'Tea party' Activists Filter into GOP at Ground Level

This is good to hear. Collective communication is what is needed to be better.

 

Dear Republican Party,

Please embrace the tea party as the de facto face of your party.


Signed,

 

Trying to return to the GOP? LOL

I love how Republicans say both parties need to fear the Tea Party and work to get their votes. Guess what? "Tea Partiers" were not going to be voting for democrats one way or another!

The Tea Party may be an organic movement of reform, but it's only directed at Republicans, and it's largely artificial as most tea partiers I've listened to have still said "I'd prefer a bad Republican to a Democrat." Big whoop. The Tea Party is generating some energy in the conservative base, but that's it. No democrat is going to lose because he couldn't get the tea party vote.

 

Your opinion is yours, of course, but I disagree with it.

I am and have been dismayed by the whole convention fiasco and its aftermath. Because of the expressed sentiments (mostly distrust) of the tea party advocates with whom I communicate, I was hoping the movement could remain independent.

As I have tried to explain before, I see the movement's most effective strategy in affecting politics would be in positioning the group as independents wooed by both Republicans and Democrats, thereby moderating the political landscape.

A move into the Republican fold effectively ends this strategy and defeats the purpose of the protest. Independence may still be achievable, but this is looking more and more doubtful. However, working for Blue Dog Democrats and Red Fox Republicans is still being well received in the precincts. Now I don't know how long that will last if the movement loses focus. Sad.

 

Can you give me an example of a Congressional Democrat or a Senator that the tea party supports?

 

Delusion.

 

It is delusional because the tea party is not a bunch of true independents or democrats who are unhappy with democratic leadership. It is a group of conservative independents who would vote republican and republicans who are all unhappy with their party and pissed off that republican stupidity and ineffective governance allowed The Communist to get elected president.

I don't discount the idea that the movement is organic in nature or that it is about true fiscal conservatism, etc. But I do discount the idea that at any point was this movement ever going to aim to try to moderate politics by picking the best candidates from either party to support. The movement is about making the Republican party go back to true conservatism.

 

Hope is often delusion.

 

Well yeah. That's obvious.

I do. That's a load of rose-colored bull****. If they were about reforming fiscal conservatism one wonders why on earth Bush's record breaking defecits were not equally deserving of their rancor. Hypocritical asshats. And most of them lying to themselves, like thumbs.

No, it's about trying to protect a rapidly declining former power of american politics - and is fueled by misinformation, ignorance, and bigotry.

 

"Deficits Don't Matter"

Dick Cheney, 2004

 

Obviously not to some.

Because they were too stupid or too disengaged to actually notice what was happening under Bush?

That "rapidly declining former power of American politics" or as many liberals have liked to claim since the presidential election, "regional party of southern white wealthy men" is suddenly gaining steam with the potential to actually have major power gains in this mid term election. I'm sorry my angry liberal friend, but there is no way we can say at this point in the game that the GOP is rapidly losing power.

 

I was not referring to the GOP. And please don't call me names. I dislike bland terminology that forces people into neat and usually inaccurate boxes.

 

Ah! My mistake then!

To whom were you referring?

 

A subset of the GOP that has been used and abused since the 1980s. The generally-evangelical, generally-white, angry social conservative crowd. You know, the folks who like to blame everything on our moral decay from some wholesome former epoch that never actually existed. Fiscal conservatism might be the cause du jour but the ideology is the same. Think of it as the Bradley Effect of political rationale.

 

Personally, I do not tell groups who to support. I merely help them with the political mechanics. However, Henry Cuellar gets a lot of support in the 28th District (roughly San Antonio to Laredo to the Rio Grande Valley).