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BlazeCast Rewind: Can the Tea Party Outflank Progressive Republicans?

Dec. 3, 2012 1:02pm Scott Baker

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Pantloadian
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:32pm
Doesn’t matter. Tea Party – dead. Republicans – dead. The only thing left is who gets the spot on Fox News. God bless us, everyone.

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4theThinMan
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:02pm
NOPE, they cannot. the establishment progressives STILL control the republican party and will into the future. The RINO’s (Tea Party and Libertarians) that attach themselves to the Republicans, like leeches trying to get a blood meal – are a giant failure. To prove it – Obama for another 4 and the Senate even in tighter control by the Socialist Democrats led by Harry Reid.

You want a conservative Party – build one and be quick about it – there are less than two years before the mid term elections.

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longknifed
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:49pm
there is NO tea party. where is it? what happened to it after the 2010 election? where were the protests afterwards? oh, i forgot that america’s “problems” were solved when the republicans got elected again. just ask karl rove and he’ll tell you america was saved in 2010. thank god enough people have woken up to this game to vote with their feet and determine the outcome of these rigged elections at least in some way.

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TruthPolice60
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:10pm
The Tea Party is not going to do anything significant until it gets some leadership. It’s prided itself on being a grass roots, organic movement without any individual pulling the strings. That’s fine when you’re an opposition movement. But to challenge to become a mainstream political party will take a leader to head the party. You need leadership to set goals, make a plan and embark on a mission.

I think the Tea Party can appeal to libertarians on constitutional issues. They can appeal to democrats who hate the rich as long as any Tea Party leadership figures appear to be regular guys or gals who came from, and empathize with, the middle class. Anyone with the slightest bit of communication skills should be able to run circles around the current republican party, who are pathetic in the communication department. Republicans just cannot get their message out. That, more than any threat from the right will be their undoing.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:54pm
I am willing to talk to anyone who has Tea Party principles, but I won’t any longer let anyone call themselves my “leader” I get that they do good things and it costs, but then they do not listen to anyone except their own leadership-which means they are not leading anything. I do not like some of the Tea Party’s candidates, and after reading Jenny Whoever’s nasty rant against Romney, it is very clear why Obama is still in the White House. They considered him a second’s candidate, without realising he was a good businessman, and a good person, which beats hell out of what we got. I for one am not looking for leadership anywhere except a candidate that comes forward like the one I just found on Breitart-I wll be paying close attention to him-can’t recall the name off hand, but I will go back and look him up.

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azcowboy1
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:46pm
Don’t need to outflank anyone. All TEA has to do is wait. Train is about to derail. Fasten seat belt sign is on.
TEA
jH…

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banjarmon
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:21pm
Time for Palin and WEST to take the lead in the TEA Party!!

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- COREZONE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Agreed. They speak openly and honestly. That threatens the authority and concerns the progressives. Remember, there are more of us, than them.
  
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:51pm
Can the Tea Party outflank progressive Republicans? Wrong question. Better to ask, can truly conservative Republicans outflank the reactionary-faux populist Tea Party? Because if it can’t, it will soon join the Federalists and Whigs in oblivion.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:33pm
In 2010 it was possible to Tea Party to take over the GOP but because of what happened at the RNC, the Tea Party has no chance. This is why i voted straight 3rd party in 2012

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:54pm
  The Tea Party has a chance… just not the remnants of the Ron Paul wing that was kicked to the cheap seats at the GOP Convention and before. Let’s not confuse the Tea Party with the Ron Paul crowd eh SOY? The Ron Paul crowd of instigators were usually give their walking papers at most Tea Party events due to lack of civility.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:57pm
  http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:14pm
  That’s one view that peope have SOY, and there are just as many opposite views and rationals for why this happened. This was all about the Ron Paul insurgents… nothing more. And a well deserved rebuke. I’m happy that I could be a part of it…
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:28pm
  i was under the impression that Romney had well over the required number of delegates
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Why yes SOY.. YES he did in the end… then he made his acceptance speech and accepted the nomination. Lol.
  
  You turds may have had the last laugh… but I still can’t stop laughing over how you cocky little Ron Paul bastiges got tossed out into the gutter with the storm-bathed 99%’rs. Priceless…
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:37pm
  yes yes its all a game to you
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:44pm
  just ignore this old crank. We all know that type of person who feeds off of conflict that nobody else wants to be around.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:39pm
  SOY… I also laughed when this happened back in ’07… as another small example.
  
