jct74
04-14-2011, 04:48 AM
This article has been online for two weeks but I didn't see it posted anywhere. It's pretty long, but a very good read. Talks about Rand's path to the senate and what his impact could be on the future of the conservative movement. It's the cover story for the May edition (http://www.amconmag.com/issue/2011/may/01/) of The American Conservative.
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Rand Alliance: Can the Tea Party Learn to Love the GOP?
By W. James Antle III | March 31, 2011
The title of Rand Paul’s new book is the Rorschach test of American politics. If you are a sardonic Jon Stewart liberal, The Tea Party Goes to Washington is probably reminiscent of “Ernest Goes to Camp”—it evokes images of rubes and rednecks descending on state dinners, putting their cowboy-booted feet on the table, and spitting their tobacco juice all over the fine china. Those liberals who don’t regard the Tea Party as a joke will likely picture an angry mob of reverse Robin Hoods stealing Treasury funds designated for the poor and handing them out to the rich. For partisan Republicans, the title harkens back to the good old days when the GOP ran the nation’s capital.
Senator Paul wants readers to see something else entirely: the ascendancy of a grassroots movement dedicated to an older conservatism, one that traces its roots back to the American Founding. “[T]he Tea Party does not seek to simply go back to the Bush years when the debt was a mere $12 trillion as opposed to $13 trillion,” he writes. “Nor does the Tea Party seek simply to return to the same old Republican rhetoric where limited government was promised but never delivered, the Constitution was referenced but never followed and the Founding Fathers were quoted but never heeded.”
Continue reading at:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/will-rand-paul-bring-the-tea-party-to-the-gop/
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/rand-alliance.jpg
Rand Alliance: Can the Tea Party Learn to Love the GOP?
By W. James Antle III | March 31, 2011
The title of Rand Paul’s new book is the Rorschach test of American politics. If you are a sardonic Jon Stewart liberal, The Tea Party Goes to Washington is probably reminiscent of “Ernest Goes to Camp”—it evokes images of rubes and rednecks descending on state dinners, putting their cowboy-booted feet on the table, and spitting their tobacco juice all over the fine china. Those liberals who don’t regard the Tea Party as a joke will likely picture an angry mob of reverse Robin Hoods stealing Treasury funds designated for the poor and handing them out to the rich. For partisan Republicans, the title harkens back to the good old days when the GOP ran the nation’s capital.
Senator Paul wants readers to see something else entirely: the ascendancy of a grassroots movement dedicated to an older conservatism, one that traces its roots back to the American Founding. “[T]he Tea Party does not seek to simply go back to the Bush years when the debt was a mere $12 trillion as opposed to $13 trillion,” he writes. “Nor does the Tea Party seek simply to return to the same old Republican rhetoric where limited government was promised but never delivered, the Constitution was referenced but never followed and the Founding Fathers were quoted but never heeded.”
Continue reading at:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/will-rand-paul-bring-the-tea-party-to-the-gop/