Praising the Tea Party — and urging its limitations
Bookworm on Feb 11 2010 at 9:24 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Bill Whittle’s videos are wonderful. This one praises and explains the Tea Party movement, and then says that the Republicans should shape their goals to match Tea Party goals, ensuring electoral victory, rather than allowing the Tea Party to become a full-fledged competitor, dividing conservative votes, and ensuring a conservative loss at the polls. I strongly suggest you watch it.
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I applaud Sarah Palin for advocating that the Tea Party Movement and the GOP ally. (Actually I applaud her for many reasons) Rush Limbaugh and other conservative spokesperson are also on board. The TPM musts not become a third party movement, and the adherents need to realize that the GOP is the best vehicle to achieve their essential goals. Even thought they may have to compromise on some of the the tangential issues. I have been disgusted with the GOP for some time, but we must not let the ideal become the enemy of the good–or something like that.
Perhaps Republican candidates can align themselves with the Tea Party by taking a Tea Party Pledge, sort of like the 1994 Contract with America. This would focus on reducing deficits. Everything else (less government control over individuals, shrinking entitlements) would be subsumed under that broad, appealing umbrella.
There will be status quo maintainers in the GOP that wish to keep their sweet heart deals with bureaucrats, DC insiders, and their Democrat counter-parts.
For example, those like Peggy Noonan or others who have Reagan or conservative credentials (being the son of a conservative intellectual for example) or the biological son of Reagan, are all obstacles. And there’s little reason for them to ally, because they aren’t interested in the restoration of the Republic so much as they are interested in obtaining fame, status, and respect.
These were notable by the fact that they immediately sided against Sarah Palin on the last election.
They will follow, if a supreme leader is in power. But they won’t help us get that leader into power. They’ll only arrive at the end to receive handouts and assignments as part of the winning side. And it doesn’t matter if it was Reagan or Obama that had won.
That Glenn Beck show was of particular interest to me because it pointed up the fact that there are Progressives in the GOP as well as in the Dems. I had thought in terms of infiltration by Leftists, but with most Leftists, I think there is a definite Socialist/Communist connection. McCain and Bush don’t fit that description, but they _do_ fit into the Progressive definition…they want many of the same social benefits provided by the government, but don’t go whole hog on the government control issue, and seem to be fiscally more reasonable. Nevertheless – they _are_ progressives, and we need to identify them and decide if they belong in the GOP or not. I’m not so sure that the TPers can’t make a third party, but if they can, it won’t be feasible by 2012. They need first to try to reclaim the GOP while building political strength. If they build sufficient strength, then either the GOP will come back to its initial conservatism or the TP will be able to form a new party.
Either way – it’s going to take time.
It’s good to be aware…
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