It's a tad immoral but it is your money, bad strategy though
Isaac Send a noteboard - 26/05/2010 08:40:10 AM
Because of the media hype people on the left tend to think of the tea party as a separate wing, full of nutters, when it's just a strong conservative movement with populist tendencies that lacking any solid structure and hierarchy tends to bring in the whack-jobs who also tend to appear on the news because they make good news, most tea partiers I know are middle class and middle aged regular voters. They've little core universal tenets beyond 'big government bad' and most of their members vote republican, just prefer Inhofe's over Snowe's. So really sending a tea-party affiliate money for their campaign is just strengthening their primary bid and if they win their general election fund. You might derail a right-wing victory, but not by vote-siphoning, rather by making moderates nervous to vote for them in the General Election. But I'd bet that a campaign ad by a tea-party person funded by leftists would lose far fewer voted for them (it would probably gain them votes) than giving that money to a leftist who will run an ad with it gaining them votes. I would say you'd be better off voting for the same person with pocketbook and ballot.
Morality wise, you should really affiliate to the party you want to win, or the party you most sympathize with who you think can win, and vote for them in the general and in the primaries. It's dishonest to vote for a different party in the primary, and would if done in large numbers only result in parties going out of their way to only offer one viable candidate so their voters could cross and vote for the other party to tamper with them and make themselves hardened against rival party primary tampering. Just keep to the spirit of the thing, vote for who you want to win the general election, donate to people you want to win the general election. Democracy is already rough enough in translating the will of the people into action without adding any more road bumps from people trying to game the system.
Morality wise, you should really affiliate to the party you want to win, or the party you most sympathize with who you think can win, and vote for them in the general and in the primaries. It's dishonest to vote for a different party in the primary, and would if done in large numbers only result in parties going out of their way to only offer one viable candidate so their voters could cross and vote for the other party to tamper with them and make themselves hardened against rival party primary tampering. Just keep to the spirit of the thing, vote for who you want to win the general election, donate to people you want to win the general election. Democracy is already rough enough in translating the will of the people into action without adding any more road bumps from people trying to game the system.
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So here is my question RE: The Party System
25/05/2010 08:29:52 PM
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Question that might possibly reveal my ignorance in following the Tea Party hoopla...
25/05/2010 11:17:48 PM
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Kind of off topic, but still related.
26/05/2010 06:34:28 AM
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It's a method of showing dissatisfaction.
26/05/2010 06:44:39 AM
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Re: It's a method of showing dissatisfaction.
26/05/2010 07:01:03 AM
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Re: It's a method of showing dissatisfaction.
27/05/2010 05:39:53 PM
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the tea party is not going to be a lasting national movement, but if you want to donate, go ahead
26/05/2010 07:48:41 AM
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Yes, that is what happens. I gave to Ron Paul & I've received dozens of e-mails from the GOP
26/05/2010 08:31:17 AM
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It does seem a little ethically shady, to answer your real question.
26/05/2010 08:18:20 AM
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According to the left, the Tea Party movement is funded by corporations & the wealthy.
26/05/2010 08:21:46 AM
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the word party has caused a lot of confusion
26/05/2010 02:29:07 PM
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They have raised House candidates in at least one region, independent of the GOP.
26/05/2010 09:08:37 PM
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That sounds like a terrible waste of money to me. Buy yourself something nice. *NM*
26/05/2010 08:24:09 AM
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It's a tad immoral but it is your money, bad strategy though
26/05/2010 08:40:10 AM
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