{"id":2243,"date":"2010-07-28T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2010-07-28T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:37:00","slug":"is-the-gop-ashamed-of-its-tea-party-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"Is The GOP Ashamed Of Its Tea Party Base?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning the Fox Nation has placed as its top story<\/a> an article on the Democrats’ new campaign to tie Tea Partyists to Republicans. Is that supposed to be a criticism? I thought the GOP and the Tea Baggers were best buddies. Republican candidates across the nation have embraced the Tea Party and enthusiastically sought their support. Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Paul Rand in Kentucky have been lauded as heroes within the GOP. Now, all of a sudden, they are complaining that Democrats are calling attention to the affection these conservative comrades have for one another.<\/p>\n

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When did the Republicans come to view the Tea Party as a liability? Why would this ad rattle them? Recent polling<\/a> shows that 79% of Tea Partyists identified themselves as Republicans. And some of the top Republicans have been pandering to the Baggers in the most overt manner possible:<\/p>\n

John Boehner, House Minority Leader:<\/b> There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sarah Palin, 1\/2-term governor\/Fox News contributor:<\/b> The Republican Party would be really smart to start trying to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible because this is the future of our country. The Tea Party movement is the future of politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sen. Jim DeMint, GOP Chair Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, and more, share these sentiments. However, the Fox Nationalists seemed to be worried about the association with extremist elements of the Tea Bagging faction. The posting links to an article on The Daily Caller that goes into more detail about this troublesome trend. But the article doesn’t support the contention that it is the Tea Party that worries them. The Caller asserts that the Democratic effort is…<\/p>\n

“…a swipe at House Republicans for not offering more specifics of how they would govern if they retake the House. But it’s also an attempt to force the GOP to own proposals by Rep. Paul Ryan.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are they worried about the Tea Party or their own Republican agenda? Paul Ryan may be a Tea Party sympathizer, but he is also a Republican leader and the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. Why would the GOP need to be “forced”<\/i> to adopt the budget proposals of their own budget committee chief? Why are they ashamed to endorse their own platform and people? That’s all the Democrats are putting forth in their video and on the web site dedicated to the Republican Tea Party Contract on America<\/a>. The site is a summary of the Republican agenda as stated by Republicans, and is fully annotated to document their positions.<\/p>\n

While Fox Nation is serving the interests of the Republican Party by seeking to mock the Democrats’ campaign, the Fox Nationalist citizens of the web site (which hilariously just added the words “All Opinions Welcome”<\/i> to their logo) are not as anxious to distance themselves from the Tea Bagging contingent. Here is a sampling of comments from these completely sane and reasonable folks:<\/p>\n

Wolverine Oathkeeper:<\/b> I do not think it is necessary to puke the reasons why I am not voting for ANY DemonRats especially Obama “The man from Kenya who scammed our country”. My core thought is that they do not represent “One Nation under God, Indivisible With Liberty and Justice For All”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judgment:<\/b> Decent People have the common sense to know that the Democratic party has become a Servant of Satan and is using all his favorite ‘tools’ of lies and deception to decieve the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Muslim socialist democrats …….taking lying to a whole nother level !:<\/b> These muslim socialist democrats are runnin scared…………….There is no antidote for the socialist policies of the muslim moron ! America is fed up with these morons and there is nothing the muslim socialist democratic party can do !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHITE&PROUD2:<\/b> Hey Liberals, who gives a f–k what you do? Your time is up and you are irrelevant!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

s-t-g:<\/b> I like the ad. I wish the republican party was more conservative and would enact much of what the tea party stands for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly! This ad is not the least bit derogatory from the perspective of the Tea Bagger. It is a documentary exposition of the current state of the Tea-publican establishment. No Tea Partyist would find this ad objectionable. So the question is…why do the Republicans and their media mouthpieces?<\/p>\n

Update<\/a>: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is ashamed. He announced today that he would not be joining the Tea Party caucus in Congress recently founded by Michelle Bachmann (R-TP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning the Fox Nation has placed as its top story an article on the Democrats’ new campaign to tie Tea Partyists to Republicans. Is that supposed to be a criticism? I thought the GOP and the Tea Baggers were best buddies. 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