Like many of you, I’m not a huge fan of the New York Times. But when a newspaper of that size is able to overcome its liberal bias and point out the success of the Tea Party, even I will take notice.
After the recent success of Richard Mourdock, who unseated 6-term veteran Dick Lugar for Indiana’s Republican nomination for Senate, the Times notes that
In Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas, Republican Senate candidates are vying for the mantle of Tea Party outsider. A number of them say that they would seek to press an agenda that is generally to the right of the minority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and that they would demand a deeper policy role for the Senate’s growing circle of staunch conservatives.
Why does this matter? Because, having gained a strong foothold in the House, our movement is marching on. While the pundits have been quick to proclaim the death of the Tea Party, we’ve been working under the radar, consolidating power in the House of Representatives, and now we’re pushing into the Senate by defeating veterans like Lugar who have lost touch with their constituents and their conservative principles.
This slowly-building success shows that the Tea Party, in sharp contrast to the Occupy crowd, is making inroads in fixing our broken political system. And with the debt deal deadline looming, with mandated cuts to the military budget, it is important that America understand that the tectonic shift that took place in our country’s politics in 2009 and 2010 is not over.
Uniting around a presidential candidate was a challenge for our broad, bottom-up movement, but if we continue to make gains in the House and Senate, the Tea Party revolution will roll on. My fellow patriots, we are taking this country back… and even the New York Times has to sit up and take notice.
I agree totally with the above article. It is imperative that we now unseat Senator Hatch and the remaining Career Politicians with two or more terms. The majority of them have been part and party to the fiscal problems this country is saddled with.
They have demonstrated little concern for this Nation, and only concern themselves with Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups that provide monies and favors. They have also demonstrated little interests for their constituents. It has been “all for me” and to hell with you!
It amazes me that so many will spend millions for a $250,000.00 a year position.
That speaks Loudly. Come into office with very little and leave as a Millionaire.
This is fine when you back aces like Toomey, Cruz, Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, but if you back dangerous idiots who could do a lot of harm to the country, then I will fight you. I wish Mike Pence had run for Senate. There is one Governor whom I think is not competent and dangerous on the Republican side, worse than Bev Perdue of the Democrats whom I think is a total idiot. I think they also need to get rid of the sexual revolution (sex side) and the drug culture. I think the legalization of drugs is the death of the US. I will also not have an intollerant religious group bought out by elites run it, even though I will also fight against any discrimination against that group.
And who picks the idiots? all i can say is GO TEA PARTY GO
All they want is lower taxes,stop the spending and make the big cuts to save our country
Thanks Dustin: The Tea Party is stronger than ever, getting stronger everyday Mitt will be our next Pres, congress will go to conservatives. America ” We The People ” have had enough socialism will be dead. Libs take heed were coming after you, youre finished, youre BS is over. God Bless The Tea Party & GOD BLESS AMERICA
The problem with “under the radar” is that once again the silent majority becomes a minority. If WE are not heard, we become irrelevant in the eyes of Americans. That is how the left wins… from Hitler, to Stalin, to Obama, to Unions, and even to OWS people; they all understand the squeaky wheel gets oiled. The wheel that makes no noise gets ignored until something breaks. We do not want to be the quiet wheel… it was our vocality that drew people to us in the first place. It is our lack of noise that allows the leftist pundits to claim we are gone. We need to make ourselves heard once more.
you make noise by VOTING
I so agree with all the above. One issue, however, tantemount importance, voter fraud. It is quite possible all the voter fraud committed in 2008 was simply a dry run for 2012. Despite the enormous (and growing) GRAVE issues WTP face, without fair and honest elections, losses will continue.
Seems McCain was quite aware of rampant fraud but lacked the guts to go after it. Most RINO’s lack the intestinal fortitude to consider country over self and THIS must change.
There are many grave misconceptions, fueled by a radically biased media, exactly who we are. We bring with us the embracing of Conservatism and all the very values which made this nation great from it’s inception. We possess great common sense and see most of our problems coming as a direct result of that a lack of just that: common sense. They want us to think our issues are nearly too complex to fix when, in fact, they are simple when common sense is applied.
We MUST, not only rid our congress (and every elected position for that matter) of all those self serving, boot licking, vote buying career politicians and bring on board those of, by definition, public servants. As it now stands, it is WE who serve THEM, never meant to be that way.
I am very amused by those who, of late, are pontificating the Tea Party is fading fast, washed up, old hat, losing it’s relevance. Wishful thinking as nothing could be farther from the truth. Large, public showings made a great introduction for us, now unnecessary. We have moved on to bigger, better and more remedial activities and, may I add, we have come a LONG way in a very short time.
Winning in November is just the beginning. With more than 100 years of progressives eating away at this nation, it will just begin the real hard and heavy lifting. The Republican Party can either come along with us or step aside. Folks like Lindsey Graham are PRAYING we will have vanished by 2016, why he felt comfortable voting in favor of left wing, bigoted, activist SCOTUS appointments, that by his next go around, we would be gone. Well let me tell Graham and every other RINO in the mix: “you are not safe, not by a long shot because we’re not going anywhere…but up” and yes Sen. Graham (and the rest who have not “retired” by then) we are alive, well, growing in numbers and stength…and we have LONG memories.
Graham, Collins, McCain, McConnell, Murkowski, Hatch would be good for starters.
Some folks in the Senate are choosing to “retire”, because of “divisiveness” in Senate politics. A new definition to that word might just be “exposure” by the Tea Party re: what party politics is really about, Republican and Democratic. The next encouragement by the entrenched is to “stay home”, and/or let a third party option dilute the vote in order to retain status quo in our national politics. Hopefully we will all pay attention to these potentials yet before us, and be proactive in managing those in the ring we have elected that have the courage to do what is right for the country rather than the government.
The President, by himself, can only do so much. If we want to correct the structural debt problem, we must elect responsible Congressmen and -women who will put the needs of the nation ahead of their desires for local pork or long-term political careers.
We better hope Romney wins in a land slide or otherwise the election will be stolen for Obama. It has just got to be a clear victory.
Time to shift gears& beat on the Senate. If the Law Of The Sea Treaty is approved by the Senate,for all intents and purposes we won’t have a country-just a UN run vassal state.Combine that with the two other UN treaties being pushed by Obama ,Hillary,et al and we are in danger of seeing a UN flag flying attop Old Glory.
Write& Call your Senator-NO UN TREATY !!!