Dole Institute Pat Cadell - The Impact of the Tea Parties

[silveraspenleaf]

The ship is lost, abandon ship! Silver is the life preservers and gold is the lifeboat. Keep talking all you want. They want us fighting amongst ourselves. Practice non compliance. Save yourselves instead of trying to change the crooks in the administration and banking cartel.

[pllly]

Hehe, doesn't it look like the set is too small for both of these guys?

[David40really]

Yeah, It reminds me of open house at my kid's school when we had to sit at our child's little desk. The guy on the right must be over six and a half feet tall.

[David40really]

This may have been true at the time, but these Tea Party groups have evolved into a neo-conservative tool to convince their members that all they need to do is put the Republicans back in power and everything will be OK. As such, the movement is doomed to failure for lack of a principled philosophical foundation. This country's only hope is thousands of "Secret Freedom Fighter" type individuals.

[dkesselr1]

Not if I can help it, but I have seen some of what you are talking about.. Education is the key, and the tea party leaders that I have met have no opposition to that. The Tea Party in our area has been putting forth efforts to teach the Constitution, principles of the founders, the proper role of government, etc. Get involved and teach a class or help with on. These people know that something is screwed up, it is our responsibility to inform them just exactly what that something is.

[David40really]

Don't know where you are from and I can only speak from what I observe locally. Here in Pinellas County, Florida, the Tea party split into two groups because they could not even get along with each other. One group, the Pinellas "Patriots" kicked me out almost immediately, the other group, the S. Pinellas Patriots quickly censored me and told me to stop posting lessons on the Constitution or posting anything that expressed an opinion. I see nothing positive coming from these groups locally.

[dkesselr1]

The Punta Gorda Tea Party group has been great to me. In your area check out Campaign for Liberty. I think they have a good sized group in Pinellas. It seems as though the different counties in Florida can be like night and day politically and Constitutionally.