Some Criticize the Tea Party for Allowing Political Candidates to Speak #fb

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Some say that NO CANDIDATE should be allowed to speak at these get togethers no matter who they are or from what party they belong.

I disagree with the NO CANDIDATE, MANDATE.

If the purpose of the Tea party is to effect REAL Change, by peaceful means, then we must publicly invite to speak, and listen to local candidates that meet the criteria, and have proven track records of living by, the Tea party ideals.

It is beyond frustrating, to me, to have people who have not helped, nor volunteered to help, organize these rallies, sit back and complain about how they are done.

The point is to get the message across, and to allow for We the People, to hear from candidates who are striving to make a real difference.

If we don’t, we might as well be “he who beateth the air”, that the Bible speaks about!

Come ON people! It is time to throw off wishful thinking, and GET INVOLVED!! If you are not registered with one of the two major parties, then you are cutting off your own hands! If you don’t vote in the primaries, then SHUT UP about the choices we have in the General Election!

Now, if that pisses you off, so be it! You still need  to do it, or the whole experiment in Freedom and Liberty, that is America, is finished!

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Fried Chicken Dinner is Racist!?!?

The Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, has issued a statement criticizing State Senator, and Republican Gubernatorial Candidate, Randy Brogdon, for a statement he made this week, in debate over the Oklahoma Freedom of Healthcare Choice Act.

Brogdon made the argument, on Tuesday, that the Federal Government

“has no more authority to tell Oklahomans where to buy health insurance than it does to tell them where to buy a fried chicken dinner.”

Democrat Senator Tom Adelson, questioned Brogdon’s use of fried chicken dinner, to which Brogdon replied that is what he had eaten for lunch. However, the Democrats in the State Senate, and particularly, the Legislative Black Caucus, took exception to Brogdon’s statement, claiming that he was making a racial reference to President Obama.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! They are going to try to use a statement about Federal Government overreach, and turn it into a racial argument?! I am sick and tired of the “PC Police” trying to make everything about race.

The real question is, why are they trying to change the focus of the debate? Is it because, as usual, Senator Brogdon has the Constitutional “high ground” in this debate? Or, is it because the Democrats realize something, that the Republicans are only beginning to understand?

The real threat to the Democrat Party in the Governor’s race, is not Mary Fallin, whom they have been attacking on her “stimulus hypocrisy”, and dividing time between her job as Congresswoman and running for Governor. The real threat, is Randy Brogdon, who continues to gain support, aand climb in the polls, while Mary Fallin, and the 2 Democrat Candidates, Drew Edmondson, and Jeri Askins, continue to slide against him, despite much greater statewide name recognition.

The truth is, both the Democrats, and the “status quo” within the Republican Party Establishment, fear Brogdon’s popularity within the Tea Party Movement, and in Constitutional and Libertarian circles.

That is why the Democrats have started attacking him, and the Oklahoma State GOP is nowhere to be found in this bit of low-brow, racial politics!

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