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Why Are Some Conservatives Targeting the Tea Party as a ‘Cancer’?

Feb. 6, 2013 9:30pm Mytheos Holt

In the aftermath of 2012, many conservatives have been afflicted with an identity crisis. Having seen the Reagan coalition fail to elect a man who would have won in a landslide with similar proportions of the population 30 years ago, and having seen Democratic constituencies turn out in numbers that defied expectations set by previous elections, it is understandable that the conservative movement and its sometime political vehicle, the Republican party, should find themselves bewildered about the future of the movement.

Naturally enough, as in any debate, different people have different ideas, and more than a little mutual recrimination was probably inevitable in this debate. However, now the first full-blown fight between previous allies has finally erupted. On the one side sit pragmatic conservatives looking to broaden the party’s base, though perhaps at the expense of a few policy positions, and playing defense more than offense. On the other side sit principled conservatives looking to preserve the party’s identity by jealously guarding policy positions, and viewing the act of playing defense itself as an admission of defeat.

Over at RedState, one of the former has just fired a shot across the bow of the latter:

The Tea Party brand has been effectively destroyed. After three years of demonizing the Tea Party as ‘racist,’ ‘extremist,’ and ‘radical,’ the brand has become a cancer.

It is now a drag on the candidates it supports, with the Left (and GOP establishment types like Karl Rove) gleefully labeling conservative candidates as “outside the mainstream.”

In the meantime, while the Tea Party had once enjoyed 24% popularity, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 8% of Americans now identify themselves as members of the Tea Party.

While that is the lowest it has been in the three years, there is some positive news in that poll: Thirty percent of the poll’s participants do hold favorable views of the Tea Party. That is something to build on.

However, insofar as it has been branded and is now associated with negativism, the brand itself must change in order to build and grow again.

Obviously, contrary opinions exist. David Brody of CBN devoted a recent Brody File to the question, and interviewed multiple Tea Party members who suggested that reports of their death are exaggerated.

CBN:

Much like Mark Twain, the Tea Party said reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. While polls show Tea Party identification dropping from 24 percent in 2010 to just 8 percent today, there have been key wins.

Newly minted Sens. Ted Cruz and Deb Fischer joined a growing constitutional conservative group made up of Sens. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Tim Scott, and Rand Paul.

In the House, more than 50 Tea Party members make up a strong voting bloc. Ultimately, Tea Party leaders say the key to a sustainable national movement is electing House and Senate candidates who are ready for prime time.

Julie Turner, president of the Texas Patriots, said the way to keep the movement on track is by grooming candidates on the local level and growing a bench of all-stars.

“We require our candidates for endorsement to have a path to victory in their campaign,” Turner told CBN News.

Nevertheless, if calling the Tea Party label a “cancer” at one of the most well-read conservative blogs isn’t a sign of warning for those who identify with the label, then it is almost certainly the case that another recent story about Republican mega-strategist Karl Rove will cause some discomfort. The New York Times reports:

The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s efforts to win control of the Senate.

The group, the Conservative Victory Project, is intended to counter other organizations that have helped defeat establishment Republican candidates over the last two election cycles. It is the most robust attempt yet by Republicans to impose a new sense of discipline on the party, particularly in primary races.

“There is a broad concern about having blown a significant number of races because the wrong candidates were selected,” said Steven J. Law, the president of American Crossroads, the “super PAC” creating the new project. “We don’t view ourselves as being in the incumbent protection business, but we want to pick the most conservative candidate who can win.”[...]

The Conservative Victory Project, which is backed by Karl Rove and his allies who built American Crossroads into the largest Republican super PAC of the 2012 election cycle, will start by intensely vetting prospective contenders for Congressional races to try to weed out candidates who are seen as too flawed to win general elections.

The project is being waged with last year’s Senate contests in mind, particularly the one in Missouri, where Representative Todd Akin’s comment that “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy rippled through races across the country. In Indiana, the Republican candidate, Richard E. Mourdock, lost a race after he said that when a woman became pregnant during a rape it was “something God intended.”

Rove himself has hastily backtracked from this description of his group’s mission, protesting that his fight is not actually with the Tea Party.

Unfortunately for him, not everyone’s convinced of the purity of his motives. However, one or two conservative commentators have accepted Rove’s word, albeit for different, and more cynical reasons than he suggests. Allahpundit at Hot Air provides one such explanation:

But then, we’re assuming that Rove’s main goal, and American Crossroads’s goal more broadly, is to boost establishment candidates. Is it? Or is this reorientation towards electability more about protecting their viability with rich contributors after a disastrous election year?[...]

