After the primary next Tuesday will the Tea Party groups deflate?
Given all of their pre-primary noise, what happens if they fail to propel any of their candidates into office? Will they go the way of the “Lost Tribes of Ross Perot?”
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I predict the tea party movement will have little impact on the Indiana political landscape in the GOP primary Tuesday. They are all bark and no bite.
The Tea Party movement has been co-opted by the neo-cons. Look at the poll that shows Tea Partiers supporting Coats. Isn't Coats just the sort of career politician/lobbyist that the Tea Partiers supposedly don't care for? The Tea Party could make a difference in this primary, but sadly, it looks like they will help deliver more of the same. I'm starting to believe the liberal talking points-the Tea Partiers are the same mob from the McCain/Palin rallies and now they are just sore losers.
The Ross Perot phenomenon was only about Ross Perot . I plead guilty to having been sucked into voting for him.. When the sky cleared up after his strafing political attacks using financial chart after financial chart … the only conclusion you can reach is that he had zero substance.
Perot made his fortune selling services to the government's Great Society programs. Someone called him America's first welfare billionaire. He made it clear that he believed government was an important part of economic success and he even said he wanted "a massive new transfer program designed to take money away from the prosperous."
He was pro-abortion and actively supported Planned Parenthood and funded an entire gynecological hospital wing where second trimester abortions are performed.
Despite his superficial patriotic image, he has scorned our constitutional framework of representative republicanism as antiquated and inadequate. Perot believes that the main problem with our government is not corrupt people, but a corrupt system.
Perot was not a leader, he was and is a technocrat, which is why he got along so well with government bureaucrats. If the trains run on time the man is happy, but don't bother him with strategic thinking to stop the next terrorist attack.
Gosh! I had to look back to make sure i was writing about Perot, not Obama.
No … Tea Parties are not about bowing down to the Perots and Obamas of the world, they are about standing up for our constitutional rights and the individual freedoms guaranteed therein. (Cue in the music, "Stars and Stripes Forever.")
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On another note … Gosh, Eustace, I didn't realize that conservatives could dislike neo-cons so much. Some of us conservatives also worry about what has to be done to keep the bad guys out there in the world at bay, so we are labeled as "new conservatives".
If a higher than normal percentage of incumbents go down, the Tea Party movement has been successful.
Gadfly, I can see that I need to do a little reading. So "new conservative" is what the War Party are calling themselves these days?
In all sincerity, your post is informative and well-written.
I fear for the future of this country. Let me explain why. Two years ago everyone went crazy for Obama because of the perceived failure of the Bush presidency. Because of all that frenzy the country when to the extreme left and elected Barack Obama president.
Now we have had 18 months of Obama with little to show of it except for a balooning deficit and a bankrupt economy. The economy is showing signs of life, but I think it is just another bubble that will burst and put this country in worse shape than it is now.
Now we are in the mid-term elections and we are in another frenzy, this time to the right. I am a conservative and very concerned about the direction of the country, but we need to take a good look at who we are electing into office. Let us not make the same mistake and go to the extreme like we did 2 years ago.
Eustice:
There is no War Party but there are wars everywhere. I suppose we could just lay down our arms and surrender to the first backwater dictator or Muslim extremist that rattles a saber. Then again we could walk away from our borders and let the illegals in … sorry my bad, we are already doing that now! Even more fun would be to renew our government's approval of the game of Muslims Flying Airplanes.
gad_fly, I assure you there is a War Party. I was unaware that there were backwater dictators or Muslim extremists capable of invading us or even making a credible demand of surrender, whether or not we "lay down our arms"- not that I advocate laying down arms. I suppose those backwaters will need a decent air force before they embark on such an adventure. The most 'successful' of the extremist groups, the CIA created Al Queda, did indeed rely on loose immigration and border controls, and that is precisely where we can prevent future attacks. I agree that the only invasion is at our southern border. If a 'new conservative' could justify another war, their best hope would be with Mexico. Don't those free-trading 'new conservatives' just hate blowback?
Gad-fly, By golly, if the next terrorists to fly planes into our skyscrapers are from Indonesia you neo cons will have all the pretext you need to bomb Iran back to the stone age! Keep hoping, some intelligence agency might be putting that together for you hawks right now.
I am just not sure about going to war against a state because of attacks committed by extremists from that state or a neighboring state. Seems to me, police action, not war, is the proper response. Perhaps we should have gone to war against Yugoslavia because their neighbor, Italy, was the origin of the Mafia. It would have been considered a 'good' war because the Yugoslavs were communists, anyway. As far as Iran, they lack the resources, technology, and even the population to be much of a threat even to their immediate neighbors for at least decades. Not to mention, they have absolutely no history of aggression towards their neighbors. They barely fought to a stalemate with third world power Iraq in a defensive war. File under: all bark-no bite.
The 'new conservatives', who used to be called Great Society Democrats, felt that we must win in Vietnam, too, before we were overrun by Communists. Now, favored trading partner, Vietnam, supplies cheap textiles to the discount stores. If we let some of these third world countries be, maybe their workers can be putting American workers out of jobs in a generation, too.