Tea Party Leaders Predict A Split From The Republican Party This Year

The Tea Party meltdown over John Boehner’s re-election as House Speaker is in full throttle already with several conservative websites, such as World Net Daily (WND) and Tea Party News Network (TPNN) publishing hate-filled articles about their failed coup and the impending demise of the Republican Party.

WND published an article questioning whether it was time for a “3rd party” in the wake of the Boehner victory. TPNN posted a couple of articles, one predicting a “Conservative Exodus” from the GOP and another applauding the “The 25 Heroic Patriots Who Voted Against Boehner.”

TIME FOR A 3rd PARTY?

Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, was quoted in the World Net Daily piece, as predicting the impending demise of the Republican Party and the emergence of a 3rd party “in the next few months.” According to Phillips many of the Republicans who supported Boehner will live to regret that decision, stating:

[Boehner’s] only problem with amnesty is that Obama didn’t ask Congress to approve it. He’s going to push the Chamber of Commerce agenda, which is going to completely destroy the middle class. I think the next two years will be disastrous for conservatives. He’s going to try to push amnesty. He will push a free-trade agenda that’s going to help crush the middle class, and I predict the Republicans are going to raise taxes.

Democrats are going to play Republicans like they played George W. Bush and then ram through a higher gas tax. Then what are the Republicans going to run on in 2016? They’re going to be left saying, ‘Oh we didn’t repeal Obamacare, we didn’t stop amnesty, but oh by the way we just raised your taxes through the roof.’

Phillips goes on to predict that the vote to retain Boehner could be seen as the beginning of end times for the Republican Party. “I think you will see the rise of a new conservative party,” he said. He also claims that recent polls indicate that up to one-third of Republicans “are ready to bolt the party.”

I started in 1972 putting out yard signs for Richard Nixon. I have been a member of the party just about everywhere I’ve lived. I’ve run for office as a Republican, and at this point I don’t know if I can stay around. Who’s looking out for the average American, for the middle class?

We’ve got these trade agreements. We’ve got amnesty. How do these things help the middle class? They don’t. Who stands for freedom and liberty anymore? Republicans will defect, or some kind of third party structure will emerge over the next few months. It needs to happen quickly.

Franklin Lawson, founder of North Carolina Tea Party Coalition, echoes those sentiments telling WND that he also believes the Republican Party may have run out of steam:

Third party comes up frequently because how many times are we going to give our time, our resources, our money only to be slapped down? You hear all this stuff on Fox News saying you can’t go to the far right just like you can’t go to the far left, but one of the things I’ve always said is I will compromise everything but never my principles and values. Unfortunately, we’ve got some Republicans up there who don’t have any strong principles and values.

Speaking of Tuesdays’ vote for the the Speaker, Lawson as that

We had a few good patriots. That’s about all I can really say. It’s unfortunate. So I feel that (third party issue) is going to be a very hot and heated discussion among the conservative ranks here over next 14 months.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Phillips believes that time is of the essence, that if conservatives hope to have any impact in the 2016 elections they will need to have an organizational structure in place by this summer:

Labor Day is the official start of the next big political season. So if we’re going to do something, what I think we ought to do, is conservative Republicans need to support conservative candidates in the primary and if the conservative loses, vote for an independent in the general election. There is no difference between establishment Republican and Democrat so who cares if you cost them a Senate seat. But we cannot wait till summer of 2016, that’s too late. Conservatives need to start planning today. There needs to be some type of structure or organization so we’ve got candidates on the ground, we’ve got boots on the ground ready to get out the vote.

Phillips adds that the 25 House members who voted against Boehner could make up the base for this new 3rd party, stating “If we got a few good conservative candidates out there as independents, we could actually have a profound impact. Say you had four in the Senate. Republicans will need those four votes of the conservatives when they caucus, so they could say, ‘OK, here’s our four votes and here’s what we want in exchange.’”

Lawson agrees, warning that time is short:

It’s going to have to be pretty quick for the next election cycle. Organizing where it can get into place on any solid grounding is going to be tough. In my opinion it should have started a year ago. We got behind them, gave them our support thinking maybe it will be different this time, only to be back here sucking wind where we were before. When will we learn?

THE TEA PARTY NEWS NETWORK WEIGHS IN

Never one to shy away from public displays of hysteria, TPNN weighed in on the future of the GOP in an article entitled BOEHNER WINS! Establishment Strikes Back, Part 2.

TPNN began their meltdown asking “Does the GOP have a Dark Side?”

For all who cry foul of corporate bailouts, pork, and big government – your Party has left you. Or perhaps it was never there to begin with? How else do you explain sending the same ideas to Congress yet getting the same results but by voter insanity? The force that is in power is much stronger and more entrenched than ever. Cue the oncoming Conservative Exodus? So Be It, Jedi.

The then move on to issue a battle cry for Tea Partiers everywhere writing:

For those inspired by the Tea Party movement and the supposed return to responsive government, it may be time to wake up. As long as this Republican Party is in power, they will continue in their efforts to mobilize the base into compliance and conformity. Despite many ‘new’ Republicans touting a message of common sense rebellion and conservative roots, it appears those efforts are no match for the Dark Side.

They conclude their meltdown with the following warning:

The corporation backed political parties continue to rule at the expense of the people. Taxation and bad legislation always seems to be shouldered by the people. After all, GOP Congressmen only opposed ACA implementation on their families and staff – not their districts. Congressmen don’t even read the bills they pass, as they can always edit the parts that don’t favor their inner circles, and put the hammer down on districts they wish to ‘punish.’ There is always a price to be paid, a deal dealt. And the soul of the Tea Party movement hangs in the balance –despite their help in the past few elections.

Conserving corporate donors and status quo Big Government is not what got the House and Senate in the GOP’s hands. Or perhaps it is. After all, Jabba and the ‘Chamber of Commerce’ Hutts seem to have placed their large dollars behind the Party in such a way that drowns out the little guy and encourages ‘corporate’ groupthink. Have you seen the cut and paste explanations by ‘new conservative’ leaders as they explain every vote for a repeat speaker, bad legislation and mega-bills? And it’s only going to get worse, as a provision in the CRomnibus allows higher maximum donations for ‘individuals’ to the political party of their choice. It appears we have the factions President Washington once warned us about. The losers will either have to learn to be quiet and take whatever is given (like Hillary Clinton did in 2008) or risk banishment. Big Government is Big Government – no matter which Party is in ‘power.’ In the meantime, the scoundrel spirit of the Tea Party will remain on display, frozen in carbonite, on the wall of a greedy influential donor.

We know this battle is not over. There has never been a better time to be TEA than right this minute. Stay tuned, the saga is about to get real.

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