Tea Party is NOT a GOP event
Leave it to the Republicans to jump in and ruin a good thing. Much like the parents that listen to rap music and go emo to be “cool” with their kids, the GOP has tried to adopt the recent tea party movement as their own and use it for their own means.
I’m all for the advancement of the movement, but the GOP needs to realize that the movement is just as much a movement against the GOP establishment as it is against the current administration. Years upon years of lackadaiscal GOP leadership and quid pro quo legislature makes them just as bad.
Sure, they aren’t the ones in the drivers seat behind the multi-trillion dollar fiasco currently going on, but they certainly haven’t been trying too hard to put on the brakes. The best they can claim is that they haven’t gone out of their way to forward the issue.
I’ve never really associated my self with any one party, and I don’t know that I’m going to start now (although I’m considering it), but the Republicans have earned a spot on the “not eligible” side of my ballot.
If there are any GOP folks out there reading this, I have this to say. Pass it on to your GOP friends.
The Tea Party movement of late 2008 and early 2009 is a citizens movement. It has no party affiliation (except being aligned somewhat out of the Democrat field) and no party sponsorship. The fact that you’ve tried, in a vain attempt at redemption in the eyes of your constituents, to hijack the movement only proves that you haven’t learned a damn thing in the last few cycles and you never will. The time is nigh for the current “good ol’ boys” establishment in Washington to fall. And I can only hope that it doesn’t come to violence.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I agree with you. None of my experiences at various tea parties, tax rallies and other gatherings of political dissent led me to believe that any of the events were orchestrated or planned by the GOP/Republicans. In fact, the gatherings i gathered and my research indicates that the TEA Party Movement has all the hallmark characteristics of true grassroots movement. Lack of Organization, Lack of an identifiable central leadership show the TEA Party movement to be a true rise from individual citizens and not some contrivance of the republican party. I have wrote an article about Pondering the future of the TEA Party Movement that you can visit here: http://www.examiner.com/x-11172-Minneapolis-Independent-Examiner~y2009m6d11-The-TEA-Party-Movement–Pondering-the-future
Respectfully,
Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot