Next year, Tea Party  leaders will hold meetings , write blog entries, and send emails on the topic of what it will take for Tea Partiers to win in 2010.

This is a different perspective.

In 2010 the Tea Party’s number one priority must be to reach out to small businesses in America and ask for their help and leadership in defeating the liberal/progressive takeover of  America.

Small business owners creating most of the jobs and wealth in America.

The notion that the Obama administration has somehow fixed the economy by creating more government jobs and thus (supposedly) lowering unemployment is an insult to small businesses and their owners.

Typically small business owners do not participate in politics because they are busy creating wealth and raising families; but the  Obama administration is now  threatening their profitablity and their way of life, and therefore small business owners have no choice but to to become involved in the Tea Party movement, or face extinction.

There are obvious reasons why small business should be leading the fight against socialism and big govnernment, one being that in many regards small business have the most to lose, and another being that small businesses are in many ways most equipped to fight the incursions of big government once they decide to do so.

Furthermore:

• Small businesses return their phone calls. Many tea partiers do not.
• Small businesses quickly reach decisions. Many tea partiers agonize over decisions for months and look more like the Oxford Debating Society than activists.
• Small businesses evaluate their strategic decisions in terms of consequences, potential gain, and risk. Many Tea Partiers make decisions the way they would if they were playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Small business owners are responsible for providing nearly everything in American that people really need on a day to day basis.  Doctors run small businesses.  Dentists run small businesses.  Auto mechanics run small businesses.  Grocers run small businesses.

Having worked as a principle employee for a ten person Web Advertising business, I can say that if you like working with decent, genuine,  goal oriented, hard working people who maintain their sense of humor under difficult circumstances, then small business is the place to be.

Small business owners make decisions in 10 minutes that would take government a year and a $5 million trip to Atlanta to make.

Six days a week, 10 hours a day, small business operators run their buinesses in ways that dozens of government agencies would shut them down for; and, as America drifts towards socialism, we will all begin to find that nearly everything we want to do is illegal, and that it is generally impossible to run a business without breaking some kind of a law.

Here is the bottom line.  Small businesses have the most to lose from the current left wing takeover of America, and they have the most ability to stop that takeover from happening.

Small business owners are the most agressive and creative problem solvers in the world.  Many of them have gotten involved in Tea Parties, but most have not..  The Tea Parties, if they want to succeed, will need to reach out  to small businesses and ask for their help and leadership in ending the left wing takeover of America.

Without the help of small business, I believe that our vision of a peaceful revolution against socialism in the United States will be doomed.