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The Obama people started the campaign off with a BANG the first of the year. Obama’s campaign director, in a bulk email to the supporter email list, which we happen to be on, named the enemy… and his name is Carl Gallups! Well, they didn’t name him personally but they may just as well have.
In the email dated January 4 2012 Jim Messina, Campaign manager for Obama for America labeled the Tea Party as “extremists”. Here’s the quote.
“The Extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory”. He was speaking here of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday night. The word “extreme” is used more than once throughout the email. We’ll post the entire text in the description of this video.
But notice with me the timing of this email. Only four short days after signing the NDAA – the bill you’ve all been reading about and hearing about since it was signed Dec 31st, the last day of 2011.
The NDAA solidifies the power of the President to arrest and indefinitely detain, without due process, American citizens who Obama personally identifies as a threat to national security. And now – a mere four days later, Obama’s campaign team has begun to set the narrative. The Tea Party are extremists. According to the Obama email, the Tea Party extremist agenda threatens Medicare, the troops, gay rights, women’s rights, social security, and much more. See the description section for the entire email text.
Carl Gallups is a loud and proud member of the Tea Party movement. He is an honored speaker at several Tea Party events – most recently a guest speaker at the Florida Tea Party Convention in Daytona Florida.
And now, according to the Obama campaign, Carl Gallups and the millions of other members who simply want their country back, without setting up squatter camps in government parks where illegal activity becomes the legacy HELLO OCCUPY! NO!
The Tea Party movement is a civil exercise in openly seeking the removal of a president who many, many people describe as an actual extremist – one who actively seeks the overthrow of the American constitution and way of life – one who himself admitted that the constitution is a flawed document – one embraces nearly every tenet which has, until now, been rejected by the country’s citizens, millions of whom Barack Obama has now labeled “Extremists” and whom President Obama now has the power to lock up behind bars or perhaps even deport to Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
Friend --
These Republican candidates spent in some cases more than a year -- in Mitt Romney's case seven years -- campaigning in Iowa to be the next president.
But tonight, GOP voters there couldn't decisively get behind anyone.
Who exactly leads the Republican race going forward isn't clear, but we do know two things:
1) The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we'll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win -- vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman's right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.
2) We'll be facing an onslaught of unprecedented spending from outside groups funded by corporations and anonymous donors. In Iowa alone, so-called "super PACs" spent $12.9 million on almost exclusively negative ads. These groups will turn their fire even more directly on us in the weeks ahead to prove that their candidate is the most anti-Obama.
This race is officially on -- and if we want to win, the only way is to out-organize them on the ground.
Sign up to volunteer now, and an organizer will follow up in the next few weeks about how you can help.
Many observers still think Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. If he is, we will be prepared. But it's curious that no one can really explain how, when or why the 70-plus percent of Republicans saying in polls and in Iowa that Mitt Romney's not their candidate will suddenly come around.
So the path ahead for Romney -- or whichever of the Republican candidates is going to emerge from this process -- is sadly and starkly very clear: to run even further to the extreme right, and make even more dangerous promises that threaten not only the progress we've made but the fundamental fabric of American society.
We also know that candidates who take these extreme positions can, in the right circumstances, win not only a primary but also a general election in just about any state.
Just ask the Tea Party senators from Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and the Tea Party governors in Florida and Wisconsin.
Watching the circus on TV, it's tempting to think it's almost funny -- but this is not a joke.
We've got to be ready.
What you decide to do next will determine which kind of politics wins this election:
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