How Left Is The Right?: Tea Party Activists Are The New GOP
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 are an earthquake in American politics, the first of many challenges to establishment Republicans that we will see for the 2010 elections and beyond. The Republican leaders’ stupid decision 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 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.”
That type of thinking, which actively opposes the rise of conservatives and others who challenge the old Washington political establishment, 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 who represent the views and values of grass-roots Americans, not Washington views and values.
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The best way to clean your house is one room at a time. When were done cleaning our house were going to clean the libtards clocks. Brothers and Sisters can I get an Amen???
A Big AMEN!!!! Time to bloody the nose of every CONMOD ConProgressive Moderate time to tow the line
I don’t agree with the equivalency they draw between the parties.
There’s an awful lot I don’t like about the Republican establishment… but they aren’t Marxists.
That’s certainly true. Unlike Marxists the Republican establishment seems to lack core principles! They will cave at the first sight or even smell of resistance!
So, to you, they’re worse?
That’s not right-headed.
There are a lot of RINOS in the GOP National Committee and on the state level. When I got my voting ballot, I investigated everything and when I logged onto my local GOP, they were endorsing a bill here in WA that the conservative GOP were not.
We need to flush out all the RINOS first before the GOP party will be the true party of conservatives. That will require a lot of work but it can be done.
I can’t join in on the tea partying as long as the ronulans have it hijacked.
I dont agree with them totally either, but if we are to win this fight, where ever it takes us, we are going to have to put some differences aside, or we will never suceed
What is worse, a GOP that is moderate or a GOP that is divided between ultraconservatives and moderates?
You know, the thing that makes me laugh about the RINOS is how they keep bleating that we, the conservatives, must join with them by compromising on our principles to win elections, yet when I look at the election numbers, it is we, the conservatives that hold the majority number on this side of the isle.
I mean look at the Hoffman race. Excluding the bitches take, the vote was nearly split 50/50 between Hoffman and the Democrat, which shows that the majority of conservative voters fall into our camp, yet that minority 5% whine and bitch and continue to cause us to lose.
I say fuck em. If they, those 5%, want to take their ball and go home then let the Democrat continue to win until they can’t stand it anymore. If they think so much of the Dems social positions the they should really enjoy living under the dems fiscal positions. Enough of that 5% dictating to the majority. Fuck them.
THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE STORY AT ALL CALLING FOR HELP FOR MICHELLE BACHMAN’S MARCH TEA PARTY RALLY ON WASHINGTON OVER HEALTHCARE BILL!!!!
Over the weekend I posted a mention on one of the posts……..BUT NOT ONE SINGLE FOLLOW-UP OR SUPPORTIVE ARTICLE.
ARE WE TRYING TO STOP OBAMACARE OR NOT????