Tea Party Hijackers

The Constitution Party ^ | 02/20/2010 | Raymond Kish

[grand wazoo]

"The Tea Party needs to make a choice between an "R" or a "D", or so says Sarah Palin. The GOP rock star told an audience full of Tea Party members in Arkansas on Tuesday night, Feb. 16, that the Independents, who make up the Tea Party movement, need to start thinking about picking a party.

I think she is right. The Tea Party needs to make a choice, but not from within the two-party system that Palin claims we are stuck with. The Tea Party needs to decide right now whether they are going to let this movement be stolen by failed establishment candidates, or whether or not it is going to press forward and elect independent and third party candidates.

We do have choices, and they are not limited to Republicans and Democrats.

The Tea Party, from its beginning, was formed in response to the failure of both parties to listen to the will of the people. For Sarah Palin to suggest that we should pick between those same two failed parties is an insult. The rank in file members of the Tea Party movement should throw their current leaders out on their ear for allowing a movement of independents and Constitutionalists to be highjacked by either party.

Palin rightly points out that the Tea Party is not a Political party and cannot run candidates, but she is wrong to say there are only two choices because there is another choice: The Constitution Party. The Constitution Party has candidates running for office all across the United States, and the Constitution Party platform fits the Tea Party like a glove.

The Republicans and Democrats share the blame for our current economic crisis, and neither party has any real solution on how to fix it. Both parties gave us bailouts and stimulus programs adding mountains of debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back. In spite of all that money being spent, we still had 473,000 people file for unemployment benefits in the second week of February and have lost over 8 million jobs since 2007. With a track record like that, there is no reason whatsoever that America should choose between either party currently in power.

To say we have to pick between two incompetent choices is absolute lunacy. What America needs to do right now is make the decision not to return either Party back to Washington or any State office for that matter. Vote in a party with American ideas; a Party who has an American view of how the government should be run; a party that realizes that the Constitution is more than a word you say at a rally to get some applause. They need to vote in The Constitution Party.

If Palin was a true tea party patriot, she would not be asking us to choose between a Marxist party and a Fascist party. She would be leading her followers to a truly American party. . . . . The Constitution Party.

We are a nation, who is ruled by the consent of the governed. It is time the people remove their consent from the two establishment parties and put a Constitution Party candidate into office. The only way for both establishment parties to get the message is for both establishment parties to lose. To vote for either a Republican or a Democrat is to give your consent to two political parties who have made a living out of betraying the American people, our Founding Fathers and our Constitution, which each one swears fidelity to upon taking office.

America, don’t be fooled. Neither establishment party can be trusted. Send the hijackers packing, and let’s continue to build upon a truly great movement of the people.

[Minus_The_Bear]

1. Defeat the Republican party and take it over.

2. Defeat the socialist that are in power.

Chuck Baldwin is a nutbag 9/11 Truther who supports Medina in TX.

[Publius6961]

one should keep in mind that conservative third-party candidates will almost assuredly result in democrat victories, and will thus be an act of political (and, in at this point, national) suicide if not carried out very, very delicately.

It's up to the GOP to decide whom they choose to run. I agree, a third party would be a certain disaster for the country, not for the GOP. I couldn't care less about the GOP.

And yes, trolls and phonies will try really hard to split the conservative vote.

Let's see what the manuals says about counterguerilla warfare. We know, there is already a huge split between run-of-the-mill "progressives" and fire-breathing nail-spitting burn-the-place down "progressives." I will start contributing heavily to the latter...

: )

[SoCalPol]

You don’t know this.

Perot voters gave us Bill clinton.

The Third Party loons always bash Conservative Republicans but no word against Obama.

The third party loons are on a high getting off causing Conservative Republicans to lose and getting
your anti war democrats back in office.

[Man50D]

We don’t have a two party system. It is one big socialist Republicrat party. Another party will restore the two party system.

[grand wazoo]

Perot voters gave us Bill clinton.

