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If you don't want the Tea Party to only vote for Republicans, put up a worthy candidate. You might also want to contact the media considering they will give no air time to any third party candidate. It's hard to get elected if no one knows you are running or who you are.
It's also hard to run as a Democrat when Dems instantly claim that anyone who wants to cut any spending is a racist out to kill all black people. The Tea Party supported certain Republican candidates who were running on platforms that matched the Tea Party goals, there are many Reps who didn't get any Tea Party support and were even run against by other Tea Party supported candidates.
The Tea Party isn't a political party therefore they couldn't run as a Tea Party candidate on any ballot, they ran as republicans because reps are supposed to be conservative and that is our goal. As Tea Party supporters we supported conservative candidates who ran on the Rep. ticket and were very successful at it.
Apparently you don't know enough if you expect someone to run as a Tea Party candidate when it isn't a political party.
You are never going to get these leftist to understand facts or truth. Their brains seem to repel it. The perfect example is Ron Paul, a libertarian who runs under the Republican Party so he can get elected. Communists and Socialist run under the Democrat Party. At this point we are stuck with the two party system.
Everything you listed is taking place, I'm personally doing a lot of that with my local Tea Party members but it's not going to be on the news like a political rally would be. I know quite a few local Tea Party supporters who are running for local community level offices in my area and they look to have a good chance of winning. People are still very engaged, the happenings in WI have done a good job of keeping people very engaged but they aren't going to waste time, energy or money when those are all in short supply.
If you are still participating as a Tea Party member I think that is great, in fact better then great. To be a part of the American concept is simply the most American thing a person can do.
I still suggest that many people that were involved the past election year have become lack luster.
I listen to a talk show host Sam Malone in Houston. He has been a big leader in the Tea Party using his show as a soap box. Back a few years ago he was at another station and had a 4 hour show that was full of topics and discussion. Now as you pointed out, outside an election year he has a 2 hour show and it's full of scheduled callers, (by that I mean people on his staff that call in as editorial reporters). There is less participation by listeners.
The tea party, the new "grassroots" movement promised many things in the past mid-term elections and ran on "less government!" "less spending!" "pro-constitution!" though when it came to when the rubber meets the road, their campaign slogans seem to have fallen short. From Gov. Walker's massive spending and attacks on the unions leading to historic backlash, to the ultimate big government, anti-constitution bill, the patriot act, the tea party were almost in unanimous support for it. The tea party also stated many times the #1 agenda is creating jobs, but where are they? Is the tea party a fraud?
In my lifetime listening to politicians, preachers, salesmen, even scientist...on occasion, they all say something half true, misleading, or just mouthing the words they think will get them what they want. Or what they need to stay in power. I could name names, and give sources....There are LIES like weeds all around us.......... I will go on record that leftist propaganda has a different purpose than right propaganda, and is not obvious sometimes. The party line of the 1990's became the spin in 2000. If you like Historical facts you can find them. Read the congressional statements made about WMD's. There must have been a big check for those who benefited from that Scam. ...help is good, until it becomes robbery, until you must trade political favor that should never be traded, serious compromise opens the door to those who will neither serve the good of our troubled country or protect it. The struggle is Huge...The players change stripes........The Tea party has in it's ranks those who would sell the keys to the federal presses to the highest bidder.......neither side is above reproach...........send a good guy to Washington and he will not accomplish any thing and maybe just become a bum.............an open free discussion of the facts will help..............I 'm looking
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If you are still participating as a Tea Party member I think that is great, in fact better then great. To be a part of the American concept is simply the most American thing a person can do.
I still suggest that many people that were involved the past election year have become lack luster.
I listen to a talk show host Sam Malone in Houston. He has been a big leader in the Tea Party using his show as a soap box. Back a few years ago he was at another station and had a 4 hour show that was full of topics and discussion. Now as you pointed out, outside an election year he has a 2 hour show and it's full of scheduled callers, (by that I mean people on his staff that call in as editorial reporters). There is less participation by listeners.
As someone that has been in a Tea Party for some time, I do not agree with you. Ours has been growing. Our group and the others in the surrounding areas are very busy every day paying attention to local gov and sharing and gathering information. We do not need to be raging protestors like we see from the radical nuts in WI. The Dems have woken a sleeping giant and we saw the beginning in the last elections. Do you really think we will just fade into the woodwork and forget about everything after such success? Not a chance! We are energized!
tea party is not the solution for real problems which USA faces today: Unemployment, poverty, inefficient health care, poor transportation infrastructure, expensive college education, debt over families, higher oil prices. tougher days are there in future.
Yet you can't prove anything you claim... if you "know" all this stuff why can't you prove any of it? The Tea Party started back when Obama was still Mr. Present in IL so you're dead wrong about that even though you'll deny it. The Tea Party represents Americans, not just minority groups so I wouldn't expect them to try to promote legislation that only helps one small group of people.
All the polls including this one shows you that only a small group of idiots support the tea party. Ignore the polls all you want. 2012 is coming and all that laughter you had back in November will turn to crying. Your masters the koch brothers will be fully exposed by then. No one I mean no one will forget what the tea party did to the American working class in WI. Your racist agenda to destroy the idea of Obama will fail just as these same people failed in the civil war the civil rights fight and womens suffrage,they will fail again and again and again.
As someone that has been in a Tea Party for some time, I do not agree with you. Ours has been growing. Our group and the others in the surrounding areas are very busy every day paying attention to local gov and sharing and gathering information. We do not need to be raging protestors like we see from the radical nuts in WI. The Dems have woken a sleeping giant and we saw the beginning in the last elections. Do you really think we will just fade into the woodwork and forget about everything after such success? Not a chance! We are energized!
The country sees otherwise. The tea party was an experiment that has imploded in their faces. Palin was suppose to be the new tea party darling, but she is arguably the most disliked person in politics. Walker's attack on freedom has made his ratings plunge and will likely be recalled with the other republican senators. The tea party turnouts to counter-protest have been laughable at best. The Koch's got what they wanted and threw them in the trash now that they are no longer needed.
Just look at the poll here for example where the overwhelming number of people are strongly against the tea party, and this is a heavily right leaning forum.
As someone that has been in a Tea Party for some time, I do not agree with you. Ours has been growing. Our group and the others in the surrounding areas are very busy every day paying attention to local gov and sharing and gathering information. We do not need to be raging protestors like we see from the radical nuts in WI. The Dems have woken a sleeping giant and we saw the beginning in the last elections. Do you really think we will just fade into the woodwork and forget about everything after such success? Not a chance! We are energized!
I don't think that people committed to the movement will ever disappear into the wood work and should not, but it is visible that those people are a fraction of the group of 2 years ago.
While I was in GA going to council meetings and such the room was full of people not protesting rather asking questions and offering ideas. Last time I was in GA in January (my residence is there) I went to the city council and was the only citizen there.
The teaparty became irrevalant when their queen, Sarah Palin, showed the world just how ignorant these people really are.
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