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Is The Tea Party Too Full of ‘Rage’? Peggy Noonan Thinks So

Nov. 11, 2012 10:00pm Mytheos Holt

Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Peggy Noonan’s responses to the Republican party’s campaign were frequently critical, only getting optimistic near the end when former GOP nominee Mitt Romney began to tack to the center and employ big ideas to win over crowds. However, Noonan’s faulty prediction of the election notwithstanding, she arguably also had a pretty clear idea of what was going right (and wrong) with the Republican party, and expressed it in a relatively mild way.

And today, on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Noonan had a similarly circumspect take on what was and was not wrong with the GOP, and more specifically, the Tea Party. Describing the group as “helpful” and applauding its decision not to become a third party in 2010, Noonan nevertheless fielded some criticisms of the group not so much for its philosophy or policy, but for its tone.

“I think the Tea Party is going to have to look at itself,” Noonan said. “It’s been so helpful to the Republican Party in the past. It saved it by not going third party in 2010, helping the Republicans sweep the House. But the Tea Party style of rage is not one that wins over converts and makes people lean towards them and say, ‘I want to listen to you.’ I think a friendly persuasion has to begin now from the Republican Party to people of the United States.”

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Gregory_Adams
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:34pm
LOL @ U Peggy

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- CatB
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:59pm
  “Tea Party style of rage”? Has Peggy Noonan ever been to one? They are like church picnics of families and grandparents with speakers, where people clean up their own trash. About as rageful as Thanksgiving dinner, and less so than guys watching a football game.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:37pm
  Noonan love publicity. ONE LAST TIME: TEA (TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY) Party is a gathering of people from everywhere, every age who just got off their sofas and said “THAT’S IT” and came out and gathered. Then we found there were about 75% of Americans who Love our Country, Respect the Constitution, Love our Military, VOTE, LOVE GOD and want to see AMERICA – the one we were raised in – come back and replace this lewd, cheap, tawdry, God-less, “GIMME” society that seems to have sprung up. Politicians encourage dependency so they can -stay-in-power-getting-$-for dependents-who-vote-to-keep-them-in-power. Some of these “TEA PARTY leaders are not leaders. Most I’ve met are wanna-be Senators/Presidents/Politicians and instead of just demanding that spending gets cut, they try to play GOD in elections, hold meetings (they are always the head of) etc. BS. IF you are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY then TEA is your moniker. DEMS, LIBS, LIBERTARIANS and GOP all qualify. There are two groups I’m going to work with: FREEDOM WORKS and TRUE THE VOTE. 1st: we have to fix our electoral system. 2nd: We have to re-teach History…our History. 3. We have to be locally active for our Schools, towns.
  That’s it. IF all of us here blogging would do these 3 things, if Americans would do these 3 things we’ll find ourselves in a much better place in 2014. PS DON’T nominate dopes (Akin).
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:52pm
  Patty Henry….Well Said Sir OR Mam WELL SAID!!
  
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- Bellini
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:04am
  I think Allen West has always been called a Tea Party figure, and he is full of rage (nearly insanely so in my book). Bachmann, Palin, even Glenn Beck have their moments too. All of these people are snapping back because they (rightly) feel that they’re being attacked. Average Americans though do not feel as though they’re being attacked, and so they absolutely can’t relate to many Tea Party figures.
  
  Obviously they would feel attacked if they were getting more educated on history and the political and economical context of our times; however I don’t think that it invalidates Ms. Noonan’s point. I have talked to many middle-of-the-road voters who don’t like Obama much but who feel that the Republican party is so abrasive that it scares them and they prefer to vote for the guy who looks friendlier.
  
  I think she has a point and there is a message problem. It always feels easier to trust someone who wants to build than someone who wants to destroy. In a merely emotional sense, in the first debate it felt like Romney wanted to build, and in the two others it felt like he was just mad at the president. I know, it’s ridiculous to take these on a merely emotional level, but it so happens that many voters are women, and that’s what they do (no offense, women). So the tone has to be friendly.
  
