RightWingRocker: Why Sage May Be Right About the Tea Party

Why Sage May Be Right About the Tea Party

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

This in on Yahoo today ...

What's telling about this are a few things that are not too well-known about prominent "Tea Partiers". Check this out:

Start with the movement's financial backing. The Tea Party Express, a group formed by a longtime California GOP consultant, has raised more than $5 million and financed about $2 million in advertising to help candidates.

The organization was an offshoot of a political action committee created to support John McCain's Republican presidential run in 2008, and its chief strategist is Sal Russo, a Sacramento Republican operative who has worked for nearly 50 years helping run party campaigns, including those of Govs. George Deukmejian of California and George Pataki of New York.

Still loving that "Tea Party Express"??

How about this:

Tea party candidates have also received a boost from FreedomWorks, a conservative group led by former House Republican leader Richard Armey. Its political action committee, formed last April, has raised only a fraction of what the Tea Party Express has amassed in its PAC. But Armey's group has its own influential network, and it has weighed in to support tea party candidates that did not get Tea Party Express support, such as Rand Paul in Kentucky.

OK ... So they hooked up Rand Paul. Does anyone believe Dick Armey would have supported him for any reason other than political gain?

Now I don't know enough about Meckler at this point, and work keeps me from really getting down and dirty for the time being, but she's right on the money with what she says about these two organizations. Armey is a party hack, and who in his right mind would support an organization built on a foundation of supporting McShithead?

Sage is constantly hitting the Tea Party between the eyes, not because he doesn't believe in the movement or the idea or the concept, but because those who wish to lead it are frauds.

The aforementioned information should be evidence enough, and I'd be careful about trusting Meckler as well. This is, after all, a nation built on the distrust of those who wish to lead it.

It's what America is all about.

RWR

Cross-posted at The Second American Revolution.

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Ol' BC · 757 weeks ago

I've yet to see any "leadership" of the TEA party. It is just a description of concerned citizens who have been Taxed Enough Already. The left is constantly trying to point to something to discredit the conservative movement any time or any way, fact or fiction. I'm sure somebody is going to try to claim leadership of a TEA party. Most of us recognize that there really isn't a leader. These groups taking off on the name may be a different story.

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Sage · 756 weeks ago

Wake up and smell the roses Ol'BC, or the shitheap in this case. Mainstream party hacks have been trying to steer the movement in the direction of the GOP from the outset. McShithead, Gangrene Gingrich, and Queen Airhead Sarah have all made overtures to the movement in the form of lip service identification of it with some aspect of their own dark agendas. They are scared shitless of its potential power in the coming elections. That's why they are all whistling in the dark about it hoping it will either disappear quietly, or somehow find its way to a Republican lever in the voting booths in November. Their best hope, and fervent prayer is the latter of course, and they will employ any deception to achieve their end. Notice that the true leader, and founding father of the movement Ron Paul has been under attack by these wolves in sheep's clothes, in the attempt to "scatter the sheep".

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RightWingRocker · 756 weeks ago

I agree with all of that except that Ron Paul is any kind of leader or founder of the movement. A dud like him isn't going to lead anyone much of anywhere.

He's just a follower of it like the rest of us.

The true leaders of the TEA party movement are the likes of Henry, Madison and Jefferson. THEY are the real leaders of the TEA party.

RWR

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love2rumba 67p · 756 weeks ago

As long as the TEA PARTY is not usurped by Repubs, but the Tea Party usurps the Repubs we are ok.

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Trish · 756 weeks ago

Well, there's no real funding at the local level Tea Parties, and that's where the movement lives. Not by any of the backed groups- though they inspire people to go out to events, our local tea parties (of which there are three) email and call each other to organize events- we have no "national" or big groups backing us at all. It's time that we don't give the democrats a win, simply because we don't like parts of either the republican party or the Tea Party candidates. It's counter productive as hell. Oh, you can say "don't vote for so & so because they're not true conservatives" until the cows come home; but if in the end we get a liberal democrat and don't change the structure of our House, we are doomed. I fear we may be doomed anyway, but for God's sake, can't WE at least, get along?

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Ol' BC · 756 weeks ago

I'm with Sage pretty much as the party hacks have, in fact, been trying to steer the TEA party folks to the GOP. IF the GOP leadership amounted to anything, there would be no TEA party gatherings. Obviously, the GOP dropped the ball and if the TEA party influence changes the direction of the GOP from Donk-light, I'm OK with it.

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RightWingRocker · 753 weeks ago

but if in the end we get a liberal democrat and don't change the structure of our House, we are doomed.

A liberal Republican is no better.

A liberal is a liberal, period.

RWR