The TEA Party is like a marriage

I have been having some discussions with fellow TEA Party people as well with a couple of local politicians about the role of the TEA Party and how to keep it viable.

One of the things that I have been asserting, and some disagree with me, is that the TEA Party should keep to Constitutional and Fiscal issues at the National level and to local issues at the local level. And we should keep clear of Social issues at any level except, maybe, at the local level. In other words, we should not get to bickering among ourselves about issues such as abortion, gays in the military, and FDA regulations. These have all been declared Constitutional and the the laws are in place. We can argue them till the cows come home, but its the law. Local issues like gambling and blue laws etc. can be fought outside the box of the TEA Party as they will only prove to be divisive. I dont say we need to ignore these problems, only that we need to fight those battles as individuals and not try to Co-Opt the TEA Party to fight those battles. Those issues are not part of our "platform". We cannot afford to become fractured into small groups over issues that have relevance only to a local few or that we find are across party lines and more likely to be issues of moral beliefs.

However, Tenth Amendment rights of the states as it relates to the Obama Care bill have NOT been tested at the Constitutional level and we should work on that.

We have First Amendment rights issues with the FCC in their attempts to regulate the Internet. These we should pursue.

We have Second Amendment rights issues with legislation that the Congress is always trying to shove down out throats. We need to keep on their backs about these.

And of course, fiscal responsibility and the huge national debt are issues that we all agree on.

The TEA Party is like a marriage in that you can keep it together if you avoid poking each other in the ribs with a sharp stick about your disagreements and concentrate on having fun with what you agree on.

A divorce now would be a disaster.

Jim Isbell
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