  That’s my opinion anyway. I think Ms. Noonan has a point.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:15am
  Noonan must be watching too much television news and reading the New York Times. The only rage that I witnessed was from two “liberals” who wanted to shout down the speakers. The average of the people around me was 75+.
  
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- BV FROM TX
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:29am
  Patty – did you notice they ran True to Vote out of polling places in Ohio. Wonder why?
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:03am
  @ Bellini
  You seem to confuse what we (used to, at least) call in the military a “command presence” with “rage”. Allen West consistently articulates a clear and erudite position on a wide array of subjects. Not rage, but he does not suffer fools very well — that is for sure.
  
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- BV FROM TX
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:20am
  Patty – did you see where they ran True the Vote out of the polling places in Ohio? Wonder what they were afraid they might find.
  
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- centenium
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:42am
  Libs have ruined the country. I have a great way to fix the problem. Cancel all federal welfare/assistance programs in the state and they will all move out. Once concession I’ll make is a free bus ride back to California.
  
  https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/BmdWCP8B
  
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- jszmiller
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:04am
  This woman really needs to retire…she was all about Obama in 2008 ~ her judgment is lacking and she is completely ignorant to what is happening!!!
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:06am
  Mr. Noonan is wrong.
  
  The Tea Party’s petulance is not the issue.
  
  It’s their far right fascist political platform that Americans reject. Their hatred isn’t emotion, it is cold and calculated.
  
  God’s true warriors love their neighbors.
- Classical Liberal
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:37am
  Here’s some educational reading material featuring basic arithmetic for you people who can’t count.
  
  http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=The-Ron-Paul-factor-in-the-by-Gregory-Patin-121111-149.html
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:29pm
  Lets lay out the facts…shall we:
  1) Occupy Wall street: over 4000 arrests, defecating on police cars,Trash everywhere, over 100 rapes, vandalizing, attacks on stores and innocent men, women and children.
  
  2) Tea Party: 0 arrests, 0 rapes, 0 violence, 0 trash.
  
  No wonder the media has an 8% approval rating.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:56pm
  ARE DEMOCRATS TOO FULL OF TREASON AND HATRED OF AMERICA?
  
  How many Democrats do people think are guilty of treason and could be arrested?
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:11pm
  Seems like they have given up beating the Progressive/Communists so they are destined to run against Conservatives. The next election most probably will be Repubs vs Conservatives and neither will have a chance against the Progressives. Anyway, I was told to vote republican because that is the only way we can win. Well, we saw where that got us so, next time I will not hesitate to support 3rd party candidates and the Repubs can do whatever they want without our intervention.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Peggy needs to learn something about the EA Party before the hops on the Democrat bandwagon of hatred toward them. She’s usually too class of an act to fall for moon bat peer pressure.
  
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Peggy Noonan is a wordy, full of herself freaking DInosaur!
  We got 4more years of President Dunham and a dysfunctional Congress because of the naive young and the abysmally DUMB! And puhleeze let us not omit all those dead democrats who manage to rise from their crypts to vote in EVERY election!
  I am not even including the ugly purple SEIU buses who make round the clock trips with their brain dead passengers to the polls! Nor am I including the overly smug yuppies driving around in their Priuses with their Jackaninny bumper stickers that read things like “Embrace Diversity”.UGH! Freaking UGH!
  Everyone needs to take off their **** shirts and stop flagellating themselves. it’s RIDICULOUS!
  Romney ran against FILTH!
  I say give them what they voted for!
  I’m tough! I can take it.
  Let these A:-HOLES live what they have wrought!
  Yes…,I understand that I too will suffer. I can take it. I am an Army Spouse.
  Focus on BENGHAZI! It mat bring this administration down.
  
