Democrats Plan to Attack the Tea Parties (Again)
The New York Times is reporting that the Obama Democrats are weighing a bold new ad strategy for the crescendo of the fall campaign. I’ll let the Times describe it (for the record, the White House is denying this):
President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said.
White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are trying to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of limiting the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate. The strategists see openings to exploit after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.
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When I first read this, it all sounded familiar to me. It took all of 10 seconds to remember why. The Democrats tried this identical tactic last year, and it didn’t work for them (the fact that they did this last year is why I don’t buy their current denial).
Here’s what happened. After the 2009 August recess, the Democrats were reeling when townhall meeting after townhall meeting blew up in their faces. In Texas, for instance, Dem. Rep Lloyd Doggett got caught on camera running away from his constituents at a grocery store in Austin, after they started asking him tough questions about ObamaCare that he didn’t want to answer. I was working for the Republican Party in Texas at the time, and had more than a little fun with Doggett’s cut and run act.
I dare you Barry – Bring it on!
The Democrats, running for reelection, who are trying to run away from Pelosi and Obama, are the same Democrats who allowed themselves to be bought or arm twisted into voting for Obamacare. Why would anyone trust them now. They are lying to get reelected to office, and will revert to true Democrat form once therein esconsed.
Any Poli Sci major can tell you that mid-term elections are all about generating turnout by exciting the base. The Tea Party does it for the Right, and the Press will do it for the Wrong … Er, Left.
This would only work if party faithful were indifferent to the Tea Party. If you have liberal friends on Facebook you know that from status updates posted over the past several weeks, the politically left is as disdainful as it could possibly get.
Bwahahah! Do it! Attack the Tea Party!
I hope the Dems enjoy the little Battle of Moscow they’re going to attempt, it’s going to be one nasty march home!
I wonder how the Democrats plan on winning another election in America if they keep attacking the vast majority of Americans? No matter because both parties are in for tough sleding ahead as the fiscally conservatives across this great land rise up and put an end to progressivism.
“That’s your plan? Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan than that!” -John Chrichton, Farscape
Well, of course the Democrats have got to attack the Tea Party. Otherwise they’d have to talk about the horrendous debt that’s growing daily and dragging us under, the jobs that have been lost, and the fact that they haven’t done jack-all except make it worse.
Beating your opposition about the head with a microphone is a monumentally stupid strategy.
Only way this could help them is getting some of their base excited enough to vote……
However, it is likely to get more independents that have been on sidelines to vote for us…
We shall see which is greater….my bet is on us!
That being said EVERYONE that leans GOP, TEA party, or libertarian needs to FULLY endorse the GOP/TEA candidate in their area. Even if its O’donnell!!! I have said all along the BIG fight needs to be in the primaries for GOP/TEA party control…then both sides need to suck it up and support whoever wins!
oohh and murkowsky…you wimp! Show some class and admit you lost and support your FORMER opponent!
my 2c
Doggett got swamped by Texas voters way back in 1984, when he ran against Phil Gramm for Senate in the year when Reagan carried 49 states. The man should know a tidal wave coming at him when he sees one.
Ooh, TEA Party “extremists”… if TEA Partiers are extremist, the left/librals are patriotic.
Now, now, now. The Democrats and RINO’s are both very busy trying to figure out how to avert the great danger that threatens the Republic. And that is election fraud my friends, election fraud. More and more examples keep turning up and the frequency is increasingly.
It appears that the STINKING VOTERS ARE STEALING ELECTIONS. The political class weeps over this foul plague that appears to be sweeping the nation. After all, stealing elections is their job. How dare the peasants meddle in political matters which are far, far too complicated for them to understand. If the peasants had their way the poor dead people would even be denied their right to vote. Let every Progressive wail over that possibility.
Yes my friends, don’t judge the Progressives too harshly. They are busy trying to deal with the menace of those nasty voters. But don’t worry, if all else fails Progressive Federal Judges can be found that will overturn the will of the Unenlightened Neanderthals just like they did in California with the definition of marriage thing or the Arizona laws that would have let the cavemen throw out Probationary Citizens from Mexico who could have been depended upon to vote for Progressive Leaders.
