Posted on 11/15/2010 3:06:08 PM PST by TCH
Just more effort to push the Christians out of the GOP.
If they ever get their wish they’ll find themselves on the shelf of forgotten parties, right next to the Whigs and the Know-Nothings.
Wow! You’re very articulate. Well put!
Amen
Herding cats.
here here!!!!
“I sure as hell do not approve of the recently released letter demanding that Republicans jettison “social issues!””
Nor do I approve! We take our stand for what is GOOD. Period.
I would just say you are doing exactly what the real enemies, the Democrats are hoping for. They have used the ‘divide and conquer’ strategy to divide the fiscal conservatives from the social conservatives. While the two are certainly not mutually exclusive, the libertarian, fiscally conservative movement is growing in numbers. By applying your social issues ‘litmus test’ to the ‘Tea Party’ you are doing the work of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al.
Social issues should be properly returned to states rights issues, not national issues. The way forward for the social conservatives is to get the Federal gov’t to return power to the states. If people can move to a state that offers them the social and fiscal environment that suits them, social conservatives and libertarian conservatives will both have a place where they feel welcome. To apply your rules, the chances of conservatism ever overtaking the liberalism that now dominates are slim and none.
This is what happens when some group tries to be the head of a dispersed, leaderless movement.
Ignore the idiots and continue to do what you know is right.
The errant (and egotistical) tentacle will either modify its actions or die on the vine and the healthy Tea Party will simply move ahead.
GO TEA PARTY!
GOProud is a more "conservative" off-shoot of the Log Cabin Republicans, but their agenda is the same. They and some naive Tea Party types are trying to destroy the new coalition. Probably paid off by Soros
I like what you said, but you are reacting to the MSM trying to split the teaparty movement. You need to look at the source... When Demint or Palin makes a crack like this, I’ll get upset, not before.
I agree.
I’m a little bit suspicious as to the origins of said “letter to the GOP” considering there is no actual leadership structure of the Tea Party. Haven’t the liberal media and GOP elites gone after the Tea Party because of a lack of structured organization? If it has no structured organization, then how can it send a party-wide letter to the GOP with demands???
It is not the job of the Federal government to be involved in social issues, that like other intrinsically domestic matters this is a State and local NOT Federal matter.
Social issues in the Federal Government should be focused on getting the Federal Government OUT OF not into the social sphere.
An excellent post, worthy of a bttt.
Institutional Republicans would love to pull the party away from conservatism and towards libertarianism. But libertarianism is a lie — it is the sense of personal morality among Americans that has kept us free. You cannot have freedom without a strong sense of right and wrong among the citizenry.
Those who would throw moral issues to the wayside are no better than those who would socialized medicine and death panels, IMHO. I don’t care if these people insist on having an “R” by their names — if they intend to pursue this line of policy, they are no better than those who serve in the zer0 regime.
I think the essence of your argument is correct. However, you need to remember priorities. Who cares if there are homosexuals in the house if the house is on fire. Put the fire out first. Then deal with the moral issues. I think it may be too late. After the coming collapse, moral order will be restored by necessity. I think your point is correct. It is immorality that led to the fire. But now is not the time to lecture the kids about playing with matches, it’s time to put out the fire.
The Libertarian Party did seminal work on private property rights which helped us in rural America fighting the Clinton fascist bureaucracy and its cryto-Nazi leader Bruce Babbitt, head of the Interior Dept.
In the late 1990s, the Marxists and libertines pretty much took over the party.
I don’t even know if the libertarian party still has defense of private property in its platform. I kind of doubt it, seeing as how it’s become part of the left wing elitist open borders crowd.
Well, I’m way off topic, but we certainly need to be careful of what and who calls themselves members of the Tea Party. The leftists will do everything possible to divide any revolutionary movement that threatens the gains the Marxists have made the past 100 years.
Good article, BTW.
And therein lies the problem. The ARE in it. And going deeper and deeper daily. It’s our duty to get them OUT!! Repeal, reverse and abolish ALL of the damage inflicted on our once free society by the godless Marxists, progressives, liberals and RINOS!!
As a founding member of the TP, release a letter clarifying the other realeased letter: The Tea Party accovates for the first amendment. The government is not to establish nor fund a social belief structure for the nation.
In respect for the first amendment, the Federal government should not be involved in pushing and funding abortion nor in funding and advocating against abortion. The constitution leaves such moral issues to the people, the communities and States.
The Federal government venturing into establishing religious and social belief structures is unconstitutional and divisive of the American people. The constitution leaves moral and social issues that touch upon spiritual values to the people, communities and States.
This will defund abortion and homosexual activism in the government. Likewise the government can not fund prolife activism nor moral sexual behaviors which it does not do anyway.
Any member of the tea party can release a position on the government funding and promoting abortion and homsexuality.
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