Posted on 04/18/2011 9:22:34 AM PDT by GonzoII
This is the issue I have with the Tea Party. it stinks & makes me very suspicious of these people. Social issues are just as important as fiscal ones & I do not believe the two should be seperated. We don’t live in a vaccuum society; everything is intertwined & affects each other.
Because of this issue, I believe the Tea Party has become its own worst enemy.
I was under the impression that most Tea Partiers had a strong affinity for free expression. I didn’t think pro-life was at the center of TEA (taxed enough already) Party movement, but I would have expected better. Hopefully this was just a California aberration. If the “leadership” doesn’t agree, they need to remember that there is no formal leadership.
While I agree with the sentiment, I also know from experience that letting people just willy-nilly hand out pamphlets, tracts, etc. at these kind of gatherings is asking for trouble. First, if you let some organizations pass them out, but not others, you create discord, and second, you occasionally get trolls passing out stuff to make your group look bad.
I notice an increasing slant of the Tea Party toward Libertarianism. It has become more libertarian than conservative. Thus the reluctance to engage in social issues.
Hopefully this was just a California aberration.
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That’s what I was hoping.
The social cons who continue to favor the nanny state and the spending on entitlement don’t belong in anything attached to the Tea Party which was formed in response to government bailouts and fiscal irresponsibility.
Why not just concentrate of fiscal issues? It’s a great plan to do so with way over 50% support among voters - add social issues, support disappears and nothing gets done.
The Tea Party movement was driven by a belief in less government which is a central belief of libertarianism. I grant you that there are some libertarians that are open borders and anti-military but that is a different issue.
The Tea Party was formed over fiscal issues, not social, accept that, not everyone shares your views on social issues.
We need to fix this country fiscally otherwise social issues won’t mean squat.
“You can’t be a fiscal Conservative and not be a social Conservative. A large part of the expanse of government is to make up for a dysfunctional society, because our culture is falling apart, the family is falling apart.” Jim DeMint
Our tea party, the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association, addresses fiscal and social issues.
The other tea party in town addresses only the fiscal...they on their last legs, we are thriving.
Check out our site at http://www.bloodofpatriots.org
Then please explain how one can be a fiscal con and support Medicare with its expensive and budget busting elements?
A “Fiscal Conservative” is neither....
I wonder if this is the Tea Party group aligned with Freedom Works....the pro-illegal/anti-American group run by Dick Armey?
Why would any Tea Party group diss a pro-life organization is beyond me.
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“Sacramento” != “Mansfield North Central Ohio”
You know we are headed to a bigger downfall in the country and the world for that matter when even the tea party is not enough. The Tea party silences people who every well could have issues against Obama. So what good is that.
It’s not a matter of what you think about any of the social issues, it’s a matter of keeping the TEA Party true to it’s original intent. More than a few TEA Party groups have a combination of Independents, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and more involved with them. The thing that makes all these different points of view come together is that they all can agree on a few simple points: constitutionally limited government and fiscal responsibility are probably the most important. You can spin off issues on taxation and budget that stay within those limits, but the social issues don’t. Even when you find a majority of the TEA Party groups supports a particular issue, it’s not wise to embrace those that go beyond the founding intent, unless you wish to fracture the coalition and return to old style party politics. If you want to support those issues, you still have the Republicans, the Democrats, the Libertarians or whomever to hook up with.
Yep. The Tea Party has completely ignored social issues. Ironic that some Pubs are telling voters to ignore them too.
Who supports medicare?
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