{"id":358333,"date":"2010-02-24T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72377"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:19:43","slug":"we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358333","title":{"rendered":"We hold these truths to be self-evident…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWe won’t be co-opted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat’s the bottom line message from t<\/span>
\nea party activists across the nation, including several in Connecticut, who have drafted what they call a “Declaration of Independence.” <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nAs one would expect, the document reiterates the tea party’s rejection of big government and “arrogant left-wing politicians who furtively hide from public scrutiny as they cut corrupt deals loaded with earmarks and pork.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut there’s also a strong message here for Republicans, who may be looking to capitalize on the tea party movement’s wave of populist discontent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n“We Declare ourselves INDEPENDENT of the Republican Party, which has in the <\/span>
\npast manipulated its Conservative Base to win election after election and which then <\/span>
\nbetrays everything that Base fought for and believed,” the declaration states.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n“We reject the idea that the electoral goals of the Republican Party are identical to the
goals of the Tea Party Movement or that this Movement is an adjunct to the Republican
Party. We reject the Republican Party professionals who now seek to use the Tea Party
Movement for their corrupt and narrow political purposes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDec of Tea Party Independencev8.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The document emphatically denounces compromise. Tea party activists say they won’t settle for the “lesser of two evils” when faced a choice between a liberal Democrat and a moderate Republican (paging Rob Simmons and Linda McMahon.)<\/p>\n

“We reject RINO money; we reject RINO ‘advice’; we reject RINO ‘professional experience’;
we reject RINO ‘progressivism’,” the group declares. “We reject RINO support of Big Government; we reject RINO back room deal making; we reject RINO pork spending; we reject false RINO professions of Conservative views and we reject the RINO’s statist subversion of the principles of small government for which the Republican Party is supposed to stand.”<\/p>\n

The group revels in its grassroots — declaring that it has no use for “self-styled ‘leaders’ who claim to speak for the tea party movement.”<\/p>\n

“This movement is not a brand name to be used to sell product; nor is it a logo to be used to justify profiting off its name. We reject those who seek to personally capitalize on our popularity and momentum by trying to associate with our cause,” the declaration states.<\/p>\n

“We reject the idea that the Tea Party Movement is ‘led’ by anyone other than the
millions of average citizens who make it up. The Tea Party Movement understands that
as a Free People, we need to SAVE OURSELVES, BY OURSELVES, FOR
OURSELVES. The Tea Party Movement is not ‘led.’ The Tea Party Movement LEADS.”<\/p>\n

Oh, and the movement has little use for the media, which it says is more focused on “entertainment, fear-mongering and shock-value” than unbiased reporting.<\/p>\n

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