Some donors will walk away, but not all. And by backing the most “electable” candidate in every primary, CPV now has a prefab defense to future losses: They can’t be accused of mismanaging their contributors’ money because they’re betting on the horse with the best odds of winning in each race. It’s like a hedge fund switching to a more risk-averse investment strategy after major losses, even though a lot of Republicans who went bust last year were establishment favorites who weren’t so risky on paper. “Electability” is really just Crossroads’s way of reassuring its funders that next time will be different — with the punchline being that they’ll likely be pressured into backing a few tea-party longshots anyway, just to keep grassroots conservatives from making the CPV endorsement a badge of contempt in the movement that candidates grow reluctant to embrace.

Poll numbers are not pleasant reading for those looking to defend the Tea Party, however. People who openly identify as Tea Party members have declined as a percentage of the population from 24 percent to 8 percent. Only 30 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the Tea Party, a number only slightly higher than former President George W. Bush’s approval rating when he left office.

However, just because the label “Tea Party” might be unpopular, that’s no reason for principled conservatives (or libertarians, for that matter) to despair. In late 2011, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, young people gave the term “libertarian” high marks by a 22 point margin, even higher than the margin by which Tea Partiers liked the term. Could this label at last be coming into its own? One can only guess.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:27am
Oh please, these are the same people that read the US Constitution, then send us garbage in the mail, what do you think about topic “x, y, z”? We think you’ve lost your minds, that’s what we think, and since you had to mail me a survey, that means you don’t know what the heaven you are doing, and since you are wasting your money, I am not going to return your stupid survey, and hope you go bankrupt so somebody with common sense can get the position because you don’t deserve it anymore?

Just because Americans don’t show up in the surveys does not mean a gosh darn golly gee thing, except the talking heads in the media that want to create that illusion, they want to create the illusion the Tea Party, or the principals that drive the hearts of Americans to good will and passion is dead in the water?

Why?

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Allseasonangler
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:36am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etzJ1Oy_1n0

Well one guy we all know called the Tea Party racist.

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UseTP2wipe
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:25am
Both the Tea Party nuts and the Rove camp are a cancer to the American people and our citizens are saying enough is enough! No rebranding of the far right, theocratic, extremist camp will save these guys now. People are smart enough to see that both are one and the same. Its going to keep getting worse for you guys, and the digging in and going more extreme strategy isn’t going to work.

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Chancellor
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:11am
Want to really change what is going on in DC. Starve them of CASH. The IRS is already saying “Checks going to Recipients” { For you Liberals that is English for you and me} will be delayed between 6-12 months????

Well how about on April 12-15 everybody signs up for an extention to file…..Lets start starving them of money. Change your deductions to where you get very little back so they don’t have a wad of your cash.

Then like they do keep doing it. Keep filling out the forms for extentions nd taking your time. At the ame time keeping the amount they deduct from your check as low as possible! They want to ruin the economy Heck lets help them and when it fails we can hunt them down and hang them for it!

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:04am
Word of Warning to the Tea Party Revisionists.
If you are going to “Purify” the “Movement” by making “Cultural Revolution” on “Religious” Conservatives you can kisz my asz. THAT position is no different from Rove’s and the Robber Baron, Rocky Feeler, Gilt Bird Cabin, Inside the Beltloop Ruling Class Aristo, Conservative Free GOP.
You want my vote, support, revolution, on Extremely Radically Limited Fed Gov (ALL Gov) then I’m there. But if you expect me to Check my Theology and Morality at the door, Go to He ll.
You kiddie porn and pot LibertineAryans better figure out a way to MAKE common cause with me and mine, rather than marginalizing us, or you’ll continue to be BURIED by the Collectivist Statist Commiequeers and the Moronic Mythical “Middle” “Moderates” who sniff after them like beeches in heat.

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wowjustwow
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:03am
To David Ross, you are only talking about fundamentalist Christians. Most Christians don’t take the Bible literally, but rather as a guide. It would be a mistake for you to believe that all or most Christians are fundamentalists.

