Ohio GOP Wants to Shut Out TEA Party
Activism Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
From: Godfather Politics
Ohio Republicans are rewriting the rules in an attempt to exclude TEA Party members from being members of the State Central Committee. As I’ve written a number of times, Establishment Republicans want Democrats out of office so they can spend our confiscated tax dollars their way.
Republicans haven’t been that concerned about spending limits, deficits, and long-term liabilities. In fact, they have used the looseness of the rules to pay their political benefactors with payouts to keep them in power. The Democrats are honest about their payouts; Republicans have learned to lie well.
We’re seeing how the RINOs want to take their Party back. Romney operatives, with the help of McCain and Dole, are trying to redistrict Allen West out of his seat.
[U]nder a redistricting plan put forth by the GOP-controlled Florida legislature, West could have a hard time winning a second term — a situation that has some conservatives suggesting a conspiracy by establishment Republicans, including GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. . . . Some are pointing out that House Redistricting Chairman Will Weatherford has been a Romney surrogate and suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wants to be rid of West — and, by extension, the Tea Party.
Romney knows that if he’s elected, West will be a thorn in his side. Better a Democrat than a Republican who speaks his mind.
A similar thing is taking place in Ohio. In 2010, the Ohio GOP was trying sell its Establishment candidates as TEA Party candidates. “[T]he [Ohio Republican Party] outraged many conservatives when it used the tea party brand and sent out mailers with a ‘Tea Party Values’ logo that endorsed . . . Jon Husted. Ohio conservatives know that Husted can hardly be described as ‘Tea Party.’”
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Same old slimy politics eh GOP? I see nothing has changed since 2008. Any wonder why there are even more loyal Ron Paul voters? I suppose if you can’t eliminate the Tea Party through lies and distortion you try and co-opt them, anything to get those votes. Either way, the Tea Party name gets tarnished, at the very least we see the Tea Party message get diluted with all sorts of social issues that were never party of the Tea Party movement.