I will take issue that the TEA party is really being run by the Republicans though. While many GOPers have tried to co-opt their local TEA party, and some prominent GOP politicians and GOP apologist media commentators have headlined various TEA party events, I still think that at it’s core, the TEA party is as grassroots as they come, even drawing in a large number of self-proclaimed independents and even a number of fiscally conservative democrats

I say this as a person who has attended Tea Party rallies with my wife and children: The Republicans are running the Santa Fe Tea Party.

The person who sends us updates on Tea Party events is also the person who sends us Republican event updates.

They’re good people mind you, but from where I sit, I know who’s running the Tea Party. It’s been co-opted.

I would like it if my Republican Party was fiscally conservative, but they’d demonstrated they aren’t.

Look at how Bunning tried doing the right things last week; he didn’t get one ounce of support from the Republicans. He then caved.

EPIC FAIL on the part of the Republicans to be a bona-fide opposition party.

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Ivan

I won’t argue with you that the leadership in the GOP is fiscally irresponsible and definitely not conservative. I will take issue that the TEA party is really being run by the Republicans though. While many GOPers have tried to co-opt their local TEA party, and some prominent GOP politicians and GOP apologist media commentators have headlined various TEA party events, I still think that at it’s core, the TEA party is as grassroots as they come, even drawing in a large number of self-proclaimed independents and even a number of fiscally conservative democrats. As for McCain, I wish he would drop his personal crusade to become the longest running US senator in the country’s history and just go home. It is because of republicans like him that we are in the mess we are in currently.

The one really effective thing the TEA party can do is to hold all elected politicians accountable for their actions in congress and vote out, at the earliest opportunity, those who do not practice fiscal responsibility and vote out whenever possible, those who fight against the constitution and those who are corrupt.

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@skat:

Why ask BRob any questions? His answers are complete B.S. anyhow. He can pretend to be anything he wants to online. Nobody can prove him wrong. He wants us to believe that he is lawyer, educated at Brown. If he is, he is the first semi-illiterate Ivy League Attorney I have ever met. His arguments are ill conceived and specious at best. His use of logic is moronic. A real attorney would be able to do a much better job than what BRob is able to do. So he will tell you that he pays taxes, but I doubt it sincerely.

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I don’t think a third party is what is needed. I think the TEA party needs to take over the republican party and bring it back to being a true fiscally conservative party. The problem with talking about a third party is that it will take too long to amass a large enough base to be competitive with the republicans and democrats and in the meantime we will be subject to liberal panderers getting elected and making the entire mess worse than it already is.

Given that the Republicans are the ones really running the show in the Tea Party, good luck with that.

IOW, we need to get rid of the RINO’s and support those in favor of curtailing the federal government. I say curtail because many republicans now, similar to you saying they are liberal in spending too, only seek to grow the government at a slower pace than the democrats desire to.

Good luck with that. Watch the King of Rino’s, McCain, win re-election in November.
That will tell you how “fiscally conservative” the Republican party isn’t.

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@Mike’s America:

If the Zero succeeds in enacting his agenda, We will need something to happen which has never happened before in our nations history. We will need for this monstrosity to actually be undone. I am worried that the Conservative politicians will lack the bravery to do just that. A horrendously unpopular POTUS gave us the useless departments of education, and energy, and those are still here. My one huge complaint about the GOP, (and I believe a lot of others feel the same way,) is that they are content to use their turn in authority to oversee these massive increases in government power rather than reverse the damage. It is time to stop this perversion of the constitution.

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I am just going to repeat the main point here so it doesn’t get lost in the latest attempt by BLOB to distract us:

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I only needed to see one thing to know the Deficit Commission is just another Obama scam, the appointment of Andy Stern.

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Ivan

I don’t think a third party is what is needed. I think the TEA party needs to take over the republican party and bring it back to being a true fiscally conservative party. The problem with talking about a third party is that it will take too long to amass a large enough base to be competitive with the republicans and democrats and in the meantime we will be subject to liberal panderers getting elected and making the entire mess worse than it already is.

IOW, we need to get rid of the RINO’s and support those in favor of curtailing the federal government. I say curtail because many republicans now, similar to you saying they are liberal in spending too, only seek to grow the government at a slower pace than the democrats desire to.

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This is madness. By 2020 the Deficit will be 90% or more of the GNP.

We really do need a multiparty system as the current two-party system-both parties really are liberal in their spending-are not fixing the problem.

I with the Tea Party would become a third party.

I would support Sarah if she decided to lead this third party.

I won’t hold my breath though.

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kyle very good reading it was hard times less remembered than good times,i realy enjoyed the knock on the door thank you .

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