Is it time for the Tea Party to become a political party?

I don't always agree politically with Judson Phillips, but I saw this article in the Washington Times Community Section, and he is spot on 100% regarding this issue of the Republican Party using the Tea Party with nothing in return for the Tea Party.

But while I agree 100% with his synopsis in this particular article about how the GOP Establishment only uses and manipulates the Tea Party, while it disdains them and then ignores them and offers them nothing in return, if the Tea Party does become a political party will it be born with basically the same divide it has now?

Especially the divide on foreign policy? Will a new party with mostly the same old cast of characters from the old Republican Party who latch on to the Tea Party, even if its in name only, avoid the same pitfalls of the current Republican Party?

Yes it will be devoid of the John McCains, Lindsay Graham's, John Boehners and Eric Cantors because of issues like amnesty and capitulation to Obama and the democrats, but it will still have the foreign policy divide, among a few other issues, that we are currently witnessing in a fight between libertarian conservatives and neoconservatives.

What's the point of starting a new 'Tea Party' party, if we just carry the baggage from one party to another? You tell me.

Here is a snippet of the article so you can decide:

It is time for the Tea Party to divorce the Republican Party and start its own political party.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Tea Party swept into the political vacuum left by the Republican Party in 2009. There was no voice for conservatives. The GOP had surrendered to its big government wing. And because of that, the GOP had been shellacked in 2006 and 2008.

The GOP would not stand up for conservative principles and the Tea Party was born.
In 2010, the Tea Party swept the Republicans into power in the House of Representatives.
What does the Tea Party have to show for it?

For the last two and a half years, the Tea Party has watched House Speaker John Boehner raise his freshly laundered white flag of surrender time and time again. (Read the Article Here)

*Partial article posted here for news reporting purposes only

Our One Party System

Today in Mesa, Arizona, GOP Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake are hosting a “Town Hall” on Immigration Reform.  Attendance is by invitation only.  Knowing that most Arizonans oppose amnesty, for Amnesty is what this is about, they wanted to be certain that tonight’s evening news showed questioning from their plants in the audience and that the show would be well managed.  In doing so, they've taken a page from the Democrat playbook of the 2008 and 2012 elections where Democrats stacked the audience with plants for the same reason.  And like good RINOs, they’re doing it to advance liberal Democrat policy.

Since 1968 and the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency, we have had essentially a single political party in the United States.  Win, lose or draw Republicans have only failed to advance their own policies and permitted the advance of liberal Democrat policies.  It’s simply a matter of record and it accounts for the crossroads where we find ourselves at present: Republicans in congress are blocking conservative, not liberal, policy, stiff-arming us so that the Democrat policy can run around us to the goal line.  They're not even bothering to hide the fact.

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Upcoming Events

It was great to see you all at the Chesterfield Tea Party meeting this evening. I'm looking forward to working with each of you to promote the ideals of individual liberty as embodied in classical liberalism.

Just a reminder:

Tuesday September 3rd, I will be speaking to the Patrick Henry Supper Club - Richmond area Libertarians. You may arrive at 6:00 p.m. to order food and enjoy good fellowship and my speech will begin at 7:00 p.m. This is very informal and my talk will be about "What Eric Cantor has been doing lately." I hope you can make it.

Wednesday September 4th from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. the Richmond Tea Party is holding a protest at Eric Cantor's westend office on Dominion Blvd. to encourage him to vote against amnesty for illegal aliens and to vote to defund Obamacare. Bring a sign and your comfortable shoes.

Afterward we will move right across the street to the Marriott Hotel for a RTP sponsored "Town Hall Meeting." Eric Cantor has been invited, but we all know he won't show up, so the RTP will have an empty chair to represent Cantor. The audience may ask questions which will be answered by video interviews of Cantor from past news/TV appearances. It should be fun. I hope you can make it.

And remember - I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery.

Floyd Bayne