****************
Actually, this concept should be the only plank for the tea party--- it keeps all constitutionalists united- All else, can be fought out in the States.
Tea Party should become a third party and rename itself “Constitution Party.” As has been said elsewhere, all the experts said it’d be suicide to form a separate party, and that we had to work with the GOP. Given what we’ve seen from Murkowski, Crist, and the rest (not to mention much of the mainstream GOP), it might be time to form the Constitution Party. Though Lincoln didn’t necessarily want to destroy the Whigs, his Republican Party led to the Whigs’ demise. Similarly, perhaps the Constitution Party (limited gonvernment, Constitutional strict constructionalism) would lead to the demise of another party... At least, then we’d know what our party REALLY stands for!
.
Fred Thompson basically used it in his own Presidential platform, but failed to properly ignite people.
>>>>”devolution..power to the states”
>>Actually, this concept should be the only plank for the tea party-— it keeps all constitutionalists united- All else, can be fought out in the States.
Precisely so. Subsidiarity should be one of the main watchwords.