If you live in the real world, you already know the Tea Party movement is real and growing and really making a difference in how people see those who want to represent us in Austin and Washington. If you live in the world the media wants you to think we live in, the Tea Party movement is filled with fringe right-wing wackos and should be either ignored or ridiculed. By the way, it was pure ridicule at first — but, that only served to peak people’s interest in the Tea Parties. To the media’s regret, their making fun actually exposed the masses to what was really happening. The media and the left-wingers they unapologetically support and promote had actually helped to recruit people looking for answers for the Tea Party movement. The media is collectively kicking themselves in the rear end right now for not having simply not paid attention. Because, now the movement is too big, too strong to stop.
On Saturday (October 16, 2010), we had the latest gathering of like-minded individuals in Houston. The infield at the Sam Houston Race Park was filled with people filled with Texan and American pride. They were smiling, laughing, singing along, walking tall and sure that this is still America and we still have a say.. the biggest say in the direction of this great land.
The final numbers aren’t in yet — last November, 14,000 people showed up.. this time darn close to that same number. It was invigorating, and empowering. It was a stark reminder of what “for the people and by the people” really means. It means the government exists because we allow it. It means, we hire people to represent us — we don’t represent them. They answer to us, we don’t answer to them. It means we see the Constitution as a firm foundation for this country and for us all. It’s a foundation that’s real and not movable. Even though the White House and congress are filled with elitists who believe they’re smarter than the founders who constructed that Constitution, they may not redefine freedom and liberty.
The media coverage of this latest gathering was sparse. I saw one Houston TV station out there.. and the report was okay. It outlined the theme of the day — that we need to vote. The reporter interviewed a couple of people out there but never spoke of the massive crowd or how incredibly diverse it was. A cross-section of Houston of Texas of America was there. I shook hands with young and old, male and female, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian and everything in between. For all of the attacks by the left and the media about this being a racist or angry white movement — there was not ONE mention of the diversity of the crowd.
I shouldn’t be surprised.. but, after almost four years of failed liberal policies of taking over any and every industry they could, it’s my hope as a former TV news anchor and reporter that journalists will actually make a decision to do what the job is… keep a journal of the events happening in our everyday lives. The job is NOT to tell me what to think about a party or policy or issue or candidate. Just go there — see what’s happening and then tell the viewers, listeners, or readers what you saw. Duh.
Early voting starts on October 18th in Texas. Election day is November 2nd. The moral of the story is — if you believe in traditional conservative-American values – the Constitution as a meaningful FOUNDATION (not a stretchable, bendable guide) — if you believe the government has become drunk on the power and believes they’re smarter than we are and if you’re tired of the unadulterated expansion of said government and out of site tax rates — go and vote. It’s time we told those who have shirked their responsibility to us that we’ve had enough. Vote.
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