{"id":6490,"date":"2010-06-09T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2010-06-09T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:16:00","slug":"what-dana-said-more-advice-for-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/what-dana-said-more-advice-for-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dana Said: More Advice for the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Loesch has <a href=\"http:\/\/thedanashow.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/09\/some-possibly-unpopular-election-night-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long piece<\/a> about the Tea Party activists and somber reflections the day after several primaries did not swing the Tea Partiers&#8217; way.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my contribution:<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to change the GOP to reflect smaller government, conservative principles, you had better get over any instant gratification\/revolutionary impulse you have.  This is politics.  Sometimes the votes go your way, sometimes they don&#8217;t, but if you give up and go home when things don&#8217;t go your way, the entrenched interests within the party won&#8217;t take you seriously and won&#8217;t listen to you.  That old greybeard whose &#8220;turn&#8221; it is to run?  He&#8217;s attended meetings, held party office, hosted fundraisers, and contributed to the local party for 30 years.  He&#8217;ll be here in 2010, 2012, 2014.  If you&#8217;re only going to be here in spring and summer of 2010, what impact will you make beyond what he has done for a lot of candidates for a long time?  You&#8217;re a pup, albeit a loud member of a pack of pups.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the GOP, you&#8217;d better get your arse to the local party meetings, to the local fundraisers, and to the local campaign offices of candidates you support.  Politics is work, not a hobby.  If you want change, you have to work for it, not just tailgate at a semi-annual protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Loesch has a long piece about the Tea Party activists and somber reflections the day after several primaries did not swing the Tea Partiers&#8217; way. Here&#8217;s my contribution: If you really want to change the GOP to reflect smaller government, conservative principles, you had better get over any instant gratification\/revolutionary impulse you have. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}