Posted on 02/09/2010 11:04:17 AM PST by Patriot1259
The emerging groundswell of what Robert Reich recently referred to as the “mad-as-hell” political party reached a tipping point last week in its inaugural national convention in Nashville. Coalescing from a fractious and haphazard collection of right wing tax haters, the rapidly evolving Tea Party now includes big business hating Democrats and the increasingly powerful independents who are suffering from a significant case of buyer’s remorse.
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I am not hard on my pals who voted Obama...they were sold a bill of goods, and like anything you purchase that doesn’t live up to the sales pitch, there is a “return” department, beginning Nov. 2010.
Coalescing from a fractious and haphazard collection of right wing tax haters, the rapidly evolving Tea Party now includes big business hating Democrats and the increasingly powerful independents who are suffering from a significant case of buyer’s remorse.”
Problem is, that’s a movement, not a functioning political party. If that is true, and that is all the Tea Party party movement is, then it will go the way of the Reform Party.
Sure has been a spate of anti tea party articles lately, all of them total BS too. The elitist intellectual morons are really scared.....and they should be, their oppressive socialist worldview is being soundly rejected and they will go into the dung heap of history......until they return.
I am not a tax hater. I understand the basic necessity of taxes.
I am against the frivolous wasting of my tax money and then watching the same people who wasted it come back and require me to pay more.
The government should require in taxation what it requires to fulfill its mandates as stated in the Constitution and not a dime more. That is why I am a Tea Partier. Because I believe the government has more than enough money to achieve those mandates.
In short, I have been Taxed Enough Already!
One of the dangers for the Tea Party movement (but hopefully, never a vote splitting political party) is to prevent itself from being coopted by either the GOP establishment (as opposed to the GOP’s conservative grassroots BASE) or by the kooks, whackos, and nutballs (RonPaulians, “big-business hating Democrats,” etc. etc.)
“Problem is, that’s a movement, not a functioning political party. If that is true, and that is all the Tea Party party movement is, then it will go the way of the Reform Party.”
That’s a muddled couple of sentences. The Tea Part movement is not a party, and the Reform Party was not a movement. Or not a big one, anyway. Who said the Tea Party people wanted to be a party, anyway? Some of them are Third Partiers, no doubt. But I doubt that many of them. If they’re like anyone, they’re like the New Left, not the Reformers. They won’t start their own party, in my opinion. They’ll help/hurt Republicans.
Possible, remotely. Here's another take.
The Reform Party was an "organized," well-funded, distinctly organized and enthusiastically functioning Political Party which, at one point in the summer of '92 was polling 32% in a three-way National race. At another point, they got a Governor elected.
That effort failed because of fracturing factions within the party when its leadership insisted on running Pat Buchanan in 1996; the party exploded and quickly devolved to rubble.
The difference this time is that this is not a "cult of personality" movement driven and controlled by a central figure or body. This is the actual, genuine article, a "Sleeping Giant" awakening from a long nap, only to realize that its inattentiveness had almost cost us our glorious Constitutional Republic.
The (no longer) "Sleeping Giant" is We The People, and not only have we been around for over 230 years, we ain't going ANYWHERE. And that includes "back to sleep." The commie scumbags and their complicit media shi*heads are squarely in our crosshairs, and if they really play their cards right, we won't be forced to apply 2-lbs pressure to a 14-ounce hair trigger waiting under a shaky finger that would as soon blow chunks out of these a%%holes as look at 'em.
This is not going away, and until the sociopathic giggy ass-hat is OUT of our WHITE HOUSE, we aren't even going to blink, never mind start snoozing again.
Too much is at stake. Too many have given their lives entrusting us with the stewardship of this, God's second-most-amazing blessing upon mankind after Jesus Christ Himself.... America.
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The Tea Party Convention made it clear every step of the way. There is no interest in making a new party or getting a leader. We all need to lead in whatever sphere of influence we have. This is about changing business as usual in our congress. Enough is enough. Constitutional Conservatives are what is needed to bring this country back in line with our foundational truths.
2009 was the beginning of awareness culminating in the rallies all over our country.
2010 is putting our righteous indignation to work. Election of CC within the Repubs or Dems. Lord willing the quality of the elected are going to reach a whole new normal. Maybe quickly or in some areas a bit slower.
This is the Tea Party Movements direction.
Very well said.
May He always bless this incredible country.
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The Reform Party looked viable for a while, as you correctly note.
And then it splintered, as you also note. It contained too many factions, factions that agreed on some things (like trade) but were deeply divided on others. That’s just not workable for a political party.
It is workable for a short-lived, reactive movement. That’s not a criticism, it’s just a fact. The tea party movement should punish the Democrats severely in November. That’s an awesome, awesome thing. But will it then take over the GOP and turn it into a deeply conservative (fiscally) party? probably not. But that’s ok. Even a decade-long push to the right for the GOP would be a wonderful thing, especially in light of the decade-long slide from fiscal conservatism of the Bush era (which of course looks quaint given teh Obama spending ways....).
Your final paragraph is, by the way, spot on...are you on the ballot anywhere?
“I am not hard on my pals who voted Obama”
When the effects of his rule come to be, no one who voted for Obama will get any charity from me. I will abstain from being proactive with my revulsion of their stupid choices, but they will get NOTHING from me.
Stop listening to politicians and start preparing for HARD hard times.
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