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On Tea Parties and Republicans

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#1 ·
Neil MacDonald is on a roll lately...

That sort of language, of course, just gets the Tea Partiers angrier. And when they are angry, they frighten the Republican elite, including, apparently, Frum's boss at AEI.

With their confusingly contradictory demands, their goon tactics, and their ability to organize and channel spluttering visceral fury, they are truly the loose cannon of American politics, endangering any conservative politician who doesn't either ride with them or hide from them.

During the health-care vote last week, Tea Partiers behaved like the snarling white mobs that lined the streets of Selma, Alabama, 46 years ago.

They surrounded representatives John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver, both civil rights legends from that era, as they entered the House to vote.

One protester spat in Lewis's face. Another called Cleaver a "******." This, in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol in 2010.

When Barney Frank, the openly gay congressman from Massachusetts, arrived on the Hill with his partner, he was mobbed, too. "******," someone yelled.

Inside the House, one protester made it into the public gallery where he began screaming curses and insults. Republican lawmakers applauded him, even as police struggled to haul him away.

There were several explanations put forward for the behaviour, but Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck, a Tea Party hero, provided the richest one: The Democratic lawmakers, he said, had deliberately provoked the crowd by walking around the grounds of the legislature in which they serve.
(CBC)
 
#74 ·
That's a lie, mrj, and you should be ashamed of yourself in spreading such vicious lies. There is no way anyone in the Tea Party would support state-funded schools, in that education is the main way to spread liberal propaganda and sex education. Keeping the masses just functionally illiterate is the best way to try and hold back the hands of the clock. This is the best way to go back to a better time in the US, where those who were different knew their places, and "the business of America was business".

So, ignore their spelling and read their message. America is in trouble and this is the one way to save all that is good and holy about America. Heed their words of wisdom (regardless of the spelling), and do what is right ............... all the way right.

This movement is just gaining momentum, and shall be guided through the darkness by "One Thousand Points of Light" ........... with each "point" a pile of burning books .............. books that contain evil liberal thoughts ............ books with untrue information about creation .................. books that don't contain misspelled words .................................

You have been forewarned, mon ami. Paix.
 
#73 ·
I don't find "moderate stances" annoying. I just don't find them interesting.

I'd like to see a third party, but in almost each case it appears that this is bloody near impossible to manage. Establishing a third party always runs the risk of allowing the party one least supports to win. Ross Perrot bled off enough Republican votes to elect Clinton, for example. The Tea Party movement is trying to work to defeat the most liberal Democrats while electing the most conservative Republicans--a far more workable strategy in the U.S. system.
 
#79 ·
Laugh if you will, gt, but your kind is the first to go to the "re-education camps" that would be set up under a Tea Party Sarah Palin presidency.
 
#76 ·
Judging by the tenor of your many previous posts, MF (and allowing for what you might term "a careful reading" of same),I think you do find them annoying, but no matter.

The problem with the tea partiers is that their tactics could have the unfortunate side effect of making American conservatives in general look like a bunch of angry fascist hicks.... whereas if they had their own party, the Republicans and Democrats in turn would have to work a lot harder at defining actual ideas and planks for their respective sides.

Or am I being idealistic again?

I do agree with you that it's unlikely we'll see a move beyond the two-party system any time soon.... it's a pretty entrenched situation with a rich history and tradition.
 
#80 ·
I agree. I am outraged at the vicious lies that liberals like Adrian are placing in the mouths and misspelled signs of Tea Party supporters. He and gt will be the first to be sent to the "re-education camps" should Palin be swept into victory in 2012, guided by the lights of piles of burning books, so that she might restore America, once again, to its role of greatness.

Those liberals kept saying, "America, change it or lose it", and it got Obama elected.

Well, with Palin and the Tea Party, it shall once again be "America, love or leave it."

In Solidarity, MF, paix, mon ami. "Death before Dishonor".
 
#81 ·
seems to me the the Tea Party is filled up with Crackers, ....sadly
 
#88 ·
Another "re-education camp" candidate. If this keeps up, there will have to be a camp just for ehMacLanders. We shall see.
 
#87 ·
I don't know how to use Photo Shop, so I would not know.
 
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#100 ·
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice" ............. and justice for the Tea Party is coming ............ if not today ......... and not tomorrow ........... but someday. And for those who stand in their way ................ well, "the end justifies the means".
 
#102 ·
Obama hit the basketball court and talked politics with CBS "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith this morning. Smith asked Mr. Obama, who is left-handed, if he can ever go to his right.

"I can go to my right, but I prefer my left," the president says.

This tells it all. It's the Tea Party ................ or anarchy.
 
#105 ·
American politics right about now is starting to remind me of those gigantic Ayn Rand novels I read back when I was young whippersnapper. The characters are either despicable sheep and unruly weasels or sterling visionaries with impeccable credentials.
 
#106 ·
The ironic thing about the Tea Baggers is that they are starting to look like defectors of the Weimar Republic in Germany, demanding an uber nationalist, conservative government. I don't want to make huge comparisons like this, but they are f-*-c-k-i-n-g racist SOBs.
 
#112 ·
No racism at all... right? They are ****ing animals.
The one of the many ironies is the fact they want people to pass a literacy test before voting. Please see placards in my previous post.

I'd say it's some wishful thinking to support the 'ideology' of The Tea Party. Perhaps that's what the pundits wish them to aspire to but to the rest of us they appear to be an ignorant, racist, unruly mob.
 
#118 ·
No that breaks the foundations of society and sets a noxious precedent. I didn't say they should be killed, but they should be recognised as abhorrent examples of people.

Everyone knows I am no fan of conservatism, particularly as it has manifested itself in the United States. But even the Republicans are stretching themselves to capture this audience. These people are so far to the extreme, that they are starting to look a lot like National Socialism did in January 1933. You can call it what you want, maybe National Conservatism, but very recent history shows the outcomes of such blatant hatred, greed and selfishness rendering itself as a populist movement.
 
#124 ·
They were busy voting for him and watching him betray their trust. Now, they are taking out their anger on Obama.
 
#132 ·
"Dr. G can take on the narrative of the Dictatorship of the Tea Pot from here! " I am a bit busy trying to help Macfury understand the realities of history from the Great Depression to WWII, Adrian. So, it is up to you to educate on this point. Paix, mon ami.
 
#141 ·
Macfury, you wrote that "WWII was not of his doing, because it predated him." WWII did NOT predate FDR. WWI predated WWII and WWII began with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. FDR was president then, just as he was president on Dec.7th, 1941. Get your facts straight or take on the wrath of SQ and Adrian.
 
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