Steele Gives Tea Party the Kiss of Death

[Nbadan]

Seriously, everything Steele touches turns to shit...

Steele appeases Tea Party activists in lengthy meeting
Posted: February 16th, 2010 09:58 PM ET


Washington (CNN) – An uneasy truce may have been reached between the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party after Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele spent nearly four hours Tuesday trying to calm the fears of Tea Party leaders who worry that the GOP is out to co-opt their grassroots energy ahead of the 2010 midterm elections.

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"We believe in this meeting that we were heard," said Karin Hoffman of D.C. Works For Us, a Tea Party organization in South Florida. "It's the beginning of a relationship."

But Hoffman, who initiated the sit-down, cautioned that the Tea Party movement is an autonomous grassroots movement and will not "be absorbed into the RNC."

Indeed, when a group of participants were asked after the meeting if they consider themselves Republicans, nearly all shook their heads and boasted that they were "American citizens." Others said they knew of fellow Tea Party activists who refused to come to the meeting because they do not trust the Republican leadership.

Steele, however, won over many in the group when he pledged that the Republican Party will not to meddle in local races - especially GOP primaries featuring candidates backed by Tea Party activists. At one point in the meeting, the divisive Senate primary battle in Florida between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist was mentioned. The chairman said the role of the national party is to back whoever becomes the Republican nominee.

"He is leaving it up to the people, and that's what we want," said Cheryl Couture, a member of the 9.12 Project from Naples, Florida. "We don't want people interfering with the process, because that's not American."

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Fettig said he asked the chairman if national Republicans had recruited former Sen. Dan Coats into the Indiana Senate race, which already featured several Republican candidates before Coats declared his candidacy earlier this month. Steele, he said, assured him that was not the case. Fettig said Tea Party activists in Indiana are "adamantly against" Coats' candidacy.

The Political Ticker (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/16/steele-...)

Looks like the RNC wants to keep its hands clean (at least appearances) while they sit back and watch the wing-nut echo chamber discredit the movement and its candidates into oblivion...in case you missed it, the latest tea-bagger, criticizing, wing-nut, attack dog is Bill O'Reilly...

[ElNono]

Republicans need to get as much support as they can gather after the neocons single handedly destroyed the party. So I understand what Steele is trying to do. I just don't see what's in it for the teabaggers...

[Nbadan]

Steele doesn't control the GOP, the RNC is dysfunctional....wing-nuts like Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beckkk control the GOP...and they don't want tea-baggers crashing on their parade...expect to see all out war soon, what we've seen so far is just a shot across the bow

[Winehole23]

wing-nuts like Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beckkk control the GOPBullshit.

[Nbadan]

Bullshit.

Yeah, I forgot about Dr. James Dobson's group Focus on the Family...they control about 10%...

[SouthernFried]

I don't know who controls the GOP right now. The GOP spent like demons when BUSH was in office, they still haven't come to grips that's what upset so many...ditto with the democrats.

Politicians like to spend...GOP and Demo's alike. People want spending reigned in. Neither party has a plan to seriously deal with it. They're both in disarray because they don't know what to do BUT spend.

SIG

[TeyshaBlue]

Yeah, I forgot about Dr. James Dobson's group Focus on the Family...they control about 10%...

Still, bullshit.

[101A]

Steele doesn't control the GOP, the RNC is dysfunctional....wing-nuts like Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beckkk control the GOP...and they don't want tea-baggers crashing on their parade...expect to see all out war soon, what we've seen so far is just a shot across the bow



Didn't Beck organize the first Tea Parties?

You're logic is flawed.

[EmptyMan]

lol @ focusing on that scrub Steele giving the "kiss of death" when Obama has solidly claimed that attribute.

[boutons_deux]

Actually, right-wing nutter/propagandist Roger Ailes controls Fox Repug Network and clearly FRN is much more influential, as is the rabble it rouses like BecKKK's racists and paranoids, and teabagging jokers, than the official Repug power structure.

The Repugs' token nigga is a transparent joke. Sometimes The American People aren't as stupid as the Repugs play them for. How many blacks gonna vote Repug because of Steele or Clarence "The Mute" Thomas?

[spursncowboys]

Didn't Beck organize the first Tea Parties?

You're logic is flawed.
michelle malkin tried to market it, but it wasn't organized by anyone or group.

[spursncowboys]

The kiss of death like the dems and independent voters.

[clambake]

michelle malkin tried to market it, but it wasn't organized by anyone or group.

really? they carried it exclusively on fox.

i don't think you know what marketing is.

[ChumpDumper]

really? they carried it exclusively on fox.

i don't think you know what marketing is.Or organizing.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Fox News did a fine job promoting the 'grass roots' movement.

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/fox-20090408-opposition2.jpg


http://foxnewsboycott.com/images/misc/foxnews_tea_party_2.0.jpg

[jack sommerset]

Fox News did a fine job promoting the 'grass roots' movement.

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/fox-20090408-opposition2.jpg


http://foxnewsboycott.com/images/misc/foxnews_tea_party_2.0.jpg

Blame FOX.....Classic! George has 2 answers now. Bush and FOX! Fucking joke.

[boutons_deux]

Who are the these scrotum-sucking teapartiers?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/17/tea.party.poll/index.html

[DarrinS]

Who are the these scrotum-sucking teapartiers?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/17/tea.party.poll/index.html


I'm pretty sure a vast majority of scrotum-suckers would call themselves liberals. Last time I checked, Austin and San Fransisco are pretty left-leaning.

[spursncowboys]

I don't think the tea party people appreciate being called astroturf and tea baggers. Do libs honestly not realize why they get the elitist tag?

