Comments on: A Message From The Founder Of The Tea-Party Revolt

By: Jim Ostrowski

Jim Ostrowski — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:43:53 +0000

I believe the tea parties are a grassroots movement but we need to be careful that they don’t become a front for people who thought the last eight years of Republican rule were just fine.

Watch the agenda. If it’s all about attacking Democrats and all their proposals are fuzzy, stay clear and form your own group.

The predicament the nation is in is the result of the policies of both parties for many decades.

Major structural change is required.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:19:51 +0000

I changed my voter registration to Republican last year so I could vote for Ron Paul. After the election I was reminded somewhere of what my mother used to tell me about always wearing clean underwear in case you were in a car accident. I immediately thought of that voter registration card in my wallet.

So I was going to change it back to independent but I saw a party in Florida called the Boston Tea Party. I couldn’t find any information about it with google but I liked the name so that’s what I now have on my voter card for party affiliation. It says BTP where it used to say REP.

So now you have me worried I’ve been suckered into joining a front group for the damn Republicans.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:54:58 +0000

Because of the foibles in the big-L Libertarian Party (eccentric Badnarik and “conservative Republican” Barr plus people like Stan Jones turning themselves purple… ) and the obscene Warfare-Welfare record of the Republican party, I like to refer to myself as a Grover Cleveland Democrat. I believe that Jim Ostrowski of Buffalo is also an admirer of Grover like Ron Paul and the late H.L. Mencken. Politics is generally designed for big and little ambitious political Messiahs who want Government to solve all the world’s problems. How often do you hear a politician tell people to SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS (such as Day Care / taking care of children as I saw in Ilana’s post)? Even some Libertarians see government as the alpha and the omega and think that government caused every problem on earth – no no no – people have PERSONAL problems and it is their responsibility to solve them – find jobs, educate their kids, take care of their health – instead of slavishly listening to political demagogues and turning into helpless dependents. “The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and (Governments’) functions do not include the support of the people.” – Grover Cleveland, 1893.

By: ROFASix

ROFASix — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:52:47 +0000

And I thought I was the ONLY classical liberal left in America.