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Title: GOP contemplates embracing tea-partiers
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news ... g-tea-partiers-2009-04-16.html
Published: Apr 16, 2009
Author: Reid Wilson
Post Date: 2009-04-16 23:25:43 by Rotara
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GOP contemplates embracing tea-partiers Republicans are contemplating how to involve thousands of anti-tax protesters in rebuilding their fractured party a day after nationwide tax-day tea parties drew widespread attention. "We should embrace them," House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Hill on Thursday. "These are Americans who believe that their government, at all levels, are going in the wrong direction and they're tired of it." "This party has always been based on movements of individuals," McCarthy said. "People are frustrated, and the one thing you see with the tea parties is that they're not being organized by elected officials." Though President Obama maintains sky-high approval ratings, several Republicans suggested the anger they witnessed may be the beginnings of a re-energized base capable of propelling their party back into contention. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the Republican who has clashed more with the administration than just about any other public official, said he foresees a "genuine voter backlash, and there's probably a lot more to come with that." Most party leaders and strategists say it is not a matter of whether to involve the so-called tea-partiers, but how best to harness the new anger for political gain. Some go so far as to suggest the protests are signs that the GOP has finally found the vehicle it needs to get back to the majority. "This is very cathartic for the conservative movement," said veteran party strategist Craig Shirley, who has penned a biography of former President Reagan. "It means the movement is becoming re-Reaganized. It's becoming a populist movement again." "The Republican base was shrinking and depressed after the past two elections. Having activists organized on the ground and online is something the party should want," added Doug Heye, a GOP strategist. "The challenge now is how to positively channel that energy into electoral gains in the off-year and midterm elections." "Barack Obama created a populist movement right in front of our eyes," said Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. "Now that populist movement he created has thrown a question mark up." Said Dawson of the protesters he saw Wednesday: "It is part of the Republican movement. You see some libertarian faces there, and the Republican Party has got to practice the politics of addition, not subtraction." Still, the question of where the movement goes from here remains up in the air, with few evincing any urge to do anything to stand in protesters' way and with all insisting the events were organized independent of any national coordinating effort. "We want to help in any way we can, but this is not us doing it," McCarthy said. "We'll see," Boehner said when asked the direction in which the tea parties are headed. "But clearly they're responding to a lot of what we've had to say in Washington over the past couple of months." Though some in the GOP see protesters as distracting from a uniform message for a party struggling to define itself as something other than naysayers, others suggest the intensity of the tea party protests will rob party leaders in Washington of the option of ignoring them. "The flow of power has shifted. It's moving downward, not upward," Shirley said. "These people are in charge, not [new Republican National Committee Chairman] Michael Steele." Asked whether Republicans should embrace the protesters, Shirley said simply: "I don't think they have any choice." "Will they find a place? I think so, but a lot of it will depend on us and our candidates. We're going to have to sell ourselves to them," said Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman who attended a tea party in Lansing. "We may be the default place for them to go, because the alternative, the Democrats, is so bad," Anuzis said. "It's by no means a slam-dunk." Poster Comment: Posted: 04/16/09 02:27 PM [ET]
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#77. To: Rotara (#75)
Yup, just about the entire bunch with only a few exceptions.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
Someone may have already asked this question but I have just read the article--if the question is redundant disregard it but isn't that Anuzis guy the one who wanted to exclude Ron Paul from the alleged "debates"?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. FOAD ;) You captured my sentiments exactly.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. i heard a clearchannel host say on the 15th that 'there were never any tea parties while bush was in office' which is pure bunk and easily disproven, but not really worth the effort. this whole tea party thing and the GOP establishment embrace of it was probably meant to, among other things, disgust true revolters to never want to go to a tea party again. i know the whle idea of a tea party is soured for me now. i do not want to stand around with a bunch of republicans
Glory to God in the highest, and Peace to His people on Earth. Good points. Ron Paul set the precedent for being a C4L Repubican. I am at war with the National Globalist Party and remaking it isn't in the works.
I believe that anyone who can buy my vote should get it. ahaha.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. You little whore. What's your price ? ehehe
Or commit suicide by stabbing themselves 27 times in the chest while their arms are behind their backs in handcuffs. Or maybe the way that the cop who knew too much about the Oklahoma City bombing (Terry Yeakey)--they claimed he was a suicide too but if you read what happened to him before he died you know that's a bald-faced like. The bullet's entrance wound was in the right temple, above the eye. It went through the policeman's head and exited in the area of the left cheek, near the bottom of the ear lobe line. The trajectory was from a 40-45 degree angle above his head. There were no powder burns. No weapon was ever reported as found at the scene, but independent investigators speculated that had Yeakey shot himself with standard police issue - a Glock 9mm or a .357 Magnum - his head would have been far more destroyed than it apparently was. One of the last people Officer Yeakey talked to was a friend who knew he was on a mission of private investigation. Terry had told him that he was on his way to El Reno to check out something but first he had to shake the FBI agents who were following him. He was traveling in his private automobile, and witnesses said later that the inside looked like someone had "butchered a hog" on the front seat. While political assassinations within American borders have become more prevalent in recent years, the ploy to place the blame on someone else - even the victim himself - is nothing new. Neither is the gullibility of the American public...." Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. What's your price ? ehehe Pretty high. And part of it is agreeing with me politically and I am a fan of Frederic Bastiat.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. You drive a hard bargain !
