[Edmund Onward James]

One of the reasons I post my weblog pieces on the forum is the quick exchange by astute people, well-informed, often witty. Whereas the comments on the weblog may take a day or two before I get to them. Lately, and the past few months, I have spent more time reading the news and books rather than working on my third novel attempt. Nevertheless, this is an important and effective website and forum.

TEA PARTY vs ACORN, MoveOn.org, Mainstream Media and RINOS in the GOP...

For Canadians who are not quite aware "RINO" is a Republican in name only.

Most politically conscious Americans know that. But that is one of the reasons that the Tea Party evolved. Aggravated citizens about Obama and the Dems and the members of the Grand Old Party (Republican), who were too partisan, too obsequious with the Left and drastic changes.

Tea Party is brewing - Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/comm.....79576.html

Last Tuesday was the biggest day of primaries in the U.S. — eight of them — before the Nov. 2 midterm elections: The big winners were the conservative Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin.

For most of this year “moderate” Republicans and all Democrats have been reeling at the potential electoral power of Tea Partiers and Palin — and wondering how to cope with both, whom they dismiss as nutbars, rednecks and know-nothings...

...While one can sympathize with establishment Republicans, reality is it was establishment Republicans who lost the confidence of Americans when Obama Democrats tended to implode, and Obama himself seemed out of his depth.

Indeed, I enjoy reading Peter Worthington's column. And American politics is as much fun as Canadian politics. That's right I place our politicians right up there. Well look at the opposition group elitist Harvard Iggy who desires to be of the people, Layton who is happy that he is even there, May will say or do anything to be noticed, Duceppe shrugs and snickers at all of them... in a nice way. Just keep handing out money to Quebec.

The centrists, bipartisan group of the GOP are non-plussed because the real conservatives and independents are showing them and the rest of America that they had enough of the showmanship by Obama and his czarist regime, changing a once solid country and constitution.

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and MoveOn.org worked fervently to recruit voters, students, blacks, Hispanics, illegal aliens, homeless, drug addicts, thugs and, from what I have read and heard, taught them how to vote more than once so the anointed one would win. But he didn't overwhelmingly like some of the mainstream media declared. The total count of votes was far closer than the number of states, which indicated that it was big, a landslide. Not so big considering how inept John McCain was. If it wasn't for unleashing Sarah it would've been even a bigger loss.

Now, just weeks away from the November election for congress and senate members the Democrats are disconcerted. Their fearless leader has dropped in the polls and his presence and support isn't helping the incumbents or new candidates. Stay in Washington or go golfing, shoot the hoops, take another vacation, perhaps visit Fidel, or Hugo, they must be thinking.

The mainstream media belittles the Tea Party crowd. A big mistake. They tarnish Sarah Palin. Another big mistake.

The GOP better get with it. Stop kowtowing to the liberals. Stop apologizing for the conservative values.

Tea Party movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....Reform_Now

MoveOn.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org

[Bugs]

With respect, I think this column doesn't do the Tea Party justice.

It is a very sophisticated mass movement, leery even its own leadership cadres, lest they be corrupted by the bright lights, the media, and all of that. Amongst its members are a lot of people who thought George W Bush was a spendthrift. The Republican Party has been the opposition for most of the time since Gingrich led the Contract with America campaign. People forget that Republican presidents usually do not have a Republican majority in the Senate ...

So, they are going to the very grass roots, and voting out the RINOs and putting their own candidates forward, meaning to take over the Republican Party, stymie the mad-spending of the Fed and the President, and finally, to take the Presidency away from the Democrats.

You can see the strategy at work, in the panicked way the media deal with Sarah Palin, who they insist leads the Tea Party. But all she does for them is help them publicize things. She's the politician who can draw more people to an event that anyone else in the USA, and she's, without a doubt, the person best positioned to become the first female President of the United States!

Would the media have such a negative reaction to Sarah Palin if she were a Democrat? And what has she done or said that isn't kosher? We know that she is against spending, and for a restoration of the America in the world, but it's very hard to connect her to any specific legislation. She sticks to criticism of the administration, and as such, has led the debate. It was Sarah Palin who put her finger on one of the real questions about socialized medicine when she made her remarks about "Death Committees." One or two lines, and the Democrats never really put that behind them.

The media don't cover her as much as ridicule her, even to the point of accusing her of protecting her daughter by claiming Trig as her own son, the downs syndrome baby she carries around, at times. (Such professional loudmouths as Andrew Sullivan spent months on this project.) They don't seem to realize that this is an act of ultimate motherhood, something that would earn her more respect than simply refusing to abort the child.

Who knows how long the Tea Party will continue, and what will happen to it? It doesn't matter. It is the driving force in the current American elections, and the group responsible for such rare events as Scott Brown's victory in Massacheusetts, the nomination of Christine O'Donnell for Chris Dodd's seat, and a lot of others.

[Edmund Onward James]

Valid points Bugs. The Tea Party is a mixture not as the mainstrem media describe. And most are fed up with econnomic effort of the Obama regime. Then there's the constitution. Illegal immigrants. And so forth. Frankly, I like what they are doing and what they have accomplished so far. And I like Sarah Palin.

Furthermore, in essence, we have a similar situation in Canada, as a matter of fact right in Toronto with Bob Ford. Grassroots. Expenditures. Lack of transperancy. Big government. Insults from the press, especially in the Toronto Star. The elite thought that the people will follow like lemmings. How dare a pink face, overweight slob, "the big oink" in a cheap suit become mayor a Toronto Star columnist stated?

The polls shock the provincial Liberals and the federal. Perhaps, he has become the wedge to split the attitude that Liberal a kumquat could run for a riding and win.

Obama and his advisers forgot what happened to Father Bush — "Read my lips..." — and spent more money than several presidents and governments put together. Those who are working and paying taxes can take so much.