If they Gerrymander the social conservatives they’ll never have enough votes to defeat the communists..
IOW they’re cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Personally my reasons for supporting the tea party rallies have been primarily over the fact that government is out of control.
However I think the tea parties should start pressuring for accountability and answers about the white house use of the justice department to punish political opposition and suppress opposition votes.
I suspect that the “fiscal only” people are the ones pushing for a constitutional convention. The ones I’ve met pay lip service to social issues but all they really care about is their money.
How about showing the “fiscal fitness” folks a run-down of how much taxpayer money is being spent, or misspent, on ballyhooing depravity? A common agreement should not be difficult to reach.
About time
Single issue doofuses don't need to jump in and destroy a movement based on conservative priciples. Not all voluntary nformal members need to agree on everything.
What is wrong with these people?
Republicans fear the Tea Parties as much as the Rats and will do all they can to co-opt them. If that fails then they will try to destroy them.
These liberal conservatives fail to realize the fact that all 31 of 31 states that held referendum on perverted marriage told the perverts NO. All 31 states.. Even the peoples socialist liberal utopia of California.. LMAO
Tea party was a tax protest, not a social issues protest.
The more social conservatives try to make the Tea Party about their pet issues the more they will dilute the simple and central message of the Tea Party movement.
You need to quit with the “RINO” crap. Enough already.
I personally don’t see why the Tea Party has to be about anything more than governments spending, etc.
I don’t think the right to life groups need to discuss tax and spend issues.
That said, they both better get along because each is dead without the other.
Many libertarians and independents are participating in the Tea Parties because they are about small government, decentralized government, individual liberty and responsibility and fiscal accountability and restraint. If you start throwing in the social issues, you lose them. Mandated and legislated behavior and morality can be in opposition to individual liberty on many fronts.
If the Tea Party is only about fiscal issues it is no different then the GOP and is exactly what the Marxist want.It is also a waste of time and resources not to mention puts our nation in great peril. The social issues are what is destroying the fabric of our nation, communities and families. Our very survival is at stake here. That is why all this ‘racist’ brouhaha has been front and center. TPTB know full well if social issues get legs and the king can be shown to have no clothes on Marxism, globalism and multiculturalism will be derailed.
Groups like Freedom Works and various others have been trying since early on to co-pt the Tea Parity for this very reason. Defang and neuter.
Social issues in this country will NEVER be able to be discussed on equal footing until the federal government is severely trimmed down.
Getting rid of PBS and other government grants to the likes of Planned Parenthood, MUST be accomplished first.
Once the federal government is neutral, monetarily, in the ‘cultural wars’, only then can real debate begin.
That’s why I support the tea party movement and it’s quest for restoring fiscal sanity.
The GOP is slowing showing its true colors...they are tyrants just like the Dems are...
How does limited government have anything to do with social conservatism? Wasn’t Bush a social conservative? There are plenty of social conservatives who are statists. Principles of limited government obviously align more closely with social conservatives than progressives, but that doesnt mean there isnt room in a limited government group for people who are not hardcore social conservatives.
Fiscal conservatives need to wake up and smell the coffee before the effort falls flat on its face and become just as irrelevant as the RINO Party has become.
Allow the “no social issues” contingent into the Tea Parties and you may as well not have them at all. They will become the GOP — in other words, spineless losers.
They’re scared!
The GOP elite are actually transporting shills to TEA party rallys to disrupt them, taking a page from the union book.