Charlotte Tea Party Headquarters

I'm from upstate NY not far from the Massachusetts border ( and I can spell the names of the states ), and I can tell you two things from the experience of growing up as a rural yankee in F. D. Roosevelt's home town.

1. Every year the joke went, Franklin Roosevelt would be at his Hudson River mansion and would call a meeting of the county delegation of Democrats. And every year they would meet on the front lawn, Roosevelt, and the other two guys. (Pause for laughter) Because as anyone knows the independent streak and conservative bent of the MAJORITY of Mass. and NY and adjoining areas were legendary.

2. Equally legendary is the stranglehold the eastern bloc of Democratically controlled machine politics had on the Boston area and its suburbs. Making up a large portion of the electorate of the state, yes the Democrats are huge there. But not so much elsewhere outside the city. Like NY the state has a mind of its own apart from the concentrated liberal throng. And like NY for decades the liberals run the show. Spending like crazy, taxing like crazy and driving business away. Not to mention insane rules and ideas. But every once in a while, the machine gets a gut punch.

And tonight they may dismiss the impact, or even try to say it has nothing to do with anything happening in Washington, but like the rest of the county where i'm from, they knew from watching Roosevelt and the other two guys decide how things were going to be on that lawn, they knew that they were the silent majority. And today, you and I, we all, the middle of this nation, the rational, the common sense, the straightforward, the conservative, truly are the silent majority. And the sleeping giant has awakened.

We had inkling of it in Virginia and then in New Jersey. We saw the President act the clown in Copenhagen and get rejected twice in a week. Now we know two new things.

1. The communist agenda is a failed idea, and those who continue to support the notion that it is “good” for America, are out of step and out of touch with common sense Americans. We don’t want what you are selling Washington. So drop it. Or we’ll drop you. and

2. The glamour and rhetoric only last so long, even with the media cheerleading, even with powerful party machines controlling the votes of dead people, even with all their self-assuredness that they are in charge, like the two guys on the lawn, their day is over. This is no longer just a pipe dream, a complaint or a wish that things will change. Change is a funny thing. It happens when you least expect it, but also when you make it.

A man, perhaps not the ideal man as Obama claims to be, set out in a pickup truck to speak his mind to his neighbors and look where we are now. That same man is trading barbs with a very arrogant and self-assured President who made vicious remarks about tea partiers, about the center, about conservatives, about normalcy and American ideals. We see the emperor for who he is and it is not pretty. It is petty.

The party is over. The czars need to go. The agenda needs to go. We did not elect that and many are correcting their mistakes. For the administration, the Congress, the cabinet and all the governmental agencies who don’t comprehend what just happened in Massachusetts tonight let me be very clear in words that will echo from only a few months ago - we won.

And we won big.

We are coming after every member of Congress who tries to step on our desires and we are coming strong. We will not be treated like children. Your days are numbered, and the number is up this November. It was fun while you had dictatorial control, but now its over. We may not know who will replace you. We may not have our acts completely together yet. We may not understand the machine where we live, but we don’t have to care anymore. We’ve seen what we can do. So show us some respect you elected clowns.

And we will win.

We will win big.

And that’s change you can believe in.