tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194608964536238003.post7710524707177238541..comments2023-10-31T10:50:53.740-05:00Comments on Team America's 10th District Blog: Being 'Too Inspiring' Is Not The Tea Party's ProblemTeam Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15035504738668036802noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194608964536238003.post-50593259659573212712010-03-30T20:04:52.991-05:002010-03-30T20:04:52.991-05:00Team America, you have more faith in the establish...Team America, you have more faith in the establishment than I do. You get to be establishment by winning and doing good things once you are in office. The current bunch is awful at that which is why mckenna, dillard, ethan hastert, and coulson all got slaughtered-as I predicted. I am not interested in seeing the tea party coopted so that some bored tool millionaire from the city can cut deals with the democrats and send us back to 2005. I don't know elkman but there's a reason dave from out in dupage county is not a chief of staff for congressman oberweis or ethan hastert. the message stunk, the candidates stunk, their values stunk, and they had no ideas. <br /><br />If ron paul can lead a movement and tom tancredo can lead a movement, mark kirk can lead a movement. <br /><br />I'm tired of seeing him campaign like he's the one with the failed bank of the sopranos on his resume or like he's the unemployed bed wetter from out of the district who thinks Tehran should just have its way with israel. <br /><br />FOKLAEAPSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194608964536238003.post-79448142172242918022010-03-30T06:33:58.399-05:002010-03-30T06:33:58.399-05:00No problem, FOKLAEAPS, I can handle constructive c...No problem, FOKLAEAPS, I can handle constructive criticism, and I appreciate you sticking with us all these years. It has indeed been a long time since the days when Lou and I were simply a pain in Ellen's Ellen, as you like to put it, over on her blog (and she seems to still have not gotten over it).<br /><br />In any case, I'm not sure I follow the point of your comment, except that you wish Mark Kirk would rise up to be the moderate GOP's emulation of 1994 Newt and lead the anti-Obama forces to victory. Elkman is taking notes, no doubt, so your comments will receive due consideration. Maybe Mark will become that kind of figurehead/charismatic national leader someday, but first he's got to win a national election, and we can all see the strategy here.<br /><br />The point of my post in the end was that since the tea party does not seem to be taking the direction of going third party to push a candidate something like Ross Perot (and remember how he managed to split the vote to give us a Clinton), then the GOP needs to bring them back under the tent, and pronto. The principles of the tea party are laudable, and I agree that philosophically it is good that there is a movement to return the GOP back to the party of fiscal responsibility and smaller government (we'll be decades undoing what Obama is expanding gov't into in only a few short years). But in terms of actually winning elections and having the power to control US policy towards Israel, cut deficits and end the nationalization of everything, unless the GOP and tea partiers can come together instead of growing farther apart, then we're all going to wind up with the United State of Europe.Team Americahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15035504738668036802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194608964536238003.post-4407940545793032512010-03-29T22:33:45.349-05:002010-03-29T22:33:45.349-05:00Team America, I am your biggest fan starting in th...Team America, I am your biggest fan starting in the days when you and king louis got booted from catlady's blog, but this analysis is a pipedream. I admire your continuing faith in mark kirk and the party establishment, but the tea party is doing what we need which is holding establishment republicans accountable. <br /><br />The congressman is a great man, and I am a longtime fan, but the guy has no agenda whatsoever. He has bits, he has pieces, he has a lot of fundraising and an organization give or take, but don't confuse him with a platform that's as solid as say a chuck schumer in new york, a jim webb in virginia or a demint in north carolina. <br /><br />The tea parties are doing to the party what the democrats did to the gop in 2006 and 2008 which is to attack the elements of it which have gone washington. I like senator mccain but 30 years in dc and his agenda has gone stale which is why jd hayworth has him scared.<br /><br />Will a tea party congressman win this cycle? Who knows. But the thing is everytime a party loses power-the gop in the 70's, the dems in the 80's and 2000's, an element within their ideological sphere rises up, challenges the party and takes it over. in the 70's phil cranes conservatives took over the gop, in the 80's the moderate clinton democrats took over the dems in the 2000's the catlady nutroots took over. <br /><br />Frankly, I'd love to see mark grow some balls and become the creator of a new moderate movement within the republican party the way chuck robb became a moderate democrat leader in the 80's. Nowhere does it say he has to spend his life balancing between the demint gop and the obama democrats. He's more than capable and we need him to come up with a new brand of moderate republicanism as an alternative to hughes/demint gop. <br /><br />That's better than hiding under the covers or having to put up with a hughes. <br /><br />FOKLAEAPSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com