So okay, I'll try again. The last time I DARED to ask this, some nutjob got pissed off and started slinging the usual petty insults (insecure about your party much?). Maybe, just maybe there is a Tea Partier here who would like to take a crack at a civil discussion?
I'd like some perspective from Tea Partiers here because I see so much that is conflicting.
Rather than the usual bumper sticker slogans and such, can someone give me very specific feedback on issues e.g. "We would overturn Roe v. Wade and make ALL abortion illegal under any circumstances." or "We would overturn the CRA of '64" or "We would eliminate Social Security and Medicare altogether" or whatever. The spectrum of what you guys want runs wide, depending on to whom the question is posed.
I mean "Less taxes!" and "No socialism!" or the usual stuff about "statist", "oppression" etc... just doesn't give much in the way of intellectual appeal to those of us who are curious but not members of the club.
So if you wouldn't mind, get specific! Let's hear exactly how you would fix our country! Who do you think best embodies the TP Ideals? Paul? Bachmann? Palin? Beck? Seriously, I have no clue about you guys and am not one to just instantly label millions of people I don't know, without giving them the chance to speak for themselves.
And no, I am not interested in The LibDems who want to tell me TP's are "X". Heard plenty of that already. Looking for 1st hand views, thanks.
What say you Tea Partiers?
Taxed
Enough
Already
There is no particular person that represents all of us. We are people from all walks of life, from different backgrounds, different cultures and different colors.
We want the Constitution to be used as the main guide for laws in our country (not the UN, not Europe, not China or any other country in the world).
We would love to have LIBERTY (not the gov't mandating our retirement (SS), our health care, our education, etc)
We do not believe that the 14th Amendment was permission to force the gov't to act like a nanny/authoritarian/babysitter. We don't want the gov't taking money from us to be spent on "charities" of the "gov't" choice.
We want to use our money, the way we see fit.
We do not mind paying taxes for roads, military, border securtiy, and minimal oversights for order.
We want justice applied equally, not where one group is "elevated" by "hate crimes" (if it is a crime, then it is a crime. the punishment should fit the severity) to punish one race in society (guess which one).
We want an ACCOUNTABLE gov't, that means when something really bad happens, the public isn't led thru a maze of gov't departments and bureaucracies until you forget why you were looking. To do that, the gov't must be reduced in size (at least the number of chiefs must be reduced).
We do not want our tax dollars spent on programs and research we find reprehensible, that is against our religions (there is always big business that will do things like that and our gov't does not need to support "immorality")
That is a good base. Can you find fault?