Do you think the tea party is losing its focus on fiscal responsibility?
Fiscal responsibility was the mission. Now individual freedoms like gay marriage and abortion are causing rifts among partisan tea party members.
As the tea party grows, do you think Dems and Repubs will pay more attention to budget spending and individual liberty. Both parties can make issues on either side. Is this helpful?
I think since 70% of the country is united on the illegal immigration issue, it makes it an obtainable goal and therefore should be the next focal point.
Obviously fiscal responsibility is the base of it, but if I was a strategist I would focus on the issues with the broadest support. Pick 2 or 3 more issues that unite everyone.
And other recent questions ask why tea partiers aren’t focused on issues like gay marriage and abortion.
The tea party movement will lose its focus if it adopts a platform beyond spending and tax issues, in my humble opinion.
you have to remember, this whole movement started on taxes….
TEA Party = taxed enough already (their words, not mine)
when repeatedly told and reminded that their taxes were not going up, they changed the movement to be about fiscal responsibility. Ironically, they didn’t protest when Bush was President.
if the tea party becomes an “organized” party it will become corrupt like all parties and its mission failed.
they woke up America, scared a few politicians strait, and helped get rid of a few douches. i call it a success as long as they stay grass roots.
I don’t know they ever were about that, Taxed enough already or TEA party, well the name seems to be about Taxes, yet taxes are very low, and have been too low in the last ten years, that is one on the fact that put us in too so much debt in the last 9 years, I don’t get the tea party people I think they are more about rebelling against the President, and the two party system
Flawed premise. If fiscal responsibility were the teabaggers’ concern, their movement would certainly have begun during the Bush 43 regime.
Maybe you do not understand the Tea Parties.
Unlike the left, people on the right are Individuals. Each has his own point of view. A libertarian, a Conservative, the democrats, the republicans, the independents, the religious and atheist have different ideas but are working together for a common cause. To get rid of the huge government progressives.
Yeah, it seems like at the moment, they are concerning themselves more with figuring out who a REAL American is and disliking various social institutions that don’t have too much to do with fiscal responsibility (i.e., gay marriage, abortion).
Initially, they insisted that the tea party was a bipartisan effort encompassing all those who wanted to see America return to fiscal responsibility: people from all walks of life, differing social perspectives, races, etc.
Now, it’s been exposed for the conservative malcontent that it is….
Gay marriage and Abortion should not be tea party issues. Those are social issues and the tea party is about Fiscal. When Nancy Pelosi et al was ever so gladly pushing through the first stimulus/TARP under Bush that was enough. All Stimulus packages and social programs after that have been fuel to the fire.
NO
Overspending, big government, killing babies, and letting gays marry are all liberal ideologies that we are against.
They never had any. They wanted tax cuts, but they wanted military and entitlement spending to stay the same, or be increased, all the while lowering or eliminating the deficit. The TEA party has been pretty well taken over by the Republicans anyway. You can see GOP’s rubby fingerprints all over it.
I mean they hire the likes of Sarah Palin to speak at their meetings. Sarah is a Republican through and through. The TEA party is supposed to be a protest party, and reformers. You can’t get reform from incumbents – that much has been proven over the years.
Yes they HAVE lost what little focus they had. What they will end up doing is splitting the middle- aged white male vote, and siphon off Republican votes-the GOP is the last refuge of the white men’s vote. They’re going to end up losing even more of their political clout to women and minorities. Which isn’t necesarily a bad thing. Just take a look at the pictures of their “marches.” The vast majority are middle-aged white men.
Was fiscal responsibility the “mission” of the Tea Party movement? Then why was Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams whining about our President being an “Indonesian Muslim turned Welfare Thug” and “Racist-in-Chief”?
What’s so terribly “fiscal” about those comments?
Why, I do believe that there is nothing even remotely ‘fiscal’ in nature about such bigoted palaver.
Then at the “Tea Party Convention” earlier this Spring, the podium was given over to Joe Farah of the “World Net Daily” (or as I call it, the “Wingnut Daily”) whining about Obama’s supposedly ‘missing’ birth certificate. Even Andrew Breitbart, of all people, was ticked off by this nonsense.