Primer - Tea Party Replacements Needed

A typical response to the subject message was "Average young person does not care about the country running deficits - all they want is more and more. They do not care where it comes from."

To oppose the above all too prevalent attitude that many Tea Party candidates elected in 2010 agreed with once they got to Washington - below is an excellent response (actually a primer) to the subject message re what it takes to be effective in politics today if you are campaigning on limited government, personal responsibility, & free enterprise.  The writer is a long time subscriber who was one that encouraged me to write the blog – she is a committeewoman, mother of a small child, wife of a small business owner, a FairTax supporter, & a person I have tremendous respect for.  Anyone who lives in Middlesex County that would like to help her, as indicated in her message, just let me know & I will put you in touch with her.  The principles listed below are not just limited to Middlesex County, NJ.

---Primer For Tea Party Candidates---

Doug

IMHO, People should be attending Leadership Institute bootcamps and other GOTV training type events....NOW.   http://www.leadershipinstitute.org

This year I saw Tea Parties and Tea Party candidates making the very same mistakes the establishment Republicans have made in the past. Mistakes like: Failure to do research on their voting districts/base. Failure to canvass and recruit motivated voters and volunteers. Failure to communicate their message. Taking the year off and not getting to work until after Labor Day.

Guess what? Work for EVERY election begins the day after Election Day the year before ...if not earlier. They should take lessons from Anna Little and "Anna's Army" (which consisted mostly of Bayshore Tea Party members). ***They should look to towns like Old Bridge, which successfully defeated deeply entrenched Democrats for a landslide victory...AND DO WHAT THEY DID, and DO IT BETTER. Work harder, work faster, work more effectively.***

The only reason Anna came as close as she did last year was because of her own effectiveness and hard work as a candidate and the effectiveness and hard work of her volunteers. The only reason she lost last year is because too many establishment Republicans were once again lazy, flatfooted, and just plain stubborn and sour grapes, infighting among themselves as they always do, worrying about "what's in it for them" (just like corrupt members of the Democrat party) instead of fighting the common enemy...and because Middlesex County had not developed a strong grassroots volunteer army or Tea Party, as Monmouth County had done.

We're working hard in Middlesex County to get people aware and trained to be effective in elections. If you know anyone in Middlesex County who is motivated to work smart and hard to take our country back from those who would continue the entitlement state to the point of our destruction, please send them my way!  Thank you.

God bless you.