Kathleen Parker: Tea Party Won’t Have ‘Same Clout’ in 2012 Elections as 2010
Kathleen Parker this weekend demonstrated that even so-called “conservative” media members long for the death of the Tea Party.
On the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the Washington Post columnist predicted, “The Tea Party’s not going to have the same clout in the 2012 election as they did in the last cycle” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
KATHLEEN PARKER: Here’s some even better news from your perspective: the Tea Party, evidence suggests that the Tea Party’s not going to have the same clout in the 2012 election as they did in the last cycle. In fact, they’re, they’ve had the greater effect of sort of making the old establishment adapt rather than overthrowing them.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Can we put out your email address for the Tea Party people? They want to react to that.
PARKER: They’ve got it.
Exactly what “evidence” suggests this?
The Republican presidential campaign up to this point has seen all candidates move to the right on their views in order to court the Tea Party vote.
Why that will change come the first Tuesday in November seems suspect.
In addition, two key issues in June will likely have a huge impact on conservative activism in the coming months.
First and foremost is the Supreme Court’s decision regarding ObamaCare. One could make the case that regardless of the ruling, the Tea Party will either feel emboldened by a reversal or angered if it’s upheld.
Also on the radar is the recall effort of Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker. Here, too, it seems conservatives will either be uplifted by him keeping his position or angered by him being tossed out.
But the Tea Party having less clout this election?
Seems like wishful thinking from a woman the Washington Post and CNN consider "conservative."
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"so called" is spot on
Submitted by KornKing on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:27pm.
The Ditzer gave up any credentials a long time ago in favor of her cocktail party invites.
In short, she don't know squat.
Granny Parker and her fellow traitor Peggy Noonan
Submitted by frank14 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 5:24pm.
both supported Obama in 2008. Why does Noel refer to her as a "conservative"? A conservative supporter of a socialist?
Peggy Noonan just called Boy
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:14pm.
Peggy Noonan just called Boy Baraka 'creepy'.......................hell, we've known all about the Kenyan Kreep for a few years allready - these people are always late to the party, and wearing the wrong outfits.
Parker's contact; no email address
Submitted by gopcongress on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:33pm.
Her email is right here on the WaPo form entry page:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/katheen+parker/
She has Twit and FB as well, but who cares.
ALSO NOTE: The Tea Party is NOT hiding. There have been several low-key events in many towns that don't merit national attention. But they've not just been involved in presidential politics. They are just as adament about improving Congress, including retaking the senate, and potentially providing a more conservative, robust Speaker than John Boehner (or at least moving him to the right).
Finally, consider that a lot more state legislatures will continue their migration to the right. Other than Scott Walker's recall election in Wisconsin and possibly Elizabeth Warren't attempt to oust RINO Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the MSM has been completely silent on these races, unlike in 2010.
The second Wednesday in November will most probably become Judgment Day for the Socialist elements controlling the Democratic party, and they will have to undergo a serious rebirth to have pragmatic relevance in future elections.
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"--- providing a more conservative, robust Speaker than ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:50pm.
John Boehner."
I heard there was an investigation that revealed 'John Boehner' was merely a figmation of our collective imagements.
There really IS someone by that name?
An actual, living, breathing person?
Well how about that?
MD
Boehner a Beltway R like most of em. RINOs...
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 11:44am.
Beltway R's in Congress, including Ryan, voted for pro Homosexual agenda among many other things: more debt, more government, funding PP, don't fight illegal appointments, don't impeach justices. Every country that has had a major moral reversal has collapsed. We are now at the point that good has become bad and bad behavior is endorsed. IT is the ROOT of our economic problems: NO GODLY morals. Not about just sexuality; just a part of it. Most Beltway insiders, Rs certainly included, have very little moral fiber and in fact, make fun of it. This is in opposition to the very people that elected them. THROW them out!
Snip from article: "Republican leadership has evolved, too. It has quietly worked behind the scenes to kill amendments that reaffirm opposition to same-sex unions, several sources told POLITICO."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74661.html#ixzz1qtSef59u
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KP has TP for brains!
Submitted by neutron on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:46pm.
Kackling Parker needs to keep telling herself and her fellow libtards that all is well on the plantation and that they have the election in the bag. Go ahead and repeat the mantra that the TEA Party is dead and defunct. Close your eyes and click your heels together while saying "There's no meme like Obama-home."
Give me a break! We still know each other. We keep in touch while keeping our political powder dry. We're still pissed off, and now we have the martyr Breitbart memes "I am Breitbart" and "Breitbart is here." We know when the elections are held. We know s--t from Shinola.
"Who is John Galt?"
Kackling Parker and her soul-mates will be even more shocked at the Nov 2012 election results (National down to local) than Chrissy Matthews was shocked that there were so many (credible) arguments against the Constitutionality of ObamaCare. Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
we all know...
Submitted by dmacleo on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:34pm.
that the potus elections are the only elections TP people participate in.
pay no mind to the state records set in 2010 and most likely 2012.
Spitzer - Parker
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:37pm.
This is the same woman who thought it was a good idea to team up with Eliot Spitzer.
For any further questions about her judgment, see the above sentence.
