My adventure campaigning for Governor at the Tax Day Tea Party protest. by Billy Roper
(libertarian)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Nine Nationalist Party of America supporters showed up at the local Tax Day Tea Party Thursday, to help me pass out campaign flyers to the sixty or seventy conservative activists who came to hear a Congressional candidate and several local candidates speak. Despite the lower turnout than the event on July 4th of last year, probably due to this one being held in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, I was able to do some good old fashioned campaigning, shaking hands and giving my pitch to most present. I had about thirty-five votes pledged to me, and one gun club and one local church congregation will subsequently be provided with copies of the flyers which were handed out to all present. Several people asked for extra copies to give to friends.
People were angrier and more radical on the whole than they were last year, and not just at Obama, but at both political parties and the government in general. The rhetoric and vitriol was, if anything, hotter than one hears at many events, perhaps because these Tea Party activists have the passion of newly catalyzed revolutionaries, and just don't realize it, yet.
I was surprised to see more younger people, and more working class people than last time, rather than just senior citizens. I look forward to hearing reports from other Tax Day Tea Party protests across the nation. Over 600 protests took place today, at one time. Some of them were larger than others, and some were more moderate, but the overwhelming majority of them were angry European-American folks.
An example of the common Tea Party attendee is the man I befriended today who is a rancher in the next county over. He has 460 rural acres at the foot of a mountain on which he runs 150 to 200 head of cattle, with help from his sons, sons-in-law, and nephews. He's a U.S. Army Vietnam combat veteran. He carries an M-1 in his truck because there are three cougars on his ranch which have killed seven of his calves already this year and he is getting his concealed carry weapons permit because his county has one of the highest populations of illegal immigrants of any in the state, with a rising crime rate to match. I invested twenty minutes talking to him, and in return he pledged to me the votes of every member of his family. It's men like these, and families like these, who will help us take America back.
Of my two competitors in the gubernatorial contest; the Democratic incumbent, Mike Beebe, is a pro-abortion liberal who was too cowardly to allow the state's attorney general to join those states filing suit against the federal government over the passage of Obamacare. The Republican challenger, Jim Keet, is the kind of fat cat restaurateur who proudly lists being a member of the United Negro College Fund advisory board, as well as the Jewish Community Alliance board, but fails to mention immigration at all in his campaign website's discussion of issues in a state where the League of United Latin American Citizens held their national convention and declared that Arkansas is now a border state, and the flood of illegal invaders grows daily.
Neither deserve to lead one of these United States.
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Way to go Billy! Keep up the good work. We were at the Tea Parties too, though it sounds like the one you went to was a more fruitful endeavor. All the best!
The problems our nation faces today are not about race. Getting tied up in race-oriented thinking just muddies waters that need to be made crystal clear. Bottom line: our country is in the shape it's in today because of the failure of the American voter. Voters have been going along with the cycle of government dependency. We got away with it for a while, but now the pigeons have come home to roost. 'We the People' must stand up and demand constitutional government and be willing to vote out any politician that fails to defend those values. Race has nothing to do with it. Money and power, and the love of them both, has everything to do with it.
The problem our nation faces most certainly DOES have to do with race!! One of the biggest problems our nation is facing is, illegal immigration!! If things that have to do with race don't change there won't be an America!! You can kiss just being an American good bye. Besides the fact that Whites are becoming a minority, it is also Americans who are becoming a minority, if something isn't done it isn't going to matter (as if it truly matters now) who or how many Americans go and vote. Not recognizing the issues about race is why we are in the mess we are facing today!! You are right the love of money does have some to do with it, every non White illegal immigrant who comes to this country DOES love your American money!!
