Comments on: Wednesday Hot Read – Warner Todd Huston’s “Illinois Shows Limitations of Tea Party Movement”

By: No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » Should the Wisconsin Tea Parties endorse candidates?

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:08:36 +0000

[…] counterproductive. I’ll let Warner Todd Huston explain the lessons of Illinois (unlike my contemporaneous excerpt, I’ll take the Illinois governor primary): There was the same problem with the six candidates […]

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:10:55 +0000

In reply to Zerk.

I tend to take the Grover Norquist view of that – outside RINOs and perhaps “Christian” Socialists (not to be confused with the Christian right), we tend to actually be rather harmonious. Most of that coalition realize that the best way to the goals of each of the individual blocs is for a small, unintrusive government.

By: Zerk

Zerk — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:01:18 +0000

Frankly as disorganized as the Demos coalition of bloc interests is,
how disorganized would a coalition of the ‘christian right’ ‘liberterian less taxes/Govt’ ‘independent tea partiers’ ‘trandional conservative repubs’ and of course ‘Rinos” be?
If this Ocare passes and unemployment stays above the ‘reported’ figure of 9% November should be interesting to say the least. As you know, the chinese invoke ‘interesting times’ as a curse.

By: David Beatty

David Beatty — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:51:01 +0000

Good points, Steve. Politically, the Tea Party movement is still in its infancy, but would do well to learn the lesson now and pick one candidate to endorse.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:21:34 +0000

Did you read the whole thing or just the excerpt I posted. The part I omitted for brevity’s sake addressed Adam Andrjewski, who only most of the Tea Party movement coalesced around (with the rest backing Dan Proft to the bitter end), and then way late.

The larger point is that the various “factions” of the Tea Party movements (and I intentionally use the plural) have to find a single candidate to get behind, and not just the weekend before the election.

By: dad29

dad29 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:48:14 +0000

Is Huston clueless, or just slapping Andrjewski, who ALSO had a TEA Party endorsement?