Really? Why?
In Sarah’s view it’s “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’.”26 What’s this? The mainstream conservative voter believes she’s an outsider and yet she had the audacity to say you’ll have to vote “R” or “D” so make a choice. Is Sarah Palin the chair of the co-option league? I realize this will be seen as a personal attack on her. False. She is unelectable at the executive level for several reasons, including her attempts to drive Independents back to the “K Street” Republican establishment.
She’s wrong on this. I’m not the only one saying so, either.
Listen to Dale Robertson, president of TeaParty.org. He’s one of the early founders of the movement. Dale’s retired from the military, married, and has five children. In other words, he’s not a political hack. He loves and fought for his country and, like millions of us in the middle class, just wants to make sure his children inherit an America that is both free and great. On the heels of Sarah’s appearance in Little Rock, Robertson observed:
I am deeply concerned the Tea Party is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party … Sarah Palin’s well delivered speech and her attractive demeanor is little more than a veneer for her less than attractive political philosophy … [she] is not dense or erroneous in her view of the Tea Party, just the opposite. She represents a growing insider’s attack to the heart of the Tea Party, very much like a wolf in sheep’s clothing entering the gate as an ally, but for all intents and purposes there to seize and capture, not only one or two stray sheep, but the whole flock!27 [emphasis added]
Can you blame him for fearing Palin’s sole purpose is to capture what has been a populist movement? As Robertson went on to point out, “What Republican wouldn’t want 10 million angry voters marching in the streets shouting, God Bless the Republican Party, where a few months before the same voices sang, God Bless America!”28 The last thing Robertson or any of us should want is for patriotism to be supplanted by party-ism.
Just like those of us in conservative talk radio, the Tea Party must remain an independent voice, free from the entanglements of any party. But how, you may ask? While I disagree with former Bush strategist Karl Rove on many points, he’s right when he says the pro-life and pro-gun movements give us a road map of how the Tea Party movement can and should stay independent from the GOP. Rove said, “These [movements] have been powerful because they have allies in both parties, not because they’ve been co-opted and have become an appendage of one party only.”29
So, no, you don’t have to pick a team.
Actually, it’s suicide if you do.
Another attempt to hijack the Tea Party movement and to get them to pick a side happened in February, 2010, at the annual gathering of GOP cheerleaders in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Organizers peppered the podium with just enough faces of the real Tea Party patriots to satisfy the crowd, then paraded out the Republican dinosaurs who’ve been haunting Washington since the Stone Age: the John Boehners, the Newt Gingriches, and the Bob Barrs. How does their presence fit into the Tea Party movement?
Think about this one. During the CPAC love-in, Newt Gingrich threw his weight behind Republican Senator Robert Bennett of Utah, a man running for reelection who supports TARP and the mandated purchase of health insurance.30 If CPAC were serious about listening to the heart and soul of the Tea Party movement, these men should have been backstage carrying water for the new breed of patriots. Instead, the RINOs took center stage where they peddled more of the same old rhetoric. It’s as if the old guard was saying to the middle class, “You’ve done a nice job, sonny, now vote Republican—vote for one of us.”
I say shame on the leadership of CPAC.
Did they forget that Bob Barr, the former Republican Congressman from Georgia, went to work for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)? How could a man with those values ever be taken seriously? Let’s be clear. When it comes to anti-American activities, the ACLU is the head of the snake, as I’ve carefully documented in my other bestselling books. I guess given the fact that Bob Barr was there, we shouldn’t be surprised that CPAC allowed the ACLU to have an exhibit at the convention!31 I believe it’s guys like Bob Barr who are the type of fifth columnist trying to destroy the Tea Party movement from within.
Which brings me to shine the Savage spotlight on Dick Armey, the former Republican House Majority Leader. He’s another fake; a pseudo-tea partier. Bet you didn’t know this quisling worked for the ACLU, did you? Pretending to don the garb of the Tea Party movement, he’s the co-founder of a supposedly Tea Party–oriented organization known as “FreedomWorks.” I’m not sure what Armey has in common with the true Tea Party movement, besides the fact that he might drink Earl Grey.
As I write, Dick Armey is circulating a position paper, a manifesto of sorts, billed as the “Contract From America.” We’re told more than 100,000 Americans submitted ideas that, after debate by who knows who within Armey’s organization, were pared down to a list of twenty-two proposed, grassroots-inspired solutions. These solutions include stopping tax hikes, demanding a balanced budget, protecting the Constitution, rejecting cap-and-trade legislation, protecting freedom of the press, passing real healthcare reform, and limiting the size of government, among others.
In fairness, every one of them is a good statement, something the government ought to do. I have no problem with that. But after studying their proposal, something stood out in bold caps to me. There’s not one mention of illegal immigrants, not one mention about the need to defend our borders, there’s not one mention about language—English-only—or ballot reform to make sure dead people and illegal aliens don’t vote. Moreover, there isn’t any mention of ways to deal with our crumbling culture, nothing about prayer, or abortion, or gun rights, or traditional marriage, or the corrupting influence of pornography.