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RAMJR
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:57am
The Tea Party, the real ones standing for decreasing government control, taxes, restrictions and enforcement of our Constitution, real restitution and discipline, warned BOTH Parties, they fraud, lies, liars, corruption and double talk and double standard, would not be tolerated. Scott Brown found that out pretty quickly.
Now, that the Democratic Party is running for dark corners, the ‘Conservatives’ on Congress thought their double talk wouldn’t be noticed. The House Speaker found out even he was on notice, and now the Progressives, and those trying to figure out if they are gonna jump ship, point fingers at their not doing anything because of others…and justifying the bribe/payoff Obama gave all Congress for doing nothing, except having a rating less than the popularity of taking a dump.
Why are the institutions Obama put in place arming themselves, while telling us their gonna take our weapons…because taxpayers, those footing the bill for Enron, ‘global warming’, keeping the lights on at the United Nations and arming Islamic Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, has opened even many Liberal’s eyes.

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KidCharlemagne
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:29am
Remember what Rick Santorum said last year about the Tea Party?:

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“I’ve got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement to sort of refashion conservatism and I will vocally and publicly oppose it.”
YouTube: “Memo to the Tea Party: Rick Santorum Rejects Your Message”

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:27am
I’m not a T-partier, but to me their “brand” is about Constitutionally Radically Extremely Limited Government with Radically Extremely Lower Federal Spending and Radically Extremely Lower taxes.
In other words, about kicking The Fed Gov Beech Sow back to where the Founders wanted it choke-chained and keeping YOUR OWN money.
If THAT “brand” is “destroyed” then whoever doesn’t like That Brand of Cigar can kiz my Irish Asz.
I’m a Constitutional Conservationist and Miniscule Gov and Keeping MY OWN MONEY IS “the Conservative Brand” to ME. Rather it is the “Conservative” brand of Inside the Beltloop Ruling Class Aristos like Bill Benet, Bill Krystal (sp?), Carl Rove, and the usual suspects Fox trots out on their “All Pharts” that is Stunk Up and No Good Anymore.
“Conservatism” to me is SaraCuda. I want the Federal Beech Sow’s Head taken off and her teetees disembowled, I want a Mama Grizzly. I want the Inside the Beltlooper Ruling Class Aristoes chewed to shreds and sheat out. I want a SaraCuda. In short, MY Conservatism Be About DISempowering DC. I want Nanny Sammy fired, blacklisted and deported.
If “Conservatives” are too stupid to give me this I will vote “None of the Above” and wait on American Revolution v3.0. If “Libertarians” are too stupid to make common cause with Limited Gov “Religious” Conservatives, I’ll vote “None of the Above” and wait on AMRev3. If the GOP sucks up to La Raza, the Prhomos, the Socialist Lites of the Moronic Mythi

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:37am
  and the “Socialist Lites” of the Moronic Mythical “Moderate” “Middle” I’ll tell them to go to He ll and vote “NOTB” and wait on ARv3.
  I’m sittin “rat cheer” on Home Plate where I find The Founders, God Endowed, Unalienable, Individually Sovereign Liberty, The Declaration of those Sacred Rights, and The Constitution and The Republic created SOLELY to SECURE those Sacred Liberties. If THAT “brand” (what a DUMBASD thing to say “The Republic” “The Constitution” MY Sacred Liberties” as a FAILED MARKETING CAMPAIGN! IDIOTS! YOU SHOULD BE SHOT!) If the “Home Plate” “brand” has “failed” then anyone who thinks that is free to follow the Moronic Mythical “Middle” “Moderates” as they sniff after the Commiequeers* like beeches in heat till they, and you “branders” are OVER the Left Field Wall, OUT the back of the Stadium, DOWN the Dark Alley, UNDER the Manhole and INTO the SEWER!
  I’m staying put, effU very much.
  
  *my semantically accurate usage for the “terminological inexactitudes” “Liberal”, “Left”, “Progressive”
  
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sweetieboat
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:17am
The Tea Party was a movement that some insinuated it was a party. We are basically conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat. We need many movements but only 2 parties. Movements keep our political party from getting corrupt. When the water moves, its good, when he is still it stagnates. The movements keep the water moving.
Look at how all the democrats stick together, they say the same things the same way and say it again and again, so the stupid people will believe them. The stupid people do not want movement because they do not understand growth.
Some people say you just need to tell the people what is happening and they will understand. NO! it does not work. Ryan and Mitt did that very well.
We need to scare the stupid people until they doubt the BS the democrats are telling them. Or the stupid people will have to hurt bad enough to ask some questions and get some different answers. You see the rich people are pointing to the other rich people and saying it is the rich people’s fault and the stupid people do not even understand that the it is the rich people who are pointing. Maybe we need to define the stupid people and say it again and again. Than at least they will know who they are?maybe?

