Yeah, I agree. Conservative has been hijacked by the eGOP and as such is sullied, they and the Dems have and continue to sully the Tea Party name, we can debate if that term means anything or not, but we can all at least agree that not all Tea Party candidates/officeholders agree with our beliefs and thinking.
Some names I would like have been sullied by crackpots and other sundry loons...Libertarian, Foundation Party...
Something new needs to be selected, built and defended to the hilt giving no quarter to any enemy...
And it must have Founding Principles, unyielding and unchanging, which should include but are not limited to:
1. Our Rights emanate from God, Our Creator only, not from some mortal! (See: The Declaration of Independence)
2. These Rights are inalienable and include Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness and the right to Individual Property! (See Declaration and Continental Congress historical records)
3. All Power comes from The People, if we did not specifically authorize it, we do not consent, and we reserve the Right of recall, impeachment, trial and physical removal up to and including armed revolt and secession if The People so deem it proper! (See all Founding historical records)
4. Any Government established by The People is a Limited government of specific duties no matter what form that Government takes, regardless if the preferred Republican model with checks and balances as established by Our Founders or any other system! There are no dictators of one or many, where there is disagreement The People are the final arbiter. (Read the Founders and those that influenced them - Locke, Montesquieu...)
5. A Written Constitution and Legal Amendments are the highest statements of Law in a land ruled by The People, they mean what they say and there is no redefining or changing of original intent and the plain speaking and understanding of the words! There will be No activism, no reinterpretation, no eroding of a single pillar of Constitutional Law! (Read the Founders, the Enlightenment scholars that influenced them, read Colonial history going back to the Mayflower Compact!)
6. No one, No Government, Nobody, will be allowed to remove the free and open practice of religion! This nation was Founded Christian and respected the rights of others including Deists, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans as well as Jewish practitioners...religion will not be driven from the public square or any public discourse, ever! The only so-called religion that Will Not be tolerated is Islam, if you follow that murderous Death Cult, you will be ostracized or expelled! The Cult of Mohammad is incompatible with Life, Liberty, Happiness and Property and is therefore banned!
Our Founders were called Patriot's, Whig's, Congress-men, American's, Rebels, Revolutionaries, Traitors, Minutemen, Sons of Liberty, Continentals, Militia, etc etc...
Regardless if a new label is desired to merely differentiate ourselves from others or as a loose or firmly organized outfit, it would make sense not to
take a name that already exists or has already been used (up).
It would be nice to have one word...something like American Founders Party appears unique, but search the interwebs and similarly named sites exist, some may be little better than something run by a snot-nosed kid in his momma's basement...but, there we are.
For me, I'll say I am Liberty-centric, asked what that means I'll say I believe in Our Founders and those who influenced them, everything else no matter what it is called is bullsh*t of some form or another if it deviates one iota from what they established!
