Republican Party Raids the Tea Party
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Republican Party Raids the Tea Party
Good morning, patriots, the battle is finally upon us.
We knew this was coming, we just didn't know when the first cannonballs would fire.
Stand firm, patriots, and embrace your beliefs in the fight for America's survival.
Be brave, patriots of the Tea Party Movement. Do not faint.
The Republicans are coming. The Republicans are coming.
"Across the country, conservative Tea Party activists - many new to politics and unaffiliated with, if not averse to, the Republican Party - are increasingly finding themselves the target of intense GOP courting headed into the critical 2010 midterm elections," according to a report from Politico.Com.
"Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele plans to meet Tuesday (Feb. 16) with about 50 Tea Party leaders," Politico.Com said. "The California GOP chairman recently trained tea partiers on political organizing and is planning a party-sponsored rally. The South Carolina GOP has a resource-sharing agreement with Tea Party groups. The North Dakota party chairman hosted a Tea Party-GOP rally Friday and is urging fellow state chairs to do the same."
Steele's planned Tuesday meeting with Tea Party leaders from "at least a dozen states - a meeting organized by Karin Hoffman, founder of a South Florida tea party group called DC Works For Us - represents something of a breakthrough in the GOP's courting of the Tea Party" Politico.com reported.
"The whole impetus for the movement was that we were not being heard," Hoffman told Politico.Com
"This meeting is really a natural outcropping of that- bringing the discussion from the grassroots movement to the political establishment and having an honest discussion about who we are, what the grassroots movement has done and what we can do, but also what we want to see," Hoffman said.
The GOP epitaph hasn't been written yet, but the handwriting is on the wall - the Republican Party is desperately trying to survive by raiding the Tea Party Movement.
The Grand Old Party has become the Gone Old Party.
Where are the Republican Party leaders? Where are the Republican plans, programs and agendas to restore the country to its strength and viability? What does the Republican Party stand for?
Republican Party operatives daily are trying to undermine one of the best citizen movements since the 18th century.
The GOP has orchestrated an attempt to assimilate the Tea Party Movement into the same old political country club it has fostered since the assassination of Lincoln.
Consider these other failures:
--The 2008 presidential election. I respect John.McCain for all he has done for America. But, McCain and running mate Sarah Palin? What was that?
-- The quagmire of the 2006 and 2008 elections looked like a full military retreat (without any ammunition) as Republicans surrendered Congress to the Democrats.
-- The 2000 presidential election. George W. Bush, financed to the hilt, struggled against Al Gore - I mean, Al "Global Warming" Gore - in Florida and the courts. The dubious win still haunts the halls of democracy.
-- 1992 presidential election? George H.W.Bush. Loved the guy, but anybody in Washington could tell you the White House was in disarray. And "Listen Up, Americans," Ross Perot enabled a Clinton victory while warning us about "the great sucking sound" of jobs crossing our borders under NAFTA.
-- Jimmy Carter and the Ford-Reagan rift of 1976.
-- Nixon. 1972. Enough said.
The Republican Party has been ferociously pursuing the Tea Party Movement and its participants. It hopes this burgeoning grassroots force of mainstream Americans will drive the party back into a meaningful place in the nation's decision-making.
The Gone Old Party has finally looked into the streets of America and recoiled in fear.
The GOP is afraid because the Tea Party Movement stands for what the former Republican Party stood for: the Constitution, family, moral values, freedom, the Bill of Rights, strong defense, homeland security and promises of the Declaration of Independence to pursue life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is no secret the former Republican Party has been trying to recruit The Tea Party and its participants.
A recent convention in Nashville promoting former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin repulsed most Tea Party participants -- who stayed away by the thousands.
I thought JB Williams summed up the event well in the Canada Free Press on Feb. 13:
"What aimed to be nothing more than a profit venture in Nashville has indeed turned out to be a unifying event. The millions who declined to attend the event in Nashville are more unified than ever, to some degree, as a direct result of the media circus in Nashville," Williams said.
"Palin's effort to create an impression of RNC Tea Party unity before heading off to campaign for Tea Party archenemy John McCain, backfired. It has instead, been reported as a failed palm cluttered crib note attempt to hijack the movement, or more accurately, create that impression for the press."
