The Tea Party Is Lost...

[TheAmazingJimmy]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here it goes...

What the heck is going on with the Tea Party? I've been hearing my local Tea Party leaders fawning over Cain's higher taxes plan, yet they thought I'd become an Obama supporter when I brought up Ron Paul's plan to cut spending and didn't tell them who's plan it was.
This group that once protested government spending and higher taxes is now for higher taxes and against cutting spending. The Tea Party is lost.

How do we get the Tea Party back to what it once was?

 

[RDM]

You can't. They've been hi-jacked and brainwashed.

 

[Okie RP fan]

The Tea Party has been co opted by neoconservatives.

It's nothing new, this happened the last election cycle when they started selling out to establishment Republicans.

 

[ONUV]

start a new group?

 

[TheAmazingJimmy]

start a new group?

Sounds good. What should we be called? The Liberty Party?

 

[klamath]

Of the 70 house republicans elected only a handful were really any good while the rest was only a cog to throw in the Obama runaway train.

 

[Inflation]

How do we get the Tea Party back to what it once was?

With the same methods that Ron Paul has used to great success:

1. smile
2. have fun
3. educate
4. persist
5. when tempted to give up, proceed to step number 1

 

[Carole]

With the same methods that Ron Paul has used to great success:

1. smile
2. have fun
3. educate
4. persist
5. when tempted to give up, proceed to step number 1

Step 6 Ask them what they originally joine the Tea Party to accomplish.

 

[CaseyJones]

”Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge

 

[willwash]

The fact is that the same frustration that gace rise to the Tea Party is still present and the rise of the Tea Party will do nothing to alleviate that frustration. It will find its way to the surface again as the Tea Party continues to falter on its mandate in Washington.

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

The media painted Libertarianism to mean the same thing as Liberal. The Tea Party is no longer about revolution, it's about face-value hatred for a blurred label.

 

[Okie RP fan]

The media painted Libertarianism to mean the same thing as Liberal. The Tea Party is no longer about revolution, it's about face-value hatred for a blurred label.

This is a major problem that I know many of us face. And I understand we are not all libertarians or even full fledged libertarians.

But, most registered Republican types think that liberals and libertarians are the same. Some think that libertarians are 75% liberal, and 25% conservative. And I've seen other silly percentages thrown up, but that is the general sense.

They don't understand.

 

[ONUV]

Sounds good. What should we be called? The Liberty Party?

The Free Party

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

This is a major problem that I know many of us face. And I understand we are not all libertarians or even full fledged libertarians.

But, most registered Republican types think that liberals and libertarians are the same. Some think that libertarians are 75% liberal, and 25% conservative. And I've seen other silly percentages thrown up, but that is the general sense.

They don't understand.

This really is a major problem. Tea Party Right-Wingers think anything with the words "Liberal" is a leftist ideology and should be condemned and hated.

 

[AlexG]

Tea Party 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

[ONUV]

The Free Party

looks like it has already been taken by marxists.

http://www.6hourday.org/freeparty.html

 

[KEEF]

This really is a major problem. Tea Party Right-Wingers think anything with the words "Liberal" is a leftist ideology and should be condemned and hated.

They all have to read The Road to Serfdom and understand what the real meaning of liberalism is.

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

They all have to read The Road to Serfdom and understand what the real meaning of liberalism is.

Tea Party? Read?

About as likely as Obama actually earning his Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[TheAmazingJimmy]

Tea Party 2: Electric Boogaloo

Offtopic. but I have a love hate relationship with Breakin' 2. I'm a MST3K fan.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I wish people would stop labeling the Tea Party as if it were a unitary block. Painting with a broad brush is never a good idea. Most of the Tea Parties in NC are still right on the money (excepting the national org's astroturf encroachments) specifically because of my continued interfacing with them. I presume that most of the Tea Parties in Kentucky are also still right on the money because of Rand Paul.

So whether the individual Tea Party groups are #fail or #win depends largely on our willingness to interact with them and act as a 'preservative' so to speak.

IMHO