Right Nation 2010 deserves respect

As one of 5,416 patriots to attend "Right Nation 2010," and who had the honor of being seated in "Blogger Row" to cover the event, it would be extremely unwise for Democrats and liberal-leaning organizations to treat tea party followers as a loony group of malcontents and a force to be dismissed.

As with most of the reporting about "Right Nation 2010," tea party followers are treated with disdain, a part of the crazy radical fringe, when in truth they are just ordinary citizens whose desire is to direct their energy and enthusiasm in November to reverse the course of this nation back to the tenets valued by a majority of the American people and established by our Founding Fathers in this nation's Constitution and Declaration of Independence: freedom, liberty, economic prosperity, and the ability to choose and direct our own destinies so that the American dream can be realized and passed along to future generations of Americans.

The Founding Fathers were wise in understanding that at some point in history this nation would become lost and fail its people. It was with great foresight that "We the People" appears as the first three words of the Constitution to warn future generations that government should not rule over the will of the people.

The cords to the three branches of government have been pulled repeatedly since the signing of our Constitution over 222 years ago. The executive, legislative and judicial branches all have failed. The tea party movement represents the fourth cord and the only cord remaining to be pulled. The mission of the tea party and its members is to reclaim their government in order to alter the political landscape of this nation from becoming hopelessly ensnared and radically changed by a radical leftist agenda.

More and more Americans no longer trust government or politicians and have come to realize that the hope and change peddled before the 2008 election, and still being pushed by the Obama administration and the Pelosi Congress, represents the extreme end of the political spectrum and not the tea party groups.

This quote by Ronald Reagan captures the spirit of the tea party movement and of all Americas who have had it and won't take it any more!:

"We as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. . . On you depend the fortunes of America."

Nancy J. Thorner

Lake Bluff