Posted on 11/13/2010 2:43:05 AM PST by Scanian
Now that the midterm elections are over, Tea Party energy is at risk of dissipating due to the lack of a pressing goal to work towards. If the Tea Partiers are going to become a long-term, serious force, they must be willing to tackle serious problems without an immediate payoff like an election, else they risk going home and becoming a flash in the pan. This is exactly what the establishment hopes will happen.
The election results point to several areas needing our attention. Tea Party favorites Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ron Johnson won despite predictions to the contrary. Defeats of Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle are being trumpeted by the Republican establishment as proof that their big-tent RINO strategy is superior. O'Donnell made the point on "The O'Reilly Factor" that the Republican establishment worked against her campaign by refusing to share their voter lists and provide needed base support that strangled her candidacy. This is unconscionable!
Seize the Parties
Our first order of business should be to purge the Republican Party leadership of establishment figures complicit in this affair. First to go should be the gaffe-prone Michael Steele, whose defining legacy will be remembered as the massive waste of party funds to schmooze with potential donors at a strip club. Along with Steele should go any supporters he's implanted to provide cover for his misdeeds. There are already calls within Republican ranks for Steele's ouster, and pressure should be applied to the state party chairmen who make up the RNC and choose the chairman.
The next Republican Party Chairman should be someone with close ties to the Tea Party who can insure that Tea Party views are taken seriously and Tea Party candidates are supported. A few Tea Party luminaries should be installed in key positions to tap into their grassroots networks and activist spirits. The politics of "it's my turn" is over!
Tea Party patriots are demanding that the Republican Party present a clear distinction from the Democrats' progressive liberal agenda instead of accepting it as a fait accompli and seeking to merely slow down its implementation. The RINO establishment resemble the Chinese autocrats in the sense that they don't appear to believe in the platform anymore but instead are interested only in retaining power.
Who thinks this?? Not a single Tea Party person I know.
We have only just begun to fight!
http://conservativespeakermandate.com/
Our Tea Party Group meets once a week, we have had two meetings since the election. We were concerned that the group would lose intrest after the election, they did not. Attendance at the meeting after the election was the greatest we have ever had. The group decided to continue meeting every week, and to form a committee to keep a close eye on the voting records of those just elected, so they can be replaced next time if needed.
Our group was organized into topic specific sub groups and they meet at least twice a month for group exchanges but also are connected on-line to assist in the communications between sub-group members. The group at large meets once a month for the general meeting and updates. We even have our own research team to take questions from the members on issues and goes out to find the skinny on it to be published on the website and position papers for the local media.
Ours has its own professional office to operate from and uses its website to broadcast general news and inforamtion. It also has its own blog for members to yak about issues.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.