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Enough Infighting, the Radical Obama Agenda Is an Opportunity for GOP Unity

Feb. 27, 2013 2:03am

Todd Cefaratti is the Freedom Organizer of TheTeaParty.net, which he founded in 2009. He is also the Editor of the Tea Party News Network which he founded in […]

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Cefaratti: Enough Infighting, the Radical Obama Agenda Is an Opportunity for GOP Unity

Karl Rove talks in his mobile phone as he walks across the floor before the second session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.Credit: AP

The war between moderates and conservatives for the future of the GOP continues to rage. It’s no secret that Karl Rove and his band of moderate Republicans have not endeared themselves to Tea Partiers in recent weeks. However, recently, Rove was subjected to a vicious slur that, quite frankly, has no place in politics. The kind of slur, unfortunately, that Democrats use against Republicans all the time.

A national Tea Party group with whom we are not associated recently sent out an email with a photo-shopped picture of Karl Rove as a Nazi SS officer. That organization promptly issued a statement denouncing the picture as inappropriate and laid blame on an error made by an outside vendor.

Whether this is true or not, the fact remains that this is a moment from which we can all learn. Rove and his fellow moderates do not possess the ideological bent as those of us who are more conservative, but as we tear each other apart, this expended effort is not going towards fixing the massive problems being created by the Obama Administration and the leftists in Congress.

This is a wake-up call to all who would claim to identify with the “right.” If we are going to take back the Senate and strengthen our position in the House in 2014, we must start working together and rowing in the same direction. And unless we want Joe Biden or, dare-I-say-it, Hillary Clinton to be the successor to the worst president ever to ascend to the Oval Office, we are going to have to keep that momentum going until 2016.

In short: it’s going to take cooperation that starts right now.

First, the moderates need to stop discussing the “electability” of their candidates. The track record of those candidates who we were promised to be “electable” has not been great even in times with less-formidable political machines than the Obama Campaign that just seems to never end.

Let’s stop pretending that a candidate’s worth is only his or her ability to say the “safe” things that fails to inspire fiscal conservatives that make up the base of the GOP. We need candidates who believe what they say. Though we on the right certainly do not agree with him, we can at least admit that Obama believes that which he advocates and it shows.

We need to unite- all of us. That means moderates, Tea Partiers, entrenched Republicans and Libertarians. We need to unite behind a core principle that America was once better and can be that way again. Our economy needs a lot of work, our foreign policy is a joke and our government no longer even tries to hide the fact that they are uninterested in being accountable to the people.

Our nation is slipping and we are in a position to save it if we can just steer clear of the infighting that threatens to distract us from the real work that needs to be done.

Let’s re-tool the Republican campaign machine and do more to reach out to people. Democrats, for too long, have operated by giving the people the proverbial free fish and we have not done enough to show the attractiveness of learning how to fish for themselves. Republicans come around every four years and tell people that we are looking to improve the economy by lessening the punishing tax burden, and once that message has been run through the liberal media, it translates to, “Republicans only care about the rich.” Let’s stop relying on the mainstream media to tell people what we stand for and let’s start showing them ourselves.

As Republicans, Tea Partiers, Libertarians and other fiscal conservatives, let’s focus more on that which we can agree and spend less time fighting each other on the small variances on which we disagree.

The principles of the Tea Party Movement are unifying principles: We all support the Constitution; we all advocate free markets and limited government involvement in our lives; and we all advocate for personal responsibility for citizens.

Obama’s radical agenda, as awful as it is for America, is an opportunity for unity for the right. Let’s get to work.

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goshawk999
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:13pm
I am on board with the author. I am an Independent who is primarily interested in freedom from (fill in the blank). However, I am not delusional. How many times did I hear in 2008 that there was no difference between Obama and McCain? How did THAT theory work out for us? The very astute General of the North Vietnamese Army said it best when he said “The object of war is to win!” If we are all going to stand around and play the high school game of ‘you can’t be in our club because you (fill in the blank), then one could reasonably argue that you are working for the ‘other side’. We cannot afford to be purists, there is too much at stake here. I close here with another quote I have heard attributed to Arabic culture. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” . I put it to everyone. Does anyone think that Rove is not Obama’s enemy, for whatever reason?