[George Gervin's Afro]

Blame FOX.....Classic! George has 2 answers now. Bush and FOX! Fucking joke.

I know jack, you like some liars and not others..you'd vote for one liar over another..but,but,but you hate liars..

[Wild Cobra]

Didn't Beck organize the first Tea Parties?

You're logic is flawed.
I doubt it. Lars Larson had one here in Oregon, I think in 2001.

[Nbadan]

ha..Even Palin is telling the tea-baggers to shit or get off the pot..


"Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party," Palin said. "Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’."

CBS (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/17/politics/main6215033.shtml?tag=stack)

I wonder who they'll pick?

[boutons_deux]

"smaller, smarter government"

... which is exactly what pitbull bitch's priority and results were as head of Alaska's govt, right?

2001-2008, the "MBA" Repugs created the bloated, ineffective TSA, and outsourcing govt jobs to contractors for 10x more expensive than govt employees. smarter, and smaller, and CHEAPER! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else


At a town hall event in Utah last night, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)warned Tea Party activists that they should work with the GOP, or risk electing liberals:

“If we fractionalize the Republican Party, we are going to see more liberals elected,” Hatch warned a crowd of 300 at a town meeting at American Fork Junior High School on Wednesday night, amid jeers from Tea Party supporters.

Hatch blamed the Tea Party movement for the loss of Sen. Gordon Smith, a politically moderate but fiscally conservative Republican from Oregon.

Hatch said if the Tea Party had not backed a constitutionalist candidate in that race, Brown wouldn’t have lost to Democrat Jeff Merkley, whom Hatch described as “the most liberal senator,” by 45,000 votes.

Tea Party activists in the crowd were not pleased, with one telling Hatch, “I think you guys are as out of touch as you can get.” Tea partiers may also have been offended at being blamed for Merkley’s election in 2008, despite the fact that the Tea Party movement startedin early 2009.

Hatch’s comments reflect a growing divide among Republicans about how to deal with the Tea Party. Karl Rove writes today, “The Republican Party and the tea party movement have many common interests right now. But they are, and should remain, distinct from one another.” But some party leaders, like Hatch, are pushing in the opposite direction. Sarah Palin, for instance, said, “we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a partyand run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’.”

As ThinkProgress has documented, many Republican Party activists have used the Tea Party movement to make a profit. The Alantic’s Max Fisher wonders, “Will the movement and the leadership clash, or will Republican[s] finally make the Tea Party a force of their own?”

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/18/hatch-warns-tea-party-activists-work-with-the-gop%E2%80%A6or-else/

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Sounds like the scrotum-suckers ARE going to fractionalize the right-wing vote.

May God Help Them! :lol

Run Sarah Run!

[jack sommerset]

Didn't Dan say the republican party was dead forever last year?!?!

[boutons_deux]

They don't have to be dead, they only have to be significantly unelectable.

scrotum-suckers gonna split the right-wing vote, gonna Nader(neuter?) the Repugs.

Don't worry, the Repugs are excellent obstructionists and the Dems being dickless legislators.

I expect the Repugs, like the right wingers here, will LIE LIE LIE about the Magic Negro stimulus being ineffective and wasted, since the Repugs best hope is failure of the economy (that's the kind of HOPE the Repugs can believe in! :lol )

[jack sommerset]

They don't have to be dead, they only have to be significantly unelectable.

scrotum-suckers gonna split the right-wing vote, gonna Nader(neuter?) the Repugs.

Don't worry, the Repugs are excellent obstructionists and the Dems being dickless legislators.

I expect the Repugs, like the right wingers here, will LIE LIE LIE about the Magic Negro stimulus being ineffective and wasted, since the Repugs best hope is failure of the economy (that's the kind of HOPE the Repugs can believe in! :lol )

LOL@ stimulus package!

[ChumpDumper]

LOL@ stimulus package!The stimulus package Republicans lined up for, hat in hand?

[jack sommerset]

The stimulus package Republicans lined up for, hat in hand?

All of them?

[ChumpDumper]

All of them?Quite a few of them -- especially the ones who publicly railed against it. You don't read the journal?

[Wild Cobra]

Let the Republicans fracture themselves. If they don't listen to their pissed off supporters, the Tea Party crowd, then fuck them. We need to weed out the RINO's anyway. If it means more democrat majorities, then fine. If that's what it takes to wake up the American voters, then I'm OK with it.

[Winehole23]

Let the Republicans fracture themselves. If they don't listen to their pissed off supporters, the Tea Party crowd, then fuck them. We need to weed out the RINO's anyway. If it means more democrat majorities, then fine. If that's what it takes to wake up the American voters, then I'm OK with it.Lose to win. I like it. It goes on a t-shirt, and self-loathing hipsters might even buy it.

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Nbadan]

Didn't Dan say the republican party was dead forever last year?!?!

:sleep


I said as soon as TX goes Democrat it's game over for the GOP nationally.

[Nbadan]

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[jack sommerset]

:sleep


I said as soon as TX goes Democrat it's game over for the GOP nationally.

:sleep

U said that also propaganda Dan.

[Nbadan]

New rules...catch it while u can..

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[exstatic]

:lmao

The funniest part is that the teabaggers don't realize that the GOP has ALREADY co-opted their movement. The GOP sent in their moles as soon as it started to go national.

[spursncowboys]

I don't know which is worse. Dans' terrible comic picks or WH caring about post counts like 13 yr olds care about the amount of friends they have on facebook.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I don't know which is worse. Dans' terrible comic picks or WH caring about post counts like 13 yr olds care about the amount of friends they have on facebook.

your lack of common sense and grasp of logic is worse..