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The GOP and the Tea Parties

by | 12:47 pm, March 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

A guest post by Tres Melton of The Green Dragon Tavern It can be deadly to focus on narrow issues, and ignoring the broad strokes can be just as deadly. The GOP is more attractive to the Tea Parties and 9/12 Projects as well as the many other liberty-oriented groups than the Democrats are, but that does not mean that their support is a foregone conclusion for the GOP.  I have researched and written about this and posted it on the Green Dragon site. If Republicans cannot understand the motivation for the Tea Parties then they will never be able to avail themselves of the energy their activists wield. If the GOP can’t select candidates that liberty activists can get behind this time then they run the risk that these groups will form a third party in the next two years. Make no mistake, if they do form an alternative party, the majority of their followers will come from the independents and from the GOP. This would be devastating to both the liberty groups and the GOP and leave the socialists in power for quite some time. I have heard it said that Obama’s election was the best thing that could have happened to the GOP, as it has motivated them to action. It has led them, to a lesser degree than it should have, into introspection of their philosophies and ideals. It has pushed the independents that are not socialists away from the liberal/progressive policies of the Democratic Party, and given them cause to look again towards less government. These are all good things and opportunities not to be squandered. We need to adopt a party platform, resolutions, and candidates that can attract these new people. The support of these newly-minted liberty groups is not a certainty, but what is a certainty is that the opposition of these groups would be devastating.
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  1.   Donincolorado
      March 9th, 2010 @ 8:53 am

    This is right on target. The GOP has a small window to show they are true fiscal conservatives and are the the Party of Yes when it comes to individual rights and freedoms. That window may have shut just a little last week when the majority of GOP Senators abandoned Senator Bunning when he demanded that the Senate actually find the money to pay for the 10 billion to extend unemployment benifits. Senator Snowe took to the floor and chasitised Senator Bunning saying his attitude does not represent the majority of the GOP Senators. Really?

  2.   Chris Maj
      March 9th, 2010 @ 9:53 am

    In some places, there are still too many loud socialist big government neo-conservatives in the GOP, though, for the small government conservative libertarian tea partiers to get more firmly (back) on board.

    As a meta-aside, I think the PPC cultivates the lines of communication necessary for such a transition.

  3.   Marty Renn
      March 9th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

    I agree with all three of these points. I love the fact that Obama has done the typical Carter-sque liberal/progressive big “government will solve everything”. Its shown folks what “big spenders” really are.

    I just hope that the folks that we put there remember to be counter to the GW Bush mantra of big government under the guise of “compassionate conservativism”.

    The 94 “Revolution” was there to be a small government Republican policy push. Hopefully, they can relearn that and lose the big spending, big government lessons of “43″.

  4.   Marty Renn
      March 9th, 2010 @ 8:37 pm

    I agree with all three of these points. I love the fact that Obama has done the typical Carter-esque “government will solve everything”. Its shown folks what “big spenders” really are.

    I just hope that the folks that we put there remember to be counter to the GW Bush mantra of big government under the guise of “compassionate conservativism”.

    The 94 “Revolution” was there to be a small government Republican policy push. Hopefully, they can relearn that and lose the big spending, big government lessons of “43″.

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