You have made a grievous miscalculation.
The tea party movement has energized the Reagan Right in ways you never dreamed of. It's the Contract with America gone supernova! The problem for you, Republicans is that this energy isn't yours to spend. You plan on riding this wave to overwhelming victory in November, and there is no doubt that it will help your candidates, to the extent that they campaign as limited government candidates.
The problem is that over the last 15 years, the party has offered up such liberal, RINO candidates that if you haven't divorced your party from Conservative ideals, you're at least cheating on them. John McCain is not a conservative. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Kennedy. Meg Whitman is a political whore.
The Republican party in it's present configuration can't lay claim to the Conservative label anymore. The best you have attained recently is the "slightly less horrible than Democrats" label, which does not connect with the tea party movement. This November you're going to find that the few true tea party candidates who grew out of the movement will do well, along with a few RINOs who talk the talk. But the McCains and Megs and your liberal, big-government posers are going to have to win based on being less worse than the alternative.
We the taxpayers are not going to rest until you stop stealing our income and handing it to thieves and political cronies.
- We are not going to smile at you while you take our family income and pass it out like party favors.
- We don't want you to take funds from Socialist government projects and redirect it to Capitalist government projects. We want you to stop taking it altogether.
- We want you to remember who the hell earned it and we want you to treat it with respect and gratefulness instead of feeling entitled to it.
- We want government re-examined and largely dismantled.
- We want our businesses de-regulated.
- We want fair tax rates, not a "fair tax" added to the existing tax.
- Fair means that everyone pays the same rate, not that you use tax code to make up for all of history's past unfairness.
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