Paranoia Will Destroy Ya! (If You're a Big-Spending GOP Pol Trying to Glom Onto The Tea Party Shtick)

Nick Gillespie | April 23, 2009

Over at Stephen Gordon's excellent blog, TheNextRight, comes word of a plot not to destroy big-government GOP idjits but to scare the bejeezus outta them. 

From the perspective of someone who helped organize a large 2003 Tea Party event to begin the process to kill Alabama Governor Riley's proposed tax increase, I know how angry fiscal conservatives can feel about folks who have betrayed them.  More recently, we even dissed a Republican Secretary of State who demanded to speak at one of the April 15th Tea Parties I helped organize.

Pondering all of this, I contacted a few Tea Party organizers I'd been in contact with see what they thought of the general idea.

"Hell, yeah!" was the immediate response from one person I've never heard use that word before. 

"We should do it even for one bad floor vote," wrote one organizer about a specific Senator in his state.  "This way, he'll get the message that we'll be watching every minor move he makes."

To wrap this all up, it's better that I don't identify any states or congressional districts already targeted.  This way, every last Republican with a bad fiscal conscience (or desire to be re-elected) who currently holds public office should be having nightmares about who might show at his or her next campaign rally or public speaking event. A healthy dose of paranoia can sometimes be a good thing.

More, including video of Gordon's plan in action, here.

Comments

|4.23.09 @ 2:37PM|#

A healthy dose of paranoia can sometimes be a good thing.

Teabaggers do not have a 'healthy' dose of paranoia.

High Every Body|4.23.09 @ 2:47PM|#

Ah, Tony is visiting from The Free Republic.

How's the 'blogging going over there?

Cinncinatus|4.23.09 @ 2:52PM|#

ahhh ... we need more of this. I applaud every person that booed and lambasted this professional pol! Perhaps there is a bit of the ole' revolutionary spirit left ... now we need marches on DC ... refusal to pay taxes en masse, protests in every state capital, and an organized movement to call a Constitutional convention.

JB|4.23.09 @ 2:56PM|#

It's time they lived up to their rhetoric instead of Democrat-lite. People are tired of big spending. We already have the spend all our money party (the stupid Dems); we don't need two of them.

|4.23.09 @ 2:58PM|#

There is nothing worse than a Republican who taxes and spends. It gives all tax and spenders the ability to claim they are bi-partisian and those who object are on the fringe. I don't care if the Dems get 60 votes. I would rather have Dems voting the way some crap weasel like Arlan Spector votes than have Spector up there doing it and tarnishing the entire party.

Fred|4.23.09 @ 2:59PM|#

Long live Gordo!

Cinncinatus|4.23.09 @ 3:01PM|#

long live Jefferson!

|4.23.09 @ 3:05PM|#

As I've said on many previous occasions, we're not going to restore the constitution without fixing one of the major parties. The Republicans are the organization that's reeling from a defeat (like when Ford got pasted by Jimmy Carter), creating an opportunity to fix them.

-jcr

Fred|4.23.09 @ 3:07PM|#

Cincinnatus -- total dweeb

John C. Randloph -- quit shilling for Ron Paul and CFL

|4.23.09 @ 3:14PM|#

Ah, Tony is visiting from The Free Republic.

How's the 'blogging going over there?

The Free Republic? Batshit insane as usual I presume. I don't go there. Right wingers haven't yet figured out how to update webpage design to the late 90s era.

Mad Max|4.23.09 @ 3:17PM|#

Yes, this shows the Tea Party is hypocritical, because of all the Republican big-spenders . . .

Sorry, my talking points were on autopilot.

High Every Body|4.23.09 @ 3:19PM|#

Right wingers haven't yet figured out how to update webpage design to the late 90s era.

Oooohhh! Decorating criticism, how quaint. Gonna tell us how you don't like the lampshades in your no-longe-favorite karake bar?

|4.23.09 @ 3:24PM|#

High,

But have you looked at the Free Republic? And Drudge? Hell foxnation is brand new and is still an eyesore. Oh well must have something to do with the fact that the average Republican is pushing 70 and doesn't care.

|4.23.09 @ 3:38PM|#

And Drudge? Hell foxnation is brand new and is still an eyesore

Drudge's headlines are often laughably slanted, but the format is just what I want. (30, married, white) Out of curiosity, what's one of the well-formatted sites IYO?

|4.23.09 @ 3:39PM|#

Tony,

So the main reason you are here is because you like webpage design...? Cool.

I actually read Playboy when I was a kid for the pictures - so I get where you are coming from. Reason = design porn. Cool.

High Every Body|4.23.09 @ 3:40PM|#

Reason = design porn.

If we mention Asians enough the design gets even cooler.

Tony\'s Subconscious|4.23.09 @ 3:45PM|#

Teabaggers are a bunch of Republican hacks. It was all centrally organized. Nothing but astroturf! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALALALALALA!

|4.23.09 @ 3:47PM|#

There is nothing worse than a Republican who taxes and spends

Sure there is....