Well, let me know if you decide to run for something and, if the price is right, you can have my vote. Can't say fairer than that, eh? LOL!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I was told but afraid it didn't stick.
I'm running for the beach amigo !!
You know where to send the money, right?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ?
? Whachu talkin' 'bout, Willis?!?!? No, that ain't right.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ?
Oh I concur that our single-party system leads to frauds. I'm just saying that the way to win is to OBEY the Tea Parties.
I know that and now apparently the R wing of the NGP knows that too. After what they did to Ron Paul. I hope patriots and the newly awakened are smart / wise enough not to fall for it.
I hear ya. I hate it when that happens LOL. I was just curious, it seems as though so many are stuck on a particular person or party. Although perhaps we are witnessing an awakening. I guess we wont know until the next event. I'm glad for anyone who begins to see a little clearer. I mean really there are so many reasons to question and mistrust the gov right now.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
I remember Officer Yeakey's death very well. He was African American and a family man and he was apparently well thought of in the cop community. But, when the FEDs (and the SPLC covering for their agent-provocateur in Elohim City Andreas Strassmeier) decided that The militia (GASP!) was taking the rap for that terrible crime any evidence that proved "ill fitting" had to be destroyed. And, this murder of an African American police officer is the best evidence of the phony crocodile tears that Morris Dees and his all white band of executive SPLC staff cry for the downtrodden minorities in The US. Like all commie fronts they only use blacks to keep the doors open for their commie foreign agents and themselves. (Dees reportedly has sexual appetites that run to the extreme and unlawful.)
Yeah, I agree. Morris Dees is lower than whale dung in the bottom of the Mariannas Trench and one of those people who wouldn't be missed for months (maybe ever) by anyone other than those who help him con the naive and gullible. WHO KILLED [Officer] TERRY YEAKEY? Link to a good article about Terry Yeakey for anyone who might be interested.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Reading it makes me burn inside all over again. It makes me think thoughts I shouldn't be thinking. Savage, cruel, un-Christian things. If some gray alien ever leaves his UFO double parked and I get the chance, I'm swiping it. And, after a few trial and error tests if I succeed in learning how to fire the weapons on board then some murdering sumbitches ain't gonna believe what happens next. "You guys ain't gonna believe how pinpoint accurate this energy beam weapon is! And, by the way, have you ever wondered what it would be like to have to squat to pee?" Well, I"M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN YOUR NAMES IN THE SNOW FOR THE LAST TIME!!!
~#-)
R labeled candidates need to have the Ron Paul Stamp of Approval now for the newly awakened to pull the lever for them, methinks. Its a process - it will take a while.
We're down to months. I don't have anymore realistic (or unrealistic) hope left. Next phase.
Yeah, I know how you feel. Isn't it amazing that they murdered him the way they did and then expect people to believe their bs about suicide?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. When I picture the sheer horror and think of the cruelty of those bastards who killed Terry Yeakey I wouldn't second guess Our Creator if Idi Amin was sent as the avenging angel. His brand of terror was positively sublime and quite possibly appropriate to the circumstances of punishing soulless govt hit men, CIA spooks, DIA and DOJ "interrogators" and the politicians that unleash and insulate these animals. And, let's not forget The Clintons' and Spike Reno's complicity in that evil business. And, if ever a case warranted a change of venue in the interest of justice McVeigh's trial did only to be ignored when inconvenient for the govt and their fellow demon conspirators. And, the case was even assigned to Judge Richard P. Matsch who was properly cured and rid of his judicial independence when his daughter "fell" into an active volcano several years before. as FDR said "In politics, nothing happens by chance" or words to that effect. How did we ever allow these beasts to rule over us and to completely insulate themselves from the administration of justice?
We won't like the answers I'm sure.
To suggest that "Americans were asleep at the wheel" is a great stretch of kindness that we may not deserve.
I know
I can only hope that their arrogance contains within it the seeds of their own destruction.
I wish I knew. I wish I knew why people didn't rise up and hang the members of the Supreme Court who ruled in Julliard v. Greenman that the government had the authority under the Constitution to foist paper money off on us (and of course any honest reading of the Constitution and knowledge of the debates surrounding the adoption of it proves them wrong). I wish I knew why people didn't rise up and hang Woodrow Wilson who facilitated two of the biggest cons ever perpetrated on the American people, the Federal Reserve Bank and the 16th amendment (got 'em both in the same year). I wish I knew why people didn't rebel and hang that communist Federal Deficit Russianvelt for taking up all the gold. And that is just the beginning of the b@$tards I would like to see doing a rope dance.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Do I dare defend an unwitting mass of sheeple that were brainwashed, suckered and ultimately duped by appealing to their most base flaws ?? I didn't think so...lol
How about all of the false flag wars where they MURDERED our own people to start NWO wars ?
