If tea party members think they have it right, they should become a third party and trot out their Mouth of the South Cruz/Bimbo Palin ticket, and see how they do. They know they’d get only 20 percent of the vote so continue to hijack the Republican Party, which is now in a seemingly endless contest to see who can be the stupidest redneck. Tea party assertions that there are terrorists among the flood of children entering from Central America, that women are being impregnated and smuggled in to give birth to terrorist babies; that more guns is always the answer and, of course, their most ridiculous National Rifle Association credo that ”guns don’t kill people, people do,” are just a few of their ludicrous positions. They even jumped on the Cliven Bundy (common thief and tax evader) bandwagon until his idiotic rants made him too racist for even them to stomach.

A vote for the Republican Party any more is a vote for Deep South beliefs and bigotry, and Western rednecks can’t resist. Republicans’ failure to address immigration reform, gun control or any other meaningful legislation; their relentless attack on women’s rights; their causing this to be the least productive Congress ever; and suing of the president all mean it’s time for them to go. Vote them out!

Ken Van Zee

Durango