I have left the Republican party after being a card carrying member for 32 years. Now that’s probably not totally true as I really feel that the Republican party has left me. I have always been a true Christian Conservative Constutionalist sense I was a senior in high school. My 4 years at Auburn University only served to deepen my conservativism. The Tea Party is a movement. No, better yet, a true revolution, that is revitilizing conservatisim. We have seen the Democratic Socialist Liberals in Congress, since taking control in 2006, completly ignore the will of the PEOPLE and attempt to move our Beloved Country into a socialist state. We have also seen our, once conservative, Republican party completely loose site of it’s conservative being and try and move us more toward the center. This loss of “sight” by the Republicans has, along with the vote of the far left since 2000, created a pro-spending and increasing growth of goverment which continues to imped on our rights as citizens and to attack, abuse, and totaly disregard our Constitution. Our elected “leaders” in congress have become immune to the wishes of their electorate and now envision themselves as the “all knowing” eleatist, who vote without regard to their “ignorant” electorate. The Socialist Demorcrats as well as many of the “moderate” Republicans in congress are voting, not for what’s best for our great Country, but what’s Best for them. That is what they think will keep them in their prersent position in the Congress.
The People are now speaking! And even with the recient voting in MA, VA, and NJ, the Socialist Liberals still do not hear and do not comprehend what is happening in our great Country. It is now time to stop “speaking” and begin “yelling”! We must yell from the top of the mountains to the floor of the valleys! From the east to the west! From the north to the south! From the great plains to the coastlines! We MUST and WE WILL BE HEARD!
This situation that “We, the People” now find ourselves in did not happen overnight. We as a conservative people must take our fair share of the blame. We sat back for years and allowed our elected Representatives slowly abuse our Constitution. We allowed them to abuse and disregard us,by ourselves,not holding Them accountable. We did this by re-electing them, term after term, and then once we were totaly disenfranchised, “We, the People” tried to make a quick change. WOW! Some “Change we can believe in”! Right!
I’m a true and total Conservative. I’m what big “Sis” calls a “Right Wing Radical”. I’m a Veteran, a Christian, Anti-abortion, both Socially and Fisicaly, Conservative. But let’s leave abortion out of the picture since I believe that the only way that we will ever stop abortion is to change the hearts and minds of the people. Let’s leave Christianity out of the picture, because I’m not trying to impose my faith on anyone. I’ll witness to any one that will listen, but our Constitution only guarranties us the freedom of Religion, not the right to impose it. Let’s leave the “Veteran” out of the picture, as many have not fought and searved in our Armed Forces, yet they still love our great Country. This basically leaves Fisical Conservatisim and our Great Constitution that binds us together as the Tea Party.
Since we didn’t get to this point overnight, then it goes without saying that we will not be able to totaly change things overnight. We must take a systematic aproach in order to make the changes that will direct us away from socialism and big goverment back towards our beloved Constitution and less goverment. Towards truly free based Capatilism with lower taxes and less spending and more States rights. Freedom of choice of our healthcare system, changing what needs to be changed, but with out any goverment involvement. Developing our tremendous own natural energy resources, both organic and “green”, and becomming less dependant on other nations for our fuel and energy. This means drilling where ever the oil, natural gas, and clean burning coal is found with NO to a Cap and Trade Tax! We must find and support Conservative Candidates to run aganist the Liberal Socialist. That will mean that we will have to vote out even those Republican moderates that now inhabit the Congress. But, in order to accomplish these tasks, I strongly feel that we must do that within the confines of a “Two Party” system. Lest those that forget, Ross Perot cost us the election 1992. Mr Clinton won with less than a 50% majority. We, must as the Tea Party, be the conscious of the Republican party! My greatest fear is that we will attempt to run a “3rd Party” candidate in a state such as Nevada, and by doing so, split the vote and allow a “low life” like Harry Reid to remain in power in the Senate.
In the end it is my prayer that we, as the Tea Party, will remain true to our Constitution, our Country, and ourselves and vote these low life eleatist out of office and return to a goverment “Of the People, By the People , and For the People”.
Amen,
Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen: Nice rant! thousands of sincere people just like you have stepped forward and protested all the things that the US government – congress, senate, various bureaucracies – are doing wrong. Yea team!
so far this has accomplished nothing and will continue to do nothing except strengthen the Oligarchy as you are playing right into their hand. Until the basic system of the Federal Income Tax is eliminated NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE!!!! So, your efforts should be concentrated on the core disease, all the rest are symptoms, in order to get the scenario whereby we can get a true free enterprise system re-established and release the stranglehold that the tax lobbyists have on our congress. To punch threw the armor you must have a very focus point of attack — an armor piercing bullet (HR25 ‘The Fair Tax Bill’) — all your snowballs are just bouncing off and are laughable! Protesting is going to accomplish squat. Focus all efforts on the Fair Tax Bill which is only thing that will get the ball rolling — YES!, THE ONLY THING!!! THE REST WILL COME TO PASS WHEN THE PROPER STAGE IS SET.