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WSJ: A Tea Party Manifesto

August 18, 2010

The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover. The movement has blossomed into a powerful social phenomenon because it is leaderless—not directed by any one mind, political party or parochial agenda.

No one doubts the sincerity or power of the Tea Party movement anymore. We get it: free-market principles, limited government and individual liberty.

Those are the three fundamentals of the Tea Party’s “Contract From America,” to which any serious Republican must subscribe, nay, sign in blood. Make it real red.

Ryan Hecker, who organized the Contract From America, said the Republicans’ 1994 proposals represented the nation’s last intellectual economic conservative movement. The new list, he said, was “created from the bottom up.” “It was not crafted in Washington with the help of pollsters,” he said.