Can You Hear Us NOW?!

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NOTA BENE: This poll - which shows Brown at 50% and Coakley at 46% - was constructed with the assumption of a typical 15% Republican turnout. I'm thinking the actual turnout could be somewhat higher :)

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This poll may come as a bit of a shock to some.  From the very beginning, the Political Establishment has been so busy demonizing, ignoring, wishing away, or patronizing the Tea Party, that they've never come to understand it.

It's just people, the most "regular" people you'll ever meet.  Starting with passage of the Stimulus, these regular American folks have been afraid of and angry with this administration.  They/we are afraid of what will come from out-of-control government spending and expansion.  We don't like it when bills are passed in the middle of the night or at the crack of dawn or late on Christmas Eve when no one's watching.  We are alarmed when our representatives have to vote before they even know what's in the bill.  We are suspicious of legislation that runs into the thousands of pages and is incomprehensible. We don't like this form of Change, we don't want this Change and we will fight this Change.

The Tea Party, at least up until now, has been totally honest -- what we've been saying all along is exactly what we've meant.  That must be unusual because no one who lives in the bubble of "politics" has seemed to understand it.  They've tried to spin us this way or that, but they've never simply taken us at face value. 

It's not a shtick ... we ARE true American patriots. And we came together, not because of community organizers or a plan to initiate a political movement, but because each man or woman - young or old, rich or poor, liberal or conservative - suddenly sensed that the very foundation and nature of the country was at risk.  Sensing a threat to our way of life, we felt compelled to respond - very simply and without guile - to protect and to defend what we hold dear. 

 

Washington and its fawning, insular media have not yet come to understand that we are in earnest.  Moreover, they have not understood that, because we are sincere, because our belief in the essential greatness of America is very deeply held, we only become stronger and more determined every time we are demonized, insulted or ignored. And we have been demonized, insulted and ignored quite a bit.

You see, we believe that we are the current manifestation of  'We The People' in the Preamble of the Constitution, though not exclusively so.  Make no mistake, we do cling to that document, and we do intend to "secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Come hell or high water.

Can you hear us NOW?  It does not escape our notice that this latest skirmish occurs in the very place of the first Tea Party. If we are not heard this time, in Massachusetts, then we are determined to be heard somewhere else some other time.  As we have been saying all along, we believe that the future, our future, depends upon us NOW.

Washington is accustomed to those whose words are empty. They need to realize that ours are not. Perhaps this Senate race in Massachusetts will bring them closer to comprehension: The Tea Parties have been but a spark. The flame is everlasting.

 

Comments

[Lorraine]

Amen Sister. Thank you for the marvelous post. I am ready to send a "Can you hear us Now" telegram to Vic Snyder amd Blanche Lincoln when they are defeated in Nov. They never listen and I have called, wrote and e-mailed. It will be their turn soon. Yes!

[Sierra4]

Ditto's to everything you said. Those who oppose and ridicule us do not have a clue what is really happening in our country. They under-estimate our numbers and our resolve. Because everything they do involves deception and spin they do not recognize honest, heartfelt love and respect for the Founders and the documents they wrote that have made this country great. All of this works to our advantage and by the time they figure it out they will be knocked on their butts and out of office. "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of devine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

[Nancy in Texas]

The POTUS and his liberal minions fail to realize that there do exist Americans who will lay their lives on the line for freedom.

[josh schatzle]

I appreciate the post much, and appreciate American Thinker; it's so aptly named. I appreciate also Brown's ability to articulate that this bill stinks, the trends in our country and culture stink, and the available Senate seat isn't Kennedy's seat, but the people's. I never thought I'd see the day, of course I'm just 37, when the Bill of Rights and the Constitution would be so disparaged and maligned.

[Yael]

Missed this yesterday or I would have mentioned it. Sen. Schumer yesterday called Scott Brown a "far-right tea-bagger." http://tinyurl.com/yzdjjgw Isn't that redundant? I thought that, according to the Dims at least, all on the far right are teabaggers and all teabaggers are by defiinition "far right." I am trying very hard not to quote D'Amato and call Schumer a "putz head." Whoops.

[Brian Mahoney]

What a great post! I can hear the echo of "Can You hear us now" reverberating through the halls of Congress in November. My dream is of seeing 535 ex congress critters packing their bags...so what if we have to throw out the baby with the bath water. I can count the decent honest members on one hand anyway.

[Bill]

Thanks for writing this wonderful article. You are saying what millions believe but don't have the ability to post with such elegance and knowledge. Lets all pray that Mr Brown can beat this fraud of a person.

[RR]

The Massachusetts Miracle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0

[mounthood]

I just sent my Senator, Bill Nelson, D-Fl, an e-mail captioned: "Can You Hear Us Now Senator?".... I hope a Republican win in Mass. will put the fear of God in Democrats... boys... that light ahead of you bums is a freight train and it's going to run you down head on!

[Jersey Devil]

I'm getting quite tired of reading that the right is "afraid" of the current administration. It is NOT fear. This is the "Tea" Party's position of the annointed one. "I'll take the category "self-appointed and annointed' for $300 please Alex." "What is 'Don't tread on me?'"

[chris pedersen]

PASS THE FAIR TAX PLAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ron]

Great article, and I betcha they hear us after Tuesday. The Tea Party movement is growing, every time the Dims meet behind closed doors, every time they pay off another special interest - the rage is growing, the voices are getting louder. In the words of Todd Beamer on Flight 93, "let's roll" and knock these arse holes out of power.

[Quite Rightly]

Great post! Linked at Bread upon the Waters.