The Republican Party also has added to public confusion about the Tea Party Movement on the Internet. As if announcing a marriage, either the Republican National Committee or some individual on behalf of the party has established this Web site: TeaParty.GOP.com
This is a flagrant and insulting attempt by the political party to co-opt the efforts of the well-meaning participants in the Tea Party Movement.
"The movement remains open to everyone, regardless of affiliation. We have no labels. Our mission, based on constitutional principles, speaks for itself," said Billie Tucker, co-founder of First Coast Tea Party in Florida.
"Our Constitution describes the level of influence our government should have over us. It was created to give us freedom and liberty with limited government influence in our lives," she said. "We are all for limited government and understand well that we need a government to protect us and ensure our freedoms. Without government, we would be a bunch of individuals doing our own thing and we would have not one to protect us by enforcing laws."
Perhaps the Republican Party could also use these Web sites: MickeyMouse.GOP.com, Motherhood.GOP.com, USArmedForces.GOP.com, WhiteHouse.GOP.com, MissAmerica.GOP.com or GoneOldParty.com.
Americans have been once again duped by the "news media," a congregation of lazy lackards who no longer are interested in the truth.
Bill O'Reilly and the "O'Reilly Factor," on Fox News, has contributed to the confusion about the true nature of the Tea Party Movement.
In January, host Bill O'Reilly characterized Tea Party participants as "hard right."
"The Tea Party Movement stands firm on constitutional principles and we do not believe that would be considered 'hard right.'" the Tea Party's Tucker said. "We believe our founding documents are a contract that should not be broken because one group or one individual decides it is so."
O'Reilly also said the Tea Party participants were "anti-government."
The Tea Party's Tucker said emphatically that description is false.
In a program featuring U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., O'Reilly pressed Bachmann on the Tea Party.
O'REILLY: Will the Tea the Party become the dominant force of the Republican Party?
BACHMANN: Well, I think they will. And if the Republican Party is smart, they will embrace the Tea Party Movement.
The Tea Party's Tucker, who has since met with Bachmann, said, "We like Michelle and feel she understands us. The Tea Party Movement stands outside the walls of both political machines. Our job is to put pressure on both parties to wake them up and return them to their rightful corners."
Tucker added that the political arena is changing rapidly.
"Both [major] parties have changed drastically and do not appear to be Democrats or Republicans. A perfect outcome would be for both parties to return to their roots and get rid of the far left and far right manipulators who have taken over both parties," Tucker said.
In December, O'Reilly interviewed Ned Ryun, president of the American Majority, an organization that trains Tea Party participants, and Fox News analyst Mike Gallagher, a radio talk show host.
"A new Wall Street Journal poll says there is a big political change going on in America right now. Thirty-five percent of Americans see the Democratic Party favorably. Twenty-eight percent say they like the Republican Party. But a whopping 41 percent now say they support the Tea Party, which is stunning when you think about it," O'Reilly said to open the segment.
"So will the Tea Party become America's third political party?" he asked. "So the Tea Party is now, I think, threatening the Republican Party. Just - this is almost the exact opposite of what we just talked about, where the far left is threatening the Democratic Party. Now the Tea Party is threatening the Republican Party."
GALLAGHER: I've happily traded my Republican card for a Tea Party card, if there was such a thing.
...
O'REILLY: ...OK, are willing to throw the Republican Party under the bus. Why? What's wrong with the GOP?
GALLAGHER: There's a lot wrong with the GOP. The GOP isn't acting like the GOP anymore, and the Republican leadership, many men and women I admire, are acting like we have to go to the middle. We have to go ...
O'REILLY: So they're too wimpy?
GALLAGHER: Well, yeah, but they're afraid. They're afraid to play ball the way the left play balls. I mean, these guys play hard ball. You know what the radical left is like. And even moderate Republicans are afraid to roll up their sleeves. The Tea Party spirit, and I was all over the country... I spoke at rallies in Dallas and South Carolina and Los Angeles. The movement is passionate....
O'REILLY: Mr. Ryun, what is the key to somebody watching now? We're in about 90 countries all over the world. So somebody watching us now in, say, Africa, and they don't understand what the Tea Party is all about. Give me one or two sentences to sum it up.
