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Just a quick observation ....

"Leadership" of the growing populist resistance movement to what is happening in the federal government today is totally up for grabs.

There are a lot of murmuring voices out there online and some pretty tame, unorganized "mob scenes" at town halls, etc.

But if I had to name personalities at this point in terms of who IS stepping up and putting their names on the line most forcefully--I come up with three figures. All of them are women, interestingly:

Sarah Palin

Michelle Bachmann

Michelle Malkin

In the next tier, closely behind--perhaps I would add Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs.

Other possibilities who could do more that come to mind: Ron Paul, Ted Nugent

I hope there are other names that come to mind. Your list?
 
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On the local level I see that as true also. The Columbus 9/12 event was put together by a woman and the Columbus Tea Party is also headed by women. There are definitely men involved, but it's the women doing most of the talking and leading.
 
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If there is any doubt that Michelle Bachmann is "dangerous" to those running the machinery in DC today ...

For Dems, a new public enemy No. 1

By ALEX ISENSTADT | 8/8/09 9:05 PM EDT

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25928.html

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is outspoken, conservative, media-friendly — and for many in the Democratic Party, a new public enemy No. 1.

Now that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of office, there are few Republican officials in the country Democrats would rather unseat in 2010 than Bachmann, a two-term congresswoman with a habit of pushing the buttons of liberals on everything from ACORN to global warming to even whether President Barack Obama is, as she once asked, "anti-American."

"She's definitely somewhere up there," Bachmann chief of staff Michelle Martson said of where the Minnesota congresswoman sits on the Democratic campaign hit-list.

Bachmann has long been on the receiving end of pointed jabs on liberal blogs like Daily Kos, where one commenter wrote a few weeks back, "After having just returned from a trip to Minnesota, I shake my head that such a beautiful place would be represented by such an ugly individual as Bachmann."

Ask Democratic officials in the state about Bachmann, and they can barely contain their anger.

"She is a bizarre news story of the month every month," said Brian Melendez, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

"Michele Bachmann is just nuts," said Jeremy Powers, a local DFL chair in Bachmann's district. "She is just an utter embarrassment."

And some Democrats — Powers included — don't hesitate to compare Bachmann with the aforementioned Palin, another conservative lightning rod who speaks with an upper-Midwestern accent, is the mother of a large family, and touts a stridently socially conservative agenda that Democrats regard as outright right wing.

"She is so principally and diametrically opposed to the core principles that we have," Donald McFarland, a Minnesota-based Democratic strategist, said of Bachmann. "She is further to the right than Attila
the Hun."

"She's the poster girl for the radical fringe element," added Brian Smoot, who served as political director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last campaign cycle.

“I think they’re passionate about trying to beat Michele Bachmann,” said Michael Brodkorb, deputy chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party of Democratic efforts. “I think she probably frustrates them because she’s able to win every time.”

Democrats almost took out Bachmann in 2008, when national Democrats spent nearly $1.1 million blasting her in ads after she appeared to suggest in an October interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that the media should investigate then-Sen. Obama and other Democrats in Congress for anti-American activities.

But as they prepare for the 2010 cycle, they are doubling down on their efforts to unseat the 43-year-old congresswoman.

Much of the Minnesota Democratic establishment has already thrown its backing to state Sen. Tarryl Clark in her bid to oust Bachmann. After announcing her candidacy last week, Clark — widely regarded as a political heavy-hitter in the state who was also touted as a potential gubernatorial candidate — immediately won the backing of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal and St. Cloud College Democrats.

The backing forced former candidate El Tinklenberg, who came within 3 percent of defeating Bachmann in 2008, to drop out of the race — just one week after announcing he was running again.

The DCCC and the Minnesota DFL denied to POLITICO this week that they were working to clear the field for Clark, but strategists for both parties say there is little question the national will take an active role in the 2010 effort to oust Bachmann.

"There has been a lot of passion to defeat Michele Bachman, which will carry on from last cycle," said John Lapp, who served as executive director of the DCCC during the 2006 cycle under then-chair Rahm
Emanuel. "I think Congresswoman Bachman will continue to be a Democratic target, because she is of the extreme right wing of the party and she has an extreme agenda she spouts off cycle after cycle."

