Christine O’Donnell Win Proves Tea Party is For Real
Give us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto
In his most recent book, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, and Freedomworks president Matt Kibbe wrote that Armey has personally witnessed three conservative revolutions. Your blogger reviews them for you here, in her own words:
1. The Barry Goldwater conservatives - turned people who grew up in the 50s, such as your blogger’s parents, into conservative voters. They turned the 1964 Republican National convention at San Francisco’s Cow Palace into a conservative event and nominated a man who become a spokesman for a generation. Goldwater backers supported limited government, condemnations of the Kennedy/Johnson domestic policy and favored a hard line against the Communists in North Vietnam. Also involved in this movement – one Ronald Reagan, who would go on to be Governor of California and the greatest President of the United States.
2. Republican Revolution/Contract With America of 1994 – Your blogger was a part of this, as a member of the North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans and as a past-President of the Wake County YRs. Dick Armey and soon-to-be-crowned House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), envisioned this revolution and along with others, carried it out. The conservatives took over the Republican party, pushed aside moderates and controlled the US House and US Senate.
Even in North Carolina, Republicans took over the State House. Sadly, moderate Republican Harold Brubaker showed he was not prepared to lead, and “jumped into bed” with then Democratic Senate leaders, Marc Basnight and Tony Rand. Your blogger was so sad that she nearly quit the party over it. (She was young then, and felt that all those days off work, campaigning and phone banking had gone for naught. )
KCC truly hopes that CONSERVATIVEs take over the State Legislature in 2010 and show that we are indeed, prepared to lead.
We should not allow the moderates an inch, as they have proved themselves unworthy in the past. Remember Rep. Richard Morgan, who agreed to a power-sharing agreement and bucked the party plan, even when the House Republicans had already elected a House Speaker?
Richard Morgan’s sneaky plan gave rise to crook Jim Black, a Democrat from Charlotte, who was later caught passing bribes in a chain-restaurant men’s room. Black went to prison and Morgan went into hiding, for a year or so.
3. The Tea Party of 2009-? Armey, chairman of Freedomworks, has embraced the conservative, grassroots , tea party, and has encouraged its growth.
Though not linked specifically to any political party, most members have allegiances to the Grand Old Party. For a long while, the tea party looked to many, merely as a group who enjoyed coming together to rally, buy and sell political buttons, and show their dislike for all things Barack Obama. However, over time, the victories began to pile up.
- Delaware GOP Primary Winner: Christine O’Donnell
The media and the liberals have called them disgusting names like “tea baggers” not because they disrespect them, but rather because they fear them.
Your blogger calls it the “Sarah Palin syndrome”. The lamestream media says bad things about both to discredit them, but really, they simply fear them.
O’Donnell was nominated in a tough fight on Tuesday against party regular Mike Castle. Castle was backed by the so-called GOP establishment. O’Donnell was backed by the more conservative tea party crowd. Despite being far behind early, her polling numbers rose, and she earned victory in a hard fought race. Tuesday night and well into Wednesday morning, her backers nationwide were celebrating on Twitter. Her website even went down for a few minutes with so many messages of congratulations.
Yes, folks, the tea partiers are indeed partying tonight. They are for real and they want you to know it. Sure, they don’t have leaders. Such is the nature of bottom up groups. It’s an awesome phenomenon. The liberals are shivering in fear, as they should be. Congratulations Christine. Hopefully the folks in Delaware will pull together and they can win this one.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has rumored to be unwilling to endorse Christine O’Donnell after her win over Mike Castle, the candidate they back against her in that primary. A quick check of that group’s website showed no mention of her win, as of 12:42 a.m. on Wednesday morning. KCC hopes they will change their mind and do the right thing.
The Republican National Senatorial Committee would do well to work WITH the tea party, rather than against them, as they have stated they will do in Christine O’Donnell’s Senate race in Delaware. These people are Republicans just waiting to be embraced and by ignoring them, the NRSC is doing itself a tremendous disservice.
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Christine O’Donnell is a lot easier on the eyes than Mike Castle. Seriously though, one reason so much of the GOP establishment backed the experienced but RINO-ish Castle was that polling numbers seemed to indicate he could handily beat the Democrat, while novice O’Donnell would handily be defeated by the Democrat. Now that she has won a great primary victory, O’Donnell needs to show she win in November. I wish her well. So far I’m very pleased with the Tea Party’s effect on the GOP. They’ve dragged them back to the right.