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Client # 9 is going to take
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:58pm.
Client # 9 is going to take Oberdork's place. Wow !
Then they fired her …
Submitted by JeffC... on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 5:23pm.
… but kept Client #9.
I'd call her an intellectual lightweight, but that would imply that she actually has some kind of intellectual capacity.
Not really, but it...
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 5:00pm.
might seem that way since the Tea Party had the benefit of surprise on its side last time as most liberals such as that dishonest ditz Nancy Pelosi underestimated us. Plus we were so supremely sucessful last time almost any plain good results will seem as a loss of power.
Message for KP
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 5:17pm.
You can cover your head, but that will not make the burglar go away.
A phone rings. Kathleen
Submitted by celator on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 6:12pm.
A phone rings.
Kathleen answers: Hello?
Barry O: Are you ready for this week's orders?
K: Yes, your wonderfulness.
O: Start talking about how the Tea Party is dead. It's over for them. They will have no impact on my re-election.
K: Yes, your highness.
O: Make sure you repeat that often. I've ordered the other media stooges, commentators, to do the same. You won't be alone. Check Journ-o-list. You'll see.
K: I will obey. It is my duty, sir.
O: Thanks, I'll send you a nice T-Shirt for this. I'll be thinking about you a lot.
K: Oh, you will, your Majesty?
O: Sure. See ya.
"Wash. Rinse. Repeat!"
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:53pm.
"I hear, oh Master. And I obey." :)
For sure....;+}
Submitted by celator on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 9:49pm.
For sure....;+}
These are not the droids you
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:12pm.
These are not the droids you are looking for.
I SAW HER SAY THAT
Submitted by squirefld on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 6:54pm.
I watched her say that. Remember this panel consisted of the same group of jerks that are SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY, that the Supreme Court would even think this could be unconstitutional.
Another item that had them SHOCKED was that Justice Scalia used broccoli as an example for the mandate. People reading this post have heard this over and over for two years but the entire panel laughted and acted as if this had never been mentioned before. These people truly live in a bubble.
tea party in raritan bay region of NJ is fit and ready
Submitted by Paarl on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 6:52pm.
parker is dead wrong
paarl of rhodesia
Tea Party - just gettin' started!
Submitted by Curly on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:23pm.
Hide and watch Kathleen!
April Fools!
Submitted by dpc1212 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:27pm.
April Fools!
In a strange, twisted way she is actually right.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:43pm.
This election IS NOT going to be about Obama's record over the last 3 years of his tenure. The election IS, However, going to be about how Rush Limbaugh is waging a one man war against EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD from behind a microphone.
And if you believe Obama has an immaculate record then you probably are silent about gas prices being so high after all that oil we stole from Iraqis during the war.
I'm alive and well, Thanks
Submitted by AGreer on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:13pm.
This is the eleventeenth time the TEA party is near death or dead.
Be glad they're not on Obummercare's "death panels". My 5 y.o. grandbaby would be considered dead by them.
The great prognosticator
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:43pm.
NB: Kathleen Parker: Conservatives Are Stalinists, I'm a Dixie Chick - October 01, 2008
NB: Kathleen Parker Compares Barack and Michelle Obama to Ward and June Cleaver - November 29, 2008 NB: Kathleen Parker: 'Ignorance' from Ditto-Heads and Bias-Busters Is Destroying Newspapers - March 15, 2009
NB: Kathleen Parker: Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh? - April 03, 2009
NB: Kathleen Parker Calls Townhall Demonstrators 'Fringe' and Tax Protesters 'Teabaggers' - August 09, 2009
NB: WaPo’s Parker Channels Palin Son: 'Might Trig Someday Read His Mother's Abortion Thoughts and Find Them Hurtful?' - February 16, 2010
NB: Kathleen Parker Admits Winning Pulitzer Prize For Bashing Conservatives - April 13, 2010
NB: WaPo's Kathleen Parker on CBS: Tea Parties 'Dangerous;' Internet Journalism 'Like Terrorism' - April 19, 2010
NB: Crime Pays: CNN Hires Prostitute-Plying Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Star in Debate Show with Kathleen Parker - June 23, 2010
NB:Typically, Kathleen Parker Finds It Ridiculous That Beck or Palin Can Complain About Media Bias = September 01, 2010
NB: Kathleen Parker: I'm 'Slightly to the Right of Center;' Fan of Obama - October 04, 2010
NB: CNN's Parker Mirrors Spitzer's Line About 'Fringe' in Republican Party - October 12, 2010
NB: Parker Brags: I Led Media Assassination Of Sarah Palin - November 11, 2010
NB: 'Go Nancy'? CNN's Kathleen Parker Admires Pelosi, the Democrats' 'Mama Grizzly' - December 10, 2010
NB: CNN's Spitzer Calls Tea Party 'Vapid, Puerile;' Parker Applauds Obama as 'Very Lincolnesque' - January 07, 2011
NB: Parker/Spitzer: Splitser - CNN co-host Kathleen Parker leaving show -- February 26, 2011
NB: Newt Gingrich Accused of Hating Mankind by 'Conservative' Kathleen Parker - November 13, 2011
NB: Kathleen Parker: 'Everybody's Going To Say I'm An Obama-lover. Whatever.' - December 18, 2011
Parker on Trig Palin:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:45pm.
