The Tea Party is going to have a major impact on this election, but not in the way people expect.\u00a0 Neither of the political parties understands the Tea Party movement.\u00a0 Neither does anyone in the main stream media.\u00a0 They are confused because the Tea Party is not\u00a0a political party and it doesn\u2019t\u00a0have any official leaders.\u00a0 No single organization really represents the Tea Party.\u00a0 The Tea Party is a movement, not an organization.\u00a0 This is something that hasn\u2019t been seen in this country for a long time.\u00a0 There is now huge network of people not overly concerned about any political party or any particular politician.\u00a0 They are motivated by a set of principles and ideas that transcend all of the above.\u00a0 These principles are simple, but very powerful.\u00a0 One is the belief in a smaller, less intrusive government.\u00a0 Another is a conviction that the Constitution really matters and our elected officials have a duty to be restrained by it.\u00a0 Finally, they believe that government is spending too much money and wasting it.<\/p>\n
Thanks to modern technology, the Tea Party has miraculously morphed into a powerful nationwide movement totally independent of any organization or politician.\u00a0 Yet it is still capable of having a major impact on elections.\u00a0 This started with some loosely organized demonstrations in 2010, primarily intended to protest high taxes.\u00a0 That is how the name developed.\u00a0 The modern Tea Party is motivated by the same things that motivated the original Tea Party.\u00a0 But this didn\u2019t follow the traditional pattern of political movements.\u00a0 This is not another arm of the Republican Party, as naively believed by many in the main stream media.\u00a0 It also isn\u2019t a new political party.\u00a0 There is no Tea Party \u201cParty.\u201d\u00a0 That is why RINO Republicans were defeated in primary elections.\u00a0 The replacements are still Republicans, but they are Republicans who know that failure to be guided by the core principles described above will result in a very short political career.\u00a0 \u00a0It may surprise Democrats to learn that Tea Party members would welcome them too.\u00a0 But as of now the Tea Party is all too aware of one simple reality.\u00a0 While the Republican Party is not necessarily its friend, the Democratic Party is for most purposes, its enemy.\u00a0 The important thing to remember is that the Tea Party believes that politicians work for us, not vice versa.\u00a0 It is far less worried about what politicians say and more concerned with what they do.<\/p>\n
I would probably describe the Tea Party as this vast conservative cloud.\u00a0 Information moves within the cloud at the speed of light, but it is guided by the power of the message, not the popularity of the messenger.\u00a0 The result is astonishing to watch.\u00a0 During the primary elections last spring, some RINO Republicans learned about the power of the Tea Party the hard way.\u00a0 Candidates with strong support from the Republican establishment found themselves losing in primary elections to relative newcomers.\u00a0 But the real strength of the Tea Party started to show up in local elections with national impact.\u00a0 The best example was the recall election against Governor Scot Walker.\u00a0 Several organizations developed hard hitting ads supporting Scot Walker and then funded them by appealing to the vast Tea Party cloud.\u00a0 The results were shocking.\u00a0 Suddenly political ads were not generated by professional staff wearing green eye shades in cigar filled rooms, but rather by political entrepreneurs.\u00a0 It is really simple.\u00a0 If you build it, they will fund.\u00a0 If you deliver a top quality hard-hitting ad, you will find plenty of people willing to donate to your cause.\u00a0 If you develop a mediocre ad you will get very little funding.\u00a0 It is like an American Idol contest for campaign ads.\u00a0 In a way, the Tea Party has become the perfect political test market.<\/p>\n
What is about to happen is that there are going to be some very power ads floated out there on the Tea Party cloud.\u00a0 Effective ads, promoted by people who can deliver results, will generate massive amounts of funding overnight.\u00a0 Some of these ads will go where angels and Republican fear to tread.\u00a0 There are a lot of people out there who think that Barack Obama is a threat to the very existence of our democracy.\u00a0 They are terrified that Republicans will bungle this and lose to possibly the worst President in U.S. history because of their own incompetence.\u00a0 They believe that many people voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because they did not know the truth about his personal history.\u00a0 They are determined to prevent this from happening again.\u00a0 There are literally millions of people across this country primed to pull a Peter Boyle.\u00a0 They are mad as hell and they\u2019re not going to take it anymore.\u00a0 If Mitt Romney is unwilling or unable to explain the problem, they will explain the problem.\u00a0 \u00a0A lot of them are less than enthusiastic about Mitt Romney, but they are off the charts in their determination to get rid of Obama.\u00a0 Ultimately they will show up in droves to vote him out of office.\u00a0 But they will do more than that.\u00a0 This grass roots network is going to result in some of the most devastating political ads in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The liberal media naively thinks they are the only ones who can decide what matters in this election season.\u00a0 That is why they view Mitt Romney\u2019s statement about the Libya crisis as a major blunder while ignoring the real story of a failed foreign policy and gross negligence in protecting our Ambassador.\u00a0 It is why they think that Mitt Romney pointing out, correctly, \u00a0that nearly half the people in the U.S. \u201care\u201d living off the taxes paid by the other half is a political blunder.\u00a0 They really think they that they alone will decide what matters in this election.\u00a0 That was never totally true, but the main stream media has had a major role in prior elections.\u00a0 But things have changed since 2008.\u00a0 The big boys like CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and even Fox News aren\u2019t so big anymore.\u00a0 They still talk, but far fewer people listen.\u00a0 The audience tuned into that Tea Party cloud is far larger than all of them combined.<\/p>\n
The Tea Party movement is a storm cloud for Democrats and anyone else who supports Barack Obama.\u00a0 I believe this cloud will generate hurricane force winds that will blow the Democratic establishment right out of office.\u00a0 But be advised.\u00a0 Although this storm is currently favoring Republicans, for the reasons stated above, ultimately, it is a bi-partisan cloud.\u00a0 If Republicans don\u2019t start listening, and more importantly, start acting, the next storm will be directed at them.<\/p>\n
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The Tea Party is going to have a major impact on this election, but not in the way people expect.\u00a0 Neither of the political parties understands the Tea Party movement.\u00a0 Neither does anyone in the main stream media.\u00a0 They are … Continue reading