Every time I think of that day I remember that people tried to exit the lower floors (of Towers One & Two) on the stairs only to be turned around, presumably to keep them inside and to guarantee a shockingly high body count. And, then I want to flip out on someone.
-tearing up-
I never understood the need for primaries. The parties should convention and select their candidate on their own dime and then the selected candidate from each party put on the final ballot. That way the taxpayers don't get stuck paying for all those silly primaries most of which have no bearing on the final outcome.
I tend to estimate well, but I'd say we need 9-14 to get things rocking. We probably have 3-6.
They are lying frauds. Traitors. I remember what they did to Ron Paul, the last great hope politically. Eff'em
#78. To: Rotara (#0)
"Will they find a place? I think so, but a lot of it will depend on us and our candidates. We're going to have to sell ourselves to them," said Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman who attended a tea party in Lansing.
Lord Acton
#79. To: christine (#14)
"We may be the default place for them to go, because the alternative, the Democrats, is so bad,"
Lord Acton
#80. To: Rotara (#0)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#81. To: Artisan (#80)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#82. To: Rotara (#60)
I believe that anyone that can pay to register should get a shot to earn my vote.
Lord Acton
#83. To: James Deffenbach (#82)
(Edited)
LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#84. To: HOUNDDAWG (#71)
But, none may criticize the royal families of banking and finance lest his or her plane falls from the sky or he/she ends up swinging from a rope under a bridge in the old Italian P2 tradition.
"...The official report said "Suicide," and anyone who believes an ANFO bomb destroyed Murrah and the other surrounding buildings will believe this. According to the report, Terry slashed himself eleven times on both forearms before cutting his own throat twice near the jugular vein. Then, apparently seeking even a more private place to die, he crawled another mile of rough terrain away from his car and climbed a fence, before shooting himself in the head with a small caliber revolver. What appeared to be rope burns on his neck, handcuff bruises to his wrists, and muddy grass imbedded in his slash wounds strongly indicated that he had some help in traversing this final distance.
Lord Acton
#85. To: Rotara (#83)
You little whore.
Lord Acton
#86. To: James Deffenbach (#85)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#87. To: Rotara (#86)
Lord Acton
#88. To: phantom patriot (#76)
What finally woke her up?
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#89. To: James Deffenbach (#87)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#90. To: Rotara (#89)
Lord Acton
#91. To: James Deffenbach (#90)
123 Bucklemyshoe Lane
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#92. To: Rotara (#91)
123 Bucklemyshoe Lane
Lord Acton
#93. To: James Deffenbach (#92)
456 Pickupsticks Rd
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#94. To: Rotara (#75)
#95. To: mirage (#94)
I'm just saying that the way to win is to OBEY the Tea Parties.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#96. To: farmfriend (#88)
I was told but afraid it didn't stick.
#97. To: James Deffenbach (#84)
#98. To: HOUNDDAWG (#97)
bump
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#99. To: HOUNDDAWG (#97)
Lord Acton
#100. To: James Deffenbach (#99)
#101. To: HOUNDDAWG (#100)
I resemble that remark.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#102. To: Rotara (#95)
I hope patriots and the newly awakened are smart / wise enough not to fall for it.
#103. To: mirage (#102)
Its a process - it will take a while.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#104. To: HOUNDDAWG (#100)
If some gray alien ever leaves his UFO double parked and I get the chance, I'm swiping it. And, after a few trial and error tests if I succeed in learning how to fire the weapons on board then some murdering sumbitches ain't gonna believe what happens next.
Lord Acton
#105. To: Rotara, James Deffenbach (#101)
(Edited)
#106. To: HOUNDDAWG (#105)
How did we ever allow these beasts to rule over us and to completely insulate themselves from the administration of justice?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#107. To: Rotara (#106)
We won't like the answers I'm sure.
#108. To: HOUNDDAWG (#107)
I know
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#109. To: James Deffenbach (#104)
Yeah, I know how you feel. Isn't it amazing that they murdered him the way they did and then expect people to believe their bs about suicide?
#110. To: HOUNDDAWG (#105)
Lord Acton
#111. To: HOUNDDAWG (#107)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#112. To: James Deffenbach (#110)
What you said
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#113. To: Rotara, James Deffenbach (#112)
How about all of the false flag wars where they MURDERED our own people to start NWO wars ?
#114. To: HOUNDDAWG (#113)
The 9-11 jumpers; they didn't "jump"
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#115. To: abraxas (#67)
Open primary would be great if the funding wasn't coming from corporate interests for just two parties, while the rest are treated like red-headed step children. Without addressing that issue, it's more bs. Fair has to do with who is paying to put these crooks in office. The people vote based on paid for dubious campaign ads.
#116. To: Rotara (#103)
We're down to months.
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