Trouble for TeaBaggers?
February 4, 2010 by Dusty
From TPM Muckraker:
Sphere: Related ContentCNN has a lengthy (for TV) report on the infighting that, as we’ve detailed, is besetting the Tea Party movement.
The high-note comes when CNN gets on camera the GOP consultants who run the Tea Party Express to answer charges that their “grassroots” Tea Party group is little more than a front for the Republican Party.
Says Joe Wierzbicki of Russo, Marsh:
I think what you’ll find is, at Tea Party rallies, a lot of the people who are mad at the Republican Party, many of them are Republicans themselves.
We’d asked similar questions of Russo, Marsh, which is run by California Republican political operative Sal Russo, but never gotten a response.
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Yeah, all those angry Americans are just astroturf… Just ask Creigh Deids, Jon Corzine or whatshername who lost to Scott Brown.
Some dude named Kennedy was a third-party candidate in Mass and claimed to be the tea party candidate. Where’d it get him? The teabaggers can splinter into a thousand competing factions and it still won’t matter. They won’t be voting Democrat this November…
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Saying they’re conservatives and not republicans is a way of distancing themselves from Bush. What bugs me is they’re tainting the indenpendent gene pool. Talking heads say the independents are shifting to the right and I’m calling bs on that. Yeah, we’re fed up with democrat pussies in congress, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to associate with tea bag lunacy or revert to republican trolls.
The headless chickens, arms waving frantically in the air, running around the “Lesson of Massachusetts” have already forgotten about the “Lesson of New York’s 23rd congressional district special election.” Independents won’t vote for party hacks and when they’re looking for alternatives, they’re not going to settle on a goon.
Good luck to republicans counting on the tea baggers in November. What was good for Louis the XVI ended up being good for Robespierre.
I would think you would welcome Bush voters saying they made a mistake. I am one. I think he was a great guy as politicians go, but he spent us into oblivion and grew government more than Clinton and Carter combined.
We’ll find out this November. Until then it’s all just blather. I hope the dems ram everything on their agenda through before then so the decision is an easy one for everybody on all sides.
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Silverfiddle, what beat those people were the INDEPENDENTS dude. The idiot teabaggers are a very small section of uneducated yahoo’s that haven’t got a clue.
How many times do I have to tell you that I am not a Democrat and hold no allegiance to that party of carpetbagging assholes.
bullet-proof vest exist because they protect your vital organs, and although it would suck hardcore to get shot in the crotch, you have a much better chance of surviving than if you were shot in the heart. although it is a friggin good idea.
I do welcome Bush voters and all Americans admitting they made a mistake, which doesn’t contradict anything I’ve said previously.
The two years that will have elapsed by the November election would have been a good time to get something done on healthcare, but will voters reward the party that totally stonewalled any positive effort to improve their lives in order to deny Obama a political victory?
I’ll toss the republicans this bone; they exposed a score of democrats as slimy whores, up to their ears in feces-ridden politics-as-usual. Trouble is, tar-and-feathering in Washington is a messy affair that sticks to ones hands long after the elections.
A great shame is upon both parties. As an independent that never has been a member of our one-party system and never will, I also look forward to November. If republicans sweep in on their agenda of negativity, it will only feed my cynical pessemism which always gets a hearty laugh from farce.
A great shame is upon both parties. Truer words were never spoken Robb. No one here at Sirens is delusional enough to think the Dems are above anything morally reprehensible. With Obama’s DOJ supporting many of Bush’s practices..like wiretapping Americans without a warrant, just as an example..no one should think much will change in the long run.
Same shit, just a different party in power. The more things..cough..change..the more they remain the same.
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