The Tea Party movement

Tea Partiers are no longer fooled by phony Republicans - and that's what I like best about the movement. Conservatives used to believe that the Republican Party - being the only alternative party to the liberal/leftist Democrats - would naturally pursue a conservative agenda. But the Republican Party has betrayed conservatives time and time again. Bush Junior had to be one of the worst presidents in modern times. He did nothing to stop illegal immigration, let alone legal immigration; he pressured banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and/or low incomes to encourage homeownership among minorities, which causd the subprime mortgage crisis and brought upon us the Great Recession (he actually promoted the incredibly irresponsible "no-down-payment policy" which encouraged every Dick, Tom, and Juan to take out a loan because borrowers would lose nothing if the market turned sour because they had invested nothing); he invaded Iraq, egged on by the neocons (Read: "conservatives" who only care about national security issues but are liberals on immigration and other social issues), damaging our reputation abroad while bankrupting us at the same time; and the Dept of Justice under his watch sued the NYC Fire Dept, which lost hundreds of brave men and women in 9/11, for racial discrimination under "disparate impact" laws (essentially blacks and Hispanics scored lower on tests asking about water pressure and ladder heights, and this alone was taken as "proof" of discrimination). The list goes on an on...

I believe a key test for the Tea Party movement will be whether or not it helps Hayworth beat John McCain - the poster child of phony conservatives - in Arizona's Republican primary for Senator. Way back in 2000 when I was more naive, I rooted for McCain against Bush as the Republican nominee for president. I was inspired by his life story (Vietnam POW, etc.). But he's become a holier-than-thou Republican. He co-sponsored an amnesty bill in the Senate with Ted Kennedy (!) to legalize the 15 million or so illegals in the country, and bad-mouthed anyone who opposed his bill as racist and xenophobic. Sorry McCain. I respect your service to our country, but it's time you stepped outside. You're a millionaire dozens of times over, and you've been hobnobbing in Washington for too long. You're out of touch with middle-class Americans, and your greatest service to our country now would be to step aside.

We need to scream from the mountain tops "No more support for phony Republicans!" They're not looking after middle-class Americans. Out with the neocons, out with the big-business Republicans, out with holier-than-thou Republicans on issues like immigration, and out with rich Republicans who only care about lowering upper income tax brackets.

Tea Partiers need to use immigration as a litmus test for all future candidates. It's not enough to be against "big government" anymore. Real Americans have always been against big government, but immigration has swelled the ranks of "gimme freebies" voters - mostly Hispanics - who know nothing of America's limited government history. When these "gimme freebies" voters reach a critical mass as a proportion of the overall electorate - as they appear to have already -America's fate will be sealed as a big-government nanny state. The increasingly impoverished US electorate will demand that the government [and by extension tax-paying White Americans] take care of their every need.

Indeed, Obama and the Dems are pushing healthcare reform to cover the swelling ranks of the uninsured, but why are the ranks of the uninsured swelling in the first place? Because the government is flooding the country with impoverished immigrants - both legal and illegal.

Stop the tidal wave of impoverished immigrants, and the problem of "big government" goes away.