Roanoke Tea Party

I share with most Conservatives, the great pleasure in watching Progressives squirm in pain as Scott Brown rides a wave of public outrage to Washington despite the carefully laid plans of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid coalition.

But the battle has just begun. Please read this excellent piece by Michelle Malkin. Our enemies are not just Democrats, but RINOs who are now trying to glom on to the Tea Party movement.

We can no longer define ourselves with an R or a D.

GOP members like John McCain are still out there and still need to be retired despite their party affiliation. Beware, as Michelle calls it, the “McCain Regression Syndrome.”  The Republicans aren’t winning because they are suddenly popular again, it’s good candidates and simply a lack of alternative choices. Not all of the GOP candidates in 2010 will be ones we want to support.

As a tea party member, I can’t support RINOs like McCain.

• He co-authored the McCain/Feingold Campaign Reform Bill, which was a broad side attack on 1st Amendment Rights until the Supreme Court struck much of it down yesterday.
• He supported the 2007 Amnesty Bill
• He bought into the Global Warming Hoax

In Virginia we have RINOs too, including State Senator Hurt, who is the leading candidate to run against Tom Periello in the 5th Congressional District. In 2004, Hurt voted for the largest tax increase in VA history. He simply does not support the basic principles of fiscal responsibility that Tea Party members hold so dear. With a $12 trillion federal debt (soon to be $14 trillion) we must elect true fiscal conservatives, not RINOs just because they have curried favor with the GOP party apparatus and rich donors.

Our Congressman, Bob Goodlatte has been doing a better job, of late, supporting our agenda. Opinions of our Congressman vary greatly amongst members of our organization, but we need to remain ever vigilant. There are other alternative out there, like independent candidate Stuart Bain.

At our Feb 4th meeting, one of the key agenda items will be how we move forward to ensure our principles are at the forefront of candidates agendas in November 2010. We will have a plan that we will need a lot of help with….so please come and Join us for our first business meeting of 2010.