PrintOctober 2, 2010
The New Tea Party Challenge: Stay on Message
The Tea Party has obviously hit a nerve in the political bedrock. First, Karl Rove got in a tizzy over O'Donnell besting the establishment Republican in Delaware. Rove blamed Tea Party candidate O'Donnell for a failure that hasn't even occurred. "We were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We are now looking at seven to eight in my opinion," Rove said. Then, Bill Clinton accused the Tea Party of wanting to weaken the government and leave big business unsupervised -- maybe Clinton supposes that big business might go wild making profits, manufacturing new ideas, and hiring people without the government there to regulate and tax it to death. A few days later, President Obama wants the Tea Party's expertise in cutting the national debt and creating jobs.The Tea Party would be wise to avoid these distraction tactics put on by triangulating politicians. There are very simple ways to answer all these critics, particularly Clinton and Obama, without taking the bait...(Read Full Article)
