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.
I’ve gone to a few Tea Party events. They were wonderful. And those things provide visibility, crowds, photo ops, and recognition. But in my area there’s not much of an ongoing, centralized organization. No one is more ready for a third party than me!
LOL Not one first person reference to the Tea Party. Were you too afraid to join one?
Started out with a BIG BANG, then pooped out. Reason I think it did was because So many wanted to be the head honcho, and the movement divided and splintered.
In Okla., that is what happened. First one a big success and was thrilling to see that spontaneous happening, and gave me so much hope.
Then it started, This one thought they were the leader, another one thought the same and so on. Each had a different idea and bad mouth the other.
In the long run you didn't know which one to move with, and it was gone. Each had an agenda for their personal success. There is the problem in a nutshell.
I am not willing to give my allegiance to just anyone.
The Tea Party, from the very beginning, has been about supporting Conservative candidates, and NOT supporting RINOs. If we nominate a RINO for President, why would we ever expect them to give their full support? That’s just wishful thinking.
Of course, the Tea Party itself bears a lot of blame for the RINO getting nominated. Conservatives need to get our act together before the next elections and pick one vetted candidate to back before the primaries even start.
We did not go invisible. But a bloody primary produced a lot of carnage. It’s time to limit the number of candidates to the first 5 who declare and muster enough signatures to be a serious candidate. By the primaries, one should have to be in the top 3 percentage-wise so as not to split the vote in so many ways. What a stupid debacle in some races to have 5-6 candidates. The presidential should be limited to 5. The states should be limited to 3 top tier ranking ones. This way there could be a real candidate and not one that won with 25% of the primary vote against 4 other contenders. THAT is plain stupid. We had way too many of those. So, you get a candidate that a majority will not vote for. How crazy is that!?
Same here.
I heard on one Tea Party event in my state of Michigan in recent months. Even with Sarah Palin as guest speaker, there were only a couple hundred people in attendance.