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Tea Party insurgency marches into key states

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 the RINOs are desperately trying to assert that they are needed otherwise the "party will split". How about the Party adjusting to fit in the tea party platforms?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-18 08:15|| 2009-10-18 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another sign that the Beltway crowd just doesn't get it at all.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-18 08:45|| 2009-10-18 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, that is what my local Tea Party is doing - looking for candidates - Dem, Lib or Repub - who are strict Constitutionalists, support the free market, and reducing the role of the federal government to something more like the founders intended. Yes, we are thinking long-term, which probably does have the Beltway Establishment starting to piss their pants.
The old-line Repub establishment seems to be desperately flailing around, trying to figure out how they can be seen as being in charge of all this new-found energy and involvement, but the funny thing is, most of us are almost as furious and exasperated with them as we are the Dems. I kind of like Bill Quick's term, which Instapundit linked last night; he called them s**t-sandwich Republicans, as in (quoting inexactly here) "You better take a bit of that s**t sandwich and pretend it's delicious jam as you vote for us - for after all, we aren't Democrats."
Well, the insurgents are here - and the Repub leadership may very well turn into something like the Whigs, of the 1850's.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2009-10-18 09:26|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-10-18 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 "You better take a bit of that s**t sandwich and pretend it's delicious jam as you vote for us - for after all, we aren't Democrats."

But you see the people out here don't see a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. You have both gotten us into the "jam (or s**t)" we are in.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-18 09:38|| 2009-10-18 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 But you see the people out here don't see a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. You have both gotten us into the "jam (or s**t)" we are in.

I suspect a lot of people staying home instead of holding their nose and voting for the imperfect republican _did_ get us into the pile of sh_t we're been in since 2006. As much as I dislike certain RINOs, the Democrat ascendancy in Congress _HAS_ been much worse than the Republicans have been.

If you don't like the current crop of Republicans, there _are_ primaries for that purpose. Using the general election for that purpose has brought the country somewhere between 15-20% unemployment and a Democratic supermajority bent on washing away as many industries as they can.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-18 10:24|| 2009-10-18 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 In short, don't be so eager to make sure you aren't used by the Republicans that you're instead used by the Democrats.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-18 10:25|| 2009-10-18 10:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I think we now have a third political party. Call it the Tea Party. I actually think that a Tea Party Convention should be held just before the 2010 Elections, with representatives from all 50 states, to select their nominee. Does not have to be a "Tea Party" candidate, it can be candidates who honor the consititution, Republican, (as much as I hate to say it) Dem, Independent.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Angomoting3589 2009-10-18 16:36|| 2009-10-18 16:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not go all the way and start nominating "Tea Party" candidates TODAY, and support them. We might see enough Tea Party wins to destroy both the Democheat majority and scare the sh$$ out of the Repuglycons. There is not one word in our Constitution about political parties. They have no more "right" to post candidates than anyone else. A single person running as an "Independent" is hard-pressed to compete, but being supported by a third or more of the electorate as THEIR candidate could cause some heads to explode. Depending on the person running, I'd be willing to not only vote for them, but work for them in their campaign.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-10-18 20:52|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-10-18 20:52|| Front Page Top

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