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Last month Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele met with tea party leaders from across the country in an effort to court the conservative leaning grassroots movement.
As The Daily Caller’s Alex Pappas reported last Friday, Chairman Steele’s efforts to woo tea party activists has extended beyond dialogue to now include financial support.
Today, armed with signs paid for by the RNC, throngs of tea partiers took to Capitol Hill in a last ditch effort to protest an impending Congressional vote on health care.
Teresa Somogyi, a local activist from Rockville, Md., was pleased with the signs. “Absolutely, we need the money; we need the support – so I’m appreciative. I think that most people here, at least if they don’t appreciate it they certainly don’t have any objection.”
By linking up with the tea party movement, it is evident that Chairman Steele is intent on keeping tea partiers from supporting third-party candidates in this year’s midterm Congressional elections.
Somogyi believes that the RNC could be headed in the right direction if they will “listen to their conservative base.”
Conservative activist and former New York congressional candidate Doug Hoffman agrees that Republicans and tea partiers must work together if Democratically-controlled Washington is to be unseated in November.
The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib warns that Steele’s approach to working with tea party activists could come at an unintended cost – division within the GOP.
Only time will tell if the Steele’s courtship strategy of the tea party movement is successful.
Adam Dahlgren contributed to this report.
Comments
The RNC better be careful of some of these tea partiers. A lot of them want nothing more than to unseat every incumbent both democrat and republican.
Great article. Have you got more pictures from today??
Tea party forever.
Keep it up and I will cruise to victory in November!
I am going to pass healthcare with or without you.
The Dems are the root of all of our problems.
Steele might might have finally done something right.
Pelosi is ruining America
We need more conservatives in Congress.
GOP success in November depends on keeping third party conservative candidates off of the ballot.
Would you like a little cyanide with your tea?
It's not the ones who are "catapulting the propaganda" that are disconnected from reality - they know damned well what they are doing - it's all those pathetic white people who are swallowing this garbage whole! And let's face some sobering truths, shall we? Other than a small handful of blubbering Uncle Toms, they're almost entirely white. The disconnect between reality and delusion in this country is widespread and appalling. That would partially explain the political careers of people like Jeff Sessions and Michele Bachmann. People like them are only able to advance because of the stampeding ignorance of their constituents. In the land of the brain-dead, the half-wit is king.
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Tom Degan
Goshen NY
Some do but most of those in congress including republicans aren't listening to the voices of liberty. Republicans are saying, "Hey you guys are really mad. This looks like a good year for us." Not much will change. The progressive own the republican party for the same reason I have a spare tire in the trunk; just in case they are needed.
So... that about sizes it up for 2010.
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