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Tea partiers air doubts about Dick Armey

By KENNETH P. VOGEL
3/25/10 5:03 AM EDT
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In recent weeks, FreedomWorks leader Dick Armey has found himself targeted by fellow conservatives.

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It seemed a strange fit to begin with — a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.

And in recent weeks, Dick Armey has found himself targeted by a quiet, but concerted campaign from fellow conservatives challenging — and seeking to undermine — his status as a leader of the tea party movement.

Critics ranging from prominent conservatives to bloggers to grass-roots tea party activists have called into question whether Armey’s stances on illegal immigration and social issues, his candidate endorsements and his past lobbying work are fundamentally inconsistent with the tea party movement. They also have suggested he raised the white flag too early in the fight over the Democratic health care overhaul and is beholden to corporate benefactors, and have accused him of trying to hijack the tea parties to serve those benefactors or his own personal political ambitions.

To be sure, some of the resentment seems to stem from jealousy over adept positioning by Armey that has put him and the small-government nonprofit group he co-chairs, FreedomWorks, at the vanguard of tea party activism, which everyone on the right — from the Republican Party and its elected officials to the groups that emerged from the 1960s restructuring of the conservative movement — has jockeyed to harness.

But the attacks on Armey, which started as a whisper campaign and have spilled out into the open in the past couple weeks, also highlight deeper tensions within the loose confederation of local and state groups that make up the tea party, as well as the broader conservative movement, about whether there is any need for national leaders, and whether social and national security issues should be part of the agenda.

By positioning himself in a leadership role in the tea party movement, Armey, his critics argue, has exerted an inordinate influence in molding the movement — or, at least, the public perception of it — to his vision, which focuses on limited government and taxation more than the social, immigration and national security issues that motivate other conservatives.

“Dick Armey of FreedomWorks (The group trying to take control of the tea party movement) supports AMNESTY for illegal aliens,â€

Oh, you are about to have a fight like you would not believe DICK!

W

Good. Old Dickydoo is in for a rude awakening.

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Dick is trying to steer the conservative grass roots movement away from Immigration enforcement. He's trying to lead the tea party down the CIR road. Without any influence from the gloablist control freaks, the anti-CIR movement would have more influence on the tea party. The globalist control freaks know this. The fight is on. They have ask/told Dick to stop an ever growing popular consdvative and anit-CIR movement. Amnesty is the key to overthrowing this country's sovereignty and they have appointed this sad excuse for a conservative (traitor no less) as the unsurper. Let's hope those in the tea party know better. Who appointed this jerk as the leader of the tea party anyway?

He himself has laid claim to that. And it couldn't be further from the truth. I've been warning everybody in the Tea Party about him here locally, and hoefully it has spread to other Tea Parties in the area and from there on out.

It's nice to be in close contact with the organizers and coordinators. They actually listen and then go off and confirm it for themselves. A good bunch here locally.

He himself has laid claim to that. And it couldn't be further from the truth. I've been warning everybody in the Tea Party about him here locally, and hoefully it has spread to other Tea Parties in the area and from there on out.

It's nice to be in close contact with the organizers and coordinators. They actually listen and then go off and confirm it for themselves. A good bunch here locally.

You got that right...

Kathyet

That paragraph tell us a lot....

In fact, as Armey’s profile rose along with the tea parties', he did find himself under scrutiny from the left regarding the overlap between his FreedomWorks chairmanship, which tax returns show paid him $550,000 in 2008, and a more lucrative gig as a lobbyist for the powerful firm DLA Piper, which Brandon said paid him $750,000 a year. Congressional records show that Armey at times lobbied for clients ostensibly at odds with the tea party movement, including bailout recipient General Motors, a wind farm developer that stands to benefit from proposals to cap and trade carbon emissions and at least two pharmaceutical companies that supported the earlier stages of the health care overhaul.

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Here he misspoke and showed his true colors....it is not a nation of ILLEGAL ALIENS ....it is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS


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Beck told POLITICO he decided to take his anti-Armey campaign public after Armey in last week’s press club appearance blasted the GOP for ostracizing Hispanic voters by calling for an immigration crackdown and declared “there is roomâ€

Armey is a RINO trying to boondoggle the Tea Partiers. All the garbage he is pushing is just more Compromising Moderate fence sitting. No thanks Dick! The Conservatives of America(the majority) are fed up with that, we want our country back and we want it Liberated from the Liberals.

Dixie

We don't need anyone who is trying to avoid the subject of illegal immigration, if you are affraid of the subject you are hiding something.

NumbersUSA grade of Dick says it all, no more proof needed, people need to stop trusting these cowards, if they can not "say what they mean and mean what they say" we don't want or need them.

DON'T BE FOOLED....REMEMBER OBAMA!!