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EMail Doodlings – “How the can this movement support this insider?!?!?!?!?!” (Part 1)

There is one very upset and confused guy on one of the email lists I’m on; a Libertarian TEA Party kind of guy, he JUST cannot for the life of him, understand why Newt Gingrich is surging so with Movement Conservatives.  And why TEA Partiers are flocking to Newt just is beyond his comprehension.  So, the above question uttered from his fingertips.  Never wishing to leave a challenge undone, I answered:  “A tool“.  Now, in many groups, that would be fightin’ words – in this case, merely “a tool with which to achieve an end”. And I wish, at the time, that I had thought of that two word answer.  Silly me, had to go and use a whole bunch more instead (H/T: Gallup for the chart) (lightly edited):

I will agree with you that beating Obama is not a done deal.  We all, as uber-political junkies know that because we know that a lot of effort is going to be done by the vast Left Wing / Union conspiracy in their GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts.  We all, from our lofty positions (heh!) known that many people are not really all that knowledgeable about ALL the issues and all of the nuances thereof, and will therefore , may well vote for Obama.  Again.

Being here in NH, I can tell you the overriding issue to Movement Conservatives and TEA Partiers is not to beat Obama right now but to beat Romney.  That is the near term issue that is forefront on every TEA Party / 9-12 / Conservative’s mind.  Five weeks to go.

The Libertarian part of the Republican Party has already…

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Will Libertarians Help Obama Win Re-election?

It is rumored that Governor Gary Johnson might consider a third party run as the Libertarian candidate.  Given that a center right GOP electorate will not be nominating Ron Paul, and Ron Paul seems to have enough sense not to split the party himself, a Johnson third party run presents some interesting possibilities, including the likely reelection of Barack Obama and the knock out punch to the America the Libertarians swear they are defending.

Even if Johnson is right to argue that he has been ignored by the media is having a hissy fit really the answer?  There is no third party electoral victory in America and only an arrogant fool would think otherwise.  The Best hope we have is to continue taking over the GOP and replacing its moderate leadership from below.

But I think the elites in the liberty movement are too impatient for incremental change. Many of the "principled" libertarians are so possessed of their own agenda that they would split the vote giving Obama and the czars four more years of liberty destroying power, rather than elect any other Republican as a stop gap until they can make further in-roads into the party establishment.

A Johnson third party run could be the best thing to happen to Obama since the Media.

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NH Democrats Painted Into A Racist Corner?

…given that the super-majority of people casting ballots in the (Democrat) primary contest will be white, will voting against Joann Dowdell in the Democrat primary be considered racist, or will voting for her be be considered racist?

TEA Party vs Occupy Wall Street

I ran across this at The Lonely Conservative – a perfect info-graphic showing the issue that binds the TEA Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements together…

(larger version here)

…and where they rapidly diverge on both the cause and the cure.  Sure, the problem is that of crony capitalism / corporatism:

The unholy alliance where politically connected biz people exploit politicians AND bureaucrats for both profit and advantages over their competitors, as well as the converse of politicians AND bureaucrats exploit the marketplace to both extend their political power as well as to attempt to achieve their ideological ends.

I have one more video to post from two weeks ago that aptly demonstrates this point:  The TEA Party believes that Government is too big; so big that there are too many "points of entry" for lobbyists (both for profit AND non-profits) to gain advantages that normal folks cannot.  By reducing the size of government, the number of points disappear and Government is easier to keep accountable (less "dark corners" have to be patrolled). Constitution?  The TEA Party believes that with its Checks and Balances, it is the most magnificent document ever created to protect the most radical idea ever conceived: that government exists to protect Individual Liberty and Freedom.

In essence, pushing government back into the bottle and lessening its reach – and thus making it less attractive for influence as Society re-exerts its traditional role of determining how Society will function (instead of being ruled from DC and its phalanx of bureaucrats).  Self-reliance is not an abstract idea.