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:30pm
  How did realizing that McCain=Obama work out for us?
  
  Well, we got Obama in office, instead of McCain.
  
  Since they’re the same, essentially, policy-wise (same as Romney, same as Bush,) it works out the same in the end.
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:31pm
  And yes, I believe that Rove is NOT Obama’s enemy. I believe he is working toward the same agenda, and at the behest of the same people, as Obama. The Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable cogs in this machine. Read Quigley, for more details.
  
  Sad, but true.
  
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Shiroi Raion
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:26am
Constitutional and Libertarian Republicans should stand on principal, not party. The Overton Window… for them to side with the RINO’s is to continue the slide towards totalitarianism. Never back down! Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann… fight the good fight! Karl Rove can just join the Democrats like so many RINO’s do.

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l8e9x
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:50am
If we don’t vote the RINO’S out and get back to real conservatism we will be hard pressed to win again. Why would anyone who really cares about this country vote for a “which way is the wind blowing at this moment “dem or RINO is beyond me. Well now that I think about it the last election showed why, they do not care about the Constitution or the country, it is all about what they can put in their back pocket. It is all ME, ME, ME!

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Marsh626
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:11am
I don’t want to be unified with a bunch of trashy morons pretending to be conservatives. And I don’t care who wins anymore since there is no political movement in America that isn’t grossly incompetent.

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Libertarians don’t want to be associated with a bunch of trashy morons claiming to be conservatives, either. That’s why we have no use for the Republican party.
  
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Patriot760
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:02am
I’m convinced Rove needs to stay out! It’s been proven that the more conservative candidate wins. The establishment didn’t want Reagan, but he won. The did force Bush on him. We need a Reagan and no compromises!

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:33pm
  We need someone with a Hell of a lot more principles and backbone than Reagan.
  
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1PORattler
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:18pm
The GOP has become nothing more than a RINO sausage festival. I see no room for unity with them. Vote every single one of these long term Federal welfare cases out of office. More than 6 years in office=fired Guys come into office broke and leave multimillionaires as they give up the booty to every shlong toting lobbyist

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1PORattler
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:12pm
Infighting? Not hardly. Bunch of Democrat agents posing as Republicans and what you are seeing is the beginning of the purge. I was a lifetime GOP member. Now I detest these frauds; these opportunistic spineless and soulless whores that stink up DC every day. They are pathetic. I am voting against every single one of these bastards that has been in for more than 3 terms and campaigning online for others to do the same. Enough is enough. The GOP STANDS FOR NOTHING anymore, therefore they are capable of leading NOTHING.. We need trials. We need Leavenworth sentences and we need term limits… To hell with that rat bastard Karl Rove. I will vote against every establishment whore he props up. The GOP leadership is nothing more than the party of the whigs…

Infighting? To hell with that scripted “Our team logic”. We have no representation in DC and it is time we crank up the heat and start making these treasonous bastards sweat

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:35pm
  Frankly, I’m to the point of stringing them up by their guts on a lamp post.
  
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Norm D. Plume
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:37pm
Conservatives: Leave your baggage behind in the dead hulk of that sinking ship called the Republican party. Your baggage is too heavy, and we need to move fast if we are to save the republic.

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yoshik
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:24pm
I doubt it. The wall is going up. Soon drab gray and hard bread will be abundant and Section 8 housing via foreclosed houses will be our homes.At night;gunfire while those driven to addictions run back and forth in the night, wearing dark clothing clutching our bags with the 40 oz in it while we take a hit on our pipe, looking for a momentary escape from our history. White Europeans who dared to come to an unknown country, setting up a new government, based on God and a free market only to give it away to the dumbest, laziest race on earth. Are we idiots or what?

