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Title: The Tea Party Was Tuesday's Biggest Loser
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010 ... an-party-odonnell-angle-marco/
Published: Nov 4, 2010
Author: John Tantillo
Post Date: 2010-11-04 13:58:41 by Brian S
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Views: 2855
Comments: 7
The Tea Party Was Tuesday's Biggest Loser
Published November 04, 2010
| FoxNews.com
I’m tired of hearing how important the Tea Party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were in the outcome of the recent elections.
This is just journalists and commentators looking for the easy storyline.
Let’s be honest, it’s all about individual candidates not parties. If it wasn’t, the Senate would be Republican and O’Donnell and Angle would be senators today.
The winning candidates all understood the importance of what their Target Markets, their potential constituents, needed and satisfied these needs.
Marco Rubio welcomed Tea Party support but he was careful to keep his distance so as to assure non-Tea Party Floridians that he was there for all his future constituents. During his victory speech, he spoke about traveling all across Florida and learning from the people and he spoke a lot about his Cuban heritage, but he didn’t talk much about parties other than to say “our nation is headed in the wrong direction and both parties are to blame.” And he didn’t mention the Tea Party at all.
Harry Reid played down his national tar-and-feathering at the hands of conservatives and played up the fact that he has been there for the people of Nevada and will continue to be especially when it comes to jobs and bringing home the bacon.
The Tea Party was great in that it mobilized voters and raised important issues about our country’s direction that many of us –myself included— deeply care about.
But it failed in that the party –like all organized political movements—didn’t come close to any kind of sweep of elected office. In other words, there’s simply no mandate for Tea Party concerns and beliefs.
This is a critical lesson to understand –especially for people like John Boehner who could mistakenly act like they have just won some kind of party mandate.
Barack Obama and the Democrats mistakenly thought they had done the same after their 2008 victory.
They made the mistake of thinking that all they had to do was communicate their ideas to America for those ideas to quickly gain wide-spread support.
When those ideas didn’t immediately gain support, they just communicated harder.
Not surprisingly, that didn’t work any better. They simply refused to believe that the electorate had real reservations about the direction the Democrats wanted to take our nation. It was easier for Democrats to blame a failed communications strategy than accept that their agenda wasn’t liked by the majority.
The Tea Party candidates that fared the worst shared this trait with the Democrats.
Bottom line, it’s a belief in the communications model of governance and it’s a dangerous but enduring fantasy among most political parties. Someday, the communications folks seem to think, everyone will think like us (If only we get the message right).
Don’t get me wrong, getting your message out there clearly, compellingly and widely is important, but it’s the crafting of that message that matters most.
Communication is the last step; marketing is the first. Listening to the people -- all the people— and addressing their needs, especially when they don’t fit a party’s particular agenda…that’s what has to be done.
The next speaker of the House needs to take note. If the Republicans are to be successful –they will need to listen.
The Tea Party was exciting but now it’s over and governing must begin.
And, remember, things are always easier when you keep marketing and branding in mind.
John Tantillo is a marketing and branding expert who is a principal in Metzger Tantillo Marketing, a recently formed strategic alliance targeted to small business professionals. He also offers his own services as The Marketing Doctor. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News Opinion and the author of the new book, "People Buy Brands, Not Companies." Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*
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Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
"The Tea Party Was Tuesday's Biggest Loser"
Pure Media Drivel...LOL!! The TeaParty was at the forefront of the biggest electoral wipeout WIN since 1932, and these MORONS (Politico.com had a similarly BS article) want to make it out like the Tea Partiers failed electorally. Only RINO/RAT idiots will fall fer this krap.
Hey Brian, remember back two years ago when James "Serpenthead" Carville was prancing around claiming that the RATS had taken control of Congress and promised to hold their control for TWO GENERATIONS? And considering the disspirited GOP--led by Milquetoast Moderates like Johnnie McStain and Dubyuh-- you could almost see his boasts as feasible. And the RINOS in Congress were quick to say, we need to work with RAT-Messiah to enact the ObamaNation's Marxist Agenda...hell, the future of the GOP indeed looked bleak.
Then, along came WeThePeople (aka ReaganConservatives aka TeaPartiers), who demanded that our Congresscritters fight against Obama's out of control spending and expnsion of the size and scope of the Federal Leviathan. No way the TeaParty was going to win all the races they got involved in, but their energy and passion and insistence upon fiscal sanity ended up leading to a 63- seat gain in the House and a 6-seat pickup in the Senate!! And don't forget all the GOP Governors and GOP Statehouses that were voted into Power on Tuesday.
To try and make the Tea Party out as electoral LOSERS is absolutely delusional...MUD
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Its interesting to note who simply 'doesn't get it' on both sides of the political aisle, and in each news organization.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#4. To: Mudboy Slim (#2)
shhhhhh!
It's great that they didn't see what happened.
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Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#5. To: WhiteSands, Brian S, war (#4)
I think they see, they just don't wanna admit what a failure the ObamaNation has been...
TeaParty Patriots ROCK...MUD
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
Another viewpoint, BS...
"Election's Biggest Loser? George Soros!!"
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
11/03/10 4:45 PM EDT
While Democrats went out of their way to portray the Koch brothers as evil billionaires puppeteering this election, I’d venture they feel pretty good about the outcome. However, after last night I’d venture that that George Soros is one unhappy Hungarian.
Where the Kochs stood accused of funding some well-known grassroots political groups, Soros has been heavily invested in some pretty shady attempts at electioneering for Democrats. And fortunately, these efforts aren’t going very well.
The first notable thing is Soros’ funding of the Secretary of State Project — which is basically an attempt to elect Secretaries of State around the country willing to impose Democratic-friendly election laws in an attempt to tilt the playing field in their favor on election day.
Well, yesterday Republicans won 17 of 26 races for Secretary of State taking six of those offices (Arkansas, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa and Kansas) from Democrats. Republicans now control 25 offices to Democrats 22.
And then there was Soros’ backing of a measure in California to put control of redistricting back in the hands of the state legislature, a move that would obviously benefit Democrats. It failed, while another measure to give California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission increased authority over redrawing congressional districts succeeded:
California voters approved a ballot measure financed largely by Charles Munger Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, that strips California lawmakers of responsibility for drawing the boundaries of congressional districts.
Proposition 20 was winning 65 percent to 35 percent, with 17 percent of precincts counted, according to the Associated Press. The measure puts the task of reshaping the districts represented by California’s 53 members of the House of Representatives into the hands of a Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Proposition 27, a competing measure backed by billionaire George Soros, unions and Democratic Party leaders to disband the commission and return districting powers to lawmakers, was losing, 61 percent to 39 percent.
I’m sure Soros will keep pushing his agenda, but for now, two big ticket items of his have been stymied."
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
The Winners stuck out like sore thumbs.
At least the Dems/Reid finally figured out how to 'Flip Votes' their way. ;}
And anything the Reps do in the House will ONLY bring the question:
Why didn't the Dems do that? 8D
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