OWS, while agreeing there is a problem, totally disagrees with the

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Its Time to Ignore Liberal Bullying

To the Editor:   

Mr. Veverka and Mr. Hightower would have you believe that any time a liberal imagines a need, the government should reach into your pocket, or at least your neighbor’s pocket, and take your (or his) money.  Or, more accurately, the government should borrow money from the Chinese for which we promise repayment of principal, interest, and a little bit of the opportunities, freedom, and standard of living of our children, grandchildren, and future generations of Americans.  

Anyone who does not immediately jump at this “bargain” will be the target of name calling, lies, and hysterical personal attacks.  This intimidation is to blame for a significant amount of our current approximately $15 trillion national debt and so many flawed government programs.         

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Response to Attacks on Republicans for PAYGO

To the Editor:

Apparently I can read better than Mr. Veverka can hear.  In his October 6th letter in the Laconia Daily Sun, Mr. Veverka adamantly assured us the term “TEA Party” did not exist in the Hightower article referenced by my letter.  “TEA Party” can found near the beginning of paragraph 8.  

The focus of my letter was on the TEA Party, what it is and isn‘t, its criticisms of both parties and wasteful government operations, and its focus on principles, not political party.  My letter was inspired by the Hightower column, the most recent (at the time) attempt to malign the TEA Party and its principles.  

Hightower’s article and Veverka’s letter are just partisan attack pieces.  It is  a common liberal technique to attack anyone who tries to stop or even slow the growth of government.  Anyone who won’t cave to whatever liberals demand will be smeared.  It doesn’t matter whether the program works, is worth the cost, is counter-productive, or is affordable.  

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The TEA Party is for America not for a Political Party

Jim Hightower’s recent article titled, “Playing politics with humanitarian aid”, (see Jim Hightower.com) is just another anti-TEA Party screed falsely attempting to link it with the Republican Party.  The article can be summarized:  Republicans and TEA Partiers cannot complain about Democrat wasteful and irresponsible spending which rewards Democrat supporters because Republicans similarly spend to reward Republican supporters. 

The TEA Party objects, equally strenuously, to wasteful and irresponsible spending by both parties.  

The TEA Party believes that politicians in Washington are only authorized to raise and spend money to pay for Constitutionally authorized functions.   Politicians are not authorized to tax or borrow money to reward friends or to buy political support.          
   

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Inane Jane-ane Gar ‘awful’ oh

Janeane Garofalo should have her own breakfast cereal.   It would have to come in a small, narrow box.  We’d call it Gar ‘Awful" Oh’s, and it would come with the bitter taste of guilt.  Left wing guilt.  Guilt that makes you say and do incredibly stupid things.  Because that is who and what Gar-awful-oh is, the poster child of this inanity about racism.

People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.

Sound like projection?

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Introducing The Morgan Freeman Rule

Morgan FreemanMr. Freeman is not the first but the most recent left winger to publicly declare their partisan ignorance on the matter of racism and the TEA party.  It is a shame really.  I like Mr. Freeman’s work.  And while I will continue to appreciate his other contributions to the culture, this most recent addition may prove to be one of his greatest.  For he has provided us with another name for the lefts poisonous and ignorant rhetoric on race, and a new template with which to apply it.

If objecting to  Mr. Obama’s lack of leadership, poor policy choices, and a destructive economic agenda is considered racist, then the "Morgan Freeman Rule" identifies as racist, anyone who speaks in opposition to the job performance of someone who is black.

It also exemplifies a narrowness of left leaning minds that requires them to assume objections must be based on the color of skin and not the character or choices of the man beneath it.

So having been handed this template I am more than willing to apply it to the real world with an equality no leftist ever would.

The entire staff at ESPN are racists.

 

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Old Establishment Scared…The Liberty Wing Needs To Double Down –

I just happen to know who thinks they are in charge. I know who pulled the levers that lead to the establishment coup. I’m just working out the details, putting the time line together. Chasing the money. It may take days or even weeks, but I’ll get it all worked out. and I will share it with you. I’m patient like that.

