Should the Tea Party people leave the Republicans?

[planosteve]

I'm hearing Republicans disgusted with the party saying it may be time to leave the party in light of the dirty tricks used by the party against them in the recent primary.
John David Wells said last night he was just "this far' from revoking his membership.
Sarah Palin said. “So yeah, if Republicans aren’t going to stand strong on the planks in our platform, then it does no good to get all enthused about them anymore.”

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So, if a separate tea party was formed, would you leave the Republicans to join?

[bodine]

So then you have the Democrats and a bunch of non-electable splinter parties in national races...

That's smart.

[GFB]

Just keep trying to pick them off wherever possible.

[John In Austin]

Progressives have infultrated both the Republican and Democrat parties. Since the Democrats are now essentially communists the best approach is for tea party folks to take control of the Republican party.

[planosteve]

Progressives have infultrated both the Republican and Democrat parties. Since the Democrats are now essentially communists the best approach is for tea party folks to take control of the Republican party.

So, how's that been working for you? I don't think trying to replace corrupt politicians with slightly less corrupt ones has been all that successful.

[John in Plano]

If they reduce spending to a level this country can sustain while reducing the deficit I don't care what politicians call their political party.

What we have now are a bunch of people who spend spend spend, while whining that the people across the aisle are the problem.

Republicans say how great Reagan was and some even say Perry is great, while seeming to ignore they are/were D retreaded as R's

[GFB]

Progressives have infultrated both the Republican and Democrat parties. Since the Democrats are now essentially communists the best approach is for tea party folks to take control of the Republican party.

So, how's that been working for you? I don't think trying to replace corrupt politicians with slightly less corrupt ones has been all that successful.

It's working well.

Everywhere that an Establishment type Republican has been replaced with a Tea Party type, the Tea Party type has made some noise, and the House is slowly becoming more Conservative as more pressure is put on Boehner.

It's MORE dramatic when it happens in the Senate, as we found with Ted Cruz.

[planosteve]

Progressives have infultrated both the Republican and Democrat parties. Since the Democrats are now essentially communists the best approach is for tea party folks to take control of the Republican party.

So, how's that been working for you? I don't think trying to replace corrupt politicians with slightly less corrupt ones has been all that successful.

It's working well.

Everywhere that an Establishment type Republican has been replaced with a Tea Party type, the Tea Party type has made some noise, and the House is slowly becoming more Conservative as more pressure is put on Boehner.

It's MORE dramatic when it happens in the Senate, as we found with Ted Cruz.

Well, I will agree that Cruz's shutdown of the govt. was pretty dramatic all right.

[scarlett~nc]

I have 3 grandsons of voting age ..(and one 48 yr old son & his wife) that are tea party members ..

My 16 year old grandson, cannot vote yet, but he is leaning toward tea party also..

I think a lot of the young folks are !! at least the ones I am around !

[jellowrestling]

I have thought about this quite a bit. I remember when Democrats loved America. They did a lot of things which were wrong and harmful to America, but did it with the best of intentions. They despised the Socialists, and resisted them, but they eventually died out and the radical, America-loathing reprobates took over. They radicals just had to play the long game; they did, and they have purged the party of almost everyone with any decency and common sense. (Zell Miller was the last of the old-school Dems, and he would most likely be considered a Tea Partier today).

The task for the Tea Parties is different and more difficult, but if they stay the course, they can have a similar effect. The kleptocrats in the GOP (like Thad Cochran) despise the Tea Parties and will resist, but young people will choose integrity and calls for action and change. Young people increasingly realize that their future is being compromised by the kleptocrats in both parties, and the Tea Parties are the only alternative to that. The Tea Parties don't have the schools and media brainwashing the people from cradle to birth, but the lies of the Progressives are becoming increasingly stale, blatant and obvious.

Unless the GOP completely craters (ala the Whig Party), it doesn't make sense for the Tea Parties to bolt. As a movement within a party, the Tea Parties can remain focused on economic/fiscal issues, and not get mired in social issues like abortion, gay marriage, religion and such. Keep hammering away at the go-along-to-get-along kleptocrats in the GOP, and play the long game.

[Mark]

The Republican Party left me with the budget deal of 1990.

[Red Oak]

Progressives have infultrated both the Republican and Democrat parties. Since the Democrats are now essentially communists the best approach is for tea party folks to take control of the Republican party.

So, how's that been working for you? I don't think trying to replace corrupt politicians with slightly less corrupt ones has been all that successful.

It's working well.

Everywhere that an Establishment type Republican has been replaced with a Tea Party type, the Tea Party type has made some noise, and the House is slowly becoming more Conservative as more pressure is put on Boehner.

It's MORE dramatic when it happens in the Senate, as we found with Ted Cruz.

Well, I will agree that Cruz's shutdown of the govt. was pretty dramatic all right.

Wrongly Plano ! Obastard shut down at most 17% of the FEDGOD for a few days.

[Mark]

Yes, that government shutdown was 100% squarely on the shoulders of Barack Hussein Obama and Harry Reid.

[planosteve]

Yes, that government shutdown was 100% squarely on the shoulders of Barack Hussein Obama and Harry Reid.

In politics, YPIYR
In a Fox News poll conducted during the first two days of the shutdown, 42% of registered voters blamed Republicans for the shutdown (17% blamed 'Republican leaders' and 25% blamed 'Tea Party Republicans such as Ted Cruz'); while 32% blamed Democrats (24% blamed 'President Obama' and 8% blamed 'Democratic leaders'). The rest, 20%, said all sides were to blame.[217]

[ann jusko]

Ted Cruz did not shut down the government. People who aren't paying attention are the ones who say that. And those same people didn't see or hear the ruthless way Obama played it. "Punish the people as much as possible because I didn't get my way" was his goal.

No, the Tea Party shouldn't leave the Republican party. I'll stay and fight no matter the entrenched establishment's tactics. We are fighting for our nation and our kids and grandkids.

[planosteve]

Somebody else has voted yes. I have company!