According to YOU, the pro-life agenda is not part of the Tea Party agenda and it shouldn't be. Okay. I'm sure there are others who agree with you.
>>>>>>You are advocating tying the pro-life “agenda” with the Tea Party agenda. That is far different that “participation”.
Frankly, I believe you can not separate a pro-lifer from their pro-life beliefs. They go hand in hand. The way I see it, stopping people from expressing their pro-life beliefs is un-American. If that is the case, you might as well purge pro-lifers from the Tea Party altogether.
Here it is, straight forward. Just like you can't separate the Founding Fathers from todays Constitutional Conservatives. You can not separate the social issues from the fiscal issues, or vice versa. If you tried, it would cause a meltdown within the conservative movement.
re: “The way I see it, stopping people from expressing their pro-life beliefs is un-American. If that is the case, you might as well purge pro-lifers from the Tea Party altogether.”
I have never advocated stopping pro-life beliefs being expressed at Tea Party rallys. I have said several times that the California Tea Party leader was dead wrong for removing the pro-life guy from the rally. He was wrong for stopping him from passing out his literature.
All conservative issues should be allowed to be expressed at Tea Party rallys by the participants, but not all those issues should be given equal time as part of the Tea Party agenda. The Tea Party’s success has been as a tax revolt movment - all Americans are rightfully ticked off about this issue - that’s why they have supported the Tea Party regardless of previous political stripes. People did not get involved in the Tea Party because it was pro-life. They got involved because many, many Americans are NOW seeing that the government’s unconstitutional, out-of-control-spending is destroying our nation.
Most Americans are seeing the fact that we are facing a real, honest to God crisis. Disaster is just ahead. We are going to collapse financally. If we can’t get the financial house in order - it won’t matter what we believe about all these other issues. If the country collapses financially that will destroy your finances, my finances, democrat voter’s finances, republican voter finances, liberatrian voter’s finances, pro-life voter finances, pro-choice voter finances, and on and on.
We have to stop the spending, spending, spending and conform it to the Constitution. That is the crisis that must be met NOW. The pro-life issues, pro-traditional marriage issues will remain even after the spending stops. Those are battles yet to be won and they won’t be won by the Tea Party movement - that is not it’s purpose.
There is a big hole in the ship and we’re sinking. Fix the hole first and then we’ll argue about what direction the ship should go.