On October 3, 2010, in Press, by Finalage
The 2010 elections will end in a great triumph of leadership by Sarah Palin. It was her leadership that highlighted the Tea Party Movement, at a time when the movement was under heavy assault and derision by the mainstream media and Democratic Party. She boldly embraced the movement with her address at the Tea Party National Convention, her unrelenting support of Glenn Beck and the 9-12 Movement, and her powerful alliance with the Tea Party Express. She did all this when no other prominent Republican leader or prospective 2012 GOP presidential contender, aside from Jim DeMint, dared to publicly support the movement. Now after stunning victories by Tea Party supported candidates like Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, Joe Miller, and Christine O’Donnel, the GOP establishment is scrambling. The Tea Party Movement that is set to make history this election year.
The fallout is clear from all this and the implications for 2012 are profound–the Tea Party Movement is not cresting but ascending in power. In the aftermath of this election, there will be no doubt that the fervency that drove the aforementioned candidates to victory will embolden the movement not satiate it. The Tea Party Movement, like the anti-war movement of the left, is not after an election victory, but rather, it’s after an objective. Until that objective is fulfilled, in this case the roll back of government power, the Tea Party will continue its relentless pursuit of reform. This is a problem for the GOP Establishment, since the Tea Party movement in ascendancy has already demonstrated its heft in this year’s primaries. If as expected the Tea Party Movement is able to score victories over Democratic opponents, especially those in blue states (fingers crossed for O’Donnell!), it will become an even greater political force. Short of the unlikely surrender of the respective party Establishments to the Tea Party Agenda, count on an unsatisfied Tea Party Movement come 2012.
An unsatisfied Tea Party Movement (seeking the repeal of Obamacare, a Balance Budget Amendment to the Constitution, the Ryan Roadmap to reform entitlements, term limits, and tax reform along the lines of a flat tax or a fair tax) will be ready to impact the 2012 presidential and congressional primaries. The Tea Party Movement will back the candidates who were there with them from the beginning, those who unabashedly love America, and those who will boldly take up the reform agenda that politicians in the past merely mouthed for popular support, but had no intention to implement. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in the aftermath of a crushing electoral defeat in 2004, set out to lay the groundwork to hijack America. It culminated in two consecutive landslide victories, giving them complete control of Congress, a fillibuster proof majority in the Senate, and the White House. They rode a manufactured wave of popular discontent with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They used the energy of the antiwar crowd to nominate a candidate who shared their view and would boldly set out to implement their progressive agenda to fundamentally transform America.
Now, its our turn! The Tea Party Movement is laying the groundwork for a similar turn of events and building momentum toward a landslide victory in 2010 that will put them in a position where the Democrats and the MoveOn crowd were in going into 2008. If the Tea Party Movement wants a kindred spirit within a candidate for president who will not only boldly articulate the conservative agenda, but implement it–they need not look any further than Sarah Louise Palin to carry their mantle again in 2012 to restore America.
Sarah Palin 2012. Get used to it.
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