Rubio Opponent Meek: Poster-Child For Dems That Still Don’t *Get* The Tea Party Movement

It’s always difficult for me to link back to the HuffPo, but this Democrat pity-party with US Senator-wannabe (and sitting US Congressman Kendrick Meek) has to be mentioned.

Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), whose run for Senate has been cast to the sidelines as the state’s top two Republicans duke it out, said that the campaign had already become a “referendum” on the Tea Party movement, owing to the attention it has drawn from ultra-conservative figures.
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“When you have the Club for Growth, CPAC, other groups, [Dick] Armey, [Rush] Limbaugh who lives in Florida and a number of other individuals of influence as it relates to the ultra-conservative community, all on one side of the ball saying this is what we want,” Meek said, “that means that moderate Republicans, Independents and Democrats are going to have to choose and say this is what we want, and this is how we want it, and we do not want to federalize someone who is going to carry this country into the direction it was in two or three years ago.”

Earlier, Meek made it a point to mention that Rubio had the backing of another prominent and divisive conservative figure — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) — who endorsed the state’s House Speaker well before other more mainstream Republicans considered it in vogue.

Asked point-blank whether his electoral strategy going forward would be to make the Senate race about these more national figures, Meek insisted that they themselves “already had.”

Translation?

“No one is paying any attention to me because of these dreadful Tea Party people who seem to be all the rage these days in the media and are getting all the attention of my opponent who happens to have a better message and a superior agenda proposal than I do.”

Meek helps us take a closer look inside the minds of paranoid Democrats that still can’t seem to get their heads around the idea that people really might just not like what they are doing to the American people. Check in with Bart Stupak, Mr. Meek, if you’re not sure what Americans are capable of when their Government runs amok.

The Tea Party movement represents a simple enough idea…one word says it all: Liberty. Democrats seem to be intent on either taking it away from us or redefining it to mean something entirely different than what our Founders intended. Americans, Tea Party folks or not, have had enough of being demonized and denigrated by Democrat Politicians just because we’re fighting back over these issues of taxation, health care, and the expansion of the Federal Government.

Folks like Mr. Meek need to focus on the issues at hand, and not worry so much about finding new names to call those of us who disagree with him and his fellow Democrats. There are a lot of political careers on the line this year after all.

[this post originates at 73Wire]