Re: Tales of the Tea Party

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>My impression is that this is what the Tea Party was originally. Then
>>we had a bunch of socially conservative people join the movement and
> push it in that direction. And now, perhaps, it's coming back to its
>>original intent?
>
> I find it interesting though, that of 186 tea party candidates nationwide?
> All are Republican candidates.

Well, the Republican party has historically had more libertarians than
the Democratic, so that doesn't completely surprise me. There are
Democratic libertarians out there, though, if you can believe it! ;)
(http://davekopel.org/ for one)

> The majority of organizations that rally
> around the tea party and help organize the events are conservative
> organizations and leaders (such as Dick Army and Freedomworks).

When you say conservative, do you mean social or economic? My point is
that the Tea Party was *started* by libertarians, which is the latter.
If you're talking social, that is what I believe happened as time went
on. Some economic conservatives brought their social conservative
baggage with them. Which is unfortunate, as I think the Tea Party
needs to stick to economic conservatism to be "non-partisan" (or a new
spectrum of partisanship, anyway).

> While they may be moving more towards (back to) the fiscal concern, they are
> picking candidates who often seem as prone to running on social/religious
> concerns as anything else.

Yeah, bad in the long run for them.

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