RYUN: It's a group of very concerned and growing American citizens, who are deeply concerned about the fiscal issues that we're confronting, the idea and the role of government, and the role it should play in people's lives ...
RYUN: You know, here's the thing. I would say a lot of them are socially conservative, but the issues that are driving them are the ideas of limited government, fiscal responsibility. ...
On the Feb. 5 "O'Reilly Factor," news correspondent Chris Wallace, commenting on the gathering of Tea Party participants, said, "This is middle America. ... they're 'Joe' and 'Jan' from Indiana who own a small business. These are not radicals, but they feel radicalized and want to start this new movement. They are certainly not crackpots - I was just in a workshop and this is very practical nuts and bolts stuff about how you organize a political movement."
"The O'Reilly Factor" added to the Web site information that "tea partiers seem to be winning over other Americans: 'I don't know whether this is just a hobby or whether this is developing into a serious political movement, but there's a new poll out that shows most Americans have a favorable view of the Tea Party."
The Tea Party Movement is approaching its first birthday.
"Almost a year later, the ball still rolls. The Tea Party movement is one of the most noteworthy grassroots uprisings in recent American political history. And one of the most misunderstood," says Mark Davis, columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
"The people drifting toward the Tea Party movement are not extreme. They are, in fact, fighting extremism - the extremism that has brought us a government that takes far too much, spends far too much and runs our lives far too much.
"At long last, people who might disagree on a number of other things are uniting in a fight for strong but limited government, run responsibly and frugally. It took Democrats and Republicans to create this mess, and entrenched members of both parties could soon find themselves back in the private sector if the enthusiasm of tea parties and town halls carries all the way to the November elections.
"With participants from so many walks of life, and no rigid structure or leadership, it can be a challenge to define exactly what the Tea Party movement is. But I'll tell you one more thing that it is not: It is not going away," Davis writes.
Hello, naysayers in the grandstand. Tea Party participants are serious about the movement and they are watching anyone or any party who wants to hijack the movement.
Washington Speak
"Speak" of the Week:
Common language after election
What they say:
"The people have spoken."
What they mean:
The lobbyists and special interest will get what they want
First Coast Teaparty
Republican Party Raids the Tea Party
Good morning, patriots, the battle is finally upon us.
We knew this was coming, we just didn't know when the first cannonballs would fire.
Stand firm, patriots, and embrace your beliefs in the fight for America's survival.
Be brave, patriots of the Tea Party Movement. Do not faint.
The Republicans are coming. The Republicans are coming.
"Across the country, conservative Tea Party activists - many new to politics and unaffiliated with, if not averse to, the Republican Party - are increasingly finding themselves the target of intense GOP courting headed into the critical 2010 midterm elections," according to a report from Politico.Com.
"Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele plans to meet Tuesday (Feb. 16) with about 50 Tea Party leaders," Politico.Com said. "The California GOP chairman recently trained tea partiers on political organizing and is planning a party-sponsored rally. The South Carolina GOP has a resource-sharing agreement with Tea Party groups. The North Dakota party chairman hosted a Tea Party-GOP rally Friday and is urging fellow state chairs to do the same."
Steele's planned Tuesday meeting with Tea Party leaders from "at least a dozen states - a meeting organized by Karin Hoffman, founder of a South Florida tea party group called DC Works For Us - represents something of a breakthrough in the GOP's courting of the Tea Party" Politico.com reported.
"The whole impetus for the movement was that we were not being heard," Hoffman told Politico.Com
"This meeting is really a natural outcropping of that- bringing the discussion from the grassroots movement to the political establishment and having an honest discussion about who we are, what the grassroots movement has done and what we can do, but also what we want to see," Hoffman said.
The GOP epitaph hasn't been written yet, but the handwriting is on the wall - the Republican Party is desperately trying to survive by raiding the Tea Party Movement.
The Grand Old Party has become the Gone Old Party.
Where are the Republican Party leaders? Where are the Republican plans, programs and agendas to restore the country to its strength and viability? What does the Republican Party stand for?
Republican Party operatives daily are trying to undermine one of the best citizen movements since the 18th century.
