Tea Party Movement Going to Have Hard Time Getting Any Coverage

The mainstream media at first made the Tea Party Movement out to be a bunch of right wing radicals and now they are beginning to realize that is not the case but they don't know how to handle them.   The Tea Party is not about the Party it is about the Country, Constitution and the individual serving the people rather than the party through the government ruling the people.  The media doesn't know how to handle a group that has no official leaders but is truly grass roots, that has founding principals and core values but no official platform.   They have most recently tried to make them out to be the right wing of the republican party as once again the media doesn't understand country first and forget the parties.  Both parties have been for expanding government in the interest of political power and have forgotten the values under which this country was founded.  The Tea Party is conservative and small government minded.   I don't have a lot of confidence that the main stream media is going to ever get it and if they don't then the movement is going to have to rely on the internet and cable to get out the message as they are being silenced by major media although the message is one supported by the public as evidenced by recent polls indicating they are more trusted than either political party.  This, in spite of the negative coverage by the liberal media.  Note that the Tea Party has a higher favorable and a significantly lower negative rating than either political party in this poll.

WSJ/NBC News Poll: Tea Party Tops Democrats and Republicans

Note how the visit by Lech Walesa was handled by the Chicago media  relative to the Tea Party when he actually endorsed their candidate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtU-3i4k4Xk&feature=player_embedded

Mission Statement

The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.

Core Values

• Fiscal Responsibility
• Constitutionally Limited Government
• Free Markets

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

Lucky for the country, as was the case 250 years ago, we have a group of people who are willing to stand up against the government and attempt to retain the individual freedoms that were won in the founding of this country.    There are people who are not afraid of individual responsibility over government nanny states. Where progressives would decide what is best for uneducated masses and then force that decision on them.  But then as Obama said in the State of the Union as well on various talk shows, it is a complicated issue and he just didn't explain it well enough (Translation: I am Harvard educated and you dumb people don't know what is good for you unless I tell you).