Posted on 09/30/2009 4:44:44 PM PDT by taildragger
I was listening to Hugh Hewitt tonight. He had on a group "Contract From America". The folks from the organization mentioned a split with a gent named Williams and what made my hair stand on end was their desire to make the movement "mainstream". I thought those of us with a Tea Party mentality are the mainstream of American Life, as we define it. My gut feel and I hope I am wrong, I smell a RINO cabal. Tell me I a wrong......
The local tea parties here have been co-opted by Ron Paul types.
Bttt
You can’t split something you didn’t build. Nor, as the media is finding out, you can’t destroy something you didn’t make.
The people American know what to do, we don’t need a leader. Follow the wisdom of the crowd. Deny false so-called leaders.
Easy.Throw out the person.
Only if the people allow it.
If a Rino hosts one, then the people should host a much larger competing tea party fairly close, and see to it that the size and content of both is well documented with internet video.
The RINOs will do it again. The RNC and NRSC (and other Republican Party organs) think all of us conservatarians are stupid.
The view that we have to vote for them because we "have nowhere else to go" still reigns supreme.
Too bad (for them) that they are wrong.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
My gut feel is right. I sense they want to take the lead, what if this smells of Romney behind the scenes. Yuk.
If a person disrupts a meeting just throw them out. I always have my paddle ready if they refuse to leave.
They will be attempted to be co opted by every greedy and lefty organization and attention seeker known to man.
Thanks... It never hurts to ask and get options here on FR....
The GOP hierarchy has had it's chance, all they've done is mess things up. It's time for them to do things our way now!
We don’t need to be “organized.” We don’t need “a leader.” We just need decent candidates to vote for.
At our local tea party I took the opportunity to make sure our local GOP chairman knew how I felt. I told him that I wasn’t happy with the way the national party threw my conservative congressman overboard and trying to push a moderate will guarantee a second term for the marxist congressman we got.
“Tell me I a wrong.”
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You a wrong
Sounds like a cry of a RINO, seeing that Ron Paul wants to audit the Fed and stop the bailouts, just as the 9/12 DC marchers wanted.
They cannot be co-opted, because there is NO REAL SUPPORT for them...this is what Hussein and the RINOs do not understand. No one formed the Tea Party movement singlehandedly....we are patriots and constitutionalists who rally at the same time in defense of liberty.
We have something Hussein and his cultists will never have: genuine passion and love of freedom.
I think maybe Williams has been interviewed one too many times as the “head honcho,” for the Tea Parties and tried to bring ALL the Grassroots under his own umbrella.
I have actually wondered about this myself.
I didn’t hear the show- so can’t comment on the feeling you got from listening- however- here’s what I read at the website- and to my mind- it rings clear, true and worthwhile investigating.
Contract From America Preamble
We, the citizens of the United States of America, in order to protect our country from those who seek power and authoritarian control under the false guise of compassion and altruism, call upon our elected representatives to sign this Contract and by doing so commit to upholding the principles herein:
Individual Liberty
Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not gifts from the government. It is essential to the practice of these liberties that we be free from restriction over our peaceful political expression and free from excessive control over our economic choices.
Limited Government
The purpose of our government is to protect our liberties by administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or outside our country’s sovereign borders. When our government ventures beyond these functions and attempts to increase its power over the marketplace and the economic decisions of individuals, our liberties are diminished and the probability of corruption, internal strife, economic depression, and poverty increases.
Economic Freedom
The most powerful, proven instrument of material and social progress is the free market. The market economy, driven by the accumulated expressions of individual economic choices, is the only economic system that preserves and enhances individual liberty. Any other economic system, regardless of its intended pragmatic benefits, undermines our fundamental rights as free people.
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