Arianna Huffington: Astroturfer


In what Freud would call projection, the Left continues to accuse the Tea Party of using tactics that they are using.

The accusations flew when around one million people attended last year’s 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington. How could that many people be that upset? Why would they come out en masse against the President that was to be America’s Savior? Surely they must have been bought and paid for by foreign interests and evil corporations!

The truth is that there is no such thing as a political savior, and Americans realized very quickly that there is no way to spend yourself out of debt. The uprising was organic, and we could not have manufactured something on that scale if we’d tried. It simply doesn’t work.

Case in point: The OneNation rally, held on October 2nd of this year. Even the most well funded and organized groups cannot duplicate the true power held by a decentralized groundswell of the American people. The beautiful chaos of our movement, when set against the centrally planned OneNation rally, reveals what Americans have always known: Power released by individuals will always triumph over the artificial control of planners and bureaucrats.

This is representational of America’s fundamental disconnect with Washington. Big government – the most well funded special interest – cannot compete with the power of the market. It is why freedom works… and it is why we have never had to subsidize transportation to any of our events.

This is also why the Left continually finds itself in this predicament. Their very ideology runs contrary to the interests and values of the American people. The people don’t like to be controlled or directed and history has shown that they only tolerate tyranny for so long before they revolt.

Arianna Huffington only further illustrates the fundamental disconnect by committing to spend $250k to bus people from New York City to Washington, DC for Jon Stewart’s Restoring Sanity rally on October 30th. As of last week, 11,000 people had registered for space on the Huffington funded buses.

The question is this: What does this actually accomplish? What happens when they run out of other people’s money and can no longer subsidize attendance of major rallies? The answer is that their “movement” will crumble. What the Tea Party has done is tap into an energy and a fundamental value that may change forms from time to time, but will never disappear. This is why we are successful, and this is why we are here to stay.


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Wake up- it's not "projection"

reggie1 Tuesday, October 12th at 3:13PM EST (link)

Matt, this isn’t the left projecting. It is a smokescreen of obfuscation designed to muddle and mitigate their deceitful practices.

When their own actual effort is exposed, the groundwork is already layed for their media protectorate to call it a draw.

Planning to funnel mega $$$ from irreputible or unidentifiable sources? Blame the opposition for doing exactly that. Then have the $$$ source give an interview and claim to be “sitting this one out”.

They’re not projecting, Matt, YOU are. You are projecting your honesty and ethics into an opponent that shuns them, and exploits their presence in others.

All 5s! nt

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Wednesday, October 13th at 6:59AM EST (link)
 
 

It will accomplish NOTHING!....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, October 12th at 3:15PM EST (link)

I get 2006-2008 and how dispirited Conservatives were but it was NOTHING like what we have seen in the past two years. The Independents and “conservative” Democrats have come to realize there is indeed a dimes worth of difference between the parties when it comes to spending and debt! Obama got the youth vote because he promised post-partisanship and the reality is, if he had worked with Republicans on the healthcare bill ie: gave them some, took some of what he wanted and truly worked across party lines, ie: Bush and the Medicare prescription plan, then his numbers would still be in the 50′s BUT NO, he had to play the only way he knew how and that was Chicago style. Barack Hussein Obama FORGOT why they loved him (we knew he was all fluff). There will be no youth vote, there will be no minority vote, there will be no female vote, there will be no gay vote because Barack Hussein Obama is the biggest LIAR that this Country has ever had in the office of the Presidency and ALL KNOW IT!

The bottom line is there is going to be a WAVE so big it will knock out even lefties in dark blue areas of the Country! So as I like to say, over and over, LETS ROLL!

 

Too bad I don't live in the city...

clement Tuesday, October 12th at 6:05PM EST (link)

Could take a free ‘field trip’ to DC. (Screw the event)

Don’t know as though I could deal with the smell though…

 

"[O]one million people attended last year’s 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington." What if . . . .

