Posted on 11/07/2012 6:10:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
No more! It's time to form a "Tea Party" to supplant the "me too, me too!" GOP. We tried getting behind a Northeastern "centrist" so as to oust the worst president in our history and we crashed and burned. Einstein said "insanity is doing something over and over and expecting different results" or words to that effect and he was right. Nixon, Ford, the Bush family, Bob Dole, McCain and now Romney. What's wrong with this picture?
The Tea Party numbers in the tens of millions, at minimum. I don't remember any other independent movement in our country of patriots, do you? We need to take the next step, in my opinion. What do you think? And how would we get started?
Yes.
I think actual conservatives and the RINO-Liberaltarian Faction have reached a parting of the ways.
Today I just don’t know.
At this point, I’d be happy if the election season FR moderates would go away and stop telling us that we need to sell out all of our principles to win.
Sarah....for such a time as this. If you get the ball rolling, we’ll stand with you.
Was wondering what would need to be done to establish a Conservative Party in each state, and nationally. New York has one.
I’m getting weary of being told by the Repubs to vote with them and support the establishment candidate.
But, one of the downsides is a chart on O’Reilly tonight that showed something like 41% self-identify as moderate; 23 % as conservative, and something in the low 20s as liberal. That’s a LOT of self-identifed moderates!!!
Was wondering what would need to be done to establish a Conservative Party in each state, and nationally. New York has one.
I’m getting weary of being told by the Repubs to vote with them and support the establishment candidate.
But, one of the downsides is a chart on O’Reilly tonight that showed something like 41% self-identify as moderate; 23 % as conservative, and something in the low 20s as liberal. That’s a LOT of self-identifed moderates!!!
Now that Der Fuehrer has been re-elected, we may eventually not have any opposition parties.
A platform would be a good place to start.
There are a lot of minor parties we can invade.
Donald Trump (blech) and Herman Cain have expressed interest in a new party. Might make more sense to join one that is just getting off the ground.
Ya, what you said! Unfortunately there aren’t enough of us. The upcoming financial collapse is the only event that can offer us hope (assuming we seize the carp)...and damn little hope that is.
Yes but carefully. We’re not just going to form a party that storms to power. We need to get a few candidates into the house under the tea party banner while continuing to support the cream of the crop republicans as we grow the brand.
As we grow we can start peeling off the good republicans.
doesn’t look like we have one now
How about this suggestion: hey Tea Party, no one has heard a word from you since 2010. Get off you asses and get out the vote, get on TV, get into your neighborhoods. You made a difference in 2010 and then went invisible. Big mistake, one could say you lost this election. I have not heard a work about any Tea Party on my local scene or National news outlet nor anywhere else for months.
The RINO and liberaltarians are gleefully blaming it on conservatives that THEIR candidate lost, AGAIN.
Why should we stick around? These RINO’s and libertarians are not our allies.
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds”- Samuel Adams
Also, getting involved in local Pubbie party machinery will help you to build networks and contacts. Start reshaping the party at the local and go from there.
Fine by me. The GOP-E brain trust is just going to serve up another RINO four years from now. FoxNews will fall into giddy cheerleading mode, and we’ll see endless interviews by DC’s GOP beltway pundits. They’ll lose the election. And then they’ll vehemently lash out and blame social conservatives, Tea Party people, Palin, evangelicals, and whomever.
It’s like a broken record. And it makes me want to vomit. The GOP as a party has become totally defective. I’ve been a Republican voter my whole life, but at this point, I’d bolt to a genuine conservative third-party at the drop of a hat. That goes double if Palin would lead the way.
The Tea Parties are already formed across the nation - some big - some small... some very organized and very active - some not so much... Who do you think organized large scale protests in 2009 and 2010 all over numerous American cities - with huge turnouts... ? Who do you think organized the Massive Turn out in Washington, D.C. where about one million people turned out? It was a coalition of Tea Party Groups that organized huge attendance at Town Hall Meetings across the Nation in 2009... You are aware of the Tea Party Caravans from California to D.C. that stopped in a dozen cities or more in 2009? NEWBIE - you need to get in touch with the many ORGANIZED Tea Party Groups across the Nation and see what can be done... You are LATE at the Tea Party it would seem...
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