I have to admit that I was willing to give the tea party the benefit of the doubt and believe that their main issue was the growth of the country's debt. this study that started in 06 before the tea party shows that the tea party is the same ole republican base of social conservatives that the gop has been catering to for the last 40 years. new york times
It would be great if tea party split from the Republican party. Then maybe all the nuts would leave the grand old party and it could be a normal party again.
The Tea Party is the healthy conjoined twin, the "normals" will die when you surgically separate them.
so the tea party congress took up a vote to prevent "obamacare" from providing fed funding for abortions even though there is already a law in place to do that. man they really care about jobs
I've often wondered: we have a libertarian party in this country. They are organised, funded, and have been providing quality candidates across the country for a generation or more, and share the same (supposedly) small government agenda as the Tea Party. If that is the case, why do tea partiers need a new political party, when the libertarian party is exactly what they were looking for? Answer: because the Tea Party isn't only about small government. It's about that (sort of), combined with hardcore conservative social issues, God, Gays, Guns, abortion, immigrants, etc.
I agree. It started off with Ron Paul supporters protesting Bush's wars and economic policy who were using the Republican Party to get libertarians elected, since its just about impossible to win as a third-party candidate. This is why they didn't just support the Libertarian Party. As soon as they became a threat to the establishment, they were co-opted by Neo-cons. At one point, you could say there was a difference between the Tea Party and Republican Party, but now, they're just two sides of the same coin. Hence, why you won't see Tea Partiers supporting the Libertarian Party (or any other party besides the GOP). I figure the same thing will happen with the Occupy protests. They'll have some initial success before they're co-opted by the status quo.
Sounds familiar. They did the same thing to Ross Perot's Reform Party They Infiltrated. Made it a party filled with bat ***** craziness. Then like the parasites they are. . . they left the rotting corpse on the ground and went back to the republican party. List the ill-conceived response to the Reform Party or master plan . . that lead to Nader as a third party candidate. Until a Third Party can find a way to prevent infiltration by the Bat ***** Crazies . . it will have a hard time sustaining. Rocket River
I think Ross Perot might have just been bat **** crazy. I think I recall him campaigning for massive expansion of the war on drugs. He said something along the lines of: You want to win this War on Drugs? Just go neighborhood to neighborhood, house to house, and round up the criminals. Not an exact quote, but I remember thinking he was completely insane.
He is also the reason you have NO PASS NO PLAY If I recall correctly I don't recall the statement you listed but he had some good ideas but that is not the point The point is . .. any legit third party has to protect itself from infiltration and destruction Rocket River
