{"id":5394,"date":"2010-02-03T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/03\/les-blumenthals-odd-little-phrase\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:28:50","slug":"les-blumenthals-odd-little-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/03\/les-blumenthals-odd-little-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Blumenthal’s odd little phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran into this news story today<\/a>, on GOP prospects and hopes that 2010 will be like 1994.\u00c2\u00a0 A very odd little phrase jumped out at me as a little false.<\/p>\n

One wild card<\/span> this year is the Tea Party movement<\/span>, with its talk of “Sovereignty<\/span>: The 10th Amendment<\/span>” and “Put Ronnie on the Rock,”<\/strong> a reference to putting Ronald Reagan’s face on Mount Rushmore. Organizers say there are no plans of turning the movement into an actual political party and it will remain loosely organized.<\/p>\n

“I am a little leery of politicians, even conservative ones,” said Ken Morse, an organizer of the Olympia Tea Party. “I want to keep our nonpartisan status alive.”<\/p>\n

Republicans hope to attract Tea Party supporters<\/span> and downplay concerns that the movement could move their party too far to the right.<\/p>\n

“We have more to gain than lose by working with the Tea Party<\/span>,” GOP Chairman Esser said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Put Ronnie on the Rock” is a tenant of the Tea Party movement?
\nI go to google news.\u00c2\u00a0 I look the phrase up to see this discussion of “Put Ronnie on the Rocks”.\u00c2\u00a0 I see this news article.\u00c2\u00a0 No other.<\/p>\n

I go to google blogs.\u00c2\u00a0 I look the phrase up to see the discussion of “Put Ronnie on the Rocks”.\u00c2\u00a0 I see bump and kis.<\/p>\n

I look up on google.\u00c2\u00a0 I see a bad personal website (not that there’s anything wrong with that) with vacation photos<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— and I am at a loss as to whether they are promoting sticking that Ronnie up on Mt Rushmore.\u00c2\u00a0 And once upon a time, someone chimed in on this message board <\/a>with<\/p>\n

MSNBC – Race & Ethnicity message board – How would everyone feel …<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
12 posts\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a08 authors\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Last post:\u00c2\u00a0May 27, 2008<\/em><\/div>\n
Until they put Ronnie on the rock, nobody should go up there. Crazy Horse is coming along just fine. How about someone find a different rock …<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
\nAnd that is all.<\/div>\n
“Put Ron on the Rock” brings in more hits.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently a bit better defined, something proposed by Rep. Salmon of Arizona<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0While I see some sentiment\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0signing off posts with the phrase\u00c2\u00a0at free republic, I overall see fewer than 30 pages.<\/div>\n
Conclusion: the proposal to stick Ronald Reagan’s face on Mount Rushmore is not animating the “Tea Party Movement”.\u00c2\u00a0 Les Blumenthal has pulled something almost out of his ass, but not quite: I imagine a single conversation\u00c2\u00a0 then \u00c2\u00a0fitted and expanded to fit a broader category.<\/div>\n
And, yes, I believe to be valid,\u00c2\u00a0that phrase, and that phrase only — I won’t settle for the sentiment or project\u00c2\u00a0behind it,\u00c2\u00a0has to be spotted somewhere connected with official tea partydom.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran into this news story today, on GOP prospects and hopes that 2010 will be like 1994.\u00c2\u00a0 A very odd little phrase jumped out at me as a little false. One wild card this year is the Tea Party movement, with its talk of “Sovereignty: The 10th Amendment” and “Put Ronnie on the Rock,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}