Gary North: "Any time a politician begins to think you are in his hip pocket, make sure he knows you are a tack."

From the conclusion to a piece arguing for strategic third party advocacy:

The most important power in politics is the power to impose pain on politicians. Civil government is about imposing negative sanctions on law-breakers. So is politics. Any time a politician begins to think you are in his hip pocket, make sure he knows you are a tack. The Tea Party movement is growing. Rising taxes and rising deficits will guarantee that this will continue. If the Tea Party bloc cannot get its candidates nominated, it should run third-party candidates every time. It should kill the chances of any Republican candidate unless he decides to pander to them.