Shouldn’t the tea party support the concepts of peace, a secular nation, as well as marijuana legalization?
If the Tea Party were truly more than a shill for republicans and white conservative culture warriors:
Shouldn’t they advocate peace, as the wartime military budget accounts for more than every social program combined?
Should they not believe in 100% separation of church and state?
Should they be FOR the ending of the bloated and unnecessary and expensive drug war?
Not trying to attack, as I actually believe in a lot of the “personal freedom” and “stop spending” platitudes from the tea party, however, whenever I bring up one of those subjects, I feel like I’m talking to George Bush or Rick Santorum, not Ron Paul.
@Awesome – I get that.
1. Taxes are mostly spent on the military. Cut spending, cut taxes.
2. Churches should pay property taxes, reducing the taxation on the common working man.
3. The DEA is a huge budget drain.
Pissing on the memory of Abraham Lincoln gives them a b0ner.
The Tea Party is against too many taxes. There may be libertarians and conservatives in the groups, but they’re only united by taxes.
WTF is this hard for libs to get…
Who says the tea party isn’t an advocate of peace? Social programs are always failures that have hidden agendas that get more wasted money thrown at them. Many do feel weed should be legalized. They believe in the constitution and the founding fathers most of who were Christians.
The Tea Party movement began as a movement in support of Ron Paul. I’m not a huge fan of libertarianism, but at least they are based on principles and they’re consistent.
But then the movement was co-opted by the Republicans. GOP sources poured in money and the movement was built up and promoted by Fox News. All the new leaders of the Tea Party movement were Republicans. The Republicans, of course, wanted to morph it into the We Hate Obama Party. It was all about harnessing people’s anger.
The GOP is not really about principles. When a Democrat gets elected president, the Repubs go into a four year long hissy fit. At this point, they simply oppose anything Obama says or does or wants. This is nothing new–they treated Clinton and Carter the same way.
The original Ron Paul Tea Party would certainly be all for bringing the troops home, ending the drug war, and all those personal freedom and stop spending issues. Because to them it’s not just about party, who’s in control. But the Republicans are angling to make Obama fail, so you can see them waiting for Obama and the Democrats to take a position, to propose an action, and then come down 180 degrees opposed. Getting back into power is more important to the Republicans than the actual issues.
To nobody’s surprise (at least nobody outside the Tea Party movement), all the Tea Party candidates who got elected in 2010 turned out to be business-as-usual Republicans once in office. What more proof do you need?
I do believe in separation of church and state, but that doesn’t mean I believe in anarchy. I’m not going to vote for something that goes against my principals, like gay marriage. As it stands people hate smokers, and the government has done everything in their power to try and restrict people from smoking, so why would we legalize a drug that has as much tar in one joint as an entire pack of cigarettes, especially when the entire thing is about preventing cancer. That would kind of defeat the purpose of what voters have done don’t you think? BTW, I am a smoker, but I’ll be the first to admit that if I had never started, I wouldn’t have a problem trying to quite, I pretty much feel that way about all drugs so I’m not going to support legalizing them. Alcohol is another legal drug that destroys peoples lives and is much worse than smoking if you ask me.
What costs the American tax payer so much money is all the lobbying, corruption, and mismanagement of funds going on in politics. People can blame it on whatever they like but the truth is our government has robbed us and now they are trying to pass the buck by playing the blame game.