That’s when I started to smell a rat.
I dug deeper.
One lackey, who worked on the project, a man whose name is unimportant, said, “The goal of this document is to create the biggest tent around economic conservatism as possible. This is a bottom-up document. It is from the people, and that is a very powerful idea.”32 Pause there for a moment. The first problem is that they’ve focused only on “economic conservatism.” Of course, the middle class cares deeply about that topic. But what does it matter if the economy is thriving if we’ve lost personal freedoms, our borders remain open to anybody with a dirty bomb in their backpack, and our kids are told they should “learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims” 33 in public school?
No, this “Contract From America” is flawed. It’s just another way the Republican Party hopes to co-opt the Tea Party movement by crafting proposed solutions simply to get themselves reelected without alienating the huge block of people who are pro-abortion, pro-open borders, pro-same-sex marriage, or who are otherwise uncomfortable with our Judeo-Christian heritage. They’re pretending they are the real patriots.
I don’t buy it for one second.
What’s more, virtually all movements that begin strong, that are based on core principles, are co-opted by wolves wearing sheepskin. How? They get seduced by those in the center of power. Right now it’s the Tea Party movement that’s being courted by the same dunces that got us into the mess we’re in. Watch out for those who put “Tea Party” in their name but in fact are nothing more than front groups for other interests.
Beware Republicans bearing grifts.
Tempest in the Teapot
So, there’s a counter-revolution going on.
The people have thrown incumbents out in several places already: Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Nobody expected Scott Brown, a political unknown, to be the first Republican to capture the seat previously held for fifty years by a Democrat, most notably by the now-deceased Chap-paquiddick Survivor. Turns out Sco
tt Brown was Judas with a shave and a haircut. I warned you not to trust the guy. I told you not to Obamalize him. I was the only conservative to stem the euphoria two days after the Brown victory in Massachusetts. After all, Brown is only a politician. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of the Brotherhood on Showtime, but I expected he’d compromise—and he did.
As we’ve seen, the Republican establishment wants to co-opt the party. When a beast is cornered, it always strikes back. We know this. There’s no way the GOP elephant is going to roll over and die. But what’s the reaction in other quarters in Washington? How are the Demoncats responding? Are they pleased to see Mr. and Mrs. America showing up at their carefully orchestrated town hall meetings asking tough questions? Are they happy that a sea of regular citizens, most of whom want to toss them out, are engaging in the political process? Hardly. If they’re not pleased by these developments, are the Democrats looking for ways to either leverage or co-opt the Tea Party movement?
The answer would be a resounding “No.”
The Demoncat leadership wants to destroy it.
Right now, they’re planning a vicious counterattack. They’ve recruited the cheeseburger eater, Bill Clinton, to strategize the assault. What’s Clinton’s first move? He installed a fresh set of batteries in his giant smear machine, that’s number one. He rallied his political operatives in a scheme targeting maybe a dozen leaders within the Tea Party movement. With James “Pit Bull” Carville doing the heavy lifting, the old Clinton army is looking for ways to drag them through the mud. To discredit them. To assail their character. It’s a page right out of the old Clinton playbook. Remember the FBI files in Clinton’s possession?
Different day, same drill.
Team Clinton plans to do to the Tea Party leadership the same thing that was done to me by the George Soros funded group that took sound bites out of context and sent them to the socialist government in England. Those very same “compassionate” liberals who, I might add, are losing their own country to the invasion from Pakistan and elsewhere, had the audacity to blacklist and ban me from visiting Britain. I am the only member of the U.S. media to receive such treatment.
But that’s another story.
The Democrats see the handwriting on the wall. They know they face political annihilation in 2010 and beyond. Their precious majority status in both houses of Congress has been threatened by a movement that many of them originally viewed with a scornful eye. If their fears are realized and they lose control of Congress, guess what else is in jeopardy?
Redistricting.
That’s the golden door prize of the decade.
I won’t bore you with the technical details of how redistricting works. Suffice it to say that the redistricting process in 2011 will have a direct bearing on the political makeup of the country. Redistricting ultimately determines the number of congressional seats each party can have. Big Democrat losses at the ballot box in 2010 could set back the so-called progressive movement for a decade.
From my perspective, that’s a good thing.
While the libs derided and dismissed the Tea Party movement at first, they’re now desperately digging around for dirt to besmirch its leadership with an eye on bringing down several of the larger tea parties. Will their heavy-handed thuggery work? Hard to say. The movement is sure to recognize any attempt by the Clinton-Obama machine to take down one of its own. And unlike traditional politics, the Tea Party movement isn’t quick to throw its kind under the bus.
As of this writing, Clinton has come up empty-handed.
