Gnarly Wipe Out for Democrats & RINOs: Secrets of the Tea Party Movement’s Successful Tidal Wave (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 12, 2010
Secrets of the tea party movement's devastating tidal wave on Election Day: it was the overwhelming 'organic reaction' of the American people to the socialist-progressive overreaching by Team Obama and the 'arrogance in the governing class'
Sen. Lindsey “I’m a Shameless RINO” Graham, are you NOW paying attention to the tea party’s tidal wave, Hodad?
Mocking and minimalizing the tea party movement won’t bode well for you in 2012, dude.
It’s obvious that President Pantywaist did not pay attention… Mission Accomplished… Obama Celebrates America’s Diminished Role in World.
Summary below is from Hot Air’s Ed Morrisey:
In the video, I explain that the closest analogue I can find to the Tea Party’s bottom-up generation and massive success was the Proposition 13 tax revolt that started in California and ended up sweeping the nation. Like the Tea Party, it started as an organic reaction to overreaching government and arrogance in the governing class in dismissing the legitimate complaints of taxpayers. It found its own leaders and sustained itself into a low-taxes movement that lasted for years — almost for a generation, only fading recently. The movement helped propel Ronald Reagan into the GOP nomination, and while it didn’t lead to Congressional majorities for the GOP in the 1980s in the aftermath of Watergate, the same sense of out-of-control government did help Newt Gingrich do that in 1994.
The Proposition 13 movement changed the paradigm of national policy on economics and taxation. The Tea Party has at least as good of a chance of doing the same and having the same lasting impact — if its activists remain engaged and demand accountability from the entire governing class, not just Democrats.
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Cowabunga, dude!
Love this man’s analysis: Prof. William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection deftly summarizes the results and the messages sent by the election’s tea party tidal wave… Brilliant Thoughts from Post-Tsunami, Hurricane-Ravaged, Earthquake-Shaken America:
- The Democrats received the feared political decapitation. The Democrats lost, in a single night, two generations of leadership: Numerous members of the old guard, including multiple committee Chairmen, lost, as did dozens of newer members from the 2006-2008 cycles. Because the Tsunami struck in one cycle, there are no young Democratic guns waiting to step into the breach. The Democratic Party in the House is worse than a chicken with its head cut off, it is a chicken with its head and feet cut off.
- The Tea Party movement made this all possible, so disregard the memes that the Tea Party cost the Republicans the Senate. Without the energy and commitment of the Tea Party movement, the Republican Party would remain as moribund and stale as the Democratic Party is today.
- Harry Reid. Surely the disappointment of the night. There is no one more responsible for our current economic mess and the Democrats’ political mess than Reid. He won, so Democrats are happy. Don’t wish too hard for something, you just got it. The poster-child for Democratic Party mischief and malevolence remains on the poster.
- Harry Reid. Don’t kid yourself that Sharron Angle made his win easier. Could Sue Lowden really have stood up to the onslaught by the Reid machine? Nothing against Sue Lowden, but Harry Reid’s team took credit for destroying her in the primary by pushing the “health care for chickens” barter thing and fomenting other attacks. If Lowden could not survive the primary and Reid’s under-the-radar attacks, she would not have survived the general election.
- Mike Castle. Good riddance. Delaware was not the difference as to whether Republicans took the Senate. Non-Tea Partiers Carly Fiorina, John Raese, Linda McMahon and possibly Dino Rossi (still waiting) could not pull it off.
- Mike Castle. Good riddance. If you had manned-up (I just had to use that phrase) and worked to elect Christine O’Donnell, and brought your Delaware Republican machine with you, the results in Delaware may have been different, or at least closer. Since we would not have won the Senate anyway, the elimination of Mike Castle was worth the loss in Delaware.
- Best line of the night. Eric Cantor on MSNBC, with a rather deliberate smirk on his face: “It’s a pleasure to be on MSNBC tonight.”
- Most profound headline: The midterms may have saved a superpower: Americans say no to US decline.
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