Dear Tea Partiers: Quality Counts!

After watching the Republican Party lose  races it should have won easily, I think it's high time some of us 'real' conservatives spoke up.  Here are a few pointers for future races:

1. A flake that believes the same things you do, is still a flake.  Don't encourage them.
2. Own your failures.  It is natural for us to look for outside reasons on why our children make lousy choices or become something we don't want.  Chances are it wasn't the result of something the government did or controlled.  It was probably the result of one of two things: either they had bad parents or are just stupid.
3. I'm tired of staring at the screen trying to mentally coach Sarah Palin on the answers to basic economic and foreign policy questions.  Find someone smarter.
4. You want limited government?  Great!  Start in your own home, your local school board, your city council, or your state legislature.  Some of the most 'conservative' people I have known have gotten onto the local school board and wanted to micro-manage every teacher's classroom.  You're constantly saying that you want the government to get out of the way and let you run your life; well the same should be true of the teacher in his/her classroom.  We can't demand accountability without granting authority.  

I don't want to pick on Tea Party members; some of my best friends are TPs.  I just want to remind you that many of us do not want conservatives dictating our personal lives any more than we wanted the liberals doing it.  Remember that a slave cares not who his master is, he only cares who provides the best porridge.