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- isobamamadd
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Peggy Noonan is on the Roster as being a C.F.R. member. There are a lot like her,to the point they make up the Shadow Govt and principal players in the Goal of obtaining One World Govt under the U.N. They are there to control and steer the message. I hear people complaining about the liberal media not being fair and balanced,they are not there to report but to choose stories that promote their agenda. I’m posting four links,keep them around and watch, if the globalists want a war,see who’s promoting it. If it’s conservative,who’s knocking it and if it’s a Republican being a RINO check the list.
  http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/cfr.html
  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/586965/posts
  http://wramsite.com/forum/topics/get-to-know-the-cfr-new-world-order-the-corporate-members-notable?page=1&commentId=3567481%3AComment%3A1359194&x=1#3567481Comment1359194
  http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/cfrall1.htm#a
  Sorry one more Quotes by those seeking the New World Order
  http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/quotes/index.htm
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:51pm
  Peggy Noodle-Noggin’-
  Sorry, lady, you’re confusing rage with passion.
  ALL the rage comes from the Left-
  the Tea Party exhibits nothing but pure passion,
  patriotic & love of country…it’s ingrained in their very being.
  
  Nobody has waffled more from one thing to another than Noonan.
  It all depends which way the political wind is blowin’-
  she jumps on board & sails right along with it,
  until it changes
  & then, she argues against her original logic
  and jumps aboard the opposing vessel, racing with the current.
  
  She’s one of these marms, who never wants to be wrong,
  so she’s an equal opportunity defender
  when it comes to touting her ever-changing-like-the-wind opinions.
  
  Just the fact that she calls the Tea Party out for their “rage”
  proves Noonan is a nitwit noggin’-head.
  Would she also, call the Founders out for their similar, historical “rage” ?
  
  No, Peggy-Poo….it was undying, unapologetic passion
  then, for America’s birth & NOW, for America’s substance, spirit & free.
  
  Noonan is the woman, at the grocery store
  who holds up everyone else in line-
  her bill is $19.99
  and instead of handing the cashier a 20-dollar bill,
  she sorts thru a $10-dollar bill, a $5-dollar bill, 4 singles
  and then digs in the bottom of her purse for the final .99 cents.
  
  Then, with lips pursed, she confidently says to the cashier,
  “I’m sure you could use the change for your cash drawer.”
  NOT……now, purloin Peggy….that is RAGE !
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:23pm
  We have a warning from the grave regarding our current times:
  http://reclaimingournation.blogspot.com/2012/11/socialism-is-evil-empire.html
  
  It is amazing how dead on he is…..almost all the time.
  
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- Inlightofthings
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:30pm
  MARYLIZBETH: Tell you what. Why don’t you set Ms. Noonan straight on how wrong she is. Submit the growth of Al Qaeda as proof that Rage is a pretty effective marketing tool.
  
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- StandingO
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 3:15am
  “Tea party style of rage”–P.Noonan
  “Voting is the best revenge”–B.Obama
  
  Enough said about that. Peggy is sure showing her age nowadays. And she’s actually looking more and more like David Brinkley, if you look closely. Same mannerisms, too, with the head tilt and a similar cadence. I guess that makes her a good prop on Sunday talk shows. Does anybody actually watch those anymore?
  
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justangry
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:31pm
I don’t even know what the hell the Tea Party stands for anymore. Seemed to start around the time TARP passed, but currently the Tea Party endorsed someone that support TARP and the one chapter that didn’t endorse Romney was ridiculed. I know if false Libertarian Matt Kibby and social progressive Beck are the leaders, then it’s a joke. Too many seemed to have been herded right back into the mainstream RNC for me to feel comfortable with it.

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- cemerius
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:40pm
  Because the Tea Party was hijacked!! TOO many “politicians” claimed at being “Tea Party” and capitalized on it……..BEWARE those in “power” that claim they are for the Tea Party……they have NOT forsaken their riches or power, nor their sacred honor!!!!
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:43pm
  Tea party is perfect example of what happens to principled people when they start compromising with progressives
  
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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:10pm
  SOY, you just described you and Justangry, perfectly, you stupid SOB.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:34pm
  lol what a clown
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:40pm
  @Jarhead Oh STFU already, downy. I think you may have spent too much time huffing paint.
  
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- loneindividual
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:17am
  burn in Hell. ***holes like you probably voted for Obama in the bitterness of revenge.
  
  There is no saving America. Once America’s economy crashes, Foreign Powers will wait until our military is severely weakened and wipe us all out with chemical weapons or they will impose martial law and dominate us through the government. They will wipe out pockets of resistance with ease.
  
