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.
You betcha.
Fortunately more and more Americans are on to their scam.
>>What’s this “single-issue” of which you speak?
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>Your single issue is abortion, as you have made abundantly clear over the years. For you, it is such a “single issue” that you are willing to assist the destruction of the whole USA just to make your statement.
Hm, the Declaration of Independence states that man [the race] has the inherent (in being God-given), and unalienable, rights, and “that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
THAT is American.
The Preamble to the Constitution says: “We the People of the United States, in Order to [...] secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Who, if not their [even unborn] children, is the Posterity that they seek to secure the “Blessings of Liberty” for?
THAT is American.
Further, if it is only for the purpose of securing those rights that a government should exist, then what [moral] right does the Federal Government have to exist when it denies even the CHANCE of life to its most helpless Citizens? Not only that, it denies the States the ability to look after said citizens!
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.
Nicely said.
>History itself shows third parties have rarely ever won and they sure didn’t have the political dynamics playing out in the administration we have to contend with today. History also teaches that third parties pull votes away from the Republican candidate which then definitely is a vote for the democrat running.
NOT TRUE!
The Republican Party WAS a third party! It took the place of the Whigs.
>Good to see the McCain boot licker chiming in.>
Better that than an anti war, 9/11 Truther Ron Paul ass wiper.
Give that man a cigar! :)
Guffaw!
Anti-war? Unfortunately, yes.
9/11 Truther? No.
>>”Far better to be for an IDEAL than for a [specific] person, IMO...”
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>This deserves repeating often.
Tell that to The Wizard who says that they’re “true democrat socialist comments.”
>a third party is the ruse of the democrats
If they’re pretending to be Republicans, than yes. {What does PUMA stand for? What does that say about the ‘classical’ mentality of Democrats?}
He’s dangerous because he’s working for a third party candidate.....promoting a third party candidate......and of course desiring to see the Tea Party get hi-jacked by a third party......Alan Keyes is history of course.....and Pauly Boy is too.
........good thing freepers are on to yours as well.... NO Third Parties.....
That doesn’t even warrent a comment......
...bottom line this election is far too important to go third party....if people push for a third party they’re playing into the OBama play book....
You forgot to add to your list:
You believe in third party candidates and.... yours lost didn’t it...
You’re free to do what you want.
And I’m free to do what I believe furthers the cause of securing the Blessings of Liberty to my posterity.
I don’t “believe in third party candidates.” I believe in candidates who actually understand and adhere to the Constitution, regardless of political party.
But, in any case, your candidate lost too.
The difference is, the republic still would have been the loser even if your George Soros-funded candidate had won.
you mean to secure the blessings of your third party candidate you’re working for.
You’re projecting.
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