Tea Party Leader: Quit the Blame Game

We need time to figure out what happened to the GOP in this presidential election, says Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express. “We need to figure this out. It’s not going to be something that’s figured out today, not going to be figured out tomorrow. It’s going to take a lot of communication and discussing, it’s going to take a while to figure it out.”

It’ll take quite a long time, I guess, to figure out why a guy with less charisma than Bob Dole, no principles he wouldn’t sell out for ten votes, and different from the incumbent only in degree, might not have won.

I’ve commented on Amy Kremer before: on her zealous support for Paul Ryan despite his having betrayed what her faction is supposed to stand for, and on her declaration in June 2011 that Tea Party Express would support whoever the GOP nominee turned out to be, thereby squandering their political capital for no good reason.

Doc Holliday

What’s wrong is the same worthless people in charge keep grooming worthless politicians.
DeltaJimi

The Republican party needs to lean more libertarian. Plain and simple. It also needs to quit nominating RINOs. It’s like the Republicans are too afraid to nominate somebody with courage and conviction. “Oh, we don’t want to be seen as extremists.” Yet some of them aren’t afraid to be self-righteous on social issues. But on the other hand, however, a lot of that is also overstated by the Dems in the mainstream media too.

Why is it that the Democrats can always nominate the most liberal of their base. Meanwhile, the Republicans only nominate somebody merely “good enough”? Why is that?

The last time the Republicans nominated somebody good was Reagan. Sure, Reagan wasn’t perfect. But he sure as hell was the last guy who understood free market principles and that government was a large part of the nation’s woes. Looking back it’s amazing what he got accomplished considering he had a majority Democratic Congress against him.

Everyone other Republican after him turned out to be no different than other big-government liberals by large.

Personally IMO I liked Harding and Coolidge the best.
Franklin

You
joeliberty

You have got to be kidding me. “We need to figure this out?” I would suggest to go look in the mirror and start from there.
DeltaJimi

Friend,

Don’t forget that I said he wasn’t perfect. And don’t forget that I said Harding and Coolidge were better IMO. I am by no means a social conservative. I am a Libertarian. I live in the Dumbocratic state of Maryland and voted for Gary Johnson, NOT Mitt Romney. Had I lived in a swing state maybe I would’ve voted for Romney, I don’t know?

But you gotta realize that a lot of the added spending was because of the Democratic Congress too. Had Reagan gotten 7 out of 8 of his proposed budgets we would’ve had a surplus by 1989. Unfortunately sometimes it’s better choosing half a S*** sandwich as opposed to a full S*** sandwich in reality unfortuantely.

Yes, Reagan did increase a lot of military spending as well too. Was it justified? IMO, at the time, I think so. (I’m Russian, so I’m personally sentimental to Reagan). The Cold War ended without going to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. No lives were lost. But I won’t credit Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II completely either. The overspending of a Communist government also leads to failure as well. As a matter of fact I think the latter had more to do with it.
Jeremy

I was just about to post the same thing before reading your post. I think it should be blatantly obvious by now. I sometimes wonder if even 15% of the human even has a functioning brain. “Interview With a Zombie” is looking more literal than figurative these days. :/
smelvin118

The Tea Party are merely fascist. Completely nationalistic, and married to the religious right. The tea party is not the answer to begin with. They are wrong on military spending, wrong on foreign policy, and wrong on the government dictating morals and values. We need true libertarian ideas.
NewHampshire

Dearest Tom: Amy is NOT tea party, or anything near it. She is not our leader. The tea party is a liberty movement started by Ron Paul and still exists today with out funding or national leaders. This woman runs a GOP PAC to collect money for GOP consultants… Period. Don’t give her any!
NewHampshire

They are not the tea party. We are not a religious movement.
NewHampshire

NH knew right away what fraud for a conservative Paul Ryan was. We even had our ‘mother of the revolution’ woman write on Lew Rockwell about it… his sordid record.
chris

yeah, exactly, Tom; Ms Kremer is going to have to have to down lots of additional jelly doughnuts, while grappling with the perplexing question, of why, a guy who struggled through the entire primary campaign, and whose entire foreign policy involves taking the joker and calling his nutcase buddy, Bibi, does not seem to connect to the independent voters
Citizen

The GOP ‘STATISTS” are grasping at any straw they can to explain their miserable performance.
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Why not blame the TEA party…. sure that’s as lame as anything they concocted for Romeny to tell the population, “12 million new jobs out of thin air”
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Maybe the electorate is wising up to this “tag team” approach to elections.
Both parties are Big Government Statists and Liberty be damned.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546092083 Terry Mcintyre

There are a lot of reasons for the Romney/Ryan flop, but I’d sum it up as this: Nobody ever sang their virtues to me. It was all about “Anybody but Obama.”

“Give me a balanced budget in 28 years, or give me death” is not exactly a rallying cry to inspire the legions.