Republicans who cut taxes and spend (see Bush, George, and the GOP congress from 2001 - 2006)

You can disagree with tax and spend (and oftentimes I do) but it's even worse to spend like crazy and still want to cut taxes so that the debt load is pushed down to future generations

|4.23.09 @ 3:55PM|#

Reason gives my browser hell for some reason. I come here because I am libertarian in a lot of ways and occasionally there is some thoughtful posting amid all of the wingnut reflexive tax haters. There is just enough intelligence to keep the "Obama is a communist muslin teleprompter" crowd in check.

Cinncinatus|4.23.09 @ 4:01PM|#

Fred ... your dweebishness outranks all others due to your inability to meaningfully isolate your claim with particulars. It's called "ad hominem" ... look it up.

T|4.23.09 @ 4:06PM|#

"Obama is a communist muslin teleprompter"

Do other cloths have similar tendencies towards communism? Let me know. If so, I must purge my wardrobe of counterrevolutionary tendencies.

Warty|4.23.09 @ 4:36PM|#

I come here because I am libertarian in a lot of ways

STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP. You're as libertarian as Glenn Beck, Tony.

Cass Sunstein|4.23.09 @ 4:41PM|#

You're as libertarian as Glenn Beck, Tony.

Or me!

T|4.23.09 @ 4:46PM|#

STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP. You're as libertarian as Glenn Beck, Tony.

What? Glenn Beck isn't a libertarian?

Perhaps if I knew anything about him other than he looks like a pink version of the Pillsbury Doughboy this might concern me.

|4.23.09 @ 4:50PM|#

Or maybe, just maybe, ya'll could put on your big boy panties and sell the beliefs of your own little party to all the dems and goppers out there that are seriously unhappy with congress. Don't try and get the gop to lean your way far enough that you can meet in the middle and hold hands.

Act like grown up folks and push really really hard on the ideas that you believe in. The libertarian party wants everything that congress isn't. That might be real popular in 2016.

robc|4.23.09 @ 5:09PM|#

Sure there is....

Republicans who cut taxes and spend

Depends if we are above or below the peak of the Laffer curve. Raising revenue by cutting taxes is always a good thing, regardless of the idiocy on the spending side.

Godwin|4.23.09 @ 5:49PM|#

Gonna tell us how you don't like the lampshades in your no-longe-favorite karake bar?

When Tony's liberal fascist buddies get their way you libertarians will be diffusing the lamp light.Hope you've got some nice tattoos!

Craig|4.23.09 @ 7:37PM|#

To wrap this all up, it's better that I don't identify any states or congressional districts already targeted.

How about starting with CA-48? Campbell voted for the (first) $700 billion bailout, despite admitting that calls from his constituents against it outnumbered calls in favor of it by a ratio of 8 to 1.

Craig|4.23.09 @ 7:39PM|#

Raising revenue by cutting taxes is always a good thing, regardless of the idiocy on the spending side.

Only if you think more money going to the government is always a good thing.

I think any move that increases government revenue is bad.

Craig|4.23.09 @ 7:44PM|#

Although I should clarify that I would still support a tax cut, even if it leads to higher government revenues later -- it could be used as an opportunity to cut the rate even further later on, to make sure government revenues stop growing.

Suki|4.23.09 @ 9:02PM|#

I come here because I am libertarian in a lot of ways

Oh bullshit! I voted for Obama and I am more libertarian than you.

|4.23.09 @ 10:23PM|#

I come here because I am libertarian in a lot of ways

I add to the chorus of pshaws. In any case, even if Tony somehow turned into a full-blown, capital-L Libertarian, would we let him on the team?

Suki|4.24.09 @ 5:38AM|#

Good morning Tony!

Someone made a cartoon just for you.

Isn't it nice being so special?

engineer|4.24.09 @ 4:50PM|#

"I come here because I am libertarian in a lot of ways"
Like what? You think pot should be legalized? That just makes you, well...a liberal who supports drug legalization. Big frickin' whoop.

Flush the John|4.25.09 @ 3:35AM|#

"There is nothing worse than a Republican who taxes and spends."

Sure there is: a Democrat who taxes and spends, because you loserdopian hypocrites are always too busy attacking Republicans even after they're out of power to do anything about the Democrats you've helped into office. Hell, the Democrats are probably going to spend more in 0bama's first year than the Republicans were able to spend in the last eight!

This is just like every other loserdopian cause: it only matters when it can be used to attack Republicans and/or Bush. National sovereignty only matters to you when we're taking out an Iraqi dictator, not when 0bama is planning on raping the USA's national sovereignty with a chainsaw by signing every U.N. treaty that ever hits his desk. Human rights are only important for Hamas terrorists, not Israeli citizens defending their homeland. Science is only important when it supports eco-fascism and baby massacres, never when it proves faggotry is not genetic and embryonic stem cells cause cancer. Judicial activism is only bad when it might overturn Roe Vs. Wade, not when it might silence abortion protesters. And a right to be secure in one's persons and effects is only important for fake marriage advocates like yourselves; you cocksuckers support the harassment of Proposition 8 supporters.

So naturally, taxing and spending is only a criminal enterprise to you when Republicans do it; Democrats get a free pass because... well, because you expected them to do that. George W. Bush, of course, gets no praise for reducing tax rates because... well, you expected him to do that, right?

See you in Hell, loserdopians. Really, all these economic atrocities you've brought down on us with your hypocrisy couldn't happen to nicer people than you.