The GOP has orchestrated an attempt to assimilate the Tea Party Movement into the same old political country club it has fostered since the assassination of Lincoln.
Consider these other failures:
--The 2008 presidential election. I respect John.McCain for all he has done for America. But, McCain and running mate Sarah Palin? What was that?
-- The quagmire of the 2006 and 2008 elections looked like a full military retreat (without any ammunition) as Republicans surrendered Congress to the Democrats.
-- The 2000 presidential election. George W. Bush, financed to the hilt, struggled against Al Gore - I mean, Al "Global Warming" Gore - in Florida and the courts. The dubious win still haunts the halls of democracy.
-- 1992 presidential election? George H.W.Bush. Loved the guy, but anybody in Washington could tell you the White House was in disarray. And "Listen Up, Americans," Ross Perot enabled a Clinton victory while warning us about "the great sucking sound" of jobs crossing our borders under NAFTA.
-- Jimmy Carter and the Ford-Reagan rift of 1976.
-- Nixon. 1972. Enough said.
The Republican Party has been ferociously pursuing the Tea Party Movement and its participants. It hopes this burgeoning grassroots force of mainstream Americans will drive the party back into a meaningful place in the nation's decision-making.
The Gone Old Party has finally looked into the streets of America and recoiled in fear.
The GOP is afraid because the Tea Party Movement stands for what the former Republican Party stood for: the Constitution, family, moral values, freedom, the Bill of Rights, strong defense, homeland security and promises of the Declaration of Independence to pursue life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is no secret the former Republican Party has been trying to recruit The Tea Party and its participants.
A recent convention in Nashville promoting former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin repulsed most Tea Party participants -- who stayed away by the thousands.
I thought JB Williams summed up the event well in the Canada Free Press on Feb. 13:
"What aimed to be nothing more than a profit venture in Nashville has indeed turned out to be a unifying event. The millions who declined to attend the event in Nashville are more unified than ever, to some degree, as a direct result of the media circus in Nashville," Williams said.
"Palin's effort to create an impression of RNC Tea Party unity before heading off to campaign for Tea Party archenemy John McCain, backfired. It has instead, been reported as a failed palm cluttered crib note attempt to hijack the movement, or more accurately, create that impression for the press."
The Republican Party also has added to public confusion about the Tea Party Movement on the Internet. As if announcing a marriage, either the Republican National Committee or some individual on behalf of the party has established this Web site: TeaParty.GOP.com
This is a flagrant and insulting attempt by the political party to co-opt the efforts of the well-meaning participants in the Tea Party Movement.
"The movement remains open to everyone, regardless of affiliation. We have no labels. Our mission, based on constitutional principles, speaks for itself," said Billie Tucker, co-founder of First Coast Tea Party in Florida.
"Our Constitution describes the level of influence our government should have over us. It was created to give us freedom and liberty with limited government influence in our lives," she said. "We are all for limited government and understand well that we need a government to protect us and ensure our freedoms. Without government, we would be a bunch of individuals doing our own thing and we would have not one to protect us by enforcing laws."
Perhaps the Republican Party could also use these Web sites: MickeyMouse.GOP.com, Motherhood.GOP.com, USArmedForces.GOP.com, WhiteHouse.GOP.com, MissAmerica.GOP.com or GoneOldParty.com.
Americans have been once again duped by the "news media," a congregation of lazy lackards who no longer are interested in the truth.
Bill O'Reilly and the "O'Reilly Factor," on Fox News, has contributed to the confusion about the true nature of the Tea Party Movement.
In January, host Bill O'Reilly characterized Tea Party participants as "hard right."
"The Tea Party Movement stands firm on constitutional principles and we do not believe that would be considered 'hard right.'" the Tea Party's Tucker said. "We believe our founding documents are a contract that should not be broken because one group or one individual decides it is so."
O'Reilly also said the Tea Party participants were "anti-government."
The Tea Party's Tucker said emphatically that description is false.
In a program featuring U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., O'Reilly pressed Bachmann on the Tea Party.
O'REILLY: Will the Tea the Party become the dominant force of the Republican Party?
BACHMANN: Well, I think they will. And if the Republican Party is smart, they will embrace the Tea Party Movement.
