parties. So the same old neo-cons are the New GOP?

Not sure what universe you live in, but in my universe the Tea Partiers have been roundly rejecting the neocons left and right.

torchbearer
11-03-2009, 09:33 AM
The guy who wrote this article was apart of the group that fucked Ron Paul in the Louisiana Caucus. He was working against Ron Paul in 2007-08.

GunnyFreedom
11-03-2009, 09:41 AM
The guy who wrote this article was apart of the group that fucked Ron Paul in the Louisiana Caucus. He was working against Ron Paul in 2007-08.

Yeah, that's why I would never share Viguerie's article and give him the traffic on his site. Not a bad read here on the forums tho. It shows that even the establishment hacks are sensing the winds of change. Now they have to adjust their rhetoric or get left behind. Thing is that this shift, unlike so many in times past, is being populated by mad tons of people who are really principled, and not just a couple jokers taking advantage of populist rhetoric. To me, that means that fakers like Viguerie are going to get left in the dust, in time.