The tea party started out with the right idea we need to bring this nation back to the fundamental principle which our for-fathers established when they created the constitution as the fundamental laws governing this nation. However, they failed to under stand that is not the government nor the size of government that is the problem in this nation. Instead they bought in to the agenda of the vast powerful corporation which is that this government is out of control and therefore our government should be privatized an allowed to be run by the private sector instead.

I personally belive the tea part members should look up the difference between a Constitutional Republic and a Corporate Republic before telling anyone how this nation should be governed.

Abraham Lincoln said it best

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

It is indeed a regrettable fact that we are forced to pick our fights so that we are not fighting more people/interest groups then we can handle at any one time. Many people fear that fighting for this particular part of individual rights on top of our more immediate and pressing issue may be too much for us to win against at this time.

If you make too many enemy's you don't win any battles against any of them.

We are going to continue to make a lot of mistakes thats a given, we are also going to have a lot of failures, thats a given. In both cases we need to learn from that which apparently doesn't work in order to better find that which will work.

As this field is really mostly just new to us, and there are those among us with real experience in it, we would be wise to learn from them and their mistakes as well. In the end however the biggest trick will be how to influence Our State legislators and Washington D.C. with out being corrupted by the same power.

I individually am convinced that this will require us to manipulate them from a safe distances by means of carefully appeased nudges. But it is apparent that we need to replace a lot of them who are in power as well, not so much with someone agreeable to our positions as with someone highly "nugeable" by us.

I am of course not the only one who can come up with a plan, all of you can do the same with no less a degree of plausibility.

So let us think carefully before we act, let our actions be plained and prepared for. Let the political battle be rigged in our favor. This is going to be exceedingly hard for those of us who are on the front lines as it is very difficult to think and plan on your feet.

Perhaps we should accept that fact with humbleness, that we need a legislator's time to carefully reflect upon the facts before deciding how to take action. Rather then an executive's instincts.

I for one must admit that is my weakness I am not the executive sort.

The coordinators there would've gotten more positive attention if they had advertised 150 with 250 showing up, than advertising 5000. To me, that's a big mistake.

When are you going to learn Rob that this was not hubris. It was NOTICE. Notice that Missoula is not out of the range of taking back from liberal, marxists. Notice that though some of the speakers "may" be considered "fringe" by 'educated people' as yourself, they still carried a very powerful message that rang true with many scores of attendees: Attendees with wide ranges of influence, money, power & experience. Chuck Baldwin fringe? Sheriff Mack fringe? Where the heck have you been Rob, stuck in your classroom all these years? It will be a good thing for you to get out of your rut and get into a real job. Good luck in Colorado!!

GW
Kalispell

"…First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win…"