Yes comrades, its time for all of us to take out our Che Guevara T-shirts and fire up our Volvo’s and come together in vast drum circles and start singing Kumbaya. Gaia will listen.
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The Democrats are going to call the Tea Partiers racists and extremists some more. How is this news?
Mister Obama, Bring. It. On.
What you fail to realize, Mr. Obama, is that the Tea Parties are all about opposition to the failed policies of tax and spend. It’s not, as your narcissism might suggest, about you, personally… you’re just the latest in a long line of tax-and-spenders.
Therefore, when you attack the Tea Parties, you’re telling those that haven’t yet started paying attention to politics, “If you don’t like my policies, well, here are the people who oppose them.”
In short, while you may be rallying your own base (I think it’s debatable how much you’re actually doing that, but I’ll admit a certain minimum level of effectiveness for the sake of argument), you’re also telling the people who haven’t yet chosen a base where to go if they don’t like what you’re doing… in effect, not only rallying our base for us, but helping us grow our base!
So, please, do it. Do it loud, do it proud, do it as often as you can. The more you complain, the more our numbers grow.
Attacking the TEA party is Alinsky playbook and a distraction away from the economic issues. One wonders how dumb the American voters are to fall for this ruse, or out of touch the Washington insiders intend to remain. Every time that they attack the TEA party they give them publicity during the home stretch of the election cycle.
“One wonders how dumb the American voters are……”
Really! Can you say “2008″! Especially after BO’s famous reply to Joe, the Plumber, about how he (BO) was going to redistribute the weath. And even today, there are so many people that still believe in that hope and change crap. I just don’t understand how so many people can be that stupid. It just proves what I learned back in high school in the 50′s… “That the masses are asses”
Bill Gates, Eugenicist and Death Panel Advocate
Eugenics, the study of human genetics and of methods to improve inherited physical and mental characteristics of the human race, must be a fascinating scientific field, so fascinating that it has attracted the close attention of such twentieth century notables as Margaret Sanger, Josef Mengele, and our own William Henry “Bill” Gates, III.
Sanger, you may recall, was the founder of the American Birth Control League which eventually morphed into Planned Parenthood of America and which advocated black genocide and the forced sterilization of the “unfit,” policies Sanger saw as insuring the “salvation of American civilization.”
Mengele, you may recall, was the Nazi ”Angel of Death” who tortured and experimented on Jewish and Gypsy children at Auschwitz before they were sent to the gas chambers, all in the interests of accomplishing Hitler’s and Heinrich Himmler’s die Endlösung der Judenfrage, their ”Final Solution” for the Jewish “problem.”
A relatively new member in that rarified atmosphere of twisted frankensteins and mass murderers is Gates, multi-billionaire founder and Chairman of Microsoft, philantropist, avid supporter of Barack Obama and Obamacare, and, you may not recall since it’s been given precious little press, enthusiastic advocate of those Obamacare “death panels” which we were told do not and will not exist.
It all depends on terminology, I guess.
This past summer the pragmatist Gates bemoaned during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO a “lack of willingness” to consider the question of choosing between “spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient” or laying off ten teachers. He snidely added,. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1906)
Bill Gates is a Jr. (and BG Sr. is slime.)
While Truman has never been named as one of Obama’s ideal Presidents, perhaps The Won has decided to take a page from his book. Truman won re-election (well, actually his first election to the WH) by campaigning against Congress.
Obviously Obama can’t do that – it would make Nancy Pelosi upset.
But why not campaign against the American people? After all, who the hell are they to tell the executive and legislative branches what they want? Who died and made them sovereign, anyway?
Could be a winning strategy – try to ride the rising wave of disgust at the stupid voters.
