Tea party making its voice heard at RNC

5 Responses to Tea party making its voice heard at RNC

1. onecornpone says:

   August 3, 2012 at 5:42 am

   This approach will be interesting. Working from the inside is preferable, until your candidates are hijacked by RINOs, like Boehner, who provide staff to the newbie Representatives, or Senators, who then proceed to subtly subvert conservative objectives, and redirect policies to more moderate Republican non-TEA ideas.

   This is more aptly described inside the GOP as "Getting their mind right". I think of it as, Inside the Beltway Indoctrination.
2. ret_cpo says:

   August 3, 2012 at 6:41 am

   The Tea Party is not a party per se but a movement. Tea party principles are what the republican party used to be. They are basically the republican platform. Republicans have lost their way. There are too many progressives lining the halls of congress.

   Electing a tea party minded president at this point would not produce the outcome desired by true conservatives. He would still have to deal with the progressives in congress. This election will hopefully produce more conservative reps and senators. Eventually, people like Boehner will be pushed to the side. This is the only hope for our country returning to any semblance of what the founders meant for it to be.
   • Dwight Fry says:

     August 3, 2012 at 8:24 am

     I concur. The change that is needed is more than can be done with one election cycle. Sure there are going to be setbacks from time to time, but we need to keep electing and promoting true conservative candidates
     • ret_cpo says:

       August 3, 2012 at 9:15 am

       You are absolutely right Dwight, it can't be done in one election cycle, particularly because of the senate. In the house, there are districts that we will never get but just like we did in 2010, we will gain in 2012 and again in 2014. We will do this if we don't become complacent.

       God help us if Obama is re-elected. He tries his best to make congress irrelevant. If Romney is elected, and I think he will be if there is in fact an election in November, we still have to be vigilant.
3. Red47 says:

   August 3, 2012 at 8:13 am

   Umm…isn't this what the TEA Party movement has been doing all along? How is this hard to grasp? People are working so hard to understand the simple concept of groups of citizens who are sick of being illegally over-governed. Why wouldn't we be working to get the GOP back to its Roots? Why would we sit back and let the Progressives take over our party completely as the Dems have done? Our philosophy does not include a world of moral relativity. The Progs' does. Our world does not include collective government. Progs' does. We want them out of the GOP. Just because they call themselves Republicans does not make them any less guilty of shredding the Constitution at every opportunity. The Ron Paul followers are the agitators. The Democrats are professional agitators. The TEA Party has proven repeatedly that they are Americans who want their freedom back.

   In fact, the TEA Party needs to stop saying "we'll take our country back" and start saying "We'll take our freedom back".