  There is no rebirth of the Eagle. Revolution is impossible. Civil War is fruitless but inevitable. The Political Process is rigged…and not just with the dead…but with Rapture Utopians like you.
  
  Goto Hell with your backstabbing actions. If I met you in real life, I’d break your jaw, your fingers, & your ribs.
  
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- BV FROM TX
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:33am
  Just – I keep seeing your anger and hatred for the GOP in all of your posts. Please explain exactly what they did to Ron Paul at the convention. I never fully understood what went wrong. It was my understanding that the delegates were bound in the first round unless no one received the 1170 or the required number to win the nomination.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:48am
  Jarhead did you have fun at your riot at old miss.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:51am
  BV FROM TX, Here you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEXW1_7ewc&feature=youtu.be
  
  And for the record, I hate both political parties. I personally think the Libertarians take the best of both party’s stated principles. The democrats love for civil liberties, and the small government fiscal responsibility of the republicans. Of course, neither actually represents their stated principles these days.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:43am
  JUST…
  Blows me away that people either don’t understand or don’t care about the convention “rules changes”- which were essentially censorship, but they’ll freak out when some toad on facebook gets censored for calling POTUS the n-word.
  Personally, i think the problem with the Tea Party is that it built tremendous momentum very quickly without any real definition or infrastructure and inadvertently “green lighted” conservatives that had a pet-issue of some sort to climb aboard and use that momentum to further their own agenda….
  It stopped being about Liberty and started simply being anti-democrat… Odd, considering many Democrats supported the initial movement.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:25am
  lol… If JARHEAD 88 and LONEINDIVIDUAL consider themselves to be Tea Party, then i would definitely say it’s full of too much rage…
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:16am
  @East, I don’t know about all that…. I’m just worried about my jaw, fingers and ribs…. LMAO We “rapture utopians” are a pesky lot rejecting fascism.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:34am
  No doubt JUST….
  When did political discourse turn to the pre-fight rhetoric of WWF and MMA?
  Step into “The Octagon” and let’s figure out how to reduce the deficit like sweaty homoerotic men…. brother!
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:08am
  TARP was the moment that the Republican Party’s inroads and eventual takeover of the Tea PArty started.
  It wasn’t when the movement first began.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Thank you Marybeth.. i know there are a lot of cheap shots you could have contributed to this thread but you have refrained….
  
  ..this is one of the rare times we have similar perspectives. Good on you.
  
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- benshivd
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Umm i think you should get some real facts. You have all MSNBC talking points. none of which are even in the ballpark of reality.
  
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- Classical Liberal
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:10pm
  @Ben, I don’t know about you, but I was there before the republicans usurped the movement. The tea party is dead today because its original fiscal message has been lost in a sea of republican FUD. It died because it didn’t stand for anything anymore and that is just what the establishment wanted.
  
  @theblaze, very unusual to have a comment i posted removed from your site. Didn’t like that I pointed out that Romney drove away independents and lost without them? Is patty Henry actually Pat from Glenn becks radio show? Is that why you deleted such a harmless comment?
  
  Censorship when it works for you I guess.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 8:58am
  @JUSTANGRY
  
  ” The democrats love for civil liberties”
  
  Credibility lost you liberal douche bag. Thanks for playing.
  
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aconstitutionalistlivesinbrooklyn
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:29pm
The Tea Party was never about rage. That’s the way the main stream media smears us. I don’t believe Peggy Noonan attended one Tea Party rally or meeting, so from what experience of the Tea Party is she speaking from?

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- CatB
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:33pm
  Amen ….
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:45pm
  Tea Party was anti-bank bailouts, anti-stimulus, anti-federal entitlements, and anti-deficit
  
  So what happens next? 57 million republicans (many of which call themselves tea party) vote for the guy who supported bank bailouts, original stimulus, wont cut SS/medicare, and wont commit to balancing budget within a couple years
  
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- Triple7
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:56pm
  The rage narrative was nothing more than a Marxists tactic that the media and old power starved GOP pushed. Peggy Noonan would be cast aside by Ronald Reagan.
  
