I just watched you on Hannity–this was a great day! It’s great that so many people showed up all across America and I appreciate Red State and all of the work you and everyone else is doing.

This might be the start of something important.

Now that I finally got FNC in HD. I actually could say to my wife, heh that is the guy from RedState, the six degrees of seperation in effect tonight. Good job.

Great job today with your schedule. Great commentary.

Next round of Tea Parties I’m reading.

Must keep the pressure up.

Maybe it’s a good thing they underestimate the stength of this movement.

Great commentary Erick and you’re much better looking than Sean.

Often, the younger conservative, libertarians and small government folks feel very isolated… having hundreds of rallies with hundreds of thousands of people has one resounding meaning.

“You are not alone”

It is easy to become an island onto yourself politically in heavy blue areas… and you can forget how many people think that spending and governmental growth is out of control… want to know how many, check out the tea party turnout threads, which only has about a tenth (1/10th) of the parties on it so far -> http://www.redstate.com/raven/2009/04/15/tax-day-tea-party-numbers/

According to our Constitution, spending is supposed to originate in the House.

We can’t take back the Senate in 2010. We’ve lost too many seats. It will take years to even rebuild the filibuster there. (Remember, the Father and Two Mothers of Porkulus are there to spend along with the rest of the Dems).

We can, however, radically remake the House in the next election.

We can stop Barack. We can save at least some of our kids’ money.

But, we have to organize. Find and vote for candidates that will commit to lower government.

With all due respect to Glenn “Hey-Let’s-Have-A-Third-Party!” Reynolds and Michelle Malkin, that means supporting GOP candidates. (AFTER we use our primaries and caucii to throw out any big-spending GOP incumbents, that is).

As long as the Dems keep control of the House, Team Pelosi will spend. Especially in the years leading up to Barack’s reelection bid.

If all the Tea Party movement does is split conservatives, and perhaps elect a few “Fiscal Responsibility Party” people to Congress (whom the Dems will ignore), then David Axelrod will be one happy man.

He knows how to play this game. He and Rahm are hoping we’ll expend much of our energy jousting with windmills. While they keep spending and spending and spending…

We gotta play this game to win. And, our time is short. The longer the big-spenders stay in power, the poorer our kids get.

We can’t be satisfied with just doing things that feel good. We have to do things that will work.

All of y’all, work with the GOP to take back the House in 2010.

What other realistic shot do we have to stop the spending, before it’s too late?

Erick, I saw you on Hannity; BZ. (Ask mbecker or another Marine on the site to explain…unless we have some former sailors who can pipe in).

My minipost for tonight. We landed a surprise blow. Our next will be fully telegraphed…

If these things are to happen on July 4th (God willing) then the Left (which includes the MSM (CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC - The usually suspects), the online kooks (move on, daily commies, Huff and puff), and their backers (James Bond villian George Soros) WILL infiltrate. Shields up people!

Lets be honest. These guys didn’t really expect this to happen in the size and scope that it did. CNN sent out a quick hit, but it fizzled. The On Line left made 7th grade sexually laced humor. Anderson Cooper did both. It could be compaired to Clinton’s famous cruise missile strike at a location Bin Laden left before the missiles were launched. As has been said on this board - “What? Conservatives don’t protest! They have jobs! They’re at work! They don’t organize! They’re just crazy rednecks with guns!” They will know unleash all the powers of Hades at us next time.

To put this in Star Wars terms, We just blew up the Death Star. But Darth Varder survived and the Emperor is still incontrol of what was the Republic. Tomorrow… (well rather today as this is an early morning post) the MSM will adjust fire and try to do damage control. Paul Begala and Chris “Tingle up my leg” Mathews will start doing mortar fire and bring in more lefty heavy hitters to try and sway public opinion.

Here’s the Strategery for us. If you attended one, let your friends know what it was about. Point them to this site and good videos of people that are well spoken. Show them the difference between the hardworking, average Americans and the rent a mobs that attend liberal ralleys.

Basically, we feel this way about taxes and spending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkhjOfk1Hg

Forgive me for mixing metaphores.

then every RS member will have their own Tea Party Diary created lol

It’s nice to associate a face with someone you have been corresponding with for a few years.

I worry that now that this has taken place, People will feel a catharsis, that they voiced their opinion, and then nothing more will come of it.

   As RJD said above, we’ve got to keep the heat on these nutcase politicians and their apparatchiks.  Don’t let up.  And when Election Day rolls around, make sure the SOBs are out of there!

   A few more terms of turnover, and we should have a completely different makeup for the House and Senate (especially the latter).  There will be exceptions: I expect us never to be rid of people like Pelosi or Kerry or Wrangle because the people in their states or districts will remain wholly owned by them.  At the same time, let’s not fall asleep at the wheel after this round…

   Falling asleep when we should’ve been keeping our eyes on our representatives was how all of this took place.