Actually Democrat voters gave us Bill Clinton and a Democrat congress (third parties didn't affect the congress).

The Third Party loons always bash Conservative Republicans but no word against Obama.

The Green Party pulls votes from the left. So do the various socialist parties on the left coast. Third parties aren't only to the right of the Republicans.

No one party owns my vote. I'm a small-government conservative/libertarian first.

Go ahead and don't demand too much from the establishment Republicans; I'm sure that's exactly what you'll get.

[Oceander]

Very good comments. To that end, I would argue, not that the Tea Party must passively acquiesce in the GOP and mutely accept whomever the powers-that-be want to run in the elections, but that the Tea Party do (as it has been doing) what it must to wrest control of the GOP from the punters and pilot-fish who have become liberal collaborationists, make a truce with those in the GOP with whom we have sufficient common ground (i.e., leave the fighting over the finer points of policy for a later date), and give the GOP leadership a carrot as well as a stick to encourage them to back as many candidates who are acceptable to the Tea Party as we can muster. We don't have the time or the breathing space to debate the finer points of policy right now, or differentiate between the subtle shades thereof; we need to follow the more brightline rules such as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

[SoCalPol]

Your type support the Left Wing Democrat agenda, anti war, 9/11 Truthers, believe Iran and North Korea are not a threat as Ron Paul states but form another Democrat party under the name of the usual third party disrupters.

[grand wazoo]

That's right, you want everyone to stay on the Republican plantation. Where we shouldn't complain because Republicans are destroying the country more slowly than the Democrats. Smear anyone that says otherwise.

The Tea Partys should remain an independent movement that attacks wasteful spending whether it is Republican or Democrat.

[SaraJohnson]

I was thinking the same thing. Who died and made Palin queen. She’s not the leader of the Tea Party but she yaps like she is.

This is a status quo dream come true. What a way for the Rinos/liberals to hijack and shrink the movement fast. Palin has already done major damage to the conservative movement in Arizona. She can stop it now.

There are no Democrats or Rinos who I will vote for - ever.

[hyperconservative]

I was also thinking this.
Sure, I like Palin but she lacks the right to tell Tea Party
people for whom to vote.
We don’t have to make a choice between D’s and R’s.
It’s better to have conservatives and conservatarians in office from both major parties.

[SoCalPol]

[EternalVigilance]

[SoCalPol]

[TBP]

The Tea Party should be bipartisan.

It ought to cast even a wider net than that. Teh original author mentions the Constitution party. There is an excellent CP candidate running for Senator in Illinois against Giannoulias and the RINO Kirk. His name is Randy Stufflebeam. In many places, the best candidate will be with America's Independent Party. Soem Republicans and few Democrats are worthy of Tea Party support. It's a transpartisan coalition.

[TBP]

The Tea Party should be bipartisan.

It ought to cast even a wider net than that. Teh original author mentions the Constitution party. There is an excellent CP candidate running for Senator in Illinois against Giannoulias and the RINO Kirk. His name is Randy Stufflebeam. In many places, the best candidate will be with America's Independent Party. Some Republicans and few Democrats are worthy of Tea Party support. It's a transpartisan coalition.

[TBP]

Who’s Palin to tell anybody in the Tea Party anything?

She's one of many leaders who resonates with teh movement. She's A (not the) leader of Tea Partiers. (There are others.)

[TBP]

Debra Medina was a very good candidate.

[TBP]

The Third Party loons always bash Conservative Republicans but no word against Obama.

This is an utterly false statement, as you know. Only a Republibot could make it.

The fact is that AIPers, Constitutionalsits, Libertarians, and others have focused most of their fire on Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the Democrats. But they don't let the GOP off the hook, which is what really bothers you. They're teh ones who ran off Dede Scozzafava and Charlie Crist, whom the Republibots would hve foisted on us had conservatives of all stripes not stood up and said not only no but H--- no!

[Liberty Valance]

[TBP]

Thumbs up!