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.
We should be outraged about the profligate spending of both parties. If we don't demand accountability from Republicans, we lack the moral authority to demand the same from Democrats.
Yep go right ahead and elect more Democrats. They’re doing such a great job.
“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.’
Who’s Palin to tell anybody in the Tea Party anything?
the Tea Party IS American...not Republican...not Democrat...the Constitution belongs to us all...and the fact of the matter is...either party sees it as an impediment to their plans for us.
none of us want to deal with the implications...
The Dem-Republican Good Cop-Bad Cop con routine is the longest running, most successful play of that con anywhere in the world.
The real game is DC versus Flyover Country. It does’nt come to an end until all in Flyover Country finally get it. IMHO, they are just starting to wake up
>> If Palin was a true tea party patriot, she would not be asking us to choose between a Marxist party and a Fascist party.
Fascist party? Kish my ass you ignorant fool!
Do we really want another Lame wad (R or D) for our representative?
“Tea Partyer’s are conservatives looking for a home.”
Correct. The left is trying to use the Tea Party as a wedge to split the conservative vote in November. We can’t let that happen. Posts like the one above may be a part of this effort. Anyone who runs for an office as a Tea Party candidate is a left wing plant. The Tea Party is not a Party, it is a movement of like-minded conservative people joining together to voice their opinion about the current nature of government.
>Yep go right ahead and elect more Democrats. They’re doing such a great job.
If it’s getting The People pissed off and woken-up enough to DEMAND the correct change, instead of those promises sweetly whispered by the politician, then hell yeah.
AZ Carry & Immigration, multiple Firearm-Freedom Acts, the TEA party; the Democrats (being aided bot the Republicans) ARE bringing the country together... that they like the result is another matter entirely.
>>“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.’
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>Who’s Palin to tell anybody in the Tea Party anything?
My answer; nobody. With that statement she destroyed most of her own credibility in my eyes. People were all excited about how she had balanced AK’s budget, and got rid of corruption in her own party, and so forth... but this undermines ALL of that.
That is the reason I didn’t/don’t like the Palinites... they’re too close to the conservative version of Obama’s Cult-of-Personality. Far better to be for an IDEAL than for a [specific] person, IMO...
This comes from the Constitution Party Neo Leftist propaganda mill. Their 2008 leader, Chuck Baldwin
who is as anti war as the far left.
Chuck Baldwin and his party loons are 9/11 Truthers
and he puts out the rumors of Clinton and Bush being drug runnier in Haiti and Spec Ops caused the earth quake to cover this.
This Neo Leftist Propaganda group hate Sarah Palin because
she is a conservative Republican who understands we must win the war against the IslamOfascists.
These Third Party loons only enable the Democrats and will give you an Obama 2nd Term
Nope I will not vote for a third party that is destined to lose. I will try to primary a conservative candidte within the republican party though.
The Tea Party movement must be bipartisan.
It is a conservative movement and it is a tsunami of anger against criminal incompetents in both parties.
I have never seen the need to disagree with Palin.
Until now.
Stay on the plantation huh?
Third parties had nothing to do with the Democrats taking control of the legislative and executive branches of the government. That was all the because of the failure of Republican policies.
Here is another column from Baldwin warning Tea Party people to be careful about being co-opted.
Again, the Tea Party should remain a separate movement that demands fiscal accountability from both parties. That way it won't be irrelevant if/when the Republicans return to power.
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.
Well, it seems like we've got us a good ole controversy here... :-)
There are at least two Democrat Senators who won
with just enough votes that the third party loon
took away from the Republican
The Third Party keeps the Conservative Republicans
on the Democrat Plantation
It is a fallacy to believe that those votes would have gone to the Republican party. More than likely, those folks would not have bothered to vote.
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