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- Dreamlilly
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:01pm
  Well said and to the point.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:10am
  Dole-McCain-Romney these middle of the road guy’s cant win. Not so hard to figure out.
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 8:56am
  Exaclty what went wrong with the election. Too many people believe the lies on the MSM.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:26pm
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Liberals will never get it. Their tiny brains are all crosswired and screwed up.
Conservatives refuse to worship a mere mortal, the way liberals worship Barack Hussein Obama.
We refuse to let God be removed from every aspect of out lives.
We refuse to let Obama take away our rights and freedom of speech.
We refuse to be made a slave of big government.
We refuse to live on the government plantation.
We Conservative Tea Party Citizens, will not comply.
I’m ready for my state to secede from the union.
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- justangry
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:30pm
  You don’t seem all that upset with the GOP passing the bills that took away your rights, or the candidate that supported those bills.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:32am
  TEA Party rallies have been very polite and clean. Wonderful people of all walks of life and races. Can’t help it that the message of liberty doesn’t resonate with libs. Our hearts and arms are open to everyone, but they don’t want to be free people. They just want free stuff … If not or themselves, then for others. We can’t have more illegal immigration without stopping the welfare state. Immigrants in the past were not impeded from success like the new immigrants are. They were not paid to stagnate. Now they are, so they will never vote for freedom. Bought and paid for by the Democrats.
  
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- amcneil2644
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:49am
  You said that well. If those of you will look this is the first time in American History since the civil war that after an election there are petitions filed with the White House asking that 20 states (as of Sunday) succeed from the Union based on violations under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It doesn’t matter if you think that is right or wrong it does however send a message about how many Americans are feeling after this election. Tea Party, Republican, Democrat – we need to stop pointing fingers and figure out how to turn this road to socialism back to Democracy that our forefathers planned for this great United States. I for one and sick and tired of the people making decision for this country that just want free stuff and to live here illegally.
  
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Chromo200
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:25pm
The Tea Party should breakaway from the Republican Party and like other countries create a coalition with the Republican or Democrats as long as it is in the interest of the Tea Party. This will teach the Republican RINOs that without the Tea Party they are a minority party.

Not one penny to the RNC and non Tea Party congressmen.

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- HumbleMan
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:48pm
  Compromising with the Democrats is like a woman negotiating with a rapist. There is no deal that will not leave you raped. The only thing they will negotiate is whether you submit willingly or not.
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:45pm
  I wish I could agree with you, but my vote for Ross Perot is what got Slick Willy Clinton elected–and we all know what happened after that–embassy bombings, the Cole, desecration of the Oval Orfice, World Trade Bombing #1, etc. Sheesh, I thought that clown was bad and that we’d be paying HIS bill for 30 years! Little did I know what we were in for! Rather than try the 3rd party route, I suggest the Tea Party Patriots really LEAN on the Republican Party, take it over, from within, and MAKE IT WORK for the Conservative Cause! One problem we have is that the misbehavers on the Liberal side think a conservative government will curtail their wantonness. I think they need to know that we couldn’t care less how they behave (if that’s really what they want)–we just don’t want to pay for it, AND WE DON’T WANT THEIR MISBEHAVIOR TO BECOME THE LAW OF THE LAND! What we have now is every single-issue voter lined up at the Federal slop trough, taking OUR TAX DOLLARS to support their misbehaviors! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! We are so fortunate as to be born into freedom in this country, but we have to EARN the right to enjoy it! NO MORE FREE LUNCH! As for Social Security, I’ve paid 15% of my earnings for the past 50 years! If that money had been privately invested, it would be worth well over $1MM today, would throw off $50,000 a year in ‘benefits’ and the principal could be passed to my kids! Rather, I’m ‘entitled’ to a measly $1,200 a month until I croak! The kids get
  
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- texasps
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:24am
  I agree! Time to take our tea and head out the door.
  