"I think that you're going to see Democrats put serious resources forward," said Matt Burns, a Minnesota-based GOP strategist.

Democrats will have plenty of ammunition in their effort to cast Bachmann as an out-of-control ideologue.

In June, during a diatribe in a House floor speech on the size of the federal government, Bachmann derided what she called Obama's "gangster government."

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Here is the "ugly" Michelle Bachmann:

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Whether it's one of these folks, or Joe the Plumber or whomever ... this movement will peter out if there is not a robust, tireless, inspirational individual who drives it all forward over and through all the obstacles that will be thrown or erected to divert its progress.

This whole thing -- to totally reverse the course of the most powerful forces in the history of the world -- is probably the most daunting challenge for one person to ever have to take on. The job description, though unwritten, is clearly understood. And thus, there is not a long line of applicants.

As with many of these types of roles in history, this job will have to be thrust upon the right individual in the right place at the right time.

(I know--the second coming of Christ is an obvious fill-in-the-blank here. But as much as we would like to think we know that return is near, we cannot know for sure. So until that becomes a reality, there is a strong, hopeful whiff of other would-be outcomes in the wind.)
 
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Ron Paul has been leading the resistance for 20+ years- just now people are starting to agree.
 
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Ron Paul needs to bow out and let his son handle it.

Oh, wait! I believe he has done just that!
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Ron Paul isn't bowing out; he's the one leading the Fed inspection bill, remember?

Why don't you place your pretty head where the sun shines and admit- just once- that Ron Paul has stood for and has been saying everything that real American conservatives/constitutionalists are finally admitting to?

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And IIRC, the whole tea party idea was started by a housewife who posted regularly on the Michelle Malkin site.

Heh, we don't need a golden tongued orator with a bunch of little letters behind their name. We just need an American who believes this country needs to be saved and is willing to lay down whatever needs to be laid down to save it.
 
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kozanne said:
And IIRC, the whole tea party idea was started by a housewife who posted regularly on the Michelle Malkin site.

Heh, we don't need a golden tongued orator with a bunch of little letters behind their name. We just need an American who believes this country needs to be saved and is willing to lay down whatever needs to be laid down to save it.
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What is a leader? Today, it's about looks. It's about pizzazz. Charisma. An ability to inspire people to follow, no matter what. (Look at how 0 got elected.) And for the anti-0, as Glenn Beck points out, the person has got to have balls of steel and perfect character.

People right now are aching for that leader to emerge. Beck calls that person the next George Washington. He points out, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum who would love to seize that power and wield it, but he is not aware of someone yet who he would trust with that power.

Clearly though--the need is there. Someone will assume that mantle eventually. If it isn't the right person--pretty much a superman or superwoman--we will all be far worse off.
 
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BigBadBossyDog said:
Ron Paul needs to bow out and let his son handle it.

Oh, wait! I believe he has done just that!
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Ron Paul and his http://www.campaignforliberty.com has been leading the charge to audit the Fed. The corruption is enormous at the Fed - a transparent audit will cause the Fed to collapse.

It is the Fed and their fiat money system that enables the social welfare state and the wars. Dump the paper money system, and everything collapses like a house of cards.

Unless your favorite politicians are speaking out against the federal reserve and paper money system, they are part of the problem.
 
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What is a leader? Today, it's about looks. It's about pizzazz. Charisma. An ability to inspire people to follow, no matter what. (Look at how 0 got elected.) And for the anti-0, as Glenn Beck points out, the person has got to have balls of steel and perfect character.

People right now are aching for that leader to emerge. Beck calls that person the next George Washington. He points out, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum who would love to seize that power and wield it, but he is not aware of someone yet who he would trust with that power.

Clearly though--the need is there. Someone will assume that mantle eventually. If it isn't the right person--pretty much a superman or superwoman--we will all be far worse off.
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Beck is part of the problem. Three months ago he was expecting a revolution to start five years into the future. Well, guess what - the revolution has started.
 
