The Tea Party emerged last year in opposition to the federal stimulus package and what it considers excessive government spending and taxation. The group bills itself as a bottom-up, grassroots network which isn't organized like a typical political party. Who are the members of the tea party? Tea partiers boast that they are a leaderless, grass-roots political army not beholden to either party, even though some of them acknowledge that Republican candidates who share their conservative fiscal views are most likely to benefit from the movement's efforts. Some tea partiers refer to themselves as Reaganites, most don't even want a label. I am told Tea Partiers are Republicans, Democrats, Independants who have the same desires in that they seek small government, lower taxes, greater individual liberties, more power to the states and government strictly by the Constitution and Bill of Rights: these are the general principles all tea-party activists can agree upon. Additionally they want the government to stop spending money and stop thinking that it (the government )can right all that is wrong with the world or in America.....sound familiar? All of these issues could be a page from the book of basic Conservative Party policy.
Desperate to free themselves from the typical two party system, these disenchanted Americans are really just looking to be heard. Perhaps this very movement is the wave of the future politically. If that is the case we as Conservatives become popular again as we ride the tide into mainstream political office. Traditional values will always be in vogue and though the shouts of "change" might temporarily throw the universe off kilter for a short while, there is always an end to the four year turmoil and the light at the end of that tunnel can in fact be the face of the familiar.
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