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:46am
  Your cognitive dissonance is deafening. Sweetie.
  No sucha thing as a “Liberal” who believes in EXTREMLY RADICALLY LIMITED Government.
  If they say they do they are lying to you and you are a “useful idiot” to believe them.
  “Liberalism” is about Commiequeerdom. It has an unnatural love for a deceased Economic “System” of COLLECTIVIST STATIST REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH off the Ash Heap of History, and it has a common agenda of forcing Prhomoness down the rest of our throats. Both those REQUIRE Collectivism and STATEism. Can’t GET to limited Government from either of those places.
  Logical and Rhetorical Cogent Impossibility Sweetie.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:57am
  On a second, closer, reading, Sweetie, you may not be saying what I think you are saying.
  You are NOT saying that the Tea “Party” was made up of both Liberal and Conservative are you?
  I took it that you WERE saying that and that was wrong.
  What I think you are saying now is that the T.E. A. ‘Party” was a MOVEMENT which is both More TRUTHFUL and BETTER than a “party”.
  I think I can agree with that if I understand you right.
  But I would urge you to read Walter Williams’ April 7th 2010 Column “Parting Company”
  I agree with Williams that there are only two “Movements” “Camps” “Groups of People” “Set of Beliefs” in this Country and they are mutually EXCLUSIVE. No “common ground” no “working things out” no “coming together” or “compromising”. One is either a Collectivist Statist Redistributionist in belief or one is an ENABLER of the same, OR one is a “Leave me the He ll Alone” Extremely Radically Limited Government Constitutional Conservationist. Those differences are “irreconcilable.”
  To that Degree, the Tea Party Movement should be about sweeping POWER OUT of DC PERMANENTLY.
  
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NigelTufnel
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:49pm
Keaton333. Not sure what a Dept. of Agriculture statement is doing on a tea-party blog but I’ll help you make the connection. As a small farmer and a fiscal tea partiest, I renounce the current Bush/Clinton based farm bill. It is crony capitalism designed to control the industry. I bought my first 30 acres in 94′ for $1,700 an acre at 9.8% interest and paid for most of it with my day job paycheck. I was at an auction last week and 117 acres went for 9.880 an acre. I cannot grow my operation at that price. I was better off when corn was $2 and soybeans were $5 but fertilizer was only $60 a ton and fuel was $1.90. The big farmer’s standard of living is subsidized. They can spend their entire profit on more ground and better equipment. Bernanke’s printing press is largely responsible for the ground price too but when they guy next door know’s he’s getting $120,000 up front from the Fed’s, he can take far more risks than I can and get crazy with his profits. The only subsidies I agree with are the ones for wildlife as they promote hunting and that generates a lot of revenue in licenses and fees for the states. Everything else can go.

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Tretka
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:43pm
Here’s what people are missing. The Tea Party formed around an idea. The idea is not dead. Both sides were threatened so they played football with it.

The idea is not dead…and it may not be called the Tea Party as we move on…but ALL of us who believe will be there.

So what they are doing is attacking the idea. If they thought they lost bad in 2012…just wait. Remember though some can not identify completely with one party or another…most want American style constitutional freedom and yes that means the good and the bad.

Let them talk and ring their hands. Hold the line. It’s the people that are wise (mostly) and we all need to show up and prove it.

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- NigelTufnel
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:54pm
  Tucker Carlson said during the tea=party’s infancy that if they have just one plank, “fiscal responsibility” they would succeed and survive. The left did a good job painting them as radicals. However, when your affiliation is loose and you do not vett your candidates, you end up with un-prepared loons and that’s what a lack of organization and leadership gets you.
  
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- Tara1981
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:40am
  Right, They cannot attack an idea, this is still and always will be a Christian Nation. Things are happening as God has planned, God was, is and always will be on the throne. Relax, sleep good tonight, sit back and enjoy the show, God is in total control. I enjoyed your post.
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:42pm
Karl Rove is the bad man everybody thinks he is.Sean Hannity is his woman.