  Republicans talking heads are starting to sound like Democrats: rude spinners of truth, narrow minded and out of touch. She needs to get out the the Beltway more and venture into reality. We are not full of rage, we only seek the truth here in Realville. sigh.
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:19pm
  I’m with you. We were all in for the Repubs this time in order to remove the communist from office. However, we found that compromising our principles didn’t get us anywhere. From now on I will not listen to anyone that says I’m wasting my vote by voting 3rd party. I say they are wasting my vote by not supporting American principles.
  
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cliKKer
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:24pm
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE ONES WHO LOSE TELLING US HOW TO WIN! Rhinos are why we lose. 2010 was one by CONSERVATIVE values and the Tea Party. 2012 was lost by RHINOS. We lose in 2008 with MCCAIN. We lost in 2012… with ROMNEY. What do they have in common? they are all Progressive Republicans. You know what americans WANT to vote for… truth. A politician that is NOT lying to them. Its time…. we are always told… “ooooh don’t go away from the R or to the D” how about an Independent Candidate that TELLS the TRUTH good or bad. In 4 years (in 2 for congress) everyone despite the MSM will know the lie. Even the most passionate Obama voter knows the lie…. so here is a novel idea. How about a candidate that gets up tells the truth (even about their own skeletons in the closet) AND FIRST THING is look at the Noonans, Crystals, Roves… to GO TO HELL. I vote for some one like Alfonso Rachel, Glenn Beck, Penn Teller, Allen West….. its time way past time…. we need a Washington….

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- CatB
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:39pm
  They would have lost by way more than 2% without the TEA Party .. the local TEA Parties here and all over the country were making calls and walking the blocks .. donating time and money .. what did most of the RINO’s do? .. sit on their butts and talk. Did she ever hear of True the Vote? .. maybe if more Republicans would have joined the TEA Party at the polls as watchers etc … there would not have been so much cr*p going on. Rage??? Only at RINO’s who like to call names and slander those who actually put in the work.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:41pm
  if you guys are serious about not letting the RINO steal the show again next time, need to start reforming the election system to get rid of winner-take-all states. Obviously, winner-take-all hurts the conservatives because they split the vote. Have a proportional delegate awarding system and conservatives can pass along the delegates to the next conservative as they start dropping out
  
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Zipit
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:24pm
Up yours Peggy!
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- CatB
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:32pm
  i just love these “pundits” who have never even been to a TEA Party meeting … passing judgement .. meanwhile OWS DESTROYED property and the peace … and were celebrated! I challenge this
  “lady” to come to ANY TEA Party in the country .. what you will find are people who LOVE their country .. and God. Rage? Only when idiots LIE about who we are and what we stand for!
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:29am
  Nail on the head Cat!!!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:22pm
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If Peggy Noonan can’t tell the difference between rage and patriotism, love of God, love of country, love of the constitution, and love of freedom, then screw her. She will never get it.

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- Triple7
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:01pm
  Peggy understands that she has to say these things so she can be on tv. Her core values are to be heard and liked. This way she can be liked at insider parties and seem as a good republican. In short she is nothing more then a hack who needs to feed her fragile ego.
  
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TheRightGurl
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:21pm
This is where Peggy is wrong. The Tea Party was established not to sit and listen but to stand up and be HEARD! There is anger and rightfully so. We need a revolution right now. Not a sitting back and waiting for more of the same. Our Founding Fathers were angry too and that didn’t work out so bad!!! We’re angry for the RIGHT reasons.

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- LucyFurr
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:34am
  I agree.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:21pm
The mistake was RINO Romney.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:20pm
Rhinos, moderates, compromisers….are the ones susceptible to the nudge, nudge, shove. Their only principle is peace at any cost. They are the ones who sold our Independence and Constitution piece by piece. They want an easy life. They want to be comfortable. Everyone wants those things but what do we NEED? FREEDOM from Tyranny and our God given rights. I was wondering when they would get around to blaming the tea party…IS SHE BLIND AS TO HOW MUCH TROUBLE OUR COUNTRY IS IN? HOW MUCH DANGER AND CORRUPTION? I tell her Wake Up DUMMIE we’re not even angry enough!

