2012 Presidential Elections and the Tea Party

The Tea Party should be directing all their attacks against the Democrats. They should be compromising with their fellow Republicans for the purpose of winning the 2012 elections. They should be supporting the Republican leaders who are negotiating a budget agreement with Democratic leaders in order to avoid the grave risks involved in defaulting on our national debt interest payment. But the Tea Party is doing the opposite.

The Tea Party Express leaders are attacking their fellow Republicans. They attacked Newt Gingrich for disagreeing with them. They are attacking Romney and every Republican who disagrees with them. And they are doing it on the National level. Using an old idiom, the Tea Party leaders are '˜burning their bridges.' They are slowly but surely creating such bitterness within the Republican Party that (many Republicans should fear) will split Republican Party after the GOP convention. And no body will be able to repair this split.

If Boehner were up for re-election, the Tea Party Express would campaign against him. When a group of Conservatives leaders in a national organization aggressively campaign against other conservatives within the Republican Party (which the Tea Party claims to be a part of), I call that back stabbing. If the Tea Party Campaign targeted only liberals with nasty slogans, I wouldn't call them back stabbers.

The Tea Party members of Congress and the Tea Party Express are campaigning against all conservatives whose views the Tea Party is opposed to. The Tea Party has become the '˜My way or no way' party. They are even willing to risk defaulting on our national debt interest payment in order to achieve their ends. Their attitude reminds me of Communism. A Communist Party gets rid of anyone who opposes their policies.

I don't think the Tea Party understands the intent of our Founders at the Constitutional convention in the summer of 1789. I think all Tea Party leaders need to study the notes written by the members of the Constitution Convention. They obviously never read or totally ignored the Federalist Papers.

The Tea Party needs to learn how to win an election. You don't win an election by stabbing fellow conservatives in the back. You don't win an election by mimicking a Communist Party with a '˜my way or no way' philosophy. You win an election by uniting your party; not dividing it.

Some of these opinions were expressed by me in comments on Facebook.