ColdWarrior (Diary) Wednesday, October 13th at 5:57AM EST (link)

Last night I attended my Maricopa County, AZ, Republican Party Legislative District 17 meeting, as I’m an elected Republican Party precinct committeeman. I was asked to give a short report on what had happened at last Thursday’s Maricopa County Republican Party Committee meeting, as I’m a member of that committee, too, because I was elected as an At Large member in January.

One of the things I reported was that the Maricopa County Republican Party Committee now has 2,935 elected precinct committeemen (we elect them in the primary election), up from 1,989 in 2008. So, we’ve gone from having 31.9 per cent of our allotted slots filled to 47 per cent. Everyone like that bit of news and clapped their approval. I smiled and said I agreed we had made progress, but that our 47 per cent strength was still PATHETIC. We are at LESS THAN HALF STRENGTH going into the most important election, perhaps, in our lifetimes.

Over a million conservative-leaning people assembled on the Capitol mall on 9.12.2009. At that moment we had, in the Republican Party, about 200,000 vacancies nationwide in the Party in the precinct committeemen ranks. On average, in every state, about HALF of these critical, local Party leadership posts were VACANT. Imagine if someone — anyone — at the 9.12.2009 rally had implored the attendees to go home and get to their local political party committee meeting, dragging all their conservative friends with them, to become precinct committeemen. So they could be eligible to vote for the leadership of the Party and help get out the vote for the BEST conservatives candidates in the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections?

We need to take our “partying” indoors, to political party committee meetings locally. Tonight, after the meeting, some of us conservative precinct committeemen had our “meeting after the meeting,” where we tried to figure out if we had enough conservatives to run for the committee officer positions in the internal Party leadership elections that will follow the Nov. 2 election, and whether we had enough conservative precinct committeeman to ensure a conservative sweep. We think we’re pretty close. We’d have the election “in the bag” if we had all done a better job recruiting conservatives to become precinct committeemen.

The first step in taking our government back is getting control of the best political tool we have at our disposal to elect better people to represent us. That tool is the Republican Party. The way to take control of that tool is by becoming PART OF IT. That means becoming a precinct committeeman.

By becoming a precinct committeeman, you’re also eligible to become a delegate to your state committee. You can then attend the state annual meeting and vote for the RNC delegates: you state party chairman and two elected delegates. I hope to be part of that process again. Will you be in a position this election cycle to do the same? If not, why not?

If you are interested in getting into the real ball game, please go to the links below and read more. It’s not hard. It doesn’t take a lot of time. And it’s fun.

Oh, one more thing. By and large, the “powers that be” in the Republican Party DO NOT WANT YOU to know about this, because it upsets their cushy status quo.

For Liberty,
ColdWarrior, PC (that’s “precinct committeeman,” not “political child!”)
Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW! (20 days until Nov. 2 — what are YOU DOING to help get out the vote in your precinct?)

In 2012, will YOU become a “voting member” of the Republican Party in your precinct?

Where it all started. Twitter @kaltkrieger
Learn how to GOTV at The Concord Project and at Procinct and Unified Patriots.

 

It shows just how dumbed down America has become..

mirac777 (Diary) Wednesday, October 13th at 12:35PM EST (link)

When people like Arrianna Huffington are listened to as a person of validity and authority in American politics. Her fake accent, crooked face and outright manipulation of the media and facts are only outdone by her nasty Socialism-pimping agenda! Doesn’t anyone ever ask themselves just what such an Anti-American person is doing here in the USA ? I mean if we are so rotten, why doesnt she head on back to Greece and try to enrich herself by spreading her propaganda there? Oh thats right, Greece is down on its Socialistic knees begging for other countries to bail it out of the economic mess that Socialism has created there.
I remember when there was a time that Americans kicked Communists and other assorted Radical Socialists out of this country for committing what is defacto treason against America. I say we bring back American values and start deporting these Socialists that are hell bent on destroying our country. Start with Arrianna Huffington, send them all a message. As far as DHS crying that they dont have the money to deport all these UnAmerican misfits, I say no problem. I,ll donate to the deport Huffington fund right now. Who’s with me?

United we stand…. Divided we fall.. into the pits of Socialism.