freedomworks – Moe Lane

Jack Davis (FAKE CAND, NY-26) cuts and runs from debates.

He’s officially decided to not do any debates with the official Democratic candidate (and actual Republican/Conservative candidate Jane Corwin). The ostensible reason is because – wait for it, wait for it! – Davis is claiming his opponents are liars who won’t play fair. Given Davis’s likely status as a stalking horse for the Democratic party, such a comment would normally score chutzpah points with me. It doesn’t in this case, because I can’t abide cowards running for office; but objectively speaking there’s something almost entertaining about this particular case of projection. Particularly the ‘electronic town hall’ bit, which worked so well for his fellow Democratic cowards in 2010. What’s the definition of insanity, again?

And if you think that I’m being mean-spirited, check out Freedomworks; they’re laying into Davis with all the fury of a successful grassroots organization that sweated blood last year getting real conservatives and Tea Partiers elected. I quote Matt Kibbe:

“The voters in New York’s 26^th Congressional District have a serious decision to make concerning who will represent them in the House of Representatives. Out of respect for this decision, the candidates have a responsibility to be honest about their positions on the issues. Considering Jack Davis’ leftist resume, his candidacy as a ‘tea party’ candidate is either a sad attempt to raise his own personal political profile or an underhanded strategy to hand the seat to the Democrat contender. Either way, it’s a slap in the face to New York 26 voters and the larger tea party movement and FreedomWorks PAC will ensure that this message is delivered throughout the district in advance of the May 24^th special election.”

Continue reading Jack Davis (FAKE CAND, NY-26) cuts and runs from debates.

#rsrh Do you know this man?

He is a CWA (Communications Workers of America) goon.

He hits women.

Tabitha Hale of Freedomworks is a friend and RedState colleague; which is the secondary reason why there is currently a red haze across my vision. The primary reason, of course, is because I cannot abide men who hit women.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Minute Sixteen Watch, 8/29/2010.

This one comes from that former GEICO twerp Lance Baxter, who apparently is now spending his life building little apartment shrines to Tabitha of Freedomworks (and RedState). I swear to God; why can’t unhinged left-extremists look for dates inside their own demographic? …Yes, there is the potential for a plethora of cheap shots, there; but I’m still tired of seeing fringe lunatics from the Other Side use political commentary as an excuse to express their sexual neuroses.

Knowing Tabitha, and now that I’ve actually seen Baxter, I assume that this will all end in tears. The special kind of tears that result when you get a dose of pepper spray, right in the eyes.

Matt Kibbe’s & Dick Armey’s new book out.

It’s called Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, and it comes out today. The book was written to be a combination history/manifesto/blueprint for the Tea Party movement, and I spoke with co-author (and President of FreedomWorks) Matt Kibbe about it:

The main FreedomWorks site is here: those interested in the 9/12 March mentioned at the end of the interview can see more information here.

Crossposted to RedState. Continue reading Matt Kibbe’s & Dick Armey’s new book out.

Hey, Freedomworks has a mailbag!

Or at least an answering machine. It looks like the folks over at MoveOn.org and the AFL-CIO decided to send some calls over to FreedomWorks, and with the usual result: slurs, profanity, sexual obsession, histor… actually, there is a lot of sexual obsession in the sample phone calls that Freedomworks have posted; it’s kind of interesting, actually. Anyway… historical inaccuracies, and of course everyone’s favorite: threats of violence.

In other words, pretty much par for the course. We get sent this stuff all the time, over at RedState. Heck, I get sent this stuff on a fairly regular basis here, and I blog about zombies.

Take pity on the Tea Party-hating Left?

(Via Glenn Reynolds) Matt Kibbe at Reason is too full of the milk of human kindness when it comes to the Online Left’s reaction to the Tea Party phenomenon.

The remarkable ends to which lefty bloggers, Nobel Laureates, bit-part actresses, and even a senior White House official all went to discredit the massive grassroots revolt perfectly matches Elizabeth Kübler-Ross‘ famous work on how to deal with grief, death, and loss.

Take Janeane Garofalo. Many tea party attendees were understandably offended when she compared them to members of the Ku Klux Klan. “It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all,” she told Keith Olbermann. “This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”

I know what you’re probably thinking about Ms. Garofalo, and it’s not kind. I thought it too. But look beneath the surface, and at least try to imagine her pain. As Kübler-Ross explains, first comes denial, then comes anger. Hope and Change, for Janeane, was dying. And she couldn’t believe it.

So we must pity them for their hysterical and panicked reaction to an actual, real populist movement? Pity them for their reflexive, unthinking retreat to emotional immaturity and crude sexual attacks? Pity them for their looming fear that their Great Lie – that they speak for the People – is well on its way to being exploded once and for all?

To quote Eric Flint (on an unrelated matter): Better still, let us not pity them at all.

Moe Lane

PS: I say this not to criticize Matt Kibbe, whose Freedomworks has been at the forefront of this issue. But it is a sad truth that the Online Left hates and fears us, and everything that we do; and until they abandon those ways themselves, there will be no peace.

PPS:

Hope to see you there.

Crossposted to RedState.