Which came first, the tea party movement or Glenn Beck’s big mouth? Are they simply a figment of Beck’s ambition or are they an actual populist movement?
Is Beck a bad influence on Sarah Palin who is hinting about a Third Party run in 2012?
Regular Pink Flamingo readers should know by now that The Pink Flamingo has been less than complementary of the tea party movement, the methods, leadership, and the dubious associations involved in it. Would there be a tea party movement without Beck’s ego or FOX News? Somehow I doubt it.
Rasmussen now has information that Beck’s monster is going after the GOP like PACMAN. The real problem is there is no outlet for positive news about the GOP. We are hammered on all sides. Far Right Talk Radio is killing us. The only rational person out there is Michael Medved. FOX is now the property of Losertarians. Republicans do not get a break or positive coverage.
Very few blogs are like The Pink Flamingo, willing to state out front they are Republican and are interested in rational conservative behavior. But, there is no normal. There is no rational. There are only Glenn Beck, Losertarians, far right talking heads, and blogs who do nothing but denigrate the GOP.
Now though, with Beck having over-stepped his ego several times, are we seeing the beginning of the end of Beck and those little tea party “patriots”? If Rasmussen is correct, we may be watching the beginning of a populist movement that will destroy the country.
The Politico has an interesting article about the fund raising cash cow that is the tea party “patriot” movement.
“...It’s impossible to gauge how much of those groups’ funding comes from the gras-sroots versus huge individual or corporate donations, since the groups aren’t subject to mandatory disclosure rules. But what is known of their finances — for example, that most of Americans for Limited Government’s $4 million budget comes from large donors including New York real estate magnate Howard Rich, while Americans for Prosperity is funded in part by interests affiliated with its founder manufacturing tycoon David Koch — have yielded charges from the left that the groups are drumming up fake grass-roots’ opposition to Democratic initiatives….”
Dick Armey is one of the movers and shakers behind the tea party movement.
“…But after Scozzafava made her seven-out-of-ten assertion, Smith asked a new question of Armey, about whether the right’s efforts in the 23rd could be considered a success. A reasonable question, no doubt, but one that left Armey painting in broad strokes. Scozzafava, he said, had always been a “bad fit” for the race and that she’d been “dropping like a brick” even before Doug Hoffman decided to run on the Conservative Party line.
“The fact of the matter was even the Democrat was running against her as a big
spender,” Armey offered. “She was a bad fit for that race. Had there been an electoral primary process, she wouldn’t have won the primary, she wouldn’t have been the candidate, and the Republican would win that race.”
It wasn’t until several minutes later, after Smith bantered with the segment’s other guest, former R.N.C. Chairman Ed Gillespie, that Scozzafava was able to speak up again. She’d actually been ahead by seven points in mid-October, Scozzafava asserted, when “all of a sudden” national conservatives “flooded the market, distorted my record.” On what specific issues her record was distorted wasn’t discussed, and the segment ended moments later.
Casual viewers were left with only a vague sense of why Armey and his allies were so vehemently opposed to Scozzafava – and why, by extension, ideological discipline has suddenly become the G.O.P. base’s driving cause.
But this is a phenomenon that will play a major role in next year’s elections. By inducing a dialogue between Scozzafava and Armey, “Face the Nation” could have explored how much of it is rational and how much of it is emotional. Instead, we got more principled-sounding rhetoric that doesn’t really tell us much of anything….”
Ruffini analizes the Tea Party “patriot?” movement:
“...Though a curiosity, Congressional GOP approval is actually irrelevant to next year’s election results. That’s because a big chunk of the disapproval comes from the “Tea Party” that thinks the GOP is not doing enough fast enough. Combined, the Teapublicans get 41 percent of the vote to the Democrats’ 36 percent. If I’m solely concerned with electoral strategy, I want people to be highly motivated to vote, because turnout is everything in a midterm. And the more Tea’d off these voters are, the better for Republicans. The good news for Democrats is that a mythical right-wing splinter party splits the base down the middle. The bad news is that they still vote Republican in a two-way, and the Tea Partiers are singlehandedly driving a massive enthusiasm gap over the left that renders a Republican victory even more likely. As we saw in 2006 and 2008, enthusiasm gaps matter….”
The Tea Party People seem to be big supporters of Ron Paul, who is a person I consider a coward, traitor, and would willingly sell this nation out to our enemies. Paul recently wrote a passage about the War on Terror that made me cringe. If this is what the tea parties are all about, I am very glad I never joined. If this is the Losertarian mind-set, I am glad I am a Neo-Con Republican!
“…Responses to attacks on our soil should be swift and brief. Wars we fight should always be defensive, clearly defined and Constitutional. The Bush Doctrine of targeting potential enemies before they do anything to us is dangerously vague and easily abused. There is nothing left to win in Afghanistan and everything to lose. Today’s military actions are yet another futile exercise in nation building and have nothing to do with our nation’s security, or with 9/11. Most experts agree that Bin Laden and anyone remotely connected to 9/11 left Afghanistan long ago, but our troops remain. The pressures of the war racketeers need to be put in check before we are brought to our knees by them. Unfortunately, it will require a mighty effort by the people to get the leadership to finally listen….”
This stupidity is NOT how you win. It is how you lose. It’s too bad people like Beck aren’t honest about Ron Paul and his Losertarian values of not wanting to defend our country. Then again there could be so many eggs on so many faces that maybe people just don’t want to be honest about this repulsive populist mess that is threatening to destroy our country.
Way to go tea party traitors.
I call it suicide by stupidity
