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For One Tea Party Candidate, Time to Temper the Message

Post by (Chanel Taschen) Oct 2010

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rand Paul, the Tea Party-backed Republican nominee for the Senate, sent a thank-you note on Saturday to Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a father of the Tea Party movement, who was coming to a rally for him in northern Kentucky.I smile when I think of what we can do together in the Senate if the people send me,” Mr. Paul wrote.

Mr. DeMint related the note to the crowd of 300 people at the evening rally, in Erlanger. He said he himself smiled at the thought of “not just us two but eight or 10 senators” being elected and going up against the Republican establishment to push the Tea Party goal of limited government.

But Mr. DeMint’s smile may have vanished by morning. During a nationally televised debate on Fox News Sunday, Mr. Paul said that if he were elected to the Senate, he would support Senator Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, to keep his job as Republican leader.

Pressed to say whether he would choose him over Mr. DeMint, Mr. Paul said that he would vote for whomever Republicans chose as their leader and that he assumed it would be Mr. McConnell.

It was one more sign that no matter how devoted Mr. Paul is to Tea Party principles, he may be forced to yield periodically to some realities of the old-school politics that he denounces.

This also occurred last month, when Mr. McConnell set up a fund-raiser in Washington for Mr. Paul with several Republican senators who, like Mr. McConnell, had supported the $700 billion bank bailout in 2008; during the primary, Mr. Paul said he would not accept donations from anyone who had done so.

With the election just a month away, Mr. Paul’s wide lead in the polls over Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent, has narrowed, but he still appears ahead. And Mr. Paul may be acting a bit more cautiously these days to hold on to his lead, which is par for the course for many candidates after they emerge from a party primary and face the broader electorate.

“His approach has changed,” said Trey Grayson, the secretary of state, who lost in the primary to Mr. Paul. “He’s acting more like an incumbent. His tone is designed more for a general election audience and swing voters.”

But, Mr. Grayson quickly added, Mr. Paul still gets across his points. “He still, at the end of the day, talks about shrinking the size of the government,” Mr. Grayson said. “Those things haven’t changed, and that’s why he’s ahead in the polls.”

During the spring primary, Mr. Paul invariably opened his speeches by declaring that “a Tea Party tidal wave is coming.” His “randslide” win of the Republican nomination was the movement’s first major success on the national stage.

Now, his references to the Tea Party are fewer and farther between. On a trip last week through eastern Kentucky, the trademark yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flags of the movement were gone. Mr. Paul did not sound his earlier battle cry that he would shut down Congress for a week if it failed to amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget. In fact, he did not mention the Tea Party at all.

Almost inconspicuous in a dark blue button-down shirt and cotton pants, Mr. Rand began his short speech in London by reciting in a soft voice the names of the other small towns he had just visited.

“I haven’t met one person on the entire trip who is in favor of President Obama or any of his policies,” he said. Even Democrats, he added, “realize that this is the most anti-Kentucky, anti-coal president we’ve ever had.”

He put in a slight dig at his opponent, Mr. Conway, whom he did not name and whom he rarely mentions, saying that the Democrat had once supported the cap-and-trade legislation, which is much loathed in this coal-producing state. “He was for it before he was agin’ it,” Mr. Paul, who is an ophthalmologist, said.

At Saturday’s rally, Mr. Paul did acknowledge the Tea Party — his campaign had bused in several dozen members of a contingent from northern Kentucky, who were having a convention nearby. Mr. Paul shared the stage with his father, Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican and 2008 presidential candidate, and with Mr. DeMint, and they were more overtly whipping up Tea Party sentiment.

The Conway strategy has been to cast Mr. Paul as out of the mainstream (in one advertisement, some seniors say he is “off the wall” and question “what planet” he is from). They also portray him as being unfamiliar with the state. Indeed, Mr. Paul focuses chiefly on national issues, like the debt and spending.

But Danny Briscoe, a Democratic consultant here who is not part of the Conway campaign, said this approach had not worked so far. Mr. Paul has “managed to appear normal,” Mr. Briscoe said, particularly with other controversial Tea Party-backed candidates, like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, taking over the national stage.

