The Tea Party movement has never been anything other than a collection of pissed off people who don't seem to be able to produce a party platform
that they can collectively rally behind. To this day, I can't specifically state just what they are for or what they are against, the only thing I
know for sure is that they are pissed.
I really believe that they are fundamentally, republicans at heart who are upset at losing the last election. This is why, according to one of it's
founders, who admitted on "The Colbert Report," that the Tea Party wasn't officially formed until 32 days after President Obama's inauguration.
If they aren't republicans, maybe someone could explain why there isn't one congressional candidate backed by the Tea Party who is running as a
democrat. I mean really, what did they expect?
At least the Libertarian Party has enough organizational skills to construct a party platform;
www.lp.org... and the same could be said
for the Green Party;
www.gp.org...
I raised this issue some time ago in a previous thread entitled; "Tea Party, Where's The Beef?" which can be found here;
www.abovetopsecret.com...
In the absence of a party platform, they have left the barn door wide open for every nut job in America to walk in and upstage their movement and I
don't have to tell you that if you pile up enough nuts, the elephants will come a running.
Newt and Sarah are not the only nuts attempting to "take their party back." Let's not forget about Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Bachmann, Angle,
O'Donnell, Buck, Army, Rove, etc....
In truth, America will not again enjoy the luxury of a government representative of it's people until we outlaw lobbying and drastically change our
electoral process. I heard on the news this morning that state laws vary widely regarding lobbying of state legislators and that while in some
states, a lobbyist is not allowed to buy a legislator so much as a cup of coffee, in other states like Alabama, a lobbyist can give a legislator up to
$250 per day without reporting it to anyone. That comes to a little over $91,000 per year, per lobbyist and we wonder why they don't listen to us?
It's never been the "Party" that's the problem, it's who controls the party and right now, the people don't control any of them. We drastically
need a constitutional amendment which strictly prohibits paid lobbying of legislators and enacts publicly funded elections free from outside political
donations.