(thank goodness)
“…”Any incumbent is in trouble,” said Sharon Ferrell, who chairs the East Bay Freedom Fighters, which claims 150 members….”
If you do not grasp the implication of this statement, then you may be one of them.
The Pink Flamingo received an “email” from Sal Russo of the FOX News Tea Party Express. They want to get rid of all incumbents. Some are a little scary. Their goals are getting candidates to do the following;
“End the Bailouts
Reduce the Size and Intrusiveness of Government
Stop the Out of Control Spending
No Government Run Heathcare
Stop Raising our Taxes”
And so the BIG LIE continues.
What the heck do you think our elected Republicans in the House and Senate are trying to do? John McCain is preaching this until he is “blue in the face” but are the tea party “patriots” going to acknowledge his actions? No – he is not “100% pure”.
If you do not grasp the implication then you may have bought into THE BIG LIE.
If you do not grasp the implications then you may need to be de-programmed. If you have donated money to these people you might want to see if you can get it back
THE BIG LIE
There is great big fat lie going around about the GOP and how it has betrayed the “conservative base”. It is being spread by idiots like Alan Keyes. NOTE: The link goes to World Nut Daily, which is the worst grocery store tabloid piece of do-do of the far right. I am loath to link to it, was going to quote from it, but it is incomprehensible dribble. Evidently the little tea party people are using Keyes sour grapes against the GOP to slam the GOP. This should tell you much of what you need to know about him and the whole tea party movement.
The Pink Flamingo has been telling you that there is a problem with the Tea Party “patriots?”. Well, the Boiling Springs, SC tea party patriots are big Alan Keyes flunkies. Need I say more? They have their own little fake Republican, libertarian trained candidate to take out Bob Inglis in SC’s Fourth District. She has been approved by Glenn Beck, praise God!
“...You need to interview Christina Jeffrey. America’s Independent Party (Dr Alan Keyes’ party) you need to interview him as well. Dr Keyes has already has endorsed Christina Jeffrey, and she’s 100% pure,…”
IT IS ALL ABOUT BECK
You don’t think this isn’t about Glenn Beck?
“…Those sympathetic to the Tea Party and the 912 Project – nine principles and 12 values including God, marriage, freedom, honesty and thrift – trumpeted by Fox News commentator Glenn Beck are forming political action committees and rallying around screenings of the newly released “Tea Party: The Documentary Film.”
But the biggest challenge facing the movement is how to organize hundreds of local groups, and dozens of Tea Party leaders nationwide with divergent interests, into a force that can influence elections – and how to fund that effort…”
JIM DEMINT’S AMBITION
Jim DeMint is going around endorsing just about anyone who pretends to be 100% pure. He has endorsed a “pure” candidate in Illinois who apparently is under indictment, or is in trouble for some unethical business practices.
“…Illinois corruption fighter and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin disclosed Monday that Senator Jim DeMint’s “Senate Conservatives Fund” [www.senateconservatives.com/] has been promoting a failed Chicago area real estate “developer Patrick Hughes, whose firm has apparently defaulted on municipal fidelity bonds.
“What has Hughes ‘developed” Martin asks DeMint to explain. “One of Hughes development operations is apparently defunct, another has failed to file annual reports and the firm that lists him as ‘General Counsel’ has been accused by Yorkville, Illinois village officials of a ‘faded and unattractive’ series of site-based advertisements and defaulting on fidelity bonds. ‘Did DeMint do de vetting” Andy asks.
“DeMint conducted a bogus ‘poll’ to promote Hughes. If DeMint & Co. are going to criticize Barack Obama for negligent vetting, should DeMint be held to the same vetting standard he expects of others Martin says. “Is this a way to elect ‘conservative Republicans Pat Hughes has been very liberal with the truth…”
Pure is pure, right?
“...The Republicans interviewed by Wyman don’t believe the ambition is a presidential run. But it certainly could be a position in the Senate leadership. “Whether DeMint has further ambitions for himself isn’t clear. What is clear, however, is that he is an ideologically-driven man who wants to move the nation to the right,” Wyman writes.
Ironically, the high profile for DeMint has people believing Graham has moved away from conservatism. A National Journal report indicates that is not true. DeMint received a 92 percent conservative rating in 2008 – but Graham’s rating was 85 percent.
Graham should not have to defend his conservative credentials because he attempts to find common ground in Washington. He has been re-elected by South Carolinians and should continue to represent the state in the way he believes is necessary to make progress. For example, he has made a sound case as to why South Carolina has much to gain from being on the ground floor of a new energy policy.
But it’s hard to convince conservatives here at home while DeMint and others are taking hard-line stands against just about any compromise on major issues. Expect DeMint to easily win re-election in 2010. The Public Policy Polling survey found he would beat an unnamed Democratic opponent 47-38 percent. And the Rasmussen poll of likely voters showed DeMint has a 63 percent overall approval rating in South Carolina.
But there is reason for DeMint (as well as Graham in his national profile) to be cautious. South Carolinians are concerned about what is happening here. As the Public Policy Polling results show, as cited by Wyman, 41 percent of South Carolina voters say DeMint is focusing too much on his national political goals, to only 29 percent who said his priority was home-state concerns….”
ATTACKING REPUBLICANS
Lindsey is not the only one the Tea Party people are targeting.
“…Michael Leahy of the Washington Post offers a California snapshot on the ideological war happening within the Republican Party. The protagonist is Assemblyman Anthony Adams, a humble sweater-donning “citizen politician.” Despite his solidly conservative voting record, the GOP politician has been harassed by a right-wing recall effort all because he voted for Schwarzenegger’s tax-increasing compromise budget.
The story mentions that Adams became the target of frequent death threats, but glosses over the extent to which two unnamed conservative talk show hosts stirred up this extreme anger. John and Ken — a wildly popular duo of “white men” who “have a right to be angry” — come from the Glenn Beck school of political commentary. Apparently, as soon as Adams told the Sacramento Bee he was considering support of the budget weeks before the vote, John and Ken responded by circulating an image of Adams’ decapitated head on a stick — an image embraced by California’s tea party protesters. In a Fault Lines documentary aired earlier this year, John excitedly described his exploits:
We were beating the governor in effigy. We had Governor Schwarzenegger naked and upside down as a piñata, and we had kids beating him with baseball bats until gold coins came out. [...] And then we were feeding him into a giant shredder mounted on the inside of a truck. And the first rally was particularly angry. People really were in a mood to kill. If we had given the signal, they would have stormed Fullerton and burned it down.
Like Beck, John and Ken playfully blur the line between impassioned rhetoric and calls for political violence. When Sen. Lindsey Graham similarly violated conservative orthodoxy by reaching out to negotiate a climate change bill, he was met by an almost identical response. Shortly after Beck dubbed Graham a target, attack ads went on the air, a roving truck featured a dummy Graham being flushed down a toilet, enraged activists flooded his town halls, and a right-wing party chair issued a censure….”
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