The Tea Party's Tucker, who has since met with Bachmann, said, "We like Michelle and feel she understands us. The Tea Party Movement stands outside the walls of both political machines. Our job is to put pressure on both parties to wake them up and return them to their rightful corners."
Tucker added that the political arena is changing rapidly.
"Both [major] parties have changed drastically and do not appear to be Democrats or Republicans. A perfect outcome would be for both parties to return to their roots and get rid of the far left and far right manipulators who have taken over both parties," Tucker said.
In December, O'Reilly interviewed Ned Ryun, president of the American Majority, an organization that trains Tea Party participants, and Fox News analyst Mike Gallagher, a radio talk show host.
"A new Wall Street Journal poll says there is a big political change going on in America right now. Thirty-five percent of Americans see the Democratic Party favorably. Twenty-eight percent say they like the Republican Party. But a whopping 41 percent now say they support the Tea Party, which is stunning when you think about it," O'Reilly said to open the segment.
"So will the Tea Party become America's third political party?" he asked. "So the Tea Party is now, I think, threatening the Republican Party. Just - this is almost the exact opposite of what we just talked about, where the far left is threatening the Democratic Party. Now the Tea Party is threatening the Republican Party."
GALLAGHER: I've happily traded my Republican card for a Tea Party card, if there was such a thing.
...
O'REILLY: ...OK, are willing to throw the Republican Party under the bus. Why? What's wrong with the GOP?
GALLAGHER: There's a lot wrong with the GOP. The GOP isn't acting like the GOP anymore, and the Republican leadership, many men and women I admire, are acting like we have to go to the middle. We have to go ...
O'REILLY: So they're too wimpy?
GALLAGHER: Well, yeah, but they're afraid. They're afraid to play ball the way the left play balls. I mean, these guys play hard ball. You know what the radical left is like. And even moderate Republicans are afraid to roll up their sleeves. The Tea Party spirit, and I was all over the country... I spoke at rallies in Dallas and South Carolina and Los Angeles. The movement is passionate....
O'REILLY: Mr. Ryun, what is the key to somebody watching now? We're in about 90 countries all over the world. So somebody watching us now in, say, Africa, and they don't understand what the Tea Party is all about. Give me one or two sentences to sum it up.
RYUN: It's a group of very concerned and growing American citizens, who are deeply concerned about the fiscal issues that we're confronting, the idea and the role of government, and the role it should play in people's lives ...
RYUN: You know, here's the thing. I would say a lot of them are socially conservative, but the issues that are driving them are the ideas of limited government, fiscal responsibility. ...
On the Feb. 5 "O'Reilly Factor," news correspondent Chris Wallace, commenting on the gathering of Tea Party participants, said, "This is middle America. ... they're 'Joe' and 'Jan' from Indiana who own a small business. These are not radicals, but they feel radicalized and want to start this new movement. They are certainly not crackpots - I was just in a workshop and this is very practical nuts and bolts stuff about how you organize a political movement."
"The O'Reilly Factor" added to the Web site information that "tea partiers seem to be winning over other Americans: 'I don't know whether this is just a hobby or whether this is developing into a serious political movement, but there's a new poll out that shows most Americans have a favorable view of the Tea Party."
The Tea Party Movement is approaching its first birthday.
"Almost a year later, the ball still rolls. The Tea Party movement is one of the most noteworthy grassroots uprisings in recent American political history. And one of the most misunderstood," says Mark Davis, columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
"The people drifting toward the Tea Party movement are not extreme. They are, in fact, fighting extremism - the extremism that has brought us a government that takes far too much, spends far too much and runs our lives far too much.
"At long last, people who might disagree on a number of other things are uniting in a fight for strong but limited government, run responsibly and frugally. It took Democrats and Republicans to create this mess, and entrenched members of both parties could soon find themselves back in the private sector if the enthusiasm of tea parties and town halls carries all the way to the November elections.
"With participants from so many walks of life, and no rigid structure or leadership, it can be a challenge to define exactly what the Tea Party movement is. But I'll tell you one more thing that it is not: It is not going away," Davis writes.
Hello, naysayers in the grandstand. Tea Party participants are serious about the movement and they are watching anyone or any party who wants to hijack the movement.