"NB: WaPo’s Parker Channels Palin Son: 'Might Trig Someday Read His Mother's Abortion Thoughts and Find Them Hurtful?' - February 16, 2010"
Now THAT rhetoric is just reprehensible, deplorable and inexcuseable; Kathleen Parker should know better.
Kathleen Parker must resign from The Washington Post immediately. If she refuses, then boycott of her employer's sponsors.
She is quite the tornado of
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:54pm.
She is quite the tornado of stupid.
Barker er Parker
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:18pm.
This "reporter" has never been a conservative and the only way she ever gets noticed is when she says something really stupid, like she just did.
Kathleen Parker won't have the same clout on CNN in...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:08am.
2012 as she did in 2011. Oh, you say she's gone from CNN? My point exactly!
How dare you cue this
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 6:42am.
communist hag up to us as a Conservative? The Parker-Brooks pseudo-conservative book club is DOA!
She is a moderate progressive
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 8:35am.
That's exactly what the left like to call a "conservative". A real conservative is referred to by the left as a "right-wing wacko".
So it's really just a terminology issue. Parker also seems to have a very very short memory.
The Tea Parties have moved the Republican party further to the right than they were in 2010 and certaintly more than they were in 2008. The Republican leadership seems to have made the decision that they needed to listen to the Tea Parties or risk fracturing the GOP. As such, I'd say that the Tea Parties will have even MORE influnece in the 2012 election than they did in 2010. After all, it is by some accounts more important who wins the House and Senatorial elections then the Presidential election. The polls have it basically dead even between Obama and all the possible GOP candidates even though it has been a brutal GOP primary and Obama has faced no challenger at all.
Would we have gotten the Paul Ryan budgets without the Tea Parties? Would we be talking about the real possibility of a complete overhaul and simplification of the federal income tax without the Tea Parties?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Quietly waiting...
Submitted by ginger on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 9:20am.
Don't know about the rest of the Tea Party movement, but this family of Tea Partiers are sitting back, watching the crap going on in DC, rolling our eyes at the contradicting statements coming out of the WH, smoldering at the lame stream media for journalism malpractice, shouting at the TV talking heads pitting Americans against each other for ratings, and watching the left, progressives and rino's destroy everything the Flounders thought God-inspired.
Tea Partiers were ridiculed by our President, targeted as terrorists, extremists, racists, and called every name in the book. We then watched in open-mouthed amazement as the filthy, morally bankrupt, cop-hating, destructive Occupiers were praised and fawned over by the President, the Left, Progressives and the media.
The Tea Partiers we know are just quietly waiting for our chance to go to the ballot box in November, and vote the idiots out of office that have squandered their chance to do what is right. Looking back on the Bush-Gore election results with the hanging chads and going to the Supreme Court, we feel that if there is not a striking majority win, we fear that this November election may be the last held in our country. If the left can stir up the occupiers and the Trayvon/Zimmerman crowds, think what can do with a close election of voting our first African-American President out of office?
Walk softly and carry a big
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 10:41am.
Walk softly and carry a big gun. Definition of TEA party.
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We the
Submitted by azgal602 on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 9:43am.
Tea Party will be the silent majority. We aren't out there but don't think we are not as strong. We got tired of being called racists, fear mongers, etc. We will be voting strong this year, you can bet your liberal a** on it.
You hope you mean. I'll bet
Submitted by Semus on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 10:26am.
You hope you mean. I'll bet thay have more say. I guess it just irks some folks that they have to tolerate any inout from the fly over people.
In point of objective fact...
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 10:55am.
... the Tea Party will -not- have the same amount of clout as was the case in 2008 and 2010.
If I read all the channel markers right, they will have MORE clout.
Not that the media will note it except en passant, the lazy bastards.
Which, by the way, is why the media is so far left. They are lazy, and expect to be given their marching orders and be 'evolved' into a version of the Ministry of Truth by and by. The 'objectivity' they lie about having requires effort.
Make no mistake, though. Rush was right, the GOP does not need to check their PRINCIPLES at the door, they need to check their EGOS. Whomever in the next month finally emerges, we need to throw all we got behind him or her (no, not being p/c, but I leave room for the unexpected) and run full tilt.
As I've stated before, November IS the Main Event. BHO is the third socialist president, after Fat Bill and FDR. He will be the last, either by being voted out, or by his re-election deluding him into thinking he is the American Kim Jung Un/Manuel Noriega/Robert Mugabe/fill in your own lifetime term dictator.
Should that last occur, I prophesy that it will not be a quiet 'going into that good night' of Reagen's 'thousand years of darkness'.
NVCon
Why didn't she say this on
Submitted by sngnsgt on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 6:57pm.
Why didn't she say this on her own show? Oh, yeah. That went in the toilet. Just like her opinions.
Hypocrisy
Submitted by tricityjdw on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 1:09am.
Parker denounced Rush for his "vile language," but for some reason, instead of denouncing Chris Matthews, she gives her nod of approval by going on his show.