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Can liberals start their own tea party?

"Can liberals start their own tea party?" was a Washington Post headline on Friday—and it's a good question!

Given the diverse, open nature of the TP  movement, a lot of confusion exists..and room for false groups certainly exists. Some have been identified, and certainly affected the 2010 election adversely.

Last week, Van Jones introduced a new organization focused on progressive economic solutions, called Rebuild the Dream. Rebuild the Dream is joining with organizations including MoveOn, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the Campaign for Community Change, and many more, to launch a new effort to build up a Liberal funded movement to counter the influence of the tea party, diverting and perverting the focus as much as possible. MoveOn.org is already calling for members to host meetings: to form local groups.

The Internet is already active with Pravda about the "American Dream" movement, a "grass roots" movement favoring growing government, Socialism and so on.
MoveOn states "Our goal is to create a Contract that calls for concrete changes based on the principles that bind us together as progressives, and as neighbors and friends"..continues "Like our movement itself, we're building the Contract from the ground up. First, we'll harness the power of the Internet to get as many great ideas as possible."

A WND article entitled " Look who's launching anti-tea-party group ... Provides much more information, ties it to Soros, ties it to the recent hacked FOX news ticker, calling for revolution by MoveOn. The linked articles are all worth reading.

This may rapidly become an important issue for the Tea Party movement! Some of the questions that immediately come to mind are:
  • Given the diversity of the Tea Party Movement, how do we prevent this large false group from hijacking our message?
  • How do we get the word out to the public? To every man, woman and child in America?
  • How shall we take advantage of this attack? How to create massive indignation with this open, obvious Alinsky attack?
Many other options and dangers exist, certainly. What say you?

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Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on June 28, 2011 at 7:38am
The linked articles show this to largely to be an Internet based attack. Tea Party Nation, being by several measures the most active TP group on the Internet, is perhaps best suited to lead the counter attack. How do we spread the message most efficiently?
Permalink Reply by David J Edwards on June 29, 2011 at 11:42am

Three of the biggest Net outlets for rapid info dissemination are Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

 

Huffington Post and Rolling Stone are already promoting Rebuild the Dream.com.


For Tea Party people:

As a starting point to un-do Van Jones' plan, a FLOOD of simple expose' messages by individual members on Twitter might say something like:

 

#RebuildtheDream is more #VanJones Left-wing #Obama style failure...do NOT confuse w/ conservatives.  #FF #tcot #Patriots #RT pls

 

People with better resources than I have should hit them through Facebook, YouTube, and public blogs too.

Permalink Reply by Sherry Phillips on June 29, 2011 at 10:05am

Tea Party Nation is working on a few things to help with a counter-attack. Soros' money affords him a great deal of advertising leverage. This is what concerned (and concerns) me about new Tea Party sites and organizations popping up and wanting donations.

 

Who are they? Where did the come from? Who's funding them? Where is their money going? At least with the top three national organizations, they've been around since the beginning. When I see an advertisement on DrudgeReport for a tea party group no one ever heard of before and they want you to DONATE, two things come to mind. 

 

1. Who paid for that Drudge Report advertising --- Drudge is expensive!!!

 

2. Who is behind this new group? Is it anyone who's been on the front lines? Have they been active in the past? Do you even know who is behind the group?

 

I have many concerns about new groups who seemingly pop up out of nowhere and are able to instantly start advertising on places like Drudge, TownHall, HotAir, etc.  You are talking tens of thousands of dollars in advertising. And it seemed their main focus was getting donations.  Who is funding their massive advertising campaign?

Permalink Reply by Roland C. Cartier Jr on June 29, 2011 at 6:17pm
Sherry, that's why I do my homework all the time digging into who is in charge and digging into their life history. as a Veteran I don't take anything for granted because I want to know my Enemy well!
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on June 29, 2011 at 8:33pm

As for funding, Sherry, MoveOn.org has sent at least 2 emails so far to their membership, in the past 2 days calling for contributions.

To their 5 million members.. that's 10 million calls for contributions, in the past 2 days!.

The alliance includes the AFL-CIO, SEIU,, among others... Government funded unions.....George Soros is also mentioned prominently.

Financing would seem not to be such a big problem. Advertising will only  increase their funding.

Permalink Reply by Mary Spinks on June 29, 2011 at 10:15am
Look at the sponsors or key players or whatever you want to call them.  They won't do anything without other people's money ... maybe that will divert some of those union 'donations' to other than political campaign funds.
Permalink Reply by Brenda on June 29, 2011 at 10:17am
They would get such a kick out of having true tea partiers accidentally and unknowingly, funding their groups!!!  If we see it or have one email us and realize who it is, we should let all of our friends, tea party emailers, facebook, etc know about it.....maybe an email to the major tea party groups such as tea party patriots
Permalink Reply by Michael Harold Davis on June 29, 2011 at 10:20am
You shall know them by their fruits. They will be unable to hide their scorn for America, Christianity, and free enterprise.no matter what their ads look like they will be phony.
Permalink Reply by Rod Kleiber on June 29, 2011 at 10:22am
Anti-Americans Please Leave The Country In A Single File Orderly and Peacefull Manor.Thank You !
Permalink Reply by Phil on June 29, 2011 at 11:12am

And citezens of the world.

Go to somewhere else on the planet will ya!

Or....respect our rights........Nevermind. Get out!

Permalink Reply by Swarming Bees on June 29, 2011 at 10:28am
The Progressive Liberals are diametricly opposed to anything the origional Tea Party was formed for. They even try to rewrite history to cast our forefathers in a vastly different light than we were brought up knowing them as. Since our forefathers founded the Tea Party Movement in 1773, it would be quite difficult for the progressive Liberals to form a Tea Party. Our Present day Tea Party is a continueation of the spirit of our forefather's Tea Party, and just grew out of the grassroots of today. So I say, that the Liberals cannot form a Tea Party even if they wanted to.
Permalink Reply by Jim Pryor on June 29, 2011 at 10:36am
Van Jones needs to leave our United States

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