GrokTV Event: TEA Party Express Manchester – Potpourri

This was a real full weekend – Gov. Rick Perry at Senator Gordon Humphrey’s, TEA Party Express in Concord, TEA Party Express in Manchester, with a trip to the gun show in Concord (nothing), back to the Belmont range (three new Second Amendment tools and a range renewal, and then a return trip on Monday just to play a bit).  So, getting the videos processed and posted is, well, not exactly time friendly. 

So, consider this a Grab Bag of videos from a number of events.  Let’s start with the last one: TEA Party Express at Manchester.  This is of the introductory ceremonies including the National Anthem.  The image that will always stick with me is the newly minted Marine standing stiffly at attention in his dress blues (honor Marine at boot camp?) with a crisp hand salute.  Then when Sarah Palin spoke, she pointed over to him to acknowledge his presence when she spoke about our military.

Introductory ceremonies

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GrokTV Event: TEA Party Express – Corey Lewandowski, Stacy McCain

Well, even though returned from yet another TEA Party Express event today (where Sarah Palin was the headline speaker), I have still a few more videos to put up. Although the TEA Party Express (and the PAC behind it) is the main sponsor of their tour that took them to Concord last night and Manchester … Read more

GrokTV Event: The “Anti-“TEA Party event

Well, not only was there a TEA Party Express last night at Rollins Park in Concord, there was contingent of NH TEA Party folks there were there, not so much to be "anti-TEA Party Express" but more "anti-Romney" as I said in the post of Mitt’s talk:

Included in that number were folks who were protesting the TEA Party Express in that they saw TPE giving Mitt Romney a "TEA Party photo op" and, perhaps, the thinnest veneer of a TEA Party coattail.

Much was made in the genesis of the TEA Party movement that the politicians, the political class, has defrauded the American public and its founding principles. Thus, pols of all stripes were held at bay and at arms’ length – and I agreed with that at the time.  However, as protest after protest was held against both Republicans and Democrats, it became clear that the movement had to hold to its core principles of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and the free market place.  And become involved in politics to see those principles adhered to by our government.  And no going back – as these folks stood up for.  They don’t believe that Mitt Romney, who has not reached out to the TEA Party here in NH where he has a home, has had an epiphany upon a TEA Party road to Damascas:

Note: in speaking with someone in the know, watch what the TEA Party Express does in the near to mid term future – it was not so much that they all were all that enamored with Mitt as it was part of having the upcoming Presidential debate in conjunction with CNN.  So, they may have had to "make nice" for now – while getting the knife sharpening wheel started going round…

 

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A NH based TEA Party – holding PSNH’s feet to the fire?

TEA Party groups continue to pop up all over the State as more and more folks continue to awaken to the fact that Government has been running amok.  In addition, via crony capitalism and "special favors", big government has decided not to compete and succeed in the free marketplace but use the force of Government … Read more

GrokTV Event: TEA Party Express – Mitt Romney

Tonite the TEA Party Express rolled into town.  Tonite, the main draw was former MA Governor Mitt Romney (who also has a home in Wolfeboro, NH) and there were quite a few folks there to see him. Included in that number were folks who were protesting the TEA Party Express in that they saw TPE … Read more

Legitimacy? No, you’re not the one the has the final say, ma’am.

I had originally come across this post at the WaPo as it seemed to want to pit the Tea Party Express folks against the FreedomWorks folks over whether or not to have Mitt Romney in for a speech (full disclosure: I have met and worked with folks in both groups): 

"FreedomWorks is pulling out of a nationwide bus tour led by Tea Party Express over the inclusion of 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a speaker, saying the group cannot endorse any event where the former Massachusetts governor speaks…

…The split signifies a growing divide between two groups that represent the ‘establishment’ of the tea party movement.

FreedomWorks was founded by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Tea Party Express was launched by longtime California GOP operative Sal Russo. Neither group shied away from backing insurgent challengers against longtime Republicans in 2010.

But Tea Party Express is a more conventional political action committee. The group is co-sponsoring a debate with CNN; it held a town hall at the National Press Club earlier this year. FreedomWorks, however, has positioned itself as a member-driven organization that will not lend its clout to anyone grassroots supporters deem too moderate." 

