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Clinton Machine Planning Tea Party Smear Jobs?

by | 10:19 pm, February 17, 2010 | 5 Comments

BigGovernment.com is reporting that the Clintons are working with James Carville on a plan to smear and destroy the tea party movement ahead of the mid-term elections:

Not only do Democrats face the possibility of losing their congressional majorities, massive losses in state house races could jeopardize redistricting next year and set back the progressive agenda for at least a decade.

So, the Clinton Empire is planning to strike back.

Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)

Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.

FinCertified 100% Kook-Freeding acknowledged leaders of the tea party movement may be a difficult task, given its decentralized nature, but then, they can always employ the media to create the impression in the public mind that people like Nevada’s Barry Levinson or Houston’s Dale Robertson are The Leaders Of The Movement™ — people who are not actually considered leaders, but who offer much better material with which to tar the movement as a bunch of crazies and racists through guilt by association (see Little Green Footballs).

I’ve expected this sort of pushback for a while now, so this development (if true) doesn’t surprise me.  This is why I’ve encouraged the Colorado tea party leaders and other grassroots activists and organizers I’ve met over the past year to focus exclusively on core issues, and avoid birtherism, Bircherism, “trutherism”, and other forms of black-helicopter nonsense like the plague. Luckily for Colorado, the emerging leaders in the liberty movement in the state haven’t really needed that advice.

(PPC contributor Ari Armstrong articulates some related thoughts, inspired by the New York Times’ hatchet job article against tea parties.)

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Comments

  1.   wesley
      February 17th, 2010 @ 10:35 pm

    Great tin foil hat icon!

  2.   T.L. James
      February 17th, 2010 @ 11:07 pm

    Thanks! The propeller on top actually spins.

    I should make an animated gif version…

  3.   Matt
      February 18th, 2010 @ 12:33 am

    But… but that would be the politics of personal destruction!

    I thought the Clintons spoke out AGAINST that?

  4.   Cindy Lyons
      February 18th, 2010 @ 1:32 am

    Bring it on Bubba! We are very familiar with your attack methods. You attack the Tea Party you are attacking the ideologies of our founding forefathers. Good luck… you’re going to need it. The Tea Party Movement cannot be pinned down. NV is trying to do this by making it a party there. They are a sovereign state… they can do what they want… even if that means turning their efforts into a party. This could work if done for the purposes of state wide elections and for the offices of US Senate and US House of Representatives.

  5.   GrizzlyGrannyLu
      February 18th, 2010 @ 5:45 am

    This is one grizzly granny bear that will really enjoy putting my principles, morals, background and intellect up against the cankerous Clintonistas along with any other players from either party who try to mount a smear campaign as we gain more and more power.

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