The Real Tea Party Candidate
Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware’s Republican primary was certainly a shock to the Republican establishment. To tell the truth, it was something of a shock to the Tea Partiers, albeit a welcome one. Her win told the GOP conservatives won’t be taken for granted anymore.
We don’t just have to go along with everything they say. We don’t have to compromise our values. We don’t have to appease the Moderates, who are just Liberals in Republican clothing. It may be that O’Donnell won’t win, that the Moderates, now exposed as the Democrats they really are, will take their votes, and with a “Harrumph!”, go home.
They thought we were fooled by the Scott Brown “victory” in Massachusetts. Most of us were – I wasn’t one of them. A man who brags about having lunch with Obama? Who praises the most liberal senator ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate? Who only actually promised one thing?
Well this Tea Party politics is a new thing. No one’s ever seen anything quite like it. Before we can take back Congress and our country, we have to take back the party that used to represent conservatives (sort of) – the GOP.
Nobody likes the notion of third parties, but maybe that’s just the way it is. There are Liberals. There are Moderates. And there are Conservatives. Politicians fear that small, but mighty swing vote. That the swing vote is so crucial and precarious gives you an idea of the state of American politics.
Democrats are boasting, with mock sympathy, that we’ve just handed them Congress. Or maybe we’ve just begun to wake America up. Maybe the Tea Party has give America back its choices again.
If O’Donnell doesn’t do a “Scott Brown”, if she stands by her principles, states them clearly, and demonstrates that she’s ready to lead responsibly, more voters in Delaware might just get on her Tea Party Republican bandwagon.
The Tea Party is still an early movement, and in the end, the people will decide, not the politicians, not the Media, not Big Labor, Big Government, or Big Brother, what’s best for our country.
But the majority of Americans still have to be shaken out of their Liberal Media stupor. The critics are right when they point out that even elderly Tea Partiers still cling to their Social Security and their Medicare. Charlie Rangel’s district, with the full knowledge of his corruption, re-elected him overwhelmingly. As long he brings home the bacon, who cares about ethics?
That’s a sad state affairs for American politics, and a tough fight: convincing people that it’s wrong to rob the change out of public telephone booths (for the pre-cell phone agers, they were glass booths on the street with a telephone inside. You’d put in a dime or a quarter, and make your call).
It’s sad to think that voters regard the voting booth the way they regard the old-fashioned telephone booth. Unethical voters vote for unethical candidates. But this is the day of the ethical voter and, hopefully, the ethical candidate.
We don’t just have to go along with everything they say. We don’t have to compromise our values. We don’t have to appease the Moderates, who are just Liberals in Republican clothing. It may be that O’Donnell won’t win, that the Moderates, now exposed as the Democrats they really are, will take their votes, and with a “Harrumph!”, go home.
They thought we were fooled by the Scott Brown “victory” in Massachusetts. Most of us were – I wasn’t one of them. A man who brags about having lunch with Obama? Who praises the most liberal senator ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate? Who only actually promised one thing?
Well this Tea Party politics is a new thing. No one’s ever seen anything quite like it. Before we can take back Congress and our country, we have to take back the party that used to represent conservatives (sort of) – the GOP.
Nobody likes the notion of third parties, but maybe that’s just the way it is. There are Liberals. There are Moderates. And there are Conservatives. Politicians fear that small, but mighty swing vote. That the swing vote is so crucial and precarious gives you an idea of the state of American politics.
Democrats are boasting, with mock sympathy, that we’ve just handed them Congress. Or maybe we’ve just begun to wake America up. Maybe the Tea Party has give America back its choices again.
If O’Donnell doesn’t do a “Scott Brown”, if she stands by her principles, states them clearly, and demonstrates that she’s ready to lead responsibly, more voters in Delaware might just get on her Tea Party Republican bandwagon.
The Tea Party is still an early movement, and in the end, the people will decide, not the politicians, not the Media, not Big Labor, Big Government, or Big Brother, what’s best for our country.
But the majority of Americans still have to be shaken out of their Liberal Media stupor. The critics are right when they point out that even elderly Tea Partiers still cling to their Social Security and their Medicare. Charlie Rangel’s district, with the full knowledge of his corruption, re-elected him overwhelmingly. As long he brings home the bacon, who cares about ethics?
That’s a sad state affairs for American politics, and a tough fight: convincing people that it’s wrong to rob the change out of public telephone booths (for the pre-cell phone agers, they were glass booths on the street with a telephone inside. You’d put in a dime or a quarter, and make your call).
It’s sad to think that voters regard the voting booth the way they regard the old-fashioned telephone booth. Unethical voters vote for unethical candidates. But this is the day of the ethical voter and, hopefully, the ethical candidate.
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