Analysts here say the race appears to be Mr. Paul’s to lose. It seems he would have to make a blunder of gigantic proportions to alienate his supporters, and neither candidate appeared to make many in the debate on Sunday.  Wenn Sie an Chanel Taschen interessiert sind,bitte besuchen unsere Website:Chanel Taschen

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How Did The First Political Parties Emerge
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The Indian Political scene…Post Elections 2009

The Indian Political Scene…Post Elections 2009.

The Indian Political scene, post general elections 2009, presents a vivid explanation of how the voter can turn around the issues and its proponent parties. The verdict as per many pollsters was bound to sink the Congress further. However, it went to the contrary giving comfortable place for the Congress to rule for five years uninterruptedly. This also put cheers on the Congress Party as the verdict has put in disarray its    main opposition parties viz. the BJP, and Left parties.

 The parties like the RJD and SP faced their worst. RJD party is  nearly routed from Bihar and Lalu Prasad has faced worst humiliation of life. The situation is not very pleasant for the Samajwadi Party either.  They would need to rework their strategies in the light of the results. Even the BJP and left Parties have done introspection of their defeat in the elections. However, none seems to be reading the real picture and is busy in holding meetings; apparently, nothing is coming out of these.

 The BJP runs on the crutches of the RSS; it cannot deviate from the ideology knots of the RSS, which is hindutava. This is and has alienated the minorities from joining its ranks. Though Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha took positions diametrically opposite to that of the leadership yet time alone would show their impact on policymaking.

 The Left Parties stand wiped out in West Bengal, reducing its seat share in Parliament to its lowest ebb .However, introspection within the parties leave nothing to ground reality. The parties have failed to acknowledge their mistakes during the last year of the Parliament. The withdrawal of support to UPA Government by the Left Parties was seen in the perspective of its strength.

 The Campaign Managers of these parties projected their own Prime Ministerial candidates. The left got busy in mooting a third front of the disgruntled parties and went as far as projecting Mayawati of the BSP as Prime Minister who was elated at the move. The focus was not on any programme but a bizarre hate campaign was got launched collectively against the Congress.

 The BSP of Mayawati is a ‘one person party’ and its growth or downfall shall rest on policies she will pursue. The Party in the present context has been on the slide. Eulogizing herself by installing self statues in the state at the cost of public exchequer hs not gone well with the electorate causing loss of credibility of the BSP.

 It seemed that Parties did not follow a collective Programme during the campaign. Rather the campaign had rested only on one or a few functionaries’ directions. If it was a relentless campaign led by Arun Jetly for the BJP, Prakash Karat played shots in the Left’s campaign. One really wonders when and where did the ideologies worked during the campaigns.

 It was Congress Party alone, which went to the Polls with Development and Aam Admi Agenda. In addition, it really worked wonders for the party; Dynamic and   consistent leadership of Sonia Gandhi is responsible for this pleasant development of the Party leading it to power.  Sonia Gandhi has emerged as most powerful woman in the world belying all notions of her foreign origin. None could have done better that Sonia has accomplished for the country and its people. She has proved that she is Indian by heart and deeds.

 The maturity shown by Rahul Gandhi while campaigning in UP and getting a landslide Victory of the party in the state is another example of the vision of Sonia Gandhi and her concern for the country.

 It is time when the main opposition parties are in disarray that the Congress pays attention to strengthening its workers base. Rahul Gandhi has done immense job by uniting the youth of the country and forming Rahul Brigade. Only well-educated and selfless persons should get entry in this brigade. When fully organized, this will serve as backbone of the Party.

 The Other Parties shall need a longer period to refurbish them. Some, meanwhile, shall go in oblivion or go in for mergers, pacts and minimum acceptable programmes. The ploy shall not work as the nation has emerged stronger under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and is set to emerge as a world power.

Satish Chandra Sharma,

General Secretary,

Chandigarh Social Welfare Council,

Cell: 988 255 128 

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