The Tea Party

Some years ago (2008) I opined in a newspaper column  that I was looking for competence in elected officials, not moral rectitude. I even conceded that, in spits of his personal foibles, Bill Clinton was a pretty successful president – particularly when compared to  Bush.

With the Tea Party, which of course is not a political party at all but a political movement, I am willing to go even further. I’ll accept almost any one who votes to get this nation back on its financial footing.

It is almost mantra for the Main Stream media to bas Republican candidate O’Donnell of tiny Delaware for her personal beliefs and her personal finances. My latest criteria is “How will she vote?”

If the Democrats can (and do) overlook the Lewinski scandal, and the Geithner IRS debacle, then we can overlook O’Donnell’s kooky moral approbations on masturbation and her IRS problems.

This nation is in financial peril, and I don’t much care if the candidate is (fill in the blank), if I can count on them to stop this headlong rush to financial ruin, because it will make no difference who promptly paid their taxes if no one has any money to pay any taxes!

This nation is on schedule for 1,200,000 foreclosures this year. Who hasn’t been hassled by the IRS, so I have some sympathy for O’Donnell. As to nutty ideas, I have published more than a few of mine over 30+ consecutive years of newspaper columns.

My brief with O’Donnell is that she is religiously driven, and I am not but I was once invited to a Moonie-sponsored conference. I explained I was an Atheist. They replied, “You are an ardent anti-Communist. After we have defeated Communism, then we can then discuss theology.’

And that is the way I feel about the Tea Party. I share with them the major theme of their protest: “Stop Increasing Taxes.” After that is over, then I realize that not all Tea Party members are on the Religious Right, but I am willing to discuss theology – or if necessary ally with others to defeat a potential Theocracy – but first we must address the “Clear and Present Danger.”

The American people have, in poll after poll, expressed their opposition to almost every one of the major planks of the Obama administration, but with the lemming-like support of the Democrats in Congress they have plowed on against the will of the people – on Obamacare, Cap and Trade, Immigration reform and unless this train is stopped, it will destroy even more.

I doubt the ability of Republicans to derail this (semi)(quasi)(pseudo) socialist movement without the passion generated by the Tea Party – after all the Republican establishment supported Murkowski’s in Alaska, and Castle in Delaware and the Christ in Florida. So far the Tea Party has had its major successes against Republicans in the Republican establishment, I seriously doubt the Republicans can win the Senate and the House – I would not be surprised if they won neither – but they will nevertheless blunt any further Obama excesses.