I ask myself this because I am in line with the Movements beliefs and values to the letter. Yet, I have taken one further step and have committed to run for Congress in 2014. I have the desire to commit the time, run on self imposed term limits and even a reduction in salary and benefits.
Yet, I have to unseat a moderate Republican who is as we say here, "dug in like a tick on a hound dog", as a career politician in a very wealthy community who will come out and vote. Trying to unseat him in a primary would not work well as a plan.
So I must do it as an Independent Candidate. Interesting dilemma, the movement has never supported an Independent before which has brought some criticism to the Tea Party Movement and who they really are.
We had better wake up and realize the system is broken. With the exception of some good people such as Ted Cruz, these people who are representing us only care in being reelected as career politicians and have never had a true job or budget before, let alone balance one, in their lives. Obamcare is a good example, it is totally wrong and should be repealed and our spending is irresponsible and out of control. However, rather then work on fixing these problems our politicians see a hole in the Obamacare system due to a 6 million dollar disaster of a website.
There is still the debt ceiling crisis to deal with and putting an end to Obamacare. But instead, they see fit to hold hearings, at our expense, to find out what went wrong with the website and who is to blame. We are not idiots, we know Obamacare is wrong. Why spend 6 million more dollars on a hearing to find out what went wrong with a website? It was all about posturing and getting free radio and TV time as 2014 rolls around. There is a trillion dollar problem which is much bigger and coming up again.
It is time someone step up and really try to do something before it is too late. The Dems have pulled out the nuclear option which could be far worse then anyone realizes. With or without you I am committed.
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I didn't say you don't have a point, I was saying what is the point in asking for help from you for the last month. All I have heard is your going to sometime in the future make a candidate section. I would say that is a little late from other people I have spoken with, including, Joe, your hero.
All I get is 40 emails a day to send my congressman an email and pleas for donations. Who are you actively supporting right now? I guess I don't fit in because even though we have the exact same beliefs and values, I have to run against a moderate Republican as an Independant.
So if you are not supporting me, you are supporting him, a moderate Republican who has rolled over more times then my dog.
It's interesting you request donations. For what? Anyone can email their Congressmen for free at any time. I don't get it. The people of this country are not idiots. We understand the issues and are powerless against a broke system that needs to be fixed. How do you exactly plan to get congress back to one of your care values of making it possible for all the good people of our society to be able to run for election? One will not even be considered as a serious candidate without I million dollars and that is on the loe side. Congress has never had such a low approval rating and the time is now in 2014 before all is lost.
All of the Texas seats are up for reelection as well as many more. Who are you supporting and how?
Ted, we are awake, this is why this site and others are up and working for America.
Remember, over 75% of our candidates win! Who else can say that? This group, TeaParty.org sends over 750K fax pages to Congress every month! They send over 250 million opt-in emails to subscribers every year and this site has over 38K bloggers.
Also, TeaParty.org sends over 1 million snail mail pieces every month.
Furthermore, TeaParty.org is in the top 30k of all the websites in the world and is number 1 ranked of all the Tea Parties by Google. This site is ranked number 3 of all the Tea Party websites, therefore this group controls the 1st and 3rd Tea Party websites in America!
So, now you should know the Tea Party has a point and a lot of them.
Steve
CEO/Tea Party