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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:55pm
GOP aside. The radical boy king agenda is grounds for unity regardless of party.

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calmandcents
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:52pm
They will be formidable. They’ve got . . .

John “The Stupid” Kerry
Harry “The Confused” Reid
Nancy “The Twit” Pelosi
Hillary “What Difference Does It Make” Clinton
Michelle “Lap Dance” Obama
Barack “You Didn’t” HUSSEIN Obama
and the rest of the Chicago mob

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paulhawk
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:49pm
The cause of the division is simple. Rove and his “Establishment” friends want to go on doing what it is they want to do, ignoring the wishes of the people. Until they listen to the people and abide by the Constitution, they can remain in no mans land.
Simpletruths, I for one don’t care if the Dems do control it all for a while. Seems to me, there is very little difference between the 2 parties at this time anyway.

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:31pm
  The Republican Party is a dead hulk. We should burn it.
  
  Conservatives, if you’re ready to join us, swallow your desire to control what everyone else does with their liberty, and work with us on common goals. We won’t join you — that has been tried already, and it has failed. Come join us, and restore the republic.
  
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Fearless Flyers
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:56pm
“Moderates” ahhh, not so much a fan. I got a feeling this guy is the reason I gave up on the TEA Party he’s probably the one who tried to convivnce everyone they could change the Republican Party from the inside, when actually the plan all along was for Republicans to co-opt the TEA Party. I saw it comi0ng from the firstg TEA Party rally I attended.

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- conservativecat
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:34pm
  With Karl Rove calling the shots we will lose again and we’ll lose our beliefs.
  
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sweetieboat
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:39pm
There is a time to agree and a time to disagree. We have to have serious discussion without it being interpreted as disorganization, etc. Lets not listen to the liberal press around us, because it becomes confusing as we go toward agreement in our discussion. We need discussion to see an issue from more than my view and to determine truth.
Some conservatives are in immediate disagreement when “Republicans” are included. They have written so many bad things about Rove that to have a good discussion with him could be almost impossible.
I agree,electable is a word that needs to go away, we need people with good, strong principles and values that are vetted.
The thing with Carl Rove is he likes to play the diplomatic game and we need people to call him on it in a reasonable manner. The dems can play that game too and it is better to stay out of it. When Dr. King marched into the spraying water you could see and feel the evil intent.

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Dudemau
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:06pm
Unfortunately its the establishment and now conservatives who think they are the big tent and the rest us when we enter need to leave out integrity (i.e. constitution) at the door. When the conservatives embrace the constitution as much as I do I’ll be happy to go along. Until then I’ll vote my conscience (no dems allowed). The rest can vote party line as usual.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:42pm
  Well said. I got nothing to add-
  
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rightwinder
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:37pm
UNITY IS A GREAT IDEA BUT THIS TIME lets have the old guard semi-pro-life bigger government tax and spending republicans sacrifice their ideals for the “sake of the party!” Let them not worry about every middle of the road moderate idea and join the bigger grassroots GOP.

Otherwise fuc ‘em

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Yeah! That’s the spirit!
  
  Keep the purity tests going and we’ll (the Dem’s) have the House, Senate and White House for the next decade or longer. We (the Dem’s) couldn’t have planned a divide and conquer strategy any better if we tried.
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:35pm
  Yes, precisely.
  
  I don’t mind the Democrats being in power — they’re no different than the Republicans, after all. If you’re REALLY ready to change the course of our nation’s history, and restore our republic, KILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. It must die, and conservatives have to be content to live their ideals and lifestyles in freedom — WHILE NOT TRYING TO SHOVE THEIR MORALS DOWN OTHERS’ THROATS.
  
  We can come together on our common ground — but you are coming to US. Leave your baggage behind. It weighs too much, and we have to move fast.
  
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redfish52
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:36pm
B.S. Karl…why is it we are the party that is in the wrong here? We are just trying to live within a budget that we haven’t seen in over 4 years with this Halfrican Nitwit in office. I say from now on our answer is no…period!

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