jeffreymark

TEA PARTY STEALTH

I repeatedly and openly posit the hunch to my friends that the Tea Party seriously provides the tools for our nation's salvation. Or, salvation in terms of her traditional character. Some believe because the latest Republican front runners failed to kiss the Tea Party ring that this movement has petered out. Not so! The unique movement knows how to win the end game. All politics is local. Tea Party gurus everywhere now invest more in local organization than national. Ascension from the grassroots works. In fact, most paradigm shifting radical movements work like seeds in a garden. The plant grows and one by one pollinates other plants, which in turn pollinate more plants etc... Church leaders get it and even our own Savior knew this. He took a small band of grassroots ragtags, invested his life in them, turned them loose, and look what happened.

Meantime, those frustrated with our current candidates must exercise cautionary patience. Rome does not get built in a day. It took one hundred years (beginning with Teddy Roosevelt) for progressives to get to their icon Obama. One hundred years of enlightenment education, unchecked idealism, and bratty affluence to get where we stand today. Washington Post columnist Dr. Milton Wolf gets it when he opines:

First, however, conservatives must face reality and choose one of these three options: (1) Decide between Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney, (2) devise some near-magical electoral path in the 11th hour that leads to a different nominee or (3) brace for Barack Obama’s second term. A rule to remember: Manage the situation you have, not the one you want, or someone else will manage it for you.  

That's it, plain and simple. To compromise ones pace does not mean they must concede their principles. Conservatives often want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. If they mindlessly sabotage the two front runners this writer predicts they will tragically dig a deeper pit for conservatives to rise out of. The recent barrage of criticisms toward Newt Gingrich in particular, provide nothing more than fodder for the Dems. To be sure, they have remained relatively quiet, keeping their salivating rhetorical attacks clandestine. Dr. Wolf offers compelling wisdom at this point:

It’s time for conservatives to quit playing checkers and start playing chess. Stop sabotaging our own candidates and instead create a path that rewards conservatism no matter who our nominee is. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are both smart enough to know that while the Tea Party lights a path to the White House, the harsh reality follows that should one of them receive its support and betray it, his presidency would be over before it began.

Kudos to Dr. Wolf. Our movement needs more politically astute voices like his. 

O'DONNELL'S BC WITCHCRAFT

Family Research Council chairman Tony Perkins, describes the character of America;'s controversial Tea Party movement. His comments leave no doubt that a Christian spirit provides the animus for this grassroots movement. Thus, implicitly corroborating my claim that Christine O'Donnell dabbled in witchcraft during her pre-conversion days. Listen to Perkin's below: