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To: Sdgla who wrote (281106)	11/14/2013 11:40:23 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Tea Party was...to restore the lost heritage of America that had been eroded, undermined or just plain sold out by professional politicians." So if you are not going to have "professional politicians" running the show who are you going to have? The amateurs?! If you are going to unseat the a "professional" anything, you'd better be more proficient than them or change the game altogether. Neither of which happened by the Tea Party...and why was that if not for detours that it took from its original rallying cry? There is a lot that can be shoved under the banner of "lost heritage of America." Slavery and bigotry can also be placed there. But I take it that is not what he wanted to convey. Nonetheless, you win by keeping one core value with mass appeal rather than providing distraction through a wide banner. This was Tea Party's tactical mistake. And it is what they still don't get...perhaps now by design :-(

To: Sdgla who wrote (281106)	11/14/2013 11:52:58 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here is hook and the crap that is set to bait the Tea Party: Successful resistance requires courage and competence—and a certain amount of cooperation. Now is surely the time for the Tea Party and the establishment to put aside some of their differences for the sake of their party, and their country. In light of the threats we face at home and abroad, now is surely the time for Republicans to hearken to the words of that great friend of American liberty, Edmund Burke: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”