Tillis' 1984

Published January 21, 2014

by Gary Pearce, Talking About Politics, January 20, 2014.

Thom Tillis is walking the same tightrope that Jim Hunt walked in his U.S. Senate race 30 years ago. But Tillis’ balance is even more precarious.

 

Tillis today, like Hunt then, has to appeal to the broad November electorate and also pacify an extreme faction in his own party.

 

Hunt’s problems came from the then-ascendant left wing of the Democratic Party, symbolized by Walter Mondale, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. For Tillis, it’s the Tea Party.

 

Unlike Tillis, Hunt didn’t have to run a primary gauntlet. Tillis wants to avoid it, so he’s avoiding debates and joint appearances with his opponents. He saw what happened to Mitt Romney when Romney tried to appease the Fox News crowd in 2012.

 

Tillis is also resorting to the last resort of political scoundrels: the argument that he is more “electable.” That’s code for “not a nut.” His campaign is busily warning other Republicans, especially legislators, that they will be endangered species in November if the GOP nominates one of Tillis’ opponents.

 

Tillis hopes to avoid proving the old adage that the only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead possums.

 

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January 21, 2014 at 10:05 am
Norm Kelly says:

I recently learned that I am a Libertarian. Now that I understand, I'm proud to call myself a libertarian.

I'm beginning to understand that I'm also an extremist. I will wear this label at least as proudly, if not more so, as I wear the libertarian label. I am proud to be an extremist, in the eyes of libs/Demons/socialists/editorial writers.

What does it mean these days to be labeled an extremist? What does it mean if some lib/most libs don't label you an extremist? Both are too easy to define. What it means if a lib doesn't label you an extremist: it means that you aren't willing to fight against the libs. It means you are willing to accept their ideas, but you may just want to slow them down a bit. Take things in smaller bites so it's less noticable and more easily accepted by the masses. It means that you don't go on all the lib talk shows and talk against the lib plans. It means trying to keep the libs in the media (that's redundant!) happy.

What does it mean to be labeled an extremist? Simple. An extremist believes the Constitution is the law of the land. An extremist believes the federal government/central planners are broke. An extremist believes that socialism fails even before it starts. An extremist knows that a central planner take-over of the health care industry is a failure. (not 'will be', but 'is a failure'. that's another diff between an extremist and a lib. extremists know that it already is a failure; libs believe it could be tweaked just a little and it will be fixed.) An extremist knows that the central planners have usurped power & control that does not belong to them. An extremist knows that all the power belongs to the states, not the central planners. An extremist knows that all the power belongs to the people. Libs believe all the power, all the control, automatically belongs to the central planners/libs unless they specifically relinquish control. And they are allowed to change their minds on any control they temporarily relinquish.

So, because of the way libs define 'extremist', I am a proud extremist. When libs are extremists, they blow up buildings, like the buddy of his high holiness that participated in the Weather Underground that killed people. Lib extremists believe it is acceptable to put nails and other hardware in trees so that when someone comes along to cut down the tree, the hardware causes bodily harm to the tree cutter. Lib extremists believe in destroying buildings where businesses they don't like are housed. Remember the Occupy Wall Street movement. Did damage to buildings cuz they didn't like the business inside. Broke windows. Painted graffiti on the walls. Raped & killed people. These are lib extremists.

The diff between lib and conservative extremists? Libs believe they are the law and supercede all others. Conservatives believe the written laws, passed by the majority, accepted by the courts, are the law of the land. Conservatives believe the Constitution when it takes all power away from the central planners, but an extremely small list.

So you see, based on the lib definition of an extremist, we TEA people are proud to wear that label. If we were to use the conservatives use of the word extremist when it comes to describing libs, then we TEA people would reject the label. Libs also refuse to call lib extremists using the word 'extremist'. They reject that there are any such things as liberal extremists. There is no such thing, in the (always confused) lib mind.