To those who thought the Tea Party was just an odd American preoccupation, it may be time to think again. According to this article from Spain’s Hispanidad, not only aren’t Sarah Palin and company ‘wing nuts,’ their ideas should be embraced and pursued by Spaniards. After going into significant detail about what a Spanish Tea Party would stand for and pointing out that Spain’s mainstream media is opposed to the idea, columnist Eulogio Lopez suggests that any Spaniard opposed to a Tea Party in Spain ‘doesn’t believe in democracy or the people.’
For Hispanidad, Eulogio Lopez writes in part:
What is the Tea Party? It’s a movement to reinstate citizens as actors in public affairs and instill morality in political action, since, let’s not fool ourselves, the only existing values are Christian values.
How can we do it? By imitating Sarah Palin: with the Internet, TV and buses traveling across Spain.
And who should defend these principles? The small number of parties that defend the non-negotiable values of Pope Benedict XVI (life, family, freedom to educate and the common good) and those politicians that believe in them, from both the PP and the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers Party). In other words, non-progressive and non-liberal politicians, which are not and don’t wish to be professional politicians.
The defense of human life from conception to natural death should be the yardstick for identifying Tea Party leaders. And you need not abandon your political party to participate in the movement, provided you are faithful to these non-negotiable principles.
Hey, and what if the Tea Party doesn’t win power? If they don’t, they don’t. The purpose of such a movement can be to reach the prime ministership (why not?). But its principal goal is to regenerate public life. Sarah Palin is still a member of the Republican Party and her goal is the White House. But whether she reaches it or not, she will have regenerated American public life, which has been perverted, not only by Obama’s Democrats, but by Washington’s Republican machine – by professional politicians.
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