Are you attending a Tea Party or other anti-tax protest this April 15th? Become the media, report for the Huffington Post!

"Tea parties", are only significant if they lead to something ongoing and permanent.

A short-lived wave of "tea parties" is in the end no more effective than hiding
out in the woods or launching a premature armed revolution.

This means you have to create a base (with actual elected officials, not joke candidates) within the existing political system at the state level in order to reinforce and sustain the Tenth Amendment Movement. See Chuck Baldwin's article:
http://vdare.com/baldwin/090322_states.htm

The best way to have a chance of getting a permanent bloc of pro-Tenth Amendment legislators is via what is called "proportional representation". It is the norm outside the US, Canada and the UK and allows for representation of ideological minorities. The people who support the ideas of Ron Paul are a minority(surprise) and the idea that they will suddenly leap to majority status is ludicrous.

The incumbent state legislators are not likely to take such an action "against interest" Even in the states most friendly to "the movement" most legislators are probably opportunists and cynical careerists.

Sixteen states(including Montana and Missouri) allow for amending the state constitution by the initiative and referendum process. You don't have to ask the voters to switch to a parliamentary system-just convince them to elect one house of the state legislature via PR. Considering all the conservatives who are fed up with the GOP and the growing disillusionment with Obama among Dems and independents and you have a potential majority for discarding the fraudulent "two party system".

Info on initiative and referendum by state:
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/statewide_i%26r.htm

THe fraudulent nature of our current voting system:
http://www.vdare.com/burns/051027_voting.htm

Not a panacea, but can you think of something better that has a chance to throw the current regime off balance?

P.S. Instant runoff voting would be a good idea too, but only a relatively minor change.

then consider reporting for the Huffington Post so we have a fair account of the protests in the media!

I ignore that rule if the thread is in danger of dying and going unnoticed... I think that rule is more to prevent abusing it to keep something at the top repeatedly....