Republicans Liability to Tea Party

Ever since the election, we have been reading and hearing how the tea party is all done, how we no longer are relevant and that we might as well go and well, make tea. needless to say I disagree.

The latest article I have come across is from The Hutchinson Report News entitled "Tea Party Now a Huge GOP  Liability". There is one paragraph in particular I disagree with:

The Tea Party, in effect, wildly overreached and many conservatives didn’t like it. Tea Party backed congressional members stalled every piece of legislation that might have put people back to work, demanded draconian slashes in Medicare and Social Security, gummed up the works on debt reduction talks between Obama and GOP House leaders, and wasted congressional time and energy passing bills and amendments to kill health care reform as well as education, health, social service and law enforcement programs locally and nationally. The result was that Congress was at a virtual stall for two years and public approval of Congress dropped to lows that made used car salespersons look like public champions.

This illustrates the case that those who call themselves republicans and conservatives are anything but. The tea party is where the real conservatives are, not the Republican Party. It is those tea party backed congressional members who are holding out for traditional conservative principles, not those establishment republicans like John Boehner who thing they are conservatives.

True conservatives won't bend on illegal immigration, higher taxes for the rich, higher spending, Obamacare or any other of the "compromises" we are seeing from the Republican Party. True conservatives will fight for what they believe in and not cave on their principles.

No, Mr. Hutchinson, it isn't the tea party that has become a huge liability to the GOP, it is the GOP which has become a huge liability to the tea party. They are the ones who have sold themselves out in the interest of keeping what little power they have. The are trying to mimic the Democrats by lowering themselves to the standards which are not true conservative standards.

It is time for the Republican Party to realize they aren't going to make it the way they are going and they are the ones who need to change back to true conservatism. It is not the tea party who needs to change to some made-up conservatism the republicans think is real.