Meet the Tea Party Republican Candidates for City Council
Here are the Tea Party Republican candidates for city council. I think its important people in this town know who they are and what they stand for.
The reason this is important is because the Tea Party movement has done its best to try to pretend that they are just a collection of fiscal conservatives that occassionally have a few weirdos in their midst that like to dress up in period garb or carry around the old Don't Tread on Me flag. It's actually called the Gadsden Flag.
Truth is the Tea Party was actually started by the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party. Ron Paul was their messiah. Then, the GOP decided to infiltrate and envelop the Tea Party in to the Republican Party.
I actually think the Texas Gubernatorial Election was the watershed moment when the Tea Party was swallowed up by the Republicans. Deborah Medina was the candidate of the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party in Texas and most of the Tea Party people were behind her.
That is until Sarah Palin came to Texas and endorsed Rick Perry. At the time, Palin was the big Tea Party darling.
Essentially the Tea Party is now just another term for the far right wing of the Republican Party, and is not only fiscally conservative, but is largely focused on social conservatism.
That, I believe, will ultimately be the undoing of the Tea Party.
Locally, the extremist religious conservatives have taken over the Tea Party and are in charge. Many in the Republican Party don't like the fact that the inmates are running the asylum, but that will eventually boil over.
The high profile Tea Party candidates don't represent the majority of the traditional Republicans in El Paso. They are just the loudest and most extreme, so they get the attention. There is a point when the traditional Republicans will finally get tired of the nuts and deal with them.
In the mean time, the religious extremists are the face of the Tea Party, and the Republican Party, in El Paso. Ironically, the they are Tom Brown's stable of candiadates and its ironic that a guy who basically has no real history in the Republican Party in El Paso is now calling the shots for the most visible Republican candidates. So here they are:
The reason this is important is because the Tea Party movement has done its best to try to pretend that they are just a collection of fiscal conservatives that occassionally have a few weirdos in their midst that like to dress up in period garb or carry around the old Don't Tread on Me flag. It's actually called the Gadsden Flag.
Truth is the Tea Party was actually started by the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party. Ron Paul was their messiah. Then, the GOP decided to infiltrate and envelop the Tea Party in to the Republican Party.
I actually think the Texas Gubernatorial Election was the watershed moment when the Tea Party was swallowed up by the Republicans. Deborah Medina was the candidate of the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party in Texas and most of the Tea Party people were behind her.
That is until Sarah Palin came to Texas and endorsed Rick Perry. At the time, Palin was the big Tea Party darling.
Essentially the Tea Party is now just another term for the far right wing of the Republican Party, and is not only fiscally conservative, but is largely focused on social conservatism.
That, I believe, will ultimately be the undoing of the Tea Party.
Locally, the extremist religious conservatives have taken over the Tea Party and are in charge. Many in the Republican Party don't like the fact that the inmates are running the asylum, but that will eventually boil over.
The high profile Tea Party candidates don't represent the majority of the traditional Republicans in El Paso. They are just the loudest and most extreme, so they get the attention. There is a point when the traditional Republicans will finally get tired of the nuts and deal with them.
In the mean time, the religious extremists are the face of the Tea Party, and the Republican Party, in El Paso. Ironically, the they are Tom Brown's stable of candiadates and its ironic that a guy who basically has no real history in the Republican Party in El Paso is now calling the shots for the most visible Republican candidates. So here they are:
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