While there is some delight, IMHO, amongst the MSM elite to watch the other side have their internal-to-the-TEA-Party discord (after all, food fights anywhere attract eyeballs, I’m thinking this is a wee tremble in a tea cup, myself.  Romney has stayed away from the TEA Party movement here in NH – and for good (and the right) reason: he’s not a TEA Party kind of guy, to put it bluntly.  It would be a mistake for him to now try to cozy up – he’d be laughed off the stage like this guy when he tried to coattail it.

Here in NH, some groups are choosing up sides:

A number of tea party groups are planning to join the Romney protest. According to New Hampshire Liberty Caucus Chairman Andrew Hemingway, the The Lakes Region Tea Party, the Raymond Tea Party, and the Granite State Patriots are all participating.

This caught my eye, however:

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Response to Lies about the TEA Party

To the Editor: 

Leo Sandy’s column titled: “What is the tea party?” in Tuesday’s Laconia Daily Sun shows how difficult it is for him to write about opponents without slandering people he doesn’t know, revealing his ignorance or dishonesty or both, and his ability to draw conclusions based on his wishes rather than evidence.  One expects better from someone entrusted with the education and well being of our young men and women.  His article helps explain why our education system does such a poor job (even though at great cost). 

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Hey, John Hawkins is a turncoat!

‘Grok friend John Hawkins has lost his marbles – why, just LOOK at his latest Townhall column: The Top 5 Ways The Tea Partiers Are Ruining America If it wasn’t for those darn Tea Partiers, we’d already be in Obamatopia with unicorn-powered cars and an economy driven to new heights by unity, hope, and most … Read more

Civility – Fine for thee but only just so long for me

(H/T: Gallup via JammieWearingFool) 

A plurality of Americans identify as Conservatives, 2 -1 over Liberals.  In listening to the political discourse lately, you have to wonder why the Liberal / Progressive Democrats (and Democrat Socialists) have violated their own Code of Civility that they imposed right after the Tuscon Massacre where Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot.  At that time, the Left was ALL about being polite and accused the Right (mainly, but certainly not exclusive to, Sarah Palin for her use of a bullseye two years after the DSSC had done the same).  How memories grow short quickly!

Everywhere you look in the left-center blogosphere, among the Obama bootlicking mainstream press, and the Democrat Socialists harbored in Congress, the TEA Party has become the scapegoat for their own bungling of their reporting and public policy.  Think I kid?  Here’s some of what now passes for Leftist civility:

Extremist, racist, suicide bombers, hostage takers, baby killers, America destroyers, Wahabists, delusional addicts, waging Jihad on the American people, blowing up the country, kidnappers, guns to heads, inflicting pain on the country, insane, totalitarian,  Hezbullah faction of the GOP, traitors, put aside their suicide vests, domestic extremists, villains of American history, inflict massive harm on innocent victims, Taliban, Nazis, Fascists, …

I thought this was just absolutely hilarious from CNN’s LZ Granderson in telling the GOP what to do with the TEA Party:

Kick those freeloading tea partiers out.

Umm, dude, it was the "refinance my house to pay for goodie under the sun" freeloaders that wanted Obama to pay their mortgages that helped start the TEA Party movement in the first place – a reaction against the real freeloaders.  He rails about "theocratic intentions". Of course he would – he has nothing better to say.

You name it, we’ve been called it. All aimed at people whose only stated belief / goal is to stop the out of control spending as it will put our kids and grandkids into financial jail for the rest of their lives – HOW will they ever pay back the current $14.5 Trillion, not to speak of the Trillions more that will be racked up because politicians cannot stand up, grow a pair, and say "NO!  The Treasury is empty!".   For most of the time since WW II, Fed spending has soared without slowing, buying votes and pandering to special interests and increasing crony capitalism.

All the while, the Taliban and AQ folks at Gitmo, the REAL terrorists, get free legal help from Leftist lawyers.

Why?

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