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chips1
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:18pm
Peggy Noonan talking about the Tea Party is like Obama talking about Americans. Neither have a clue.

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- LouisianaPatriot
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:28pm
  LOL! Perfect analogy CHIPS1!!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:45pm
  Excellent CHIPS1! Excellent!
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:53am
  As long as you keep feeling that way, you’re going to lose. America’s spoke and you just refuse to listen.
  
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FreeToBe
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:17pm
I watched her this morning, and was appalled at her comments. I used to respect her opinions, but no more. She sounded like another of Obama’s Stepford wives. Mindless women led around by their masters. Pathetic, isn’t it?

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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:28pm
  Another tea partier showing their true colors.
  
  One foul step and you cut people off and label them a progressive and part of the problem.
  
  You people are so extreme that it’s hilarious.
- Old_Sac_Crewdog
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:09am
  @Moderation, trying to compromise has gotten us into the terrible situation we are in now, it’s time for extreme. We have bent over backwards to compromise, would you have us bend over forwards as well?
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:32am
  @OLD_SAC_CREWDOG
  
  You argue for small government when in reality you just argue for your form of big government.
  
  Stop taking hypocritical stances and I may take you seriously.
  
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- Old_Sac_Crewdog
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:17am
  @Moderationisamoron Don’t pretend to know what I want, go read MSNBC you Soros troll.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:25am
  @OLD_SAC_CREWDOG
  
  I’m going by the fact that you’re on here and what I’ve seen other people argue for.
  
  A form of government so small, that it can monitor the pregnancy of every pregnant woman.
  
  True “liberty”….except when it comes to homosexuality, then yeah that shouldn’t be recognized.
  
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TheEndIsComing
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:16pm
We have certainly arrived at the time when right is called wrong and wrong is called right? When the Obamazombies said that if Obama, the supreme leader, did not get reelected, they were going to burn down the cities of the United States. And the Occupiers, who the Demoncrats said were a great movement, were calling for anarchy. Yeah right! The Tea Partiers are the only sane ones around right now.
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:30pm
  Right the Tea Party were the ones who threatened to riot if their guy didn’t win.
  Tea Party don’t listen to this tripe from the left and the rino’s.We need a true conserative in 2016.Why do theyalways try to convince us we should be another Democratic party?
  
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Mutiny
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:16pm
Ignore this crap. The only chance a party(hopefully something other than the GOP) has a chance of beating the Democrats is by going back to the Constitution.

Restore our freedoms.
Stop the spending.
End the pointless wars.

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- BV FROM TX
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:28am
  Stop supporting the MSM by turning in and helping their ratings. Let them fall and become irrelevant. They would have destroyed any candidate that we put up there – yes, even Ron Paul. The people behind Obama will lie, steal, murder if that is what it takes to keep him in office. The real president running this country is Valerie Jarrett with the help of Axelrod. Obama is just president in name only. Jarrett was born in Iran. Watch out what is coming!
  
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stoptyranny
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:14pm
Patriotism is rage? Wanting less government is rage? Yes the Tea Party is helpful, Peggy Noonan is not.

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For my Liberty!
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:13pm
STUPID WITCH….YES, we ARE angry….We are TIRED of having money WE earned confiscated (Our taxes) and THROWN away on STUPID STUFF! WE are TIRED of Government employees taking vacations that AVERAGE Americans could NEVER take–ON OUR DOLLAR…We are TIRED of the LIES the government tells us..We are TIRED of only being able to VOTE for the candidates that the NWO– Bilderbergs LETS us vote for…..and we are DAMN Tired of the mentality of Government employees get a slap on the hand for things that would send the REST of America to JAIL ….YES, we are MAD as H3LL and SICk of it….

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Totally Domestic
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:11pm
Who cares what Peggy the Rino has to say!

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Apple Bite
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:11pm
Stick it, Peg!

