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5 Rules For Tea Partiers

July 3, 2009 / 10:57 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

I thought it would be helpful before the Tea Parties to think a bit about what there is to achieve through these shindigs. Here are some rules to help us keep the big picture in mind:

1. Network: This is a time to get to know people and find a way to work together. Showing up, waving a sign, and leaving without meeting anyone is rather pointless. Future action will demand relationships. Build some.

2. Capture the diversity: The Leftist meme is that the Tea Party movement, “a bunch of racist rednecks who hate black people”, needs to be squashed like a bug. Words don’t prove it, rational arguments don’t work with people who are irrational, but pictures are difficult to disprove. Take pictures capturing the young, the old, the many colors, the funny T-shirts, the interesting signs.

3. Ignore the One Weirdo: The press LOVES the weirdo. It makes for good TV. Heck, it makes for good pictures. I made a mistake at the last Tea Party and pictured the One Weirdo and put it up with the 20 other great photos on TwitPic. What got passed around? The Weirdo. Now, I was at the Tea Party and had context. He was one guy. But the enemies out there would like to make that one guy representative of everyone who attends. You’ll notice that the press will make a teensy leftist protest look dignified and huge and make truly huge Tea Parties look small and crazy. Just keep this bias in mind when you see the One Weirdo.

4. Have fun. At the last Tea Party, I saw a black George Washington, couples dressed in patriotic pairs, edgy libertarians looking extremely hawt, etc. These people were having a great time expressing their individuality. They demonstrated their freedom through their posters, dress and expression.

5. Act. Use the Tea Party as a jumping off point to get more involved. Don’t keep sitting on the sidelines. Go to your school board meeting. Go to your city council meeting. Vote in primaries. Fill those empty seats. Do Something.

The political climate in this country is not going to change if the good people sit on the sidelines while those with more will, time, and big money on their hands control the country’s direction. At CPAC, New Gingrich said something that I believe is true. He said that President Barack Obama is drawing in stark contrast our choices as Americans. Do we want to be a socialist state? Do we want our freedoms eroded? Do we want to be a debtor nation? Are we going to do for ourselves or are we going to rely, and therefore, be controlled by, the state from cradle to grave?

Americans are clearly seeing the options. For those who want the free country our founders envisioned, it’s time to get busy.

4pm @ Wasilla Lake, wasilla AK, there is a tea party; stop by!

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

Elmwood Park in downtown Roanoke
3-5 PM Musical Group – Midlife Crisis
5-7 PM Guest Speakers

We will have the event professionally filmed, it should be a great promotional video. Ken Cuccinelli, GOP candidate for Attorney General will be speaking. Ken is a great guy and a very dynamic speaker....on top of our great, diverse line up already confirmed guest speakers.

Plus, coverage in the Roanoke Times. http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.roanoke.com/columnists...

Please come and see the speakers....prove the mainstream media wrong. Their story will be that Fox News is the only reason April 15th happened. We the people may be the last chance for this country. Please let your voice be heard. Bring friends. Let's fill up the Park and let Washington and Richmond know that WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

Other great speakers...

Jim Ludington: Constitutional Historian

Morgan Griffith GOP Member of the Va House of Delegates

Scott Wolk: Local Chairman of the Constitution Party

Dr. James Lark, past National Chair of the Libertarian Party

Bill Cleaveland: GOP House of Delegate’s Candidate for the 17th District.

Jeff Bowles, Chair of the Libertarian Party of Virginia.

Stuart Bain: Libertarian Party Candidate running for 6th District House of Representatives Seat

Jackie Bledsoe, District Director of the FairTax

Brian Gottstein. Radio personality heard on WFIR 960

Mickey Mixon: Area Coordinator, The Family Foundation Action

Just a few miles from me in Morristown, NJ in the square where George Washington used to piss after stumbling out of the taverns at three AM.

Of course, that's just speculation.

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

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