Thanks to all for their thoughtful responses to my post about how to get the Tea Party launched as a third party. I got called away and couldn’t keep up in realtime with the Sunday Talk Show thread yesterday.
With all due respect to those who believe the tea party patriots should keep trying to take over the Republican party, I think the examples of the Indiana and Missouri Senate campaigns, and the way the RINOs refused to back our candidates, has led me to my belief that there is no point in pursuing a place in the Republican party any longer.
And, given the fact that I started my political life at age 14 manning the Goldwater booth at the Maryland State Fair, I make the above statement with some regret.
All the same, I’m convinced the TP needs to incorporate as an independent party and begin launching candidacies at every level possible. The idea being to first kill off today’s feckless Republican party for good; and then to be in position to challenge the Demoviks.
The one very finite idea I do have at this point is that the first place to launch this effort at the local level ought to be in the unwinnable blue states. Because the Republicans are weakest there to begin with; and because the tough trial-and-error trail a new party must travel is probably better traveled where less is at stake.
And, again, I do have great respect for those like bray who want to stay inside the Republican party and fight there. I just don’t think it will work for more reasons than I can ever list here.
Delaware is a blue state but then there’s the very perfect Sussex county to launch a Tea Party.
Remember all those people who showed up at Romney rallies? All those people who stood in line for Chick-Fil-A? They’re all still out there, roaming, wandering, waiting for some one or something to give them their place.
It’s going to happen.
But I don’t know how and I don’t know when. We will begin with just a voice, then we will grow. The world will never be the same.
One can dream.