Tea Party Activisits and Supporters, Helping Bring The GOP Back Home
By admin | September 1, 2010
As myself and many in the Tea Party have been advocating for, Tea Parties all over the country have been helping to put truly conservative candidate back onto the GOP ticket.
With our grass roots momentum, ideas, and passion, and the GOPs organizational structure and money we can help bring our country back to it constitutional roots and a sane sustainable fiscal policy.
Toward that goal we can now applaud the great state of Alaska for electing the Tea Party supported Joe Miller onto the ticket there in November. Also, I hope that many in that state show great respect to Senator Lisa Murkowski for being gracious enough to concede that Miller has won, so that he can now get on the campaign trail, and let people out there understand what conservatism is all about, without being tied up in court.
But, with this victory comes the demand, for us as Tea Party activists to not just sit and gloat on our achievement of getting so many Tea Party supported candidates on the ballot all over the country.
It’s now time for us to run the really hard part of this race, to get out in front of not just other conservatives and explain why we are for smaller government, less taxes, and more personal freedoms.
But, it is our time to do the same thing with the average person, that may not know quite as well how and why these principle work every time they are tried, and to explain why they will work, and ultimately to help elect these candidates that will bring those ideas to our government.
Don’t get me wrong, many polls in many races now show Tea Party candidates not only ahead with other conservatives but ahead or running in close races for the general election.
Now is the time for the Tea Party to help push this over the line. Put together Tea Party forums, or meet and greets, where people can hear and talk to your candidates. Put together Tea Party events where conservative speakers come and talk, or about propositions that are on your ballot; go to your representatives town halls, if they are having one (ours isn’t) and ask them the hard questions about why they voted for federal power grabs, or to add to your taxes, or to take away your freedom of choice for what is best for your own health care.
If you don’t want to take on any of these then go and volunteer a day with a conservative candidate that you support, help them canvas, or put up signs, or just talk to as many people as you can, strike up a conversation in a line about the candidate and about the things that need to be changed or fixed.
This is not just for federal or state level elections, one of the best ways to effect things is in your local elections, whether its a city, county, or state representative election, these are the folks that often need the help the most, and can benefit the most from volunteers helping them, because they are not the elections that get the most publicity, but they are the ones that have the most effect and power in your neighborhood!
The point is with so many victories we cannot stop and smell the roses, we need to keep moving forward, through November and into 2012. Lets hope that this November 2nd we will be able to celebrate many more Tea Party candidates going to Washington, or your state house, or your local city council, as we have been able to watch make it onto the GOP ticket.
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This is not the Tea Party that I went to at the beginning! Just a bunch of fed up Middle Class Americans angry and tired of being “worked over” by both Parties! Who are you people that want to cut your nose off to spite your face! Who are you people with retoric that’s destroying America! Who are you people that let yourself be usurped by a lunatic fringe? Look at MN! Cancel the Parks over the Fourth of July but neither Party reins in the corruption, waste, fraud, or the bailout of their cronies in big business or big Government! Instead you attack MY Social Security that I won’t get back in real dollars what I put in since working at age 14! Already frozen and taxed! One Party wants to raise my taxes which are already more than 50% total while the other wants to cut services the Government should provide! Who’s side are you on! Certainly not mine! YOU DON’T REPRESENT ME!
U.S. Veteran 67-73; Tea Party Independant
Hi Michael,
Unfortunately, our politicians since the 1930′s have been spending more than our country can sustain and we are now beginning to reap the whirlwind of all those years of bad decisions.
But as I wrote it this post on social security “The Tea Party, Eliminating Social Security?”
“No serious discussion has ever been made within the Tea Party about simply ending Social Security and Medicare, this fact stems back to a true belief in the rule of law, and the fact that those that have retired, or are about to retire, and have paid into this broken system, have a contract with America to receive the benefits they have paid their entire working lives for.”
You should read that post it talks about ideas that have been discussed within the Tea Party and what can be done to help our country get back onto a good financial footing while also keeping the promises we have made to those such as yourself that where forced to pay into the system.
Also, thank you for your service, I myself have served in both Iraq and Afghanistan…