Before leaving this matter regarding the concerted effort to co-opt or destroy the Tea Party, I must touch briefly on the media. As you well know, an entire book could be written about media bias and the fifth column, those enemies of freedom embedded inside newsrooms and television studios. I will say, however, that to their credit the media have done a “B-minus” job reporting the story thus far. This is really quite good news considering how they usually trash anything resembling conservatism.
That said, I couldn’t help but notice how Pinchy Sulzberger and the Old York Times jumped at the first chance to subvert this populist movement. This formerly great newspaper went on the attack, seizing on a completely unrelated story to malign the movement.
The headline says it all: “The First Tea-Party Terrorist?”
The writer of this trash journalism—whose name doesn’t matter— attempted to link a lone lunatic, Joseph Stack, with the Tea Party for obvious reasons. I’m not surprised. The Old York Times is nothing more than a government organ of the House of Obama. On February 18, 2010, Stack flew his small airplane into an IRS office building in Austin, Texas, and left behind a rambling screed about this and that.
However, there was not one word in his missive about the Tea Party!
This reality didn’t prevent this yellow journalist from yapping, “Given the apparent momentum of the Tea Party movement, it would be nice to know if Slack’s kamikaze mission was a not-all-that-shocking emanation from it—whether, as some claim, more than a few Tea Partiers are unhinged.” There’s absolutely no basis for such a connection in the facts. None.
Yet the writer goes on to say, “a person with Stack’s fuzzy ideology wouldn’t feel terribly alone at a big Tea Party.”34 Which sounds strikingly similar to what an apparatchik of the editorial board for the Washington Com Post wrote, “I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.”35
Even before the Old York Times and the Washington ComPost ran their groundless hit pieces, I had predicted this would happen. I warned my radio audience in The Savage Nation to expect such wild-eyed attacks. That warning still stands. The stronger the Tea Party becomes, the more the old left-wing guard and the government media complex will do to shut it down, even using lies, half truths, wild allegations, and character assassination to paint the movement as little more than an extension of the John Birch Society.36 They’ll do whatever it takes to reduce the Tea Party to dried, spent leaves.
My Cup of Tea
We’ve seen what the counterfeit Tea Party plan has to offer. Now take a close look at the real deal by a real Tea Party organizer and patriot, Dale Robertson. I want you to see what he’s calling for and how different it is from the fake proposal we’ve already examined. You’ll see it just so happens to emphasize the same things I’ve been talking about for sixteen years on radio: borders, language, and culture.
Dale begins outlining what he calls “the non-negotiable core beliefs” of the Tea Party movement by asking, “What shall we do next? Turn a blind eye to the 20 million or more illegal aliens who demand citizenship because they believe they have earned it by nefariously entering our beloved nation and who continue to break the law by staying here? The Republican elite say ‘Yes to amnesty!’ But I believe the Tea Party will not reward law breakers, especially with our most sacred commodity—Citizenship in our beloved nation.”
It’s clear Dale understands the Tea Party isn’t a picnic. It’s a showdown.
There’s more. Dale asks the movement to do more soul-searching as they prepare to codify their core ideals. He asks: “Has the Tea Party forgotten the tax hikes poised and ready to crush the American people? How can we fail to remember the unrelenting line of gun grabbing legislation continually snaking its way through Congress? Yet, where is the outrage? … I say NO and HELL NO! We are non-negotiable in our stand against dumbed-down politics spun by deadhead Republican political hacks dreaming of emasculating the greatest thing going since 1773.”37
Even before getting to his list of core beliefs, you can see the passion brewing behind this patriot. Here, then are his list of fifteen core beliefs:
Illegal Aliens are illegal.
Pro-Domestic Employment is indispensable.
Stronger Military is essential.
Gun ownership is sacred.
Government must be downsized.
National Budget must be balanced.
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eficit Spending will end.
Bailout and Stimulus Plans are illegal.
Reduce Personal Income Taxes a must.
Reduce Business Income Taxes is mandatory.
Intrusive Government Stopped.
English only is required.
Traditional Family Values are encouraged.
Common Sense Constitutional Conservative Self-Governance is our mode of operation.
And, yes, we are a Christian Nation!
Are you beginning to get the picture? These are the kinds of themes we must be talking about in our town halls, on talk radio, and in our meeting places on the Internet. And, without question, these are the core principles we must adhere to when we step inside the voting booth. For far too long, America has had a bumper crop of idiots and traitors running the show.
Is Healthcare Reform Really Reparations by Another Name?
For years, Marxist huckster Louis Farrakhan has been pushing for reparations for slavery. He won’t rest until the government makes amends for what he views as the irreversible and lasting damage done to the African-American community. Nothing will satisfy him until Washington ponies up with some sort of an acceptable apology—and piles of cash. The fact of the matter is that slavery ended in the United States something like 140 years ago and there isn’t a white American living today who ever owned a slave. This means nothing to him.
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