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 your time now, and one of our organizers in your community will give you a call by the end of next week to talk 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:
http://my.barackobama.com/After-Iowa
More soon.
Messina
Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
The title of the article is the title of this email from Jim Messina.
“The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory.”
This statement should be a clear call to arms for Americans who believe in the Constitution and our founding principles. To have a representative of the president attack them, clearly shows their disdain for the country and the people who have made it great.
They are scared, starting to demonize the very citizens that they want to govern. With the introduction of HR3166 they will be coming for us next because we are a “threat” to the tyranny of Obama.
You have to chuckle when Mr. Messina states ZERO’s adversaries will let Wall Street write its own rules, when it is so clear that Barack is joined at the hip to these criminal bastards. In Liberty always, Bill