Tea Party: It's up to us to make the changes

I'm glad to see there are others out there who feel the way that I do about what the tea party movement should be doing. A new party isn't the answer, but rather, changing the existing parties through removing the career politicians and running more conservative candidates, real conservatives.
Here are a few excerpts form a post on the Tea Party Nation site, written by Dave M. entitled "What is the Tea Party's primary goal?":

To start we should distance ourselves from any party and work towards removing power from the parties by illustrating how they gain power by supporting Career Politicians (individuals that enter politics as a profession and a means to gain power that will always put their career first, party second, and then maybe the country) and why they need the country to be divided along party lines

It's time to stop doing the work for these career politicians, contributing to their campaigns  making phone calls, holding signs, knocking on doors, unless they believe in the same principles we do. We need to stop changing our principles to match theirs, they need to change theirs to reflect ours or we won't support them.

Then by removing our support, no funding, refusing to work on behalf of career politicians, unsubscribing from mailing lists, reregistering as independent or conservative, and removing support from any group or individual that continues to support career politicians - if they're not working with us then their working against us and must feel the pain.

Of course here in Massachusetts it is hard to make anyone feel the pain when we don't ever have candidates to oppose those career politicians, whether on the state or national level. On the national level there were only a handful of House seats which were contested. had we contested them all, we would have forced the Democrats to spread their wealth around, and maybe we would have had a better chance to win. Sean Beilat and Richard Tisei should have been able to beat their slog opponents, maybe if the Democrats had more competition, they could have. On the state level we had 81 House seats and 21 Senate seats which weren't even contested. Talk about allowing politicians to make careers out of their jobs.

These are my suggestions to open up discussion and I have no belief that anyone in Congress would even consider bringing these up and that's why we need to use all platforms available to take the discussion to the people bypassing Congress until they have no choice but to listen. We need to stop trying to get the parties to listen; it's time we get the people to listen.It's time the people set the agenda; not the parties!

Are you ready to affect change?