Posts in "Tea Party"

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By Mikayla Hall at 1:49PM

Tea-Party Favorite Wins Alaska GOP Primary

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded to GOP challenger Joe Miller last night, making her the third sitting senator to fail to win a primary. 

The Tea Party Express spent $550,000 to help Miller, dumping $314,000 into mostly television and radio ads in just the last week before the Aug. 24 primary. Support from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also boosted Miller's Tea Party credentials; Palin helped promote a Tea Party express "money bomb" for Miller.

One Tea Party Express ad chided that "the Senate seat currently being occupied by Lisa Murkowski doesn't belong to Wall Street lobbyists or the Murkowski family." Another ad blasted Murkowski as too "liberal" because she has voted with Democrats hundreds of times.

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By Shaun Bowen at 4:08PM
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By Wesley Messamore at 2:54PM
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By Wesley Messamore at 12:53PM

Rules for Racists

A textbook tactic of statist radicals in America is the systematic character assassination of their enemies as racists. Loathe to engage their intellectual opponents in a real discussion of the issues, lest the radicals should be perceived for what they are and lose the fight to bring America under their heel, they prefer instead to slander their opponents, to intimidate and shout them down, and to destroy their credibility with whatever lies or twisted propaganda they can muster in a never-ending witch-hunt.

But when actual, genuine racism rears its ugly head within their own ranks (and make no mistake- it very often does), the radical socialists do everything they can to deflect, to distract, to evade, and- laughably- to denounce as racist anybody who points out and criticizes the racism of the radicals. There can be no better example than The Daily Caller's enlightening exposé (M) of a deliberate media conspiracy by Journolist members to ignore the racist rantings of Jeremiah Wright, the pastor at a church Barack Obama attended for two decades:

According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.


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By Wesley Messamore at 11:53AM

What's Racist about Balanced Budgets?

The internet and blogosphere are abuzz today with discussion of the NAACP's resolution that the Tea Party is racist (e.g. here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here -- all via Memeorandum). How predictable! For decades now, any opposition to the progressive expansion of state power, control, and influence is met with accusations of racism.

But in case you weren't aware (apparently the NAACP wasn't, because we know that it definitely isn't a radicalized tool of the progressive establishment, using patently absurd accusations to attack and intimidate grassroots political activists for challenging the status quo), the size, role, and influence of government have nothing to do with race!

What on earth could possibly be racist about saying we need balanced budgets? Or that our government spends too much? We do need balanced budgets (as it seems axiomatic to me that you have to produce something before you can consume it -- that you can't indefinitely spend more than you have to spend)! Washington D.C. does spend too much! What does that have to do with race? Besides -- who could disagree?


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By Devon Minnema at 1:20PM
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By Seth Mann at 11:09AM

Playboy: Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant

BigGovernment.com is running a series of installments sharing a 7-page article written by an anonymous author and published by Playboy.  It's a highly enjoyable read. 

Everything I know about being a good consultant comes from Fight Club. Discretion is everything. Rule number one is you don’t talk about consulting for the Tea Party. Rule number two is you don’t talk about consulting for the Tea Party. The story about the wild characters who are shaping this campaign cycle is worth telling, but please excuse my anonymity.

St Regis bar

I hold as many meetings as possible over Tanqueray and tonics at the St. Regis hotel on K Street in Washington, D.C. The bar is dark and private, with comfortable couches. Even the gin tastes better there. On weekday afternoons the only people in the bar are foreigners and political consultants long past caring about who actually wins.

Read the whole thing at Playboy here.

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By Devon Minnema at 8:29PM

YAL@DHS Makes Regional News

YAL@DHS made front page news in the Vacaville Reporter, which serves the greater Bay Area for its upcoming TEA Party on July 3rd, and were subsequently in several other local newspapers including the Woodland Daily Democrat, Contra Costa Times, Dixon Tribune, and Davis Enterprise:

Some Dixon youth are hoping local residents will gather with them to mark the Independence Day weekend by exercising their civil liberties.

The second Independence Day TEA Party is slated to run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 3 at Women's Improvement Club Park in downtown Dixon.

Tenth District Congressional Candidate Gary Clift will be one of the guest speakers, say organizers. Clift recently won the Republican nomination and is endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus, among many others.


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By Jared Fuller at 10:06AM

Calling out Conservatives at the Tea Party

This past wave of tea-parties I was honored to give the keynote speech to over 2,500 people at a tea-party in Winston Salem, NC. 

My speech, however, was distinctly different than others given that day; in fact, I made it a point to call out the injustices of the GOP in recent years. The best part, though, is that the speech was delightfully eaten up by the crowd and I spent hours after the speech talking to people about the message I aimed to convey... and they all overwhelmingly agreed with me.

It's one thing to be right, it's another thing to convince someone you're right; it's not only about what you say, but how you say it. 

Watch the speech below; in my humble opinion, this is the way we can win over the right.

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By Seth Mann at 10:30AM

How Rand (and Ron) Paul Are Scrambling American Politics

From TIME Magazine (and a photo essay here):

Rand and Ron Paul

....Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign, with its message of limited government and its anti-Establishment ethos, created a kind of do-it-yourself model for the current activism shaking up politics around the country.


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