After the 2012 election, Tea Party, 912 and
Campaign for Liberty groups formed coalitions and now refer to themselves as
“Constitutionalists. Our goal is to bring the federal government into compliance
with the US constitution (as written). To do this, we have identified websites that
provide Scores for legislators based on their votes. The
electtherightcandidate.us website gives Scores to Georgia legislators. The Club
for Growth, Conservative Review, Numbers USA, New American, and Heritage Action
published Scores for the US Congress.
The political left wing (Marxists) are using
“Libertarian” to describe “Constitutionalists”.
They both support Liberty and Freedom, but so does the Constitution
everybody “swears” to protect and defend.
Libertarians are members of a registered political
party, so Leftists use it to describe all very conservative Republicans who
mention the word freedom. The
Libertarian Party is occupied by folks who have been or would be Republicans,
but they gave up on the Republican Party as too corrupt, they are also folks
who just want to legalize pot.
Constitutional Republicans prefer, for now, to remain in the party to
root out the corruption.
In Georgia, the corruption includes the lack
of inclusion by anyone except party insiders. The unchallenged support of
incumbents and a distain for challengers and delegates. It is a “top-down”
organization who punishes anyone who questions “the plan”, runs for office,
sponsors a “populist” bill, wants to follow the party rules or brings a video
camera to a Republican barbeque.
Nationally, the corruption was embodied by
John Boehner at the 2012 GOP convention, reading from a teleprompter, “The Ayes
have it”, after a loud “Nay” voice vote to change the rules to refuse to allow
Delegates to vote.
Alex wants a “bottom-up” party where these
things wouldn’t happen. Voters would have more of a voice, party rules would be
followed, conservatives would not be ignored and elected officials would be
freer to debate issues to determine the need to involve government or not and
committees would not be places to send a bill to die. Alex criticizes the votes cast and bills
passed by Republican elected officials when these votes and bills ignore the
RNC Platform and Resolutions. He is
insisting on “integrity” and most of us, state-wide are with him. He wants the
county GOP groups to discuss, vote on and pass their own rules and then abide
by them.
The Georgia Republican Party contains many
elected officials who were once Democrats.
Reagan was a Democrat, but became a Republican when the DNC took a “left
turn”. Deal, Jacobs and others were
Democrats, but changed in order to be elected in Georgia.
Ron Paul is a Constitutionalist. He recommends that we bring the federal
government back into compliance with the US Constitution and Bill of Rights (as
written). He believes, as I do, that our
national decline can be traced back to unconstitutional actions taken by the
federal government for the past 130 years.
I assume Rand Paul holds these principles as well.
Conservatives are supportive of free markets,
small government and oppose “socialism”.
We will disagree on some things and will agree for different
reasons. Why do I think that Gay
Marriage should not be an issue. My
answer was “free will”. Gays were choosing to join a subculture and should be
free to do so and should deal with the consequences all subcultures have to
deal with. But the Gay Political movement should be ignored. Also, I saw this issue as part of the
countermeasures released by the Left for us to chase, so we wouldn’t notice the
damage they were doing to our economy.
I expect Alex Johnson to be elected in May
2015 to lead the Georgia GOP.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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