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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)
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Reports and rumors of the Republican party bringing Tea Party activists (TPA) into the Republican Party sheep pen, may be comtemplated, but having been involved with the Tea Party, I believe I can say that TPA folks are in no hurry to embrace any party. I believe most TPA people are just that … people. Individuals who have grown tired and weary of the mainstream media and mainstream politics. What they have in common is not political party membership (although I am a Republican and many others of us are serious party members) but a love for the United States Constitution and the ideals which have made this country what it was and can still be.
A report from Fox News has this quote which seems to point out the problem Republicans have with understanding TPA:
“If you have to run a focus group to understand the tea party movement,” the GOP source said, “you never will understand the tea party movement.”
As one member of the TPA , I am not hard to understand and I am neither radical, nor a “racist”,”birther” or “truther.” There are some TPA that are admittedly one or perhaps all four, and probably some who are far more to the right, than Marx and Alinsky were to the left. I try to check facts and point out false information, no matter from what direction it might arrive.
So, we (TPA) do not march in lock-step, nor do we take orders from some central headquarters. What suggestions we do follow, we follow in the interest of maintaining our position in the world and having an impact on all executive, legislative and judicial levels from local to national, and perhaps even the world. And, we hope to accomplish the foregoing through adhering to the United States Constitution and not a progressive manifesto.
