Huntington TEA Party gets debates, Valpo NWIPs get Laughed At

The Huntington TEA Party hosted both a Congressional debate and a Senatorial debate the other day. What's commendable about this is that all the Republican candidates for US Senate eagerly showed up for the debate. An ensuing Straw Poll showed why.

Marlin Stutzman, perhaps the most reasonable and most electable Republican won. Not only did Stutzman win, but he won with more votes than two Ron Paulies (Behney and Hostettler) COMBINED. That's an impressive win for both Marlin Stutzman and the intelligence of conservative TEA Party activists in Indiana's 5th Congressional District.

Why hasn't the Region had a TEA Party Debate that brought all 5 US Senate Candidate and most of our 8 Congressional Candidates out for one big event? It's not because the Senate candidates are afraid to come up here... some of them already have. I'll end the suspense: It's because nobody in their right mind wants to be associated with the Ron Paul nut jobs involved in it! All one has to do is take a gander in the forums on their meetup site to see what the problem is.

While the good men and women in Huntington want to reign in the size of government; the people involved the NWIPs also want to reign in the size of government, but they also want to ban vaccines, put guns in the hands of school children in the classroom, convince the world that 9/11 was an inside job, and so much more that it's disgusting.

Look, for people with at least two brain cells to rub together, I'm as conservative as they come. My friends even say I'm libertarian on some issues. I'm like you. I want Obamacare repealed. I want to get rid of the IRS and reform our tax system. I want to be able to smoke a cigarette without liberal smoking nazis throwing me in a concentration camp. What's more, I want to be able to buy those cigarettes without having to pay a 500% tax on them at every gas station outside of an Indian reservation.

I'm the kind of reasonable person who would be proud to have our US Senate Candidates answer questions from We The People of Northwest Indiana. And I'm also the kind of reasonable person who would be ASHAMED to have the nut cases, fruit loops, and loony toons have a single second to represent us here.

It's bad enough NW Indiana is already treated like the red headed step child of the state, the last thing I want is for us to give the rest of the state any more reason to treat us like that. The vast majority of the conservatives and Republicans who live up here are honest, hard working, and intelligent people who, unfortunately, are being drowned in a sea of idiocy spewing from the mouths and asses of the RLC and NWIPs.

I for one will NOT be attending their conspiracy theory and lunatic convention on the 14th. If you have any respect for yourself, I highly recommend you avoid it like Satan as well. Thankfully, several Republican candidates have already confirmed for me privately that they won't be attending.

It's just a shame the Republican Party isn't well enough organized in Porter County and too divided in Lake County to offer some sort of alternative event for the vast majority of mad as hell conservatives who meet the 2+ Brain Cell requirement.