Oh, Noes! Tea Parties Failed, Per HuffPo
I find it truly funny that the Left is so scared by the TEA Parties. They are out there saying they are “carefully orchestrated by Republican think tanks, funded by large corporations, and advertised by none other than Fox News.” They’re misconstruing what the purpose was, either because they just don’t get it, or intentionally do not get it (much the way they didn’t seem to get the point of Operation Iraqi Freedom, even after have the same discussion for years.) And, now, they claim Tea Party Fallout: Independents Turned Off, Some GOPers Worried.
It’s been two days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.
While the anti-tax sentiment of the protests may have been sincere, the images pulled from the events have often been offensive, embarrassing, or politically problematic.
First two paragraphs, and already Sam Stein proves he has no clue what the TEA Parties were about.
It is a development that has tripped up the GOP before. The rallies outside McCain-Palin events included some of the same bile that was seen at the tea parties: charges of fascism, terrorism and other malicious criticisms leveled at Barack Obama. And it did the Republican ticket little good in its efforts to bring moderate voters to the cause.
Well, Sammy, everything caused the Left to level charges of Fascism, terrorism, and malicious criticisms leveled at Barack Obama (strange how those malicious criticisms keep coming true. We don’t have to get into the assassination chic of the left and other unhinged behavior aimed at Bush and Conservatives the past 8 years yet again, do we?)
So, let’s check with all those Independents and GOPers
“It is not clear-cut that the tea-party phenomena helps the GOP, unless they have a specific measure or policy (like Prop. 13 in 1978, and income tax cuts after that) to coalesce around,” said Steven Hayward, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “Right now it reminds me a bit of the free-floating ‘angry moderates’ of 1992 who fueled the Ross Perot candidacy, and that is the hazard for Republicans I think. I think the crazies at the rallies are a problem, but probably out of proportion (they always get the media attention) to the real breadth of sentiment underneath, which I think is largely authentic.”
“My own sense that is I don’t see anything going on that is good for Republicans,” said Doug Bailey, a longtime Republican consultant who helped co-found the centrist reform movement Unity08. “I just don’t get it. It may be, and I don’t doubt this, that there is a large segment of the American public that can and is riled up about taxes and can be riled up about one thing or another. But a large segment, in terms of numbers, doesn’t amount to a couple hundred people demonstrating in Washington or wherever. That’s a non-event … Nobody likes taxes. So, of course, I’m sympathetic myself. I might throw a tea bag myself. But the fact is, that it is particularly ineffective for the Republican Party when it is Rush Limbaugh and the likes stirring it up. That just doesn’t speak to the middle.”
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Well, that’s it. Two. Including one of those “longtime Republicans gone centrist.” And, you know what? We do not CARE if it helps the GOP. We are not there to help them. They are there, supposedly, to support conservative ideals, which they often tend to ignore. Conservatives are not lemmings who follow the leader like liberals follow the Democrat Party.
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Posted by William Teach on April 18, 2009 8:57 am
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The Huff ‘n’ Puff’n'Stuff and other lame streamers tried to get out early numbers. The 300 guess is not even real.
People are still calling in from all over the nation and the last time I checked the numbers were well over 1 million.
Enough wasting time on Huffies’ silly plot.
See you on the 4th of July. Huffs you should bring more people with ten fingers and toes to count.Lots more.
I find it funny that the folks who showed up the the rallies in our state protesting taxes, are the same people who are receiving tax cuts. The rallies here were used as an agenda to promote future candidates, or extremists that spewed hate messages. Our state is 100% Republican controlled, and our legislators are voting in more big government. What happened to the “less government intrusion” party?
So, it was the middle and lower classes that showed up, TLM?
As far as hate messages, all you mean is messages that do not agree with your progressive agenda.
And, in case you missed it, Conservatives are, and have been, very unhappy with the way the GOP has been spending.
William Teach brings on the ownage heh keep it up and i might wind up respecting you oh wait i already do
Thanks, Bartom!
The question isn’t whether or not people should be able to protest – that goes without saying. The questions is: Do you agree with them ? – the Tea Party – Tea Baggers… what have you.
And although the tea party arguments can’t be backed up by facts and real sources when they argue about taxes… I might still find them a noble rant … if it weren’t for the obvious back story of their argument. This IS a partisan argument. You had eight years to ‘protest’ where your taxes were going – we’ve spent a trillion dollars on our first preemptive made up war – argue all you want – it’s been a disaster for America in the big picture – a disaster. This is a culture war – first and foremost … the response to an inevitable demographic shift compounded by globalization and just what that’s going to mean for the American middle class in the future – that’s where the hate comes from. And blaming -them- – the government – is a piss poor excuse for not looking in the mirror. We live in a republic based on representative democracy. We ARE the government. And WE – the government – decided to switch gears in a big way – not once but twice – in 2006 and 2008 – because those representing US before hand were driving US of the rails – the economy was heading down fast beginning over two years ago… if you’d been paying attention you’d have noticed. I did – and put off buying a house for that reason. Just saved 60k for paying attention. It’s just intellectually dishonest to try to act as if those who controlled congress for 12 years before that and the executive branch for two terms didn’t have a gigantic hand in that… It’s just lying – mostly to yourselves – because not many people are buying your argument. And to blame Obama… oh – that’s rich… lol.
So, although some of the fiscal arguments – though pathetically late in coming do have some merit… if that’s YOU – and you also associate yourselves with placards that read: ” Muslim ! Tax ! Hang-em ! Tax ! No real passport – un-American ! Tax ! Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus !” — How do you expect to be perceived but idiotic, backward and most importantly – just dishonest. ??
No I don’t agree with the “Tea Parties” – I sure as hell would have commandeered a British Merchant Vessel in 1773 and done some tomahawk chopping myself – you could bet on it… but thats not at all what I see here… and it doesn’t deserve the respect of the same historic title.
Just looks like a ‘Sour Grape Party’ to me.
PulSamsara – On another blog I read, the blogger suggested that we show this picture to everyone who doesn’t understand exactly what the tea parties were about or why we just now decided to protest.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=jqm1y9&s=5
Now, I personally do not think people like you are smart enough to understand this pic but thought I would at least give it a shot.
Cheesestick, the Left will never understand the reasoning behind the TEA Parties, and, if they continue, will never get them, much like they never got Operation Iraqi Freedom, and had the same talking points 5 years later.
And they will never get that they are a protest as much against Republican out of control spending and big government policies as they are against the current Dem policies.
They also forget that Dems controlled the Senate for 4 of Bush’s 8 years, and the House for 1/4th.
Your Welcome William anyways lefties are an intolerant bunch