Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party’s ideas took root.
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The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform. In 2010, the public turned against Obama and the Democrats who ran Congress after a massive stimulus that didn’t work, and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on cash for clunkers, homebuyer tax credits and multiple bailouts (by both Bush and Obama). A massively expensive new health care entitlement was the straw that broke the taxpayers’ back. Our debt is a record high $15 trillion.
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What we want is someone with Ron Paul’s limited government ideals (minus teh crazee), Newt’s rhetorical skills, Santorum’s conviction, and Mitt’s resources. Such a candidate does not exist.
Ari Fleischer nails it? Yeah, if your an establishment republican that wants conservatives to go away I guess he does.
No, Richard, we don’t want conservatives to go away; we just want a conservatives platform with an emphasis on Tea Party ideals.
The TEA Party is waiting to see the whites of the candidate’s eyes. Then they (the TEA Party people) are going to roar alive and insist on being heard and respected.
ABO (Anybody But Obama) is alive and well in the hinter lands. What we despise and fear about Obama will have to be addressed, recognized and voiced by our candidate.
Even if he takes us for granted, we will ride him like a burr against a grinding wheel. He will be very aware of our presence. And we are geared up and ready to give him a Congress that he had best not ignore.
Heliotrope — March 7, 2012 @ 6:29 pm – March 7, 2012
ABO is not good enough. We can’t just vote against something. We need to vote for something. The “for” so far has been smaller government and less spending. We need a candidate that can credibly carry that message. Mitt Romney cannot. Rick Santorum really can’t, either. Gingrich can, because his congress held down federal government spending 1994-1998 and passed welfare reform. It’s not a perfect TP record but it’s something. And RP…isn’t getting this nomination.
Newt is the perfect sort of caniddate to come out of the convention because he’s everybody’s next-best option.
The Republican party is more worried about putting forth a candidate that will beat Obama, than a candidate that is best for the country. This is why I am currently looking at the Libertarian field.
alwaysfiredup,
With regard to your endorsement on Newt Gingrich, I’m going to quote of all people David Paterson (fmr Gov-NY), mainly because I think he hits it right on the mark with Speaker Gingrich when asked about the primary (not sure why his opinion was solicited) – New Gingrich … “is a multiple personality who’s often destroying himself.”
Because of that, Gingrich is not the man to nominate, because he will destroy himself and lose the race.