So the Democrats grand plan is to insult their potential clients! As an interested observer I would guess that, at most, one third of the US electorate (the left-most third) would buy these attacks on the tea party because lefties are disdainful of their fellow Americans. But these lefties are already clients of the Democrats – so what will the Democrats gain? The insulted potential clients in the remaining two thirds will go support the competition. If the voters are really insulted, attacks on the tea party should strengthen its support, not weaken it.
Let me see now; I think I’ll go and insult all the people who buy my services. That will make them like me and prefer me over my competitors. Obama made me do it – apparently it’s what smart people do.
Yep you seem to have summed it all up quite well they have now shown that they are the stupidest people on earth, only problem is is that THEY think that they are
smarterthan most all of us!Thanks for the uplifting post westerncanadian!
Obama is living proof that blacks, (and Obama is only half black!!!) quit progressing when Martin Luther King died.
Black people really need to stand up for themselves, and say enough of this messiah emulation.
Well if the Tea Party is extremist then I say to them fight fire with fire for the fact that right now we have a radical extremist congress and senate (no caps for these creeps), that have been cramming bad legislation that will take much work to repair almost immediately or the country as a whole will fail in several respects especially economically!
Insert bligatory ‘ the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’ comment here
Firstly, the Obama machine has been astroturf from the get go – of course they will deny involvement in such nonsense.
Secondly, such an act may very well blow up in their face, as more people identify with the Tea Party movement than with the GOP; we could only be so lucky as to see the Tea Party clean the GOP house – lockstep GOP is the problem, not the Tea Party.
Finally, negative campaign ads based on “What we are not” are failures; If you cannot run on what you DO stand for, then your political opinions are obsolete and insignificant, regardless of how many lemmings and dregs you manage to herd in order to pull off a surprisingly low majority victory.
SHARK! JUMP! (Aw crap, that didn’t work.)
just watched as the nitely excuse makers that frequent the ‘BIG o’ show tell how the pretender wants specifics from the tea lovers as to how they would cut big gov costs. i’m not one, but here’s a humble start:
1. kill obamacare
2. cut pelosi’s free flyer miles
3. cut down on w.h. vacation expenses
4. fire all the czars
5. eliminate all affirmative action programs – competition is what made this country what it once was.
6. lean out the federal payrolls
7. freeze all spending to current levels
8. enforce immigration laws – working Americans pay taxes & stimulate U.S. econ.
9. set up an immigration work program (more liberal than present) where those with legit. job offers here can come & work, and pay taxes.
10. cut congress’ fat-cat employment packages
i could go on all nite.
of all the people i would not expect to challenge ANYBODY about being up front with details, it would be this administation. they passed a 2500 page document to tax us and didn’t even read it, or let us read it! duh!
while we are being up front w/ details, how about a peek at that transparent resume/credentials.
reminds me of the joke about Col. Custer’s last words: Don’t take any prisoners boys.
fighting senator boxer, a democrat, is ready to play the warmerbagger card as well.
By all means, keep on demonizing the mainstream American people! It’s worked so well up to this point. Why don’t you become more shrill and escalate your attacks in making the Tea Party folks out to be even more vile and despicable? They grill the newborn babies of illegal immigrants, and violently attack your fellow socialists, like your SEIU thugs, who bite peoples’ fingers off, and terrorize 14 year old kids in their own homes. The truth comes out in the light of day, and the socialists are the ones who are proven to be the violent thugs.
The Lefties keep saying that the Tea Partiers are right wing “extremists” yet I haven’t read one description yet of an extreme position held by the TPers. Nor does the Left ever volunteer a definition of “far right”. The Marxists at the top of the Democrat party wold consider the Founders “far right”. It’s ridiculous.
“Democrats plan to attack the tea party”.
Look, folks, I come here for NEWS….
I suggest a more surprising item: “Sun going to rise in the east”.
hey, obi, how’d those attack’s on Fox, Beck, and Rush go? increased audiences?
(and how’d those endorsements of dem candidates go? hmm, they lost?)
Democrats are stuck in the denial stage of grieving, insisting that the square peg fits in the round hole. Their problem is that none of their voters are going to turn out because there is absolutely nothing their party can point to as having helped Americans in any way, shape, or form. Get excited? About what? Only 9.6% unemployment!! Hooray!!
So in lieu of anything positive to accentuate about their 4-year journey over the cliff, they will personalize each race and do what they do best, which is smear, malign, lie, and cheat. That has worked well for them in the past, but this year the gig is up. Democrats will be wishing they never heard of Barack Obama as the dark wilderness closes in around them this November. Getcha popcorn ready.
Of course they’ll do this. Leftists NEVER learn from history.
- “The playbook says this will work.”
- “It has NEVER worked.”
- “The playbook says it’ll work.”
- Ad Nauseum
HB,
When the village near Onitsha renegade to be Obosi which was to answer another clan in Nkpor,Onitsha occupied it because they answered Obosi meaning Ubosi
the day a bicycle was dropped at Awuda Nnobi near Nnewi during Nigeria Biafra war.
The village called Oboist was to be named Nkpor-nkiti as their name like Nkpor-agu and Nkpor-ulo.
Abrikete 1 of Umunze lead award Nkpor-nkiti dance as village headmaster the dance step is called ATILIOGWU after his survey at NEPA sub-station Awada to see if talisman was dropped their which was a dance of acrobatic music
Organized after industrial layout was shifted from Nkpor-ulo to Ogbaru Atani Iyi-owa odekpe, which was to be river Niger harbor for ship repairs then the construction of similar building at Nkpor-ulo was to remember Obosi as a day the bicycle missed
which the plane meant to target Nnewi was not seen at Awuda Nnobi which i mentioned earlier, now residence of Nkpor-nkiti now is Awada meaning meaning Awuda.
Nigeria police, military and other para-military that use gun want to back date their salaries arrears as payment to the gun signed to them by defense contractors that supplied arms and
ammunition to Nigeria government the guns will be their own subsequent bullets they will manufacture it at their various tribe as independent country..
Tea party as current issue in USA is group of Republican party and Democratic party that want to launch new political party..
Tea party failed in Nigeria when unidentified Flying Object UFO was illusive for Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa with Chief Obafemi Awolowo did not place sperm on tea cup suacer to stop anthropology of Nigeria analogue.
The tea party was initialized before independence of Nigeria after chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe and Alhjai Tafawa Balewa visit to London.
Rtd Gen.Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida political strategy failed in NRC and SDP which were National Republican Convention and Social Democratic Party replica to USA Republican party and Democratic party but failed to initialize a third party which was to be Tory party
now tea party was linked to Labor party for workers that has records of farmers that did election in ancient days with history of success like Israeli Liked party..
Now you can put sperm in tea spoon light fire under it to acquire Tea party, which Benjamin Natayahu in PAJAMASMEDIA discussed a letter about the party before it went public from Bill Clinton recently..
“The blue pen of my Aunt is in the fried chicken.”
I repeat, “The blue pen of my Aunt is in the fried chicken.”
I was under the impression that we had to be adults to become the President, Congressman/woman or Senator and boy am I wrong. It took the annoying one to bring out the truth. Have fun kids on your venture to tease the Tea Party and we will thank you on November the 3rd for all your help in getting us back into power, so we can shut you down.
In respect to the second clip. “Call the GOP and tell them you’ve had enough of the mob”
The only mob that I’ve had enough of is the current mob in control in DC!
This is just a plan; they can’t directly hurt or attack the majority since it’ll further ruin their name. What they need now is to put more perfume on their names and do their “real work”. If they continue their plan, hope it’ll work for them.
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DEMOCRATS are the EXTREMISTS here. ASK THEM TO DEBATE THE ISSUES and they lose. They’re just a bunch of attack pitbulls. Can’t wait until they are ALL gone.
Sandi, “They” are not attacking the majority, the majority ARE those taking
some of the hardworking class’ money from the govt. That’s why “they” are such a force. “We”, the earners, cannot afford these payouts (handouts) there-
fore we have to join them (heaven forbid) or be willing to fight (euphuimistically speaking, OF COURSE!) Let’s roll!