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Jedrin
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:38pm
The Tea Party has been attacked by all sides from the start. It is not a Party at all. Bachman and others tried to turn it into a party. The Tea Party movement should stay a “loosely associated group of individuals brought together for a common goal of reducing the out of control spending of the federal government” and that is it. That would be a HUGE accomplishment. But no, Turn it into a “conservative” movement adding in other stuff that is unrelated to spending is just a loosing strategy. Cut the spending of the Feds and everything else will fall in place or at least be easier to tackle. Spending is the ONLY thing that is the threat. Without spending there is not QE infinity, free cell phones. Why? The Feds cannot afford it, any of it. Cuts have to be deep. Do any of your realize how many people make a living off the Feds? 60% of the country is directly connected to the spending and ALL of us are indirectly connected. It is going to be horrible to get out of this dilemma. Unemployment will skyrocket. The small business in California are decimated in the last year, storefront that were occupied a year ago are empty this year. I see this. It is horrible. Quit back stabbing and adding is stuff that doesn’t matter at this point. KEEP FOCUSED, CUT SPENDING. The county will not survive the spending; it will survive gay marriage and many other things for which even I do not agree. Better not get involve with the stupid things, put that on the States. http://www.constitutionparty

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:30pm
I don’t believe a word of it. The media helped define the T-Party negatively to suit the narrative of alinsky radicals. People who call the U.S. Constitution RADICAL AND OUTDATED.

It is time to redefine the T-Party as “The Constitution Party” No mincing words. Don’t let the radicals demonize the Constitution by demonizing those who stand for it as surrogates. It is a convenient ruse for radicals. CONSTITUTION — Let’s get it on!

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JQCitizen
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:25pm
“Why do some people consider the Tea Party like a cancer?”:

Because they are ignorant, and think the Tea Party is a “Party”, like the Democrat or Republican Party. The Tea Party is a grass roots movement, based on a set of unifying principles. If this nation is ever saved, it will be as a direct result of the individual actions of Tea Party people, (some of whom do not even now consider themselves a part of it).

Basically, the Tea Party is an organic movement, waxing and waning as a DIRECT RESULT of Government excess in the areas of Federal Power, Taxation, and Wasteful Spending! Throw in a few people on the edges who are concerned about other things and it looms bigger. When those issues are not at the forefront, it wanes; But overall, every time it waxes bigger, it retains some of those new recruits, so it’s size will grow for some time to come.

It remains to be seen if there is sufficient time left on the Liberty Clock to sustain enough growth at that rate to save the nation. But some of us care about Liberty too much to ever give up on the guarantees in the Constitution, so whether we ultimately prevail, this country will KNOW there was a Tea Party movement, and any who desire to wipe it from the History Books will have a tough sell, as the following is can be safely said: Almost EVERYONE has one in their family, neighborhood, or sphere of experience, and MOSTLY, like them.

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- NigelTufnel
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:19am
  We have a 16 trillion dollar economy and 16 trillion of debt. We are definitely on the fulcrum. The good news is that even progressive governors have come to the realization that they are not going to get any bail-outs from the fed and that they must dig out the conservative monetary playbook and start slashing. The ones to watch are the conservative governors like Walker and Kasuich who are actually holding government entities accountable. We can cut defense from 600 billion to 400 billion a year but that still leaves us with a 900 billion dollar deficit. Obama will spend the next 4 years fending off badly needed reforms to our social programs and cutting only traditional conservative ones. After the news of the 4th quarter contraction, Obama warmed up to cutting the corporate rate to 28% to be on the Euro level. Soros or someone got a hold of him and now he’s off the wagon again. Obama has to do something conservative this year or he won’t have enough time to see the benefits. Railing about guns and birth control isn’t going to turn this economy around. The 1st quarter is always bad and the fourth quarter brings Obamacare straight into the middle class pocketbook. 1st quarter of 2014 brings more taxes for Obamacare. It’s no wonder all the talk is about guns.
  
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RationalMan
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:24pm
I do agree with Savage…get a “National Tea Party Movement” going!!!

http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/g

Not everybody are conservatives, libertarian, democrats,.i.e. We are all “Individuals”…We are all striving for success!….. (Go Tea Party)!

Karl take your Phony Conservative and shove it your a$$!!!

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- RationalMan
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:35pm
  I’m wondering how much Karl paid for Rasmussen poll? (Throwing the polls off)!
  
  Come on Karl how much did you paid Rasmussen?????
  
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- RationalMan
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:42pm
  Oops!
  
  http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com
  
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XdemXrepub
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:22pm
Senator Susan Collins, with a D- rating from Gun Owners of America, is up for re-election in 2014.
I may contribute to her future Primary challenger.

