Or so says the email I got from them (the TeaParty.net folks), attacking
"the RINO elitist GOP establishment who are, unabashedly, at war with the party's own base, the energized, principled grassroots Tea Party movement."
Paging Manichaeus, paging Prophet Manichaeus … please pick up the white courtesy phone …
'Using the GOP Establishment as a launching pad to ensure that Reagan-style conservatives — the base of the Republican Party — are defeated by Establishment, statist Republicans. Republicans who will in turn so anger the GOP base that the base simply refuses to turn out in November. Thus handing President Obama and the statist forces of Big Government a victory they should never have had and in fact would be unable to earn on their own.'
I tend to be something of a centrist, myself — but my view of the center is where it was 40 years ago or so, not where the conservatives have shifted the Overton Window of politics to.
Still, it's interesting how similar the RINO vs DINO and base-withdrawing-support arguments from both sides sound.
I do have to say, it's been a while since I heard the word "statist" thrown around so much.
'You see, the GOP establishment is lying to you. They benefit from being Big Government Party #2. They, and their crony capitalist friends, do not believe in "free markets" as we do in the Tea Party movement. They use the power of big government to pass laws and regulations that benefit their financial contributors. It's an ugly, unpatriotic arrangement that is a detriment to our great nation.
Never have I so agreed with something the Tea Party has said.
'GOP leaders tell us repeatedly that all will be well in the world as long as Republicans control the presidency and both Houses of Congress. Well, guess what? We did that! For a significant portion of the George W. Bush presidency, the GOP held the House and the Senate and they CHOSE TO GROW GOVERNMENT!'
And deficits.
'We must elect more principled, Tea Party candidates like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul. Electing a majority of GOP RINOs will only continue to push our country over the cliff!'
Well, I agree with the latter sentence, at least. Though probably not in the way the writer intended.
Time to pop some popcorn. This election cycle should be interesting.
