Posted on 04/30/2010 5:41:43 PM PDT by 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.
Don’t forget how the GOP force fed Arlen Specter to the voters or the many other RINOs.
I find it somewhat gratifying the extent to which Sarah Palin and the CP and others are now constantly talking about Independents.
We made a conscious decision to change what that label means in the American political vernacular, and this piece is one more data point that shows we’re succeeding.
Any third party vote in 2010 or 2012 is a vote for Democrats and their communist destruction of the USA.
Remember that Palin supported Doug Hoffman, the Conservative party candidate, against Dede Scozzafava.
Right. Exactly like in NY-23, where the Republicans became the "third-party."
Yeah, and I’ll remember that she supported John McCain, too. Among others.
After The Specter beat Toomey, many posters on this site and elsewhere told everyone that we all had to support Benedict Arlen because otherwise the Democrats would win, and besides he wouldn’t use hsi seat as chairman of Judiciary to be obstructionist on nominees.
Well, he immediately obstructed a nominee and now he’s a Democrat. So what did Republicans gain from that?
The irony is that there was a conservative third party candidate on the ballot named Jim Cluymer and had conservatives voted for Clymer instead of holding their noses for The Specter, we would be no worse off in terms of that seat than we are today. And we would have had a better Judiciary chair until after the Democrat takeover.
So do I, EV. I think organizations like AIP are the wave of the future.
Remember, the Republicans started out as a third party. I’m sure many Whig operatives told the fledgling Republicans that they would just split the vote and get those awful Democrats elected, so they should stick with the Whigs.
TEA party patriots have suceeded in getting good conservative candidates well positioned in many GOP primaries across the country.
Anyone advocating for any third party now, just to make their stupid statement, when the survival of the nation is at stake, is working for the Democrats and for the complete destruction of the USA.
You’re still stuck in the old party paradigm, the one that has failed the country.
You don’t even understand what AIP is. It’s nothing like any previous “third-party.”
We’ve created something we call a “meta-party.” In other words, an entity that is “beyond party.”
We make our political associations and affiliations based solely on proven adherence to core American principle, not something so trivial as party registration. We endorse candidates on the same basis.
If you’re so hot to preserve the Republican Party, go for it. All you have to do is to nominate constitutionalist, personhood pro-life, peace through strength, moral conservative Reaganites and you won’t have any problem with us. But if you won’t? Your party is on its way out.
Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. There are plenty of Republicans who have been deeply complicit in the destruction of our free republic. In fact, most of the party's leadership has been.
The only "statement" we're making is that we will no longer play a loser's game and pretend that we can save the country by empowering compromised leaders of any party, people who could care less about keeping their sworn oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States.
It will take several election cycles for any other viable political structure to be developed coast to coast. Without such structure, all those third parties are simply working to keep the communist Democrats in power.
Single issue voters and parties will be the death of this nation, and your single issues will be be lost in the destruction.
We’ve created something we call a “meta-party.” In other words, an entity that is “beyond party.”
... which is totally useless in the primary elections and the general elections. So, just what positive effects can it possibly have? It's simply a front to keep the communist Democrats in power.
I've never had a conversation with anyone who uses the silly phrase "single issue voter" that amounted to a hill of beans.
But, what the heck. Hope springs eternal.
Exactly what "single issue" do you think I'm all about?
If you think your cool new political party is immune to the compromising influences that afflict the other parties, then you’re not just naive, you’re dangerous...
Speaking of "hill of beans" ...
A few years ago, you came around stumping for Bill Sali, whose only accomplish in his two years in congress was that he somehow managed to turn over the very conservative Idaho 1st District to Democrat Walt Minnick, a Pelosi butt-wipe.
Now Bill Sali, this same worthless product of Idaho's version of barking moonbats, is working to elect Raul Labrador, a Puerto Rican open-borders immigration attorney, against the constitutional conservative and combat veteran Vaughn Ward.
Is this effort to elect RINO Raul Labrador some more of your political brilliance?
The "primary" process as currently constituted is a complete farce. It isn't run by the people, it's run by political hacks, the media, and the money bags. And it's all based on an open political association, one over which conservatives have no control. It makes about as much sense to let liberals decide who your candidates are going to be as it would be to let a jihadi decide who is going to shave you with a straight razor.
...and the general elections.
Doesn't matter much when the Democrats and the Republicans are both pushing candidates who have no regard for the Constitution and who are constantly teaming up in the destruction of our country.
So, just what positive effects can it possibly have?
It can raise the true standard. That's gotta be worth something.
It's simply a front to keep the communist Democrats in power.
If anything is a front to do that it is the false flagged, lily-livered, self-serving, arrogant Republican "leadership."
There are more self-identified conservatives in ALL fifty states than there are self-identified liberals. The fact that conservatives are not represented proportionately is proof that the Republican Party is a complete bust. And that it's a fake.
Bill Sali would still be the Congressman if it wasn’t for Republican hacks like you.
So, tell us. What’s this “single-issue” of which you speak?
He lost because he didn't bother to campaign.
He lost because of people who have an R by their name and sound just like you.
What’s this “single-issue” you’re talking about?
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