Washington Speak
"Speak" of the Week:
Common language after election
What they say:
"The people have spoken."
What they mean:
The lobbyists and special interest will get what they want
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
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so, are the teabaggers going to run as 3rd party candidates...?
I also find it interesting there is no mention of Dick Army and Freedomworks...you know, since they had everything to do with the false outrage of the teabag movement...
I disagree...
Dick and Freedomworks have lead you all astray...
Another person using that term teabagger, well I guess consider me one too. If I'm going to be called things meant to insult it's better than being called a liberal.
Of course any civil debate requires personal attacks instead of the use of facts, it shows wisdom and maturity.
This was obviously going to happen all along. The Repubs were left with 2 choices, try to absorb the Tea Party movement or no longer be a major party. It's a matter of their survival. I agree with a lot of what the Tea Party movement stands for, and see it as an opportunity for the Libertarian party to finally make some noise. Ron Paul in 2012!
i love the dramatic tone in the original post...it is funny how one hand washes the other, the gop needs the teabaggers's support and the tea party needs "viable" and i use that term loosely, candidates for them to support.
i am going to just sit back and enjoy it as this whole train runs off the track...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
you sound like a whiny liberal...
but hey, don't blame me...blame the teabag movement...they called themselves teabaggers...I'm simply supporting that notion...
The words "Teabagger" and "Nigger" have absolutely nothing in common. It is incredibly disrespectful to the civil rights movement and American history in general to suggest they do. Your political opinions should not be taken seriously until you gain a little perspective.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
by the way..YOUR MOVEMENT REFERRED TO THEMSELVES AS TEABAGGERS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE DID!!!!!!! PERHAPS IF THEY DID NOT THROW TEABAGS AT THEIR EARLY RALLIES THE NAME WOULD NOT HAVE STUCK!!
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
You need to lighten up if being called Teabagger gets your panties in a wad. I think your "party" has bigger problems when you invite Palin to be your keynote speaker.
Trying to equate the two is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of. The Teabagger Party will be here for awhile till another group replaces it. I'll stop using Teabagger when at their protest marches they rid themselves of some of the most ridiculous signage and behaviorI've ever seen. That's IF they want me to respect and take them seriously.
peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Hate to break the news... but, the Tea Party is basically the the work of the American Reform Party. Remember H. Ross Perot? Yeah... his Reform Party ran his ticket in '92. A.R.P. is an offshoot. Check it out:
http://americanreform.org/index.php/teaparty_orgs
...
This is why the Tea Party embraces Sarah Palin... she is H.Ross Perot (without the common or business sense)... in lipstick. It's funny that Tea Partiers try to distance themselves from the Republican Party... they are cut from the same cloth.
Hail, Hail!!!
In 99% check that 100% of the cases YOU KNOW what would happen. I've been in amongst the waves of Teabaggers on 9/12 and NOT one of them dared call me anything THAT derogatory. They wanted and needed a peaceful march and for the most part they got just that. A riot was the last thing they needed in their first big march we shall see though as we move forward with other Teabagger marches to come.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Well I was there in DC marching along and observing closely what was going on. I have to tell you it was MORE than VERY FEW ignorant signs, I saw what I saw on that day. So be it, you've never heard me call anyone a red neck, they know who they are I don't need to call anyone a name.
The Tea Party coined the phrase or word Teabagger so I'll go with it till some or all of them decide to give it up. Again when they decide to ease up on the derogatory signage I'll give up Teabagger, I'm sure then you'll be very happy. Geeesh
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
i am not disrespecting you. i am taking your movement to task for rejecting the gop yet having palin and other republicans speak at their convention. she did not speak to your wants and your movement's goals, rather it was a campign stop for her....i am taking you to task for comparing the word teabagger to the n-word. no disrespect is intended.
by the way, did you not disrespect me in the "3 people you wish would go away" thread?????
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
Sadly I'd miss you too. :(
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
really? in what way? the gop strategy of "NO NO NO NO!!!" is gonna pay off?? its kinda funny how you and your ilk get pleasure out of that strategy and then you complain when nothing gets done.... don't think the average voter is going to choose your side when it is obvious to everyone that your side is doing nothing but being obstructionists.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
A lot more than you think.