What If They Win?
By Kleinheider Posted on October 5, 2009 at 12:51 pmConservative activists are scared the new excitement created by the tea parties will dissipate if Republicans return to power:
Conservative groups, while buoyed by the excitement and support, are trying harness this energy into a lasting movement that will influence elections. I recently spoke with the leader of the Tea Party Patriots, and she mentioned this as her main concern. If Obama keeps ramming policy changes down the throats of Americans, we’re ok. However, what happens if we win in 2010? Will the Tea Party activists be able to hold Big Republicanism in check? Recent history has shown that Republicans can be just as big an enemy to fiscal conservatives as Democrats. A movement that exists to oppose the current administration has a short life-span (as seen by the anti-war protesters that Bush incited). Is is it possible to sustain strong grassroots support over time?
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Aren’t the tea-partiers just a little full of themselves?
Have they added any new members to the GOP?
Have they registered any new voters?
In other words, have they done ANYTHING to verifiably change the voter turn out that will positively affect the GOP in upcoming elections?
Have they done anything but stir up the base?
Didn’t think so.
Those people are so full of it.
Have they added any new members to the GOP?
Have they registered any new voters?
Tea-partiers aren’t members of ACORN. I don’t want to register new members to the GOP, or Democrats. Keeping politicians honest is a full-time task in itself.
Those people are so full of it.
Perfect. Those people. Full of it.
Do you own a mirror?
BWAHAHA! Way to go DADvocate!
Do you see the box you have put yourself into?
The right-wing has spent the last year demonizing a group that registers people to vote. Now, when it comes for elections and you actually do have to go out and register new voters in order to win a race, your own party’s base will look down on it with disdain.
So if the Republican Party or their activist groups try to go out and register voters, will you and the rest of the Teabaggers mock them and call them ACORN?
Wow. This is just hysterical. You people have finally believed your own propaganda so much that you might have just locked up the next 40 years of elections for the Democrats.
I was having a bad day, DAD, but you just turned it all around for me.
What will happen if they win? They will STILL present themselves as an oppressed “silent majority,” just as they did the whole time Congress was Republican and Bush-Cheney were in the White House.
“Perfect. Those people. Full of it.
Do you own a mirror?”
Whooaa!!
It’s insight like that Number9 that adds so much to the discussion.
You are discounting the number of voters that Obama and the Congressional Democrats are losing due to their own actions. It’s not just about recruiting new voters. It’s about education the current voters about what the left & right have been doing to us and the country.