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- TROLLMONGER
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:44pm
  hate speech
  
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Thornyrose13
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:10pm
The Tea Party’s mistake was accepting Republican claims that the only viable option to Obama was Romney. Now the Tea party is tainted with the Republican brand, instead of distinguishing itself from the “business as usual among the good old boys” mentality of the Repubs.
Better to proclaim your message, stand by your ideals, and lose, than to sell out again. People will remember, and eventually recognize if you were were correct. Churchill spent a decade in political exile before rising to his greatest achievements. The Tea Party must do the same, if needed, so long as it retains its political integrity.

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:20am
  In case you have forgotten, Romney didn’t get to be the Republican nominee purely as a result of a propaganda campaign by the party’s leadership. They held a series of elections and caucuses which at least at first included a number of candidates more conservative than him. Unfortunately, one after another they all succeeded in revealing themselves to be fools or lunatics and frightening off the voters. So the question remains, where are you going to find somebody who thinks like you but is smart?
  
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Ducky 1
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:10pm
There is so much wrong about what Peggy says I do not even know where to begin!!

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 11:20pm
  @DUCKY 1
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:10pm
  There is so much wrong about what Peggy says I do not even know where to begin!!
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  Let me take a shot at it ——–
  RAGE is what happens when a free people have their Liberty raped from them by communist
  liars, theives and spoilers. Establishment types like Peggy Noonan have the continence of wet toilet paper.
  
  Dont tell me the answer is “compromise” — who in their right mind wants to deal with the devil?
  Neither is the answer to “become more moderate”.
  
  Our founding fathers made firm demands. And when their demands were ignored they did what was necessary to secure their liberty. They passed it to us and we have squandered it as fools.
  
  There is a right thing to do. The question is who has the courage to do it.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:14am
  Communists? You actually believe that you have had liberties taken from you by communists? Hahahahaha!!!
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:13am
  Even more so because the TP is dead as the dodo.
  
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- pitboss711
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:51pm
  @Verceofreason – Think so? Keep underestimating them.
  
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sWampy
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:09pm
Pot calls kettle black, democrats are violent criminals with zero morals to the core. Tea Party, wants to stop the left from killing all hope our kids of living in a better world than we grew up in.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:10pm
  The YOUTH vote carried Obama to the WH.
  Have you actually LOOKED at Tea Partiers.
  
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jspec33
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:07pm
Well said afishfarted.

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afishfarted
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:06pm
Too full of rage?? Passion for the COnstitution and real freedom is rage?
I’d rather have freedom raging in my soul than have it be dead. Did our foundong fathers compromise with the king when he refused to ackmowledge their greivances? Or did our fathers say “Oh well, the king has made up his mind and there’s nothing we can do about it”.
If passion for freedom and love of country is considered rage today, then rage I shall have

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- justangry
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:23pm
  A lot of so called Tea Party people endorsed candidates that routinely crap on the Constitution. I know the Tea Party of today isn’t the Tea Party that started in 2007. As a matter of fact the current Tea Partiers scoff at the guy who started it, and say he had nothing to do with it. To be honest today’s Tea Party just seems to be your every day Republican to me for the most part.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:54am
  Love of freedom scares some people who don’t know the difference between Social and Socialist. When you are clueless… Heck, it just looks like someone is just angry over something. People on government programs they didn’t contribute to, who make it a way of life, traded their liberty away. It’s gone already so they don’t understand us either. Dr. Ron Paul has such a nice way of explaining liberty to the left and the right, that I would like him to play a bigger role in the future. His prescription is right on!
  
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- timb58
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:38pm
  If rage means fighting for the Constitution an freedom then yes I’m full of rage.
  
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on November 11, 2012 at 10:05pm
Of course they are. Just look at all the comments of HATE their Beckbot members make on this site everyday. Thats exactly why Romney lost. Because most people in this country dont want a war and religeous mongering HATE filled party running the country.

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- capnjack
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:04pm
  That is exactly what you just got, schmuck.
  
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- dsd13130
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Explain to me how what I’ve heard some out of Reid or Pelosi and in other cases Obama & Carney is SO VERY PEACEFUL and not hateful at all. I’m not a Tea Party member nor any other party member but I can tell you I’d support the Tea Party before the (D) or (R) parties. Not every seen any hate coming from them. They may disagree with how things are being done but they aren’t hateful.
  
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