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Patriot Z
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:19pm
i stopped supporting the tea party fully because they dont go far enough. im still a member but its time we knocked off the stupid bbq’s with signs and started to TAKE back the country. we keep looking for our enemies to like us and treat us fair and thast will never happen. the tea party was not a bunch of people with catchy signs. the tea party was patriots taking matters into their own hands and using violence. im sich of the “they dont report when the others do it” OF COURSE NOT. i wish the tea party were as violent as the lame stream makes us out to be, we would have won by now instead of facing 4 more yrs of obbummy power grabs and republican hacks and traitors selling us out

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debrarae
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:48pm
The “Conservatives” are not targeting the “Tea Party”. Establishment, Rino, Republicans are trying to destroy them. They are the Elitists, and God forbid that true conservatives rise to tell ‘them’ they should be true to the conservative principles upon which the Republican Party was founded.

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David Ross
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:45pm
Totallynot, your inept understanding of Christianity doesn’t burst my bubble because it reflects your ignorance, not mine. To understand Christianity is to understand God intended for us to be free and to use free will. Without a lengthy discussion on how that is rooted in the faith I’ll dumb it down for you. It began with Adam and Eve. God could have just made everyone follow his teaching but if you understand true love you know that it does not involve force, coerssion, or Devine power of control. Adam and Eve were warned not to partake of the forbidden fruit. If God were the person of your understanding they would not happen to had a choice, he would have just willed it and it would have been done. Remember that Satan was once an Angel and his choice was to leave heaven and not follow God’s laws. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on Christianity before you attempt to rationalize your disdain of it. Job is a good place to start if you really want to understand God and free will.

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Margyt
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:45pm
The Tea Party isn’t a political party, it is a movement. It is far from dead. If it wants to take on the identity of a political party, it needs to get candidates in local offices and then allow the time for them to make it up the ranks to the state and national offices. Conservatism is alive and well in the states. The GOP need to figure out why that doesn’t translate to national office. They will discover that it is the coalition of MSM sycophants, pop culture lightweights and lying libs selling a line of goods to a helpless and hopeless generation of Americans that is causing the problem. The GOP needs to figure out how to break the cabal. Despite all platitudes, a convenient lie usually wins over the truth in the short term. First, though, they need to figure out what they really stand for and then stand. That is what the Tea Party is all about. How that ever became “extreme” is something worth thinking about.

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OlefromMN
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:44pm
Cancer is not contagious. “Tea Party” principles are. No comparison.

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- revelation2012
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:25pm
  Precious Law of Liberty,,,
  
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RinkyDink34
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:43pm
It sounds like the time has come for a third party = Rand Paul in 2016

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Mike76
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:33pm
Why? I don’t know, but I wonder if Glenn Beck going on Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch and calling them racists for supporting Gingrich had anything to do with it?

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:19am
  Actually, it is the RINOs in the conservative movement that is the cancer. They have been there all along and now they are trying to preserve a dying hulk of nothingness that lost the last election because the “establishment” gave us yet another candidate that could never win because they excluded their base.
  
  It is more than evident that they will never learn by citing the Tea Party as the problem. Just as Ted Cruz said that Obama has drunk the Kool Aid and is high on his own power, the same is true with the establishment wing of the Republican party:
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/ted-cruz-of-texas-says-obama-has-drunk-the-kool-aid-and-is-high-on-his-own-power/
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:41am
  and now they want us to believe that rubio is the great conservative savior…………yea right……………….
  
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- Oldmantex
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:30am
  I dont get why everyone thinks the TEA party is some centrally organized group with speakers. I dont really like some of the people that assigned themselves the title TEA party spokesman. I dont recall voting Bauchman in as the official spokes person.
  
  From what I have seen and from the success I have seen in the house and senate and state and local elections. TEA party people send money to who they like. I wont send a dime to Bauchman. I really wont send any to any party or group. I find out who the person is that the TEA party supports, look into how that person votes and believes, and then send them money.
  
  The real power is in that process and THAT is why the other parties fear the TEA movement. Because its based on people thinking for themselves and then supporting a person, not based on party, but principles. Something neither the Dems or Repubs. can afford.
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 1:34am
  “Why Are Some Conservatives Targeting the Tea Party as a ‘Cancer’?”
  
  Oops, typo. It should be in quotes …
  Why Are Some “Conservatives” Targeting the Tea Party as a ‘Cancer’?
  
  … because this is Progressives(communists) propaganda from the Republican Party. [Oh, and for the record, the Progressives(communists) in the Democrat Party "won" the election by fraud. Not that it would've mattered much -- the opposing candidate was Obama-lite.]
  
  And don’t forget to watch “How your community is implementing AGENDA 21″ (from the Bay Area TEA Party) on YouTube:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEHWsdimVO4
  
  /sarcasm_on/ Yep, the TEA Party is the “cancer” all right. /sarcasm_off/
  
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