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JC Refuge said:
What is a leader? Today, it's about looks. It's about pizzazz. Charisma. An ability to inspire people to follow, no matter what. (Look at how 0 got elected.) And for the anti-0, as Glenn Beck points out, the person has got to have balls of steel and perfect character.

People right now are aching for that leader to emerge. Beck calls that person the next George Washington. He points out, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum who would love to seize that power and wield it, but he is not aware of someone yet who he would trust with that power.

Clearly though--the need is there. Someone will assume that mantle eventually. If it isn't the right person--pretty much a superman or superwoman--we will all be far worse off.
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Beck's the one that called RP & his followers, terrorists, remember?

He is all mouth and no integrity; he wouldn't know a George Washington from a pair of pliers.
 
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The women started the French Revolution just take a look at the paintings from the era it is the women that are out front with the pitch forks. I think the women have always been the instigators and the men provide the muscle.
 
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JC Refuge said:
In this same vein, here is a worthwhile August 9 recording from Glenn Beck about the need for a revolutionary leader with impeccable character to step forward right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykrIrf5R5M0
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I'm sure the Feds have got someone picked out for the job --- and Beck is a government shill.

We need leaderless resistance all across the country. We need hundreds and thousands of leaders - not just one government shill.
 
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Ron Paul has been leading the resistance for 20+ years- just now people are starting to agree.
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Very true! His writings are online for any and all to read if they please. They date back as far as 1996 and prove that he's not a "flash in the pan", but has been fighting to protect our freedoms for many years. Reading them also shows that he's not the kook the media made him out to be. They trashed him cause TPTB know that he would cut them off at the knees if he had been elected.

In encourageing that he has so many others co-sponsoring his Bill to audit the fed. Now if they can just get it past Pelosi to a vote.

His son is now running too. IF they both win and go to DeeCee, maybe they can work together and get a group of "Blue Dog" Republicans together.

My fervent hope is that we can get a lot of independents elected. That would show the Dem-Rep party that we are fed up with them.
 
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We need every day citizens in those seats, people like you and me...you know, "real" representatives, as was originally intended. They don't have to be "leaders", and I'd prefer they not be if the current mob in dee cee is evidence of what people believe leaders should look and act like; just moral, upright, honest indiviuals, Christian if you can find them would do the job nicely.
 
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Well, I guess there remain a wide range of perceptions on what is going on.

1. Myself, I see a series of Constitutional crises and crimes erupting, with the traditional checks and balances neutered and ineffective. And the Fourth Estate is largely bought and paid for as well. It seems very much to me like we are possibly on the verge of a popular movement that colors outside the lines in search of solving these problems.

2. I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. He rubs me the wrong way and I never watch him. But I saw this video linked on another forum yesterday and what he is saying here is absolutely on the mark. The fact that he has a huge audience today and that he is putting it all on the line today says an awful lot.

3. Leadership is not about who got there first. Ron Paul and many others have been on the mark about various problems for years. But they obviously failed to inspire and mobilize the change that was necessary. The leadership that is needed now and that I am talking about is national in scope. Across the board. This as-yet hypothetical leader today has to be clean, upright, angry, and unstoppable. The type that millions will follow into "hell" if he/she calls for it. More of the same types of small group political positioning and bickering is not going to do it. I'll leave it at that.

4. Waiting for future elections to turn the tide is logical and comfortable, but is there time for that? Is not what is going on at a breakneck pace in Washington to change everything giving us reason to believe that there will be no going back once the bridge has been crossed? Of course half the population is pushing to see what is being promised on the other side of that bridge. The time to make a stand is before that bridge is crossed (and then burned behind us).

5. Moments for historical change and dynamic transitions are rare. Some say they are cyclical (see "The Fourth Turning"). The present administration thinks they have the mandate and all the power in the world to bring about exactly what they want now and that it is their time. Is there an alternative to that long-plotted course? Leaderless, chaotic opposition will not divert that track. They've got that covered in their contingency planning. It will take a unified, inspired effort on the part of the other half of the population to create a different, more acceptable transition--one that is a force in its own right.
 
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