Iowa Liberty

In the last few days, it’s become even more clear that the Tea Party movement has been taken over by the same “small government” Republican establishment that created two wars, massive deficits, and the mind-boggling bailouts and stimulus packages.

It started on Sunday, when I read that the Tea Party movement has drafted not one, but three so-called small government conservatives to run against Ron Paul in his Congressional district in Texas. Keep in mind, the current popularity of liberty wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Ron Paul in 2008, who of course was attacked even back then by the people who are now trying to posture themselves as being against big government.

Tonight I went to a College Republican meeting, and one of the candidates running in the Republican Primary for the 2nd District of Iowa was there speaking. After the meeting, we started discussing the long-term fiscal difficulties of the United States government, specifically because of structural deficits and the insolvency of Social Security. The candidate and I came to the agreement that the government will not be able to handle these burdens, but then I asked if we were to end our wars if that would decrease deficits, to which the candidate responded that this would be detrimental to our safety and the security of the region. The candidate then tried to suggest that since I wasn’t alive during the invasion of the Vietnamese boat people and the massacre of three million Vietnamese after the Vietnam War, I wasn’t aware of what kind of consequences would happen due to us leaving a warzone. I was quick to point out that over two million Vietnamese had already been killed by Americans before the end of the war, and that we were currently living in another interesting immigration crisis due to bad government policy, this time the War on Drugs and the mass exodus of Latin Americans to the USA due to failed policies that breed crime. The candidate then continued on saying they aren’t anti-immigrant, and so on, then talked with another Republican about the positives of energy subsidies.

I hope this candidate doesn’t represent the same type of change that other mainstream Tea Party candidates represent, such as trying to resurrect literacy tests as barriers to voting. Another speaker tonight was a surrogate stumping for a gubernatorial candidate who preached that Republicans should regain the majority so they can enact the policies “we” want and know that the rest of Iowa wants. This current crop of anti-incumbent candidates are wolves in sheep’s clothing, because they are trying to convince you they are anti-tax, small government conservatives. Even the supposed people’s victory in Massachusetts was nothing more than another big government liar playing the fiddle before marching the people into the sea (Keep in mind, Romneycare in Mass. was nothing less than a state version of what national Obamacare is supposed to be).

Actually, to call these people wolves in sheep’s clothing is to give them far too much credit. These people are nothing more than neo-cons in tea bags. Either way, I hope neither disguise is enough to fool you.