Quote from: Solar on May 30, 2015, 04:46:42 PM
Yeah, only when they're not needed.

I say the guy is either a liar, or he created groups calling themselves TEA to deceive his constituency.
Either way, he needs to get a boot up his ass and forced to apologize for insulting our intellect.
WTF is it with Ohio voters?

  As a Michiganian living near their border, I too have often posited that puzzle. Good luck on finding any TEA groups which would back such a thing.

Ohio gave us Jimmy "The Wig" Traficante and a string of blustering chumps running Toledo, but overall Fulton County, Ohio is far better-run than Wayne County, Michigan. They fight tax-hike proposals. They fight them hard. I just can't see anyone seriously proposing it.

Off-topic a smidge,

I have kind regards for John Kasich in his name-recognition effort this cycle. He's not as RINO as Snyder (an improvement right there) and unlike the prospect of seeing Hillary's face for four more years, Kasich would be a godsend. (Isn't that just unbearably cosmetic of me to focus on looks when I choose who will lie to me for the next four years?)

Quote from: The Boo Man... on May 30, 2015, 10:28:16 PM
Could this be the plan for 2016? Makes sense since everything the left has done over the last 8 years has failed.

You could be onto something.
Nothing surprises me anymore where the enemy is concerned.
It's odd, ask the media if TEA is alive and they'll claim it was a midterm fluke, "twice", ask an Establishment rino, and they'll growl that a small number of numskulls are interfering with God knows what, that we don't understand the process.

But ask anyone paying close attention to this mess and wanting change, and they'll tell you TEA is very much alive and making serious change.
I'd say the latter group is the largest of any constituency out there at the moment, big enough to change the course of history in 2016.

Our only roadblock is? Keeping this constituency mad enough beyond 2016/2020, and beyond to make these changes permanent.
Honestly, I see 2016 in the bag, I really do, but our seizing the GOP is an inevitably, it's the holding onto it that's the real challenge.
Sadly Conservatives biggest weakness is complicity, once things are working, we stop fighting, and history proves this, as in rino lying every election cycle. Yeah the Con votes, but if we don't keep feeding the machine with honest Conservatives, we'll be right back where we started in 10 years.

Yes folks, 2016 is in the bag, but please remember the leftists in both party's will never give up. We can never get that complacent ever again.

Quote from: Solar on May 30, 2015, 07:50:25 PM
The idiot was careless enough to claim Groups, plural, so it really shouldn't be all that hard to verify, assuming anyone in the media cared to.
You know, the way they vetted the Marxist.

God in heaven NO! Twice has been bad enough for our nation. No, no, no, if these talking heads in the MSM are going to tell us who we should and shouldn't like. Then that same MSM needs to do a vastly improved job of vetting and fairly and accurately reporting what the actual news is, not what their own personal slanted opinion is as the news. Don't ya think? I do at least. But then again I am still beyond disbelief that anyone cast their vote for Obama after we finally did find out his "roots", and how rotten, and decayed, and nasty his "roots" really are.

Quote from: Solar on May 31, 2015, 06:37:22 AM
You could be onto something.
Nothing surprises me anymore where the enemy is concerned.
It's odd, ask the media if TEA is alive and they'll claim it was a midterm fluke, "twice", ask an Establishment rino, and they'll growl that a small number of numskulls are interfering with God knows what, that we don't understand the process.

But ask anyone paying close attention to this mess and wanting change, and they'll tell you TEA is very much alive and making serious change.
I'd say the latter group is the largest of any constituency out there at the moment, big enough to change the course of history in 2016.

Our only roadblock is? Keeping this constituency mad enough beyond 2016/2020, and beyond to make these changes permanent.
Honestly, I see 2016 in the bag, I really do, but our seizing the GOP is an inevitably, it's the holding onto it that's the real challenge.
Sadly Conservatives biggest weakness is complicity, once things are working, we stop fighting, and history proves this, as in rino lying every election cycle. Yeah the Con votes, but if we don't keep feeding the machine with honest Conservatives, we'll be right back where we started in 10 years.

Yes folks, 2016 is in the bag, but please remember the leftists in both party's will never give up. We can never get that complacent ever again.

I'm thinking they may want to blur the lines. For once the GOP has several actual Conservatives to choose from. The Liberal experiment has failed.  With the advent of the Tea Party there is a definitive line drawn within the GOP. The RINOS and the Conservatives. The Democrats are now completely leftist and it is killing them. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see the left trying co-opt the Tea Party as a sort of life jacket.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on May 31, 2015, 08:26:10 PM
I'm thinking they may want to blur the lines. For once the GOP has several actual Conservatives to choose from. The Liberal experiment has failed.  With the advent of the Tea Party there is a definitive line drawn within the GOP. The RINOS and the Conservatives. The Democrats are now completely leftist and it is killing them. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see the left trying co-opt the Tea Party as a sort of life jacket.

No doubt. Though it very well could backfire, in making their constituency think TEA is an alternative.