Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, appeared on Fox News Sunday this weekend and delivered an oratory that can only be described as a nightmarish rendition of some perverse patriotic anthem from hell. I call it…
These sentiments would be bad enough if they erupted from some fringy, Apocalyptic, Tea Party zealot, but when someone as establishment as the chairman of the RNC spews this sort of patriopathic gibberish, there is something very troubling afoot.
To assert that liberty, freedom, and even America, are at risk of coming to an end because of a popularly elected Democratic president is not only symptomatic of acute paranoia, it suggests a total absence of faith in the strength and endurance of America. Do these miscreants really believe that our nation is so weak that it will crumble into dust if their candidate is not victorious?
The words that come out of their mouths are astonishing. It sounds like Ted Nugent wrote those thoughts for him or he read directly from something he said in the recent path. So if Romney doesn’t win will he call for armed insurrection? The republicans destroyed this economy under Bush and now everything is Obama’s fault. Reince Preibus(RNC PR BS) is full of it!
Reincey has a Ken Mehlman problem (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Another closeted dude in denial.
Does the Tea Party own the Republican Party or is the Tea Party owned by the Republican Party.
It appears to me that the Tea Party is always on the fringe edge of the GOP yet the GOP is deathly afraid of making them angry.
Reince Priebus walks that thin line between both dismal worlds and is well suited for his current position.
Mouthpiece for the GOP to keep the Tea Party complacient until after Super Tuesday.
If the tea party was that important to the Republican party – Ron Paul would be the nominee and wouldn’t be treated as some kind of nut by the GOP. The republican party is doing what it has done for some time – try to scare people into voting for their lame candidate – They succeeded with GW Bush, but lost with McCain and Dole – they haven’t figured anything out as to what the people want – and it’s not liberalism or the brand of governing they want to bring. Dumb.
Well if you’re not entirely accurate you’re a least simplistic. To assert that the Tea Party is not an arm of the Republican political machine is denying reality. To infer that the Tea Party is the same as the Ron Paul libertarian movement is ridiculous. Here’s a hint: look at the corporate funding for the Tea Party and see the overlap in that funding and the funding of Republicans.
While you’re correct that scare tactics are being used by the Republicans, the question remains “why”? You seem to think it’s only to get their candidate elected president, but these scare tactics are constant. You go on to say these tactics show they don’t understand what “THE PEOPLE” want, and insist that it isn’t “liberalism”. Odd then that all the scare tactics are geared to scare people away from progressive ideas.
You have no clue what the tea party is or isn’t, believes or doesn’t believe. It doesn’t even exist according to Mark. It’s certainly not what most on here say, but it is directly opposite of what you and probabaly most liberals/progressives believe. It’s much, much closer to the libertarian wing and the ideas proposed by Ron Paul than it is to the establishment republican party represented by the DC leadership. Even your hero Jon Stewart has suggested that himself calling Ron Paul “patient zero” in the tea party movement.
The issue I have with the scare tactics is that it confirms this GOP has no belief system other than winning elections. I comment on the liberalism part because I believe liberalism is the cause of most of societies ills and I can’t help it.
Steve, if you don’t know that the Tea Party is 100% GOP, you aren’t paying very close attention. My argument that the Tea Party doesn’t exist is based on my contention that it is just a wing of the GOP.
Tea Party candidates are Republicans. Tea Party voters are Republicans. Look at any poll. And as b8ovin notes, Tea Party funding (and leaders) are Republicans. Don’t be naive. The GOP has been pandering to the so-called Tea Party for two years.
Steve, I try to be patient and stay away from some of the troll calling you get from others, but come on. You present a completely illogical argument from your opening. Since you have no insight into my political acumen you can’t really comment on what I do and do not know about the Tea Party. Nor am I going to concede political history to Jon Stewart who, though I admire, is no hero of mine (I have to assume you’re taking an easy argumentative approach and making a generalization). Finally you reduce most of the problems in American society to liberalism? It’s hard to take you seriously.
And no, the Tea Party doesn’t exist as the Republican and Democratic parties exist, but in any real sense, they are a cult of the Republicans, just as modern fiscal libertarians are (I would argue social libertarians tend to lean to the left).
Actually, if you assume that “America” is a particular and concrete THING that can only be defined by Republicans he’s right. What they’re trying to do here is bring all the neo-Con renditions of True America to reality and they believe now is the time, because the world around them is changing to a more progressive world, and historically the U.S. will follow. They want to eliminate the tax code, Unions, particularly state and federal unions. They want to repeal the universal healthcare law; cement a unilateral foreign policy that allows them to invade Iran and/or North Korea and/or any nation that furthers an empirical U.S.; enact several social policies that make Islam all but illegal and makes Christianity the official religion. And they want to do that before the minority races become, combined, the majority.
So yeah, in that context, I see his point.