Inside the Beltway: Tea party deploying to take on liberal Democrats
The persistent, rambunctious soul of the tea party has not been extinguished. While the mainstream media has eagerly declared the grassroots movement to be dead, dying or irrelevant in recent years, the clan maintains the same attitude it had going into the 2010 midterms. And that attitude is aggressive, and can-do.
A large group of our tea party coordinators just completed our grassroots leadership training. They are right this very minute heading into the field to do political battle with the liberal Democrats, says Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, which continues to be the nations largest umbrella group for the cause.
A tea party army is on the march, Ms. Martin observes, their sights set on five states where get-out-the-vote is the main strategy.
They are performing the hard, sweaty work that will enable us to win back the Senate this year. They are doing their part to save America, Ms. Martin continues, noting that this is the largest and most sophisticated campaign ever undertaken by a tea party group.
So much for claims that the group is fading from the political landscape.
And the main targets for their countermeasures: Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Bruce Braley of Iowa.
Such things irk lofty politicians. But they are still paying attention.
There are a lot of good people involved in the tea party but their objective is they dont want the government involved in anything. They are not liberal or conservative they are anti government. Their ends are met best when nothing happens, Vice President Joe Biden complained to the New York Times on Monday.
You cannot sustain a democracy without arriving at a consensus, he added.
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Inside the Beltway: Tea party deploying to take on liberal Democrats