Conservatives / A Tea Party Platform

Michelle Malkin
Sean Hannity
Bill O'Reilly
Paul Ryan Mark Levin
John Podhortz
Rush Limbaugh
Michelle Bachman
Ann Coulter
Larry Elder
Dennis Prager
Rick Santorum


Hugh Hewitt
Thomas Sowell
Jim DeMint
Mike Huckabee
Ron Paul
Scott Brown
Rand Paul
Marco Rubio
Tom McClintock
Allen West
Herman Cain
Ted Cruz
Glen Beck
Sarah Palin

TEA (Taxed Enough Already) PARTY PLATFORM

Eliminate Excessive Taxes

• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. (Calvin Coolidge)

Eliminte the National Debt

• You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. (Abraham Lincoln)

Eliminate Deficit Spending

• Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes. (Ben Franklin)

Protect Free Markets

• You can not build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. (Abraham Lincoln)

Abide by the Constitution

• We the people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, and are not to overthrow the Constitution but are to overthrow the men who pervert it. (Abraham Lincoln)

Promote Civic Responsibility

• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. (Thomas Jefferson)

Reduce the Overall Size of Government

• When one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty, it is worse executed bytwo persons, and scarcely done at all if three are employed. (George Washington)

Believe in the People

• The people will save the government, if the government itself will allow them. (Abraham Lincoln)

Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics

• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.(George Washington)

MaintainLocal Independence

• This country, with it's institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. (Abraham Lincoln)

TEA PARTY EXPRESS PLATFORM

• No more bailouts. 
• Reduce size and intrusiveness of government. 
• Stop raising taxes. 
• Repeal Obamacare. 
• Cease out-of-control spending. 
• Bring back American prosperity.