Posted on 11/13/2012 2:46:53 AM PST by tiger-one
Shocked like most of us, I went looking for the Tea Party sites. They are there, but activity is void. What site do you recommend?
I would look for a local Tea Party group. If you can’t find one locally, look for a County one, or a State group. I don’t trust any national group.
They are the most active as far as organized events on a larger scale.
There are SOOOOO many groups out there...some worthy of support and others maybe not so much. Find a group like a local Tea Party or Americans for Prosperity and you can get involved to whatever degree you’d like to. If you don’t have time to devote, make a donation.
Bottom line...it shouldn’t be too hard to find a group and a level of participation that suits you. ANYTHING you can do is better than sitting back doing nothing and bitching about the result.
Oh, and don’t forget to support THIS site.
The tea party was not invited to the race by the party infrastructure in 2012. Presidential races are top down. This one in particular was non inclusive. Despite that, tea party people were busy volunteering, working, calling, going door to door and more. Our side had an abundance of volunteers this cycle.
Also, the senate races, which were a focus of the base going back into early 2012, seemed to suffer from listless, uninspiring campaigns. Not sure if the tea party Could have changed that because we don’t write campaign strategy nor place commercials. In 2010, ads mirrored the tea party message, in 2012, ads got bland and uninspiring. Seems to me the professionals took over because they ‘know better’. I imagine after three and a half years of activism...many people are resting up this week bewildered at how poorly this cycle went for us, especially after a clean sweep two short years ago.
The "Tea Party" has no official national spokesman, no national leadership, no official nationally coordinated agenda. Thus the Tea Party in one community can be entirely different than the Tea Party in the next. It all depends on what the local members think the Tea Party is and what it should be doing.
In some states, like Virginia, there are federations of tea parties that will join together on various common objectives and defined acceptable practices, but that's about it. In other words, the federation can ask a Tea Party group to leave the federation. ..but cannot exert an authority to disband any Tea Party group. I often hear federation leaders describe leading a federation of Tea Parties as similar to "leading a roomful of cats."
Thus, anybody can start a "Tea Party" and say they are the chairperson. There are configurations of Tea Party's out the wazoo and, yes, some of them are total subterfuges. But. . whereas, this circumstance can be problematic. . .it is also one of the the strengths of the Tea Party. . .and for that reason, will be very hard to destroy. It is driven overall by the stirring of the conscience of modern patriots who still subscribe to the immutable principles of our founding documents.
In fact, you may see the name "Tea Party" slip away, in that the media has been successful in branding the Tea Party as a racist organization and the Obama administration, since last year, has been probing ways to destroy the Tea Party groups through IRS harassment. We well can expect that with 4 more years of a more "flexible" Obama. . things will be getting very ugly soon. But never underestimate the patriots, my friends. . .just because you don't see them in the field lined up in neat pretty rows doesn't mean they aren't in the bushes, behind the rock taking a bead and launching a musket ball toward the target. Never despair!
If the Conservatives would have focused & ran only 1 candidate and not split the Conservative vote with multiple candidates, Romney would have NOT been the candidate.
By whatever name you call it, we need a strong organization to take a stand against total takeover of our country by Marxist zealots.
That cannot be done by a splintered group, only a single organized organization. A perfect example of that is the Libertarian party that is comprised of many but is so independent of organized leadership that it has never gone anywhere. I know, for I was a “card carrying” libertarian many yeas ago. I saw the future of the party and left it.
The Tea Party is comprised of many conservatives but does not speak for all members in the same language or ideas.
We need a united party that tries to reinstate a value that our Constitution once guaranteed....FREEDOM.
Now, to the point that is going to make a lot of Freepers go crazy..................religion.
Whether you believe in a God or not, it has no bearing on whether you are a good law abiding citizen or of good moral character. Especially, a bearing upon whether you are a conservative and a patriot. The Constitution gives us the right to believe in any manner we wish....and many, many don’t believe at all.
The reason I bring this up is due to the fact that a new political movement that encompass a specific belief in a higher being as part of their platform plank (and a criteria to join) drives off many non-religious good and moral potential members.
The reason that I make these statements is that the ratio of highly religious to non-religious individuals in this country is changing in favor of the non-religious.
Conservatives and Patriots should be able to believe in any manner they wish but the mandatory requirement to join a new conservative party should be the belief in FREEDOM, both in religious and political beliefs and of what the original Constitution granted.
We are in a situation now that everything America once was is at total peril and we don’t have four more years to stop it. We all need to band together and form a new party that will be the last chance to save our country.
We don’t have much time left but in this day of instant communication via internet, it can be done quickly.
A lot of us are busy cleaning our weapons.
I think the premises of the Tea Party included the following:
1) The United States as it stands today is worthy of preservation.
2) We have representative government within the Union.
3) The government is answerable to the people as a matter of law.
4) Working within the present system will restore traditional liberties and American prosperity.
5) The GOP can be ‘taken back’ and brought to a point of functionality and representing the will of its base.
These premises are probably being reviewed - really hard - by many millions of people who will than decide which if any of these premises are valid and what to do going forward. Does anyone else remember ‘Glasnost’?
Personally, I believe it won’t focus until liberalism becomes so extreme, so oppressive that they are forced to go after the worst first.
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Liberalism is already quite extreme. To wait longer would be foolish. Here in Tennessee....the Tea Party groups from all over the state have joined together and are organizing in a more cohesive way. They are beginning to plan together how they can best serve our state.
“My own personal theory is that it was over when Sarah Palin told Mark Levin that she was not going to run for President, and then Perry, Bachmann, Cain, and Santorum all flamed out, with the able assistance of Team Romney and the GOP-E.”
Agreed, but I would say that marked the end of a massive battle, not the end of the war.
What the heck is all this doom and gloom cr@p? My local Tea Party, the St. Louis Tea Party, is alive and kicking!!! We are ALWAYS doing stuff!
Maybe that’s why Romney kicked the cr@p out of Obama, here in Missouri!
Get a grip, folks! The Tea Party has just begun!
Not surprising. After a loss it takes time to lick wounds, analyze the situation, and regroup.
Where do you live? There are active groups all over the place.
NH http://www.teapartypatriots.org/groups/new-hampshire/ Maybe I am expecting a lot data....
Sorry the 2012 Election has not been decided.
Sorry the 2012 Election has not been decided.
“just to do something, anything, to show we’re not going away quietly.”
I too did the same thing this past week. Found their site for my area but no activity in over a year. I asked if they were still active and no response as of yet. Tri-County Patriotic Tea Party is the site.
۞ "Since the bygone days of Ronald Reagan the present day Republican Party has taken on the appearance and all the demeanor of the corrupted liberal Democrat Party and has now become the party of appeasers, apologists, liberalism and an ever bigger government with all of the welfare largesse that emanates from it."
Thought the same thing when I read that crack. LOL.
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