[truthfreedom]

Way to go Maine!!!

[wastedyears]

Compromise is what got us here in the first place. No more

[Wilderness Conservative]

Fair warning to the TP movement to not be claimed or hijacked by the likes of Ron Paulistas.

[tet68]

Way to go Maine TPers.

Could we but adopt that platform in the rest of the states
we could get this party started.

[Grizzled Bear]

I’m knocking the Republican Party for failing to work with them and adopting a platform that would be palatable to both the Tea Party movement and the general public.

The elitists on both sides need to understand, the Tea Party movement IS the general public!

[RedMDer]

Did they over-step? No. All states should adopt his.

[AU72]

The moonbats have been doing this to democrat conventions for the last 10 years.

[Jim Robinson]

Way to go, Maine Tea Party!!

[freekitty]

Good going Maine. Overstep my you know what.

[truthfreedom]

“But they do need to find a message that’s coherent and not so easily dismissed.”

I like “Less Government, More Freedom”

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

WelcomeTo FreeRepublic!

[gidget7]

Maybe this is why the Lonely Republican is lonely! What makes him/her think it isn’t palatable with the public?

[Talisker]

Perhaps the Republicans could have talked to the Tea Partiers ahead of time, read the platform and come up with some sort of compromise. But they didn’t. Instead, the delegates adopted a platform written by folks who, to put it bluntly, aren’t experts in politics. I’m not knocking the Tea Partiers in Maine. I’m knocking the Republican Party for failing to work with them and adopting a platform that would be palatable to both the Tea Party movement and the general public.

The dripping, oozing, acid RINO conterattack begins, like one of those 50's scifi movies where the slime is eating through all the girders as it drops to the next level down and continues to eat away... only with RINOs it's their continuous fear, uncertainty and doubt campaign against clarity and determination.

[Art in Idaho]

They did not overstep. I agree with everything in their platform. I could have added a lot more. I thought it was fair, Constitutional and needed in this, our time of anguish, of our Sacred Republic. I salute the Tea Party folks of Maine! The hope is all State Republican Parties adopt a very similar or more expansive platform.

Onward to November 2, 2020!

Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.

[rogue yam]

From another thread:

The document calls for the elimination of (1) the Department of Education and (2) the Federal Reserve, demands (3) an investigation of “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth,” suggests (4) the adoption of “Austrian Economics,” declares that (5) “‘Freedom of Religion’ does not mean ‘freedom from religion’”..., insists that (6) “healthcare is not a right,” calls for the abrogation of (7) the “UN Treaty on Rights of the Child” and the (8) “Law Of The Sea Treaty” and declares that we must resist (9) “efforts to create a one world government.”

I score it seven “yes” and two “maybe”. Not bad.

[cubreporter]

We’ve got so called “experts” in charge now. What has that gotten us????

[maine-iac7]

folks who, to put it bluntly, aren’t experts in politics.

arrrgh -

"experts in politics" is what got us into this mess - along with taking it slow and quiet.

It's far too late for that - us doing that was what allowed the socialist/Marxists get where they are

and what is that dumb thing about the boiling frog in reverse?

the Maine establishment didn't want to work with the Tea Party...so maybe they've learned a lesson.

I told 'em for years that the Achilles heal of the party is the protectionism of the 'establishment' members and putting people up for election not on who is most qualified and/or would have the best shot of winning - but "who's 'turn' is it?"

If the party is forced to drop that practice, which it looks like the new infusion of people active in the party can bring about, it will be "a good thing."

[patriot preacher]

I applaud the Tea Partiers efforts in Maine.

I concur with the warnings of others on here that Tea Partiers had better beware of the Ron Paulites and their agenda. It is NOT wholly a Tea Party agenda, and it will derail the Tea Parties bigtime if they let it.

Ron Paul wants to have a 18th century foreign and military policy in the 21st century world, and that’s simply not realistic. We have at least two global enemies who are seeking our destruction and the destruction of our way of life right now — Islamofascism and a resurgenct neo-Marxism. To ignore these threat internationally is beyond foolish, and to conclude that “if we don’t obther them they won’t bother us” is worse than sticking our collective heads in the sand, it’s sticking them up our.....

For that reason alone, Paulites disqualify themselves from ever controlling the Executive branch of our government, or holding on to anything LIKE a majority in Congress. Rep. Paul is an EXCELLENT Representative in the House, if for no other reason than to provide and example of what a restrained FISCAL Conservative must look like — a whole lot like a Libertarian! But on foreign policy and military policy issues — run from him. Remember that my Tea Party compatriots!

[TheThinker]

The problem here is that most of the public hasn’t been educated on the collusion between the government and industry on the environment, or the fact that the UN Treaty of Rights of the Child could usurp parental rights.

What the author doesn't understand is that the tea partiers are the public.

[denydenydeny]

Thanks for the thread hijack, idiots. This is an extremely important topic—establishment Republicans trying to crush the Tea Party movement—but it’s become a Ron Paul thread. Like we have any shortage of them.

Thanks, idiots.