  “A leading conservative blog says it’s heard more than enough from Ron Paul supporters, thank you.
  
  RedState.com announced Tuesday that all but veteran users are henceforth prohibited from posting messages supporting the long-shot Republican presidential candidate, whose fans have emerged as an usually vocal and motivated presence on internet forums.
  
  “Effective immediately, new users may not shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion,” wrote Leon Wolf, one of RedState’s bloggers. “Not in comments, not in diaries, nada.”
  
  “If your account is less than six months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul,” he added. “Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.”
  
  Erick Erickson, RedState’s CEO and editor-in-chief, told Wired News that the decision was sparked by a flood of repetitive pro-Paul messages on forum threads by 20 to 30 Paul supporters, along with some off-color comments.
  
  “These people are not part of the Republican coalition. It’s somewhat naive to think that these people will stay in the race with Republicans when Ron Paul is no longer in the race,” said Erickson.”
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:40pm
  Time, i’m confused. If Ron Paul supporters are such a minor group why do you spend so much time on us? If you would just listen to us you miyht learn something, Anyway thanks for all you do for us.
  
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David-FL
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:30pm
Ya, staying home and not voting, which insured Obama’s victory, was far better than getting out and voting for Romney. That’s Super! Great strategy….

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:43pm
  some people would rather not condone tyranny. If you vote for a progressive, it only makes things worse
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:47pm
  You people NEED obama to blame all of your problems on. You want him to be your president. his only job is to distract fools like you from the actual problems.
  
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jackact
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:21pm
Don’t need a Blazecast to read the writing on the wall.
These are the ‘end of days’ for the existing GOP.
The Tea Party has been in control since the 2010 mid term elections.
Had Romney been vetted by The Tea Party as a real constitutional conservative, he would have been in the White House in January 2013.
3 million stayed home this past election because enabling the status quo is not the right direction for the preservation of constitutional conservatism.
Voting for moderation is an act of a fool.
John Boehner will witness the full effect of the Tea Party during the next four years.
He will regret his public dismissal of the Tea Party movement and the existing GOP will suffer the emergence of the Tea Party ideology.
You betcha!

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:38pm
  DUDE, Take your threats and choke on them. The TEA PARTY was and is nothing more than PATRIOTS who won’t be pushed around…that, ahem…also includes the overweight housewife types or the balding, pot bellied middle management guys who think they can LEAD groups of people.
  The ones in charge of various “TEA PARTIES” that I’ve seen, heard, locally and on TV except for SARAH PALIN, are ….. mediocre, especially when they think they are some type of leader.
  PATRIOTS do NOT need leadership. THEY are leaders.
  TEA PARTY people missed a chance to elect the only decent person running for office in several years. ANYONE who would sit at home and not vote this past election is not worth the powder to blow them to hell. Let ‘em suffer under their stupidity… I won’t because I’m prepared and have been, but you lazy lot who didn’t bother to vote OR who was so stupid as to listen to that jerk Dick Morris… NWTPTBTTH….
  TEA PARTY has put some MISERABLE candidates up (almost in equal numbers of those who won)
  AKIN for example. Another egotistical jerk. TEA PARTY needs to stick to TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY and/or FIXING OUR VOTING SYSTEM. DO one project at a time. Take your “WAR against SOCIALISM” and sit on it. HOW ABOUT FIXING the VOTING SYSTEM? I’ll join you in that..but a big, encompassing idea like combating SOCIALISM? You don’t have the brains to combat anything, nor the experience, nor the leadership. PROVE IT by fixing VOTING.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:41pm
  And JACK@SS here commented on two stories regarding explosives found in Louisiana and Arizona…
  
  “The militia lies in wait.
  Everywhere.”
  
  and “The Revolution begins?”
  
  JACK@SS AND an anarchist. GO back home to the OWS leftovers… they need some “Pop Rocks.”
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:22pm
  The Tea Party Movement needs to figure out what it’s really all about. If it stuck to fiscal conservatism and payed no attention to the wing nuts in the three cornered hats, it might be more attractive to a lot more folks. When it starts with absurdly hypocritical positions on birth control, immigration, abortion, etc., except for the die-hard Christians, many folks just get turned off. I absolutely didn’t vote for Obama and I certainly didn’t vote for Romney, who would be trusted only by a fool. I voted for a 3rd party under the philosophy that I’d much rather deal with the devil I know rather than the one I don’t know. They certainly were both devils.
  
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