Responsibility2nd, any proposal that expands the authority of the FEDERAL government is going to be a non-starter with at least 1/2 of all tea partiers. If support of a constitutional amendment to ban abortion is a limit test to work with you, then be prepared to be living with the status-quo for a long, long time (as in forever). There is no conservative majority (or even plurality) that revolves around any idea that expands the reach of the federal government.
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Socons aren’t interested in expanding the “authority of the FEDERAL government”, inasmuch as we want to RESTORE it.
You may or not be right with the Tea Partiers bing 50/50 on our proposal to Constutionally ban abortion. But then... the Tea Party is obsolete.
You seem to place a lot of emphasis on the Tea Party’s place in the GOP. Sorry, but that was never true, and this election confimred that.
(I say this even though I enthusiastically voted for Ted Cruz - who is a stand-out favorite among Tea Partiers - and I am on board with many Tea Party platforms, but their overall effectiveness is gone.)
Fine, substitute fiscal conservative for tea party, you’ll get the same result.
If you’re goal is to restore the federal govt to its proper role, then I think you’ll find a lot of support from libertarians.
There is more than one way to skin a cat, but the important idea is that the cat ends up being skinned.