tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post7964268028256716626..comments2024-01-06T17:38:53.551-05:00Comments on Poli-Tea: Infiltration or Independence?d.erishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-29147715748522252922009-06-26T22:14:46.740-04:002009-06-26T22:14:46.740-04:00I've contemplated an independent political run...I've contemplated an independent political run before this year. It was suggested to me on more than one occasion that I really ought to operate within the Republican party structure - work to take it back if I thought it was broken. I always found that peculiar. The work is equally challenging, so why not just start fresh without any restrictions? The concern, I think, as Tea Party Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-74381348746493995852009-06-26T16:57:11.713-04:002009-06-26T16:57:11.713-04:00And on the other side? Undoubtedly many Democrats...And on the other side? Undoubtedly many Democrats are still stuck in the 1960's as well. The very fact that Obama made it a point of his campaign that he wanted to get beyond the political rivalries of the 60's demonstrates that he too is still stuck in that mentality. Of course, many right-wingers argue that the Democrats have been successfully infiltrated by Marxist-Communists! d.erisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-45463742185221644602009-06-26T12:53:57.063-04:002009-06-26T12:53:57.063-04:00On the Republican side, I imagine that some infilt...On the Republican side, I imagine that some infiltrators do also feel that the party has been rightfully theirs since 1964, but the number of times they've had to infiltrate to take over since then, and the apparent need to do so again, ought to tell them something. But since the Republican party means power and money as well as its platform, I don't expect infiltrators to give up and Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-76246249234410421512009-06-25T23:40:12.630-04:002009-06-25T23:40:12.630-04:00It would be interesting to compare the infiltrator...It would be interesting to compare the infiltrator with the type of party purists we were talking about a week or two ago, i.e. the conservative or progressive who equates the heart of their preferred duopoly party with their own brand of ideology and maintains that the 'moderates,' or whoever, are leading the party astray. The purists see themselves as insiders, whose party has strayed d.erisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-67031347262724075962009-06-25T13:21:34.051-04:002009-06-25T13:21:34.051-04:00The infiltrationists act on a belief that the majo...The infiltrationists act on a belief that the major parties can be converted into exclusive ideological parties that can ignore the imperative to practice "big tent" politics in order to win national elections. They're encouraged in their belief by histories that teach them that it's been done before: by conservatives within the Republican party in 1964, 1980 and arguably in Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com