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Bull in the Tea Party's China Shop

By W. James Antle, III on 4.20.09 @ 11:11AM

A.C. Kleinheider warns against letting the compassionate conservatives and other big-government types who've run the GOP into the ground hijack the sentiment behind the Tea Parties as a ticket back to power. But he's not betting anyone will listen:

So be enthusiastic about this "new" Rightist phenomenon if you want to, but if history is any guide, the professional conservatives will use and abuse these grassroots conservatives to get back into power, promptly sellout the principles of the movement, and then convince half of those they sold out that their betrayal is better than the alternative.

Perhaps this time will be different and authentic conservatives will throw off their professional conservative masters and show the country what true Old Right conservatism really is. However, if past is prelude, one should not hold their breath.

We'll have to wait and see if this is something new or just the same old song and dance.

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Tim| 4.20.09 @ 11:57AM

Shades of a pathetic John McCain working JOE THE PLUMBER! into every other sentence he spoke.

Tim| 4.20.09 @ 12:08PM

It also makes me wonder how many septuagenarian Senators are, even now, planning their 2012 runs.

Angel| 4.20.09 @ 2:39PM

Who is a Professional Conservative Master? Do you mean RINOs or Republican masters?

Thom| 4.20.09 @ 4:15PM

While I’m not opposed to the idea of peaceful protests, such as that took place in the middle of a workday where the bulk of us taxpayers had to work for a living, I hope the “Tea Partiers” don’t get their hopes up as the substance of their protest. By the standards of the real Boston “Tea Party” this was a non event in a Dumbmocracy. The Colonies weren’t even the shadow of a Democracy in 1773 and the actions of those Boston “Indians” brought with them serious criminal offenses and consequences. I can not image a single situation today that would bring out a single Boston “Indian” and Massachusetts is one of the highest tax burden states in the Union. John Adams would truly be embarrassed by the State of Massachusetts today. They stand for nothing Adams and the other signers of the Declaration of Independence fought for.

paultex| 4.20.09 @ 4:42PM

Name somes names.

Julia| 4.20.09 @ 5:44PM

Thom, don't be a crank. Those protesters were tax-payers with jobs--they just took a day of vacation. Is that okay with you? July 4, 2009 TEA PARTY, Washington, DC is a holiday--see you there.