<div class="entry"><div class="snap_preview">On one side we have the party Conservatives. On the other we have the RINOs. Youll notice there is no middle category here. I think that all but the densest, tunnel-visioned and hide-bound old guard Republicans have figured out that the Patriot Movement (what they and the lame-stream press love to call the Tea Baggers) is no flash in the pan, and has just grown stronger despite the worst the leftist press and the Democrat spin machine (and some Republicans) could do to denigrate it and drive wedges into it. Their breathless characterization of a third party fell flatter than last weeks beltway champagne.
It is, by any measure, the new voice of the Republican party and, in point of fact, is not being controlled by the Party but is pulling the party along behind it. The new Conservative Republican party has a bright future, with a highly motivated and self-aware membership made up of solid conservative patriots who are determined that the principles of freedom that make this country great will be upheld.
President Reagan unknowingly describes the aims of the Patriot Movement: