Jesse Watters, Fox Nation Editor, Hypes Hypothetical Tea Party – GOP Merger

[meegbear]

Fox Nation Senior Editor (and Bill O’Reilly’s stalker-for-hire) Jesse Watters, reporting from the so-called "National" Tea Party Convention in Nashville over the weekend, hyped a merger between the tea party movement and the Republican party. The only problem is, someone forgot to tell the tea party grassroots that this is a good idea.

Writing for Fox News Blogs, Watters enthuses,

The National Tea Party Convention – hosted by Tea Party Nation – has begun to lay the foundation for a merging of Tea Party activists with the Republican Party. Despite attempts by Democrats and certain media outlets to drive a wedge between the Tea Parties and the GOP, it’s becoming clear that the Tea Parties will grow WITHIN the Republican Party and not splinter off and form a 3rd party.(emphasis mine)

Tea Party Nation has announced the formation of “Ensuring Liberty Corporation” – a 501(c)(4) that will organize and raise funds to support candidates across the country who embrace the conservative principles of:
1. Fiscal Responsibility
2. Lower Taxes
3. Less Government
4. States’ Rights
5. National Security

Be afraid, Democrats, be very afraid! The GOP and the Tea Party are going to form One Big Republican Family and create a behemoth which will roll right over anyone who stands in their way, powering straight into Congress in 2010 and into the Oval Office in 2012!

If you’re the bettin’ kind, I’d put my money elsewhere if I were you.

Watters writes,

The grassroots activists here are ignoring the media-driven narrative of infighting within the Tea Party Movement. They don’t care about that. Yes, there are disputes among different Tea Party groups: The Tea Party Patriots, The Tea Party Express, Tea Party Nation, Freedom Works … but I have not witnessed any of this in Nashville so far and hear that discussions are taking place at the leadership level to resolve what are considered healthy disagreements that occur in all young organic movements.

Well, DUHHHH, Jesse! Did it ever occur to you that the reason you don’t see dissent at the so-called Tea Pary Convention is that the dissenters chose not to attend?

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[AlinPA]

1. Teabaggers and birthers are all republicans now; there is no difference between them.

[Cosmocat]

2. So, the most extreme pole of the republican party ...

will be merging with the republican party ...

I don't discount their energy, but the teaparty is and always has been republicans expressing their first amendment rights through active sedition ...

[KingFlorez]

3. Many of the teabaggers are willing to work outside the Republican party

What this person doesn't get is that much of the tea party is formed by the fringe that will vote for smaller, far-right third parties sometimes.

[unpossibles]

4. they already are

in fact, I'd say the teabaggers are the hard-right base of the GOP. The only thing they're doing is changing strategy from "they're all crooks!" to "let's elect our guys now!" which is not far from what they've always done. It kills me that anyone could support the GOP's fiscal policies when they have a track record of being so awful, much less their so-called "small government" which is more intrusive and abusive, and just about every other Orwellian BS they come up with.

[TlalocW]

5. This is what I love about the Teabaggers and conservative pundits

The pundits are acting like the Teabaggers are people who are completely new to the political process, created out of whole cloth or who have just materialized out of nowhere. They're not the loonier elements of the GOP which have only just recently splintered off to "form" their own "political party," so when they come to their senses and join up with the GOP, the republican party will be even bigger than it was before, not the size it was before the Teabaggers left.

TlalocW

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. LOL, they already are republicans. The same lame base they

always had.