In just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than
Tea Partiers at prayer.
Not exact matches
Tocqueville on acid, Hobbes on crack: what could possibly unite the average libertarian, the conservative of any stripe, me, and a
tea partier selected
at random, if not Friedman's belief that the self - realized innovators of tomorrow are the listless, powerless lumpenbourgeois of today?
Over
at The American Conservative, Larison uses the NY Times / CBS News poll to argue that the
Tea Partiers aren't populists but rather «base» conservatives.
@
Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your
Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed
at how little conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version
Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...
Tea Partiers in particular are a dangerous crowd to trifle with, because
at heart they're purists like my friends Adam and Charles — they don't seem to trust politicians of any stripe, meaning that Cantor is potentially playing with fire.
Showing up
at Congressional townhall meetings and public rallies is all fun and games, but real political power demands that the
Tea Partiers demonstrate the ability to shift the outcome of elections by sending bodies to the polls, contributions to the bank or both.
The
Tea Partiers are a purist and fractious bunch, liable to split along ideological and personal fault lines
at the drop of a hat, so perhaps there's some chance that it might.
«America today begins to turn back to God,» said Glen Beck
at his rally
at the Lincoln Memorial that drew thousands of
Tea Partiers... and Sarah Palin.
He's a certified CPA and a government - spending watchdog, and sounded a lot like a die - hard
tea partier when he announced his candidacy
at Grand Central Station this morning.
Abigail Disney's «Armor of Light,» an engaging documentary of Capitol Hill
Tea Partiers» far - right evangelical Reverend Rob Schenck's inability to reconcile being «pro-life» and «pro-gun,» to the chagrin of his passionate base, had its L.A. premiere
at the DGA on Wednesday, October 13.
And there are some little winks
at the right - wing
tea -
partiers that may just be intentional, like when Anna (Morena Baccarin) talks about «change,» and the sleazy journo guy asks her about universal health care.
The Marco Rubio strategy: One problem for the Common Core» ites,
at this point, is none of their champions carry much credibility with the
Tea Partiers (or with the anti-testing left).