Nevada County Tea Party Patriots

by Gary Hammer    

I am a Tea Party Patriot. I am not a right-wing extremist, whack-job, or wing nut. Groups who oppose Tea Party Patriot ideals love to “type-cast” us and label us with ugly epitaphs. But in reality, you can’t typecast and apply labels to a movement encompassing millions of ordinary, regular US citizens who care about their country and want it to succeed.

The Media, and others, brand TPP’s as Republican extremists. We are neither Republican or extremists. We do not support any political party, or endorse political candidates, because none of the existing political parties are responsive to the will of “We The People,” and seem to have no problem with spending our country into bankruptcy. And our children and grandchildren will bear most of the burden – they will not have the homes, cars, and quality of life that most middle-class Americans enjoy today.

I am a Tea Party Patriot. I am a conservative. I believe in fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. I believe capitalism works, and that a strong economy can solve many of our current social issues.

I am a Tea Party Patriot. I will freely admit: for voting purposes, I am registered as a Republican (horrors!) Why? Because I want my vote to count in the primaries. If I were a purist, I would be registered as an Independent. But I would get very few candidate choices to choose from. I vote for individuals; not a party.

You can find out for yourself what the Tea Party Patriot’s are about by coming to one of our monthly luncheon meetings or other TPP events.  We welcome all interested folks – and we do not bite! (I promise.)

From LibertyCentral.com: Wally Hauck, Ph.D. October 3, 2011

We are currently unhappy with our government. According to Gallup, it has a 17% approval rating. Why is approval so low? I believe it is because government is too big and is trying to do more than it is capable of doing. Big government can’t keep its promises. I believe this is why our Founding Fathers created a system to keep government limited. They knew it was the only way to protect life, liberty, and happiness. They knew we would be disappointed.

President Obama wants the rich to pay more so the government can do more for all of us.  Those who believe the government should do less have been disappointed for a long time.  Those who believe the government should do more are finally getting disappointed too. The Congressional Black Caucus is criticizing Obama for not doing enough for the Black community and the President criticized them in return telling them to stop complaining. This is what happens when we give too much power to a Government to solve problems they cannot solve.  This is why our Founders warned us about big government and designed a system to limit it.

It is ironic that the big government system Obama wants for this us, a socialist democracy that promises to do more, is currently collapsing in Europe.   Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland etc. are all failing economically and threaten the health of the world economy.   Even so, Obama continues to sell the benefits of big government.

Our big government has proven it can’t run a Post Office or a railroad without huge deficits.   It also can’t make money in the Green industry.  It lost $500 million of OUR money in Solyndra.

Big government can’t solve the problems in our communities like the Congressional Black Caucus is demanding.   Only we, in cooperation with the free market capitalist system, and those willing to help the community can solve our problems.  As long as we continue to trust big government to solve our problems we will be disappointed.  Let’s start solving our own problems.  Let’s vote for people who can help us limit the government not make it bigger.

2012 is finally upon us and while many are making resolutions for personal ambitions, there is one task that we should all resolve to do in the new year: vote like our future depends on it, because the truth is it does. For far too long, we as Americans had given in to the status quo and we had come to accept the lack-luster representation we were receiving from our elected officials. In 2009, the tea party movement sparked a wave across the country that opened the eyes of many Americans. We finally began to speak up against cronyism, corruption, and irresponsibility. 2012 will be no different. As one of the most important election years in American history begins, we wanted to share with you what some local tea party activists are looking for in their elected officials as we prepare to go to the polls over the course of the new year.

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From Eric Odom, Director of Interactive Media for Liberty News Network, Patriot Action Network and Grassfire Nation

Tomorrow more than 100,000 Iowa voters will head to the Iowa Caucuses. The decision Iowa makes might not reflect the candidate who ultimately wins the GOP nomination, but it will most certainly filter out one or more candidates who could not organize enough to pull off a win.

Iowa is becoming less about picking eventual winners and more about presenting a test. Later this year Barack Obama will initiate an epic ground game built through community organizing professionals, union powered GOTV networks, progressive non-profits and well funded special interest groups. The GOP nominee will need to get onto this battlefield and compete in organization in order to defeat Obama this coming November.

While Iowa is not anywhere near the scale of the scenario we’ll see unfold in the general election, it’s big enough to know who can and cannot organize for GOTV. If a candidate can’t finish in the top three spots, there is no indication the candidate can ultimately win the GOP nomination and defeat Barack Obama.

This is why Iowa is still important. It’s not that Iowa perfectly represents the mindset of all 49 other states; Rather, it’s that Iowa presents a challenge that exposes weaknesses and strengths, and provides us a good look at how each candidate performs when the horse race heats up.

Tomorrow we’ll know who passed and who failed. It’s a big day for the movement, for the conservative base and for all opposition to Barack Obama. There are a number of scenarios that will begin to play out depending on what happens in Iowa. The outcome is critical and we should all be paying very close attention as the Caucuses unfold.

by Mark Meckler, TPP Co-founder

So here’s my take on the Rasmussen polling.  When I parse the numbers (and the change) more closely, I am actually quite pleasantly surprised.

Last September <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2010/calling_someone_a_tea_party_candidate_has_bigger_impact_than_traditional_labels>, 32% viewed Tea Party as a positive label and 38% a negative one.

Considered a positive political label by 29%, 43% now think Tea Party is a negative description for a candidate.

Literally hundreds of millions of dollars in earned negative media have been thrown at us by the ruling elites, the leftist and rightist media itself (from Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews to Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingrahm), and all sorts of left wing interest groups, etc.  In the mainstream media, we’ve been openly and repeatedly referred to as “racists,” “Astroturf,” “jihadis,” “terrorists,” “hostage takers,” “fringe,” “radical,” etc.  This barrage continues day in and day out, literally 24/7.

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