What's most disturbing is the AFP's willingness to use blatant falsehoods to stir the passions of its genuinely angry base
of tea partiers — again, that's sort of what the AFP has come to be known for, I suppose, with its gross distortion of facts during the health care reform process.
The effette was used in relation to progressives threatening to kick the butts
of tea partiers.
And the new Yale / George Mason poll, which is the first I have seen to prove the views
of Tea Partiers, shows that Tea Party members (12 % of the public) feel they are very well informed about climate science and more than half think global warming will never hurt anyone.
Just 1 %
of Tea Partiers think that there is a more than 80 % chance that humans are primarily to blame for climate change (ie, an IPCC - like statement of attribution).
Scozzafava, who is not seeking re-election this fall, endorsed Democrat Bill Owens after she was pushed out of the NY - 23 race by Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate who drew support
of Tea Partiers trying to push the national GOP to the right and punish party leaders for backing a pro-gay marriage, pro-choice moderate.
«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.
Add into the mix on the other side a fired - up movement
of Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin fans and you have what looks like the recipe for a massive Democratic defeat in eleven months.
And yes, it's a naked attempt to get the emails and cell numbers
of Tea Partiers and their fellow travelers, but again, list - building via online activism is an internet classic.
The Republicans used the fear, hatred and bigotry
of the Tea Partiers against Obama to win the House, and this year, they will use them to try to win back the White house and the Senate.
But, for the sake of argument, if there was a Glenn Beck heaven full
of tea partiers goose - stepping around carrying pictures of Sarah Palin, visiting that would create some very negative emotions...
That reminds me of all the political lessons I learned talking with a couple
of Tea Partiers and a couple of other conservatives for a few hours the other day.
The only countervailing power is that within the Republican Party a fringe
of tea partiers threatens to run against more established candidates safely sold to special interests.
With the retirement of his father Ron Paul, Rand Paul has taken over the mantle of the GOP's libertarian wing, fusing it with his growing coalition
of Tea Partiers and social conservatives.
Not exact matches
That is the root core, right there,
of the animosity shown by
Tea partiers against Obama.
As much as Romney, they're thinking too poorly
of too many
of their fellow citizens for how and (the
Tea Partiers imagine) why they voted.
Of course, the true Tea Partier wants all the safety net abolished on behalf of a new birth of constitutional freedo
Of course, the true
Tea Partier wants all the safety net abolished on behalf
of a new birth of constitutional freedo
of a new birth
of constitutional freedo
of constitutional freedom.
Keep in mind,
of course, that I'm not some
TEA PARTIER oblivious to the downsides
of current trends.
But the
TEA PARTIERS are excited about the justice
of a consumption or «fair» tax, and it might be tough for Romney to be tough with Cain on the tax front during the primary campaign.
Are they: — world dominating neo-cons, (the Bushes), — the legislative arm
of the religious right, — the nutty
tea partiers, — libertarians, or just — slaves to big money (Romney)?
It's kind
of like saying... «All Republicans,
tea -
partiers and Christians are idiots.»
The
tea partiers are consistently ridiculed as washed - up old white people, as the defunct humans
of the lingering, but not much longer lingering, past.
The
tea partiers are taken as the latest conclusive evidence that the party
of conservatism is simply the party
of those who already have whatever human beings want to have — cosmic opponents
of the party
of those who do not yet have those things.
The
Tea Partiers tend to think that Big Government — not capitalism — is the cause, And so they are, in the Porcher view, insufficiently attentive to the economies
of scale that allow WalMart to triumph over widespread personal ownership
of «the means
of production.»
The
tea partiers are spearheading what is and must be a middle - class movement — a movement not
of the old but the middle - aged, not
of those who are conservative because they have nothing left to create but who are conservative because they have just begun creating in earnest.
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?
Some
of them (dissident
tea partiers) would want huge spending and regulation cuts, regardless
of the effect on people who get healthcare through Obamacare's exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
He echoes Peter Beinart, who points out the differences between the
Tea Partiers and the followers
of William Jennings Bryan.
For those
of you that dislike big government, weather you are
tea partiers or self righteous individuals, you do not have to accept student loans to go to college, or FHA to buy your first home, or social security for your parents, or Medicare for the elderly.
I support much
of what the
tea partiers stand for as well.
There may be individuals who self identify as
tea partiers that promote some
of the litany
of untruths you spewed... but just like westboro, they do not define the movement.
I may not call myself a
tea partier... but I respect much
of what they seek to accomplish.
To adapt the words
of Rorschach, the Trump voters and
tea partiers will look up for another Justice Roberts to save them, and Hillary Clinton will look down and whisper «no.»
And, those
tea partiers that you insult are the ones who took the house
of representatives in 2010.
The more reasonable members
of the GOP are fed up with the
Tea Partiers and Creationists, and are going to make a move to take back control
of their party from the numbskulls who have held sway for a decade now.
@
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...
Regardless
of their rhetoric and their libertarian - heavy reading list, Armey's army is essentially trying to channel the
Tea Partiers» anger into a form that furthers the ambitions
of the broader Right.
In today's stories, Buffalo resident and
Tea Partier Rus Thompson got the worst
of it (he was the sole focus
of the DN story) for his drunk driving conviction under another name while living in Arizona.
The disrespect
of Republicans, especially
Tea Partiers, for our democracy is revolting.
The tension inherent in the
Tea Parties is that politics requires compromise, but that every compromise is a step down the road to being «just another politician» — something that
Tea Partiers would seem to reject out
of hand.
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.
But here's the fundamental problem: the
Tea Partiers may have mobilized against Obama and his policies (and in part be motivated by fear
of him and the demographic changes he represents), but they're also opposed to big chunks
of the Republican establishment.
Israel, not surprisingly, hewed to the party line, blaming the
Tea Partiers in the House GOP for the shutdown and the lack
of a debt ceiling deal, and pointing to recent polling that showed the Republicans are being blamed more than the Democrats for the mess in Washington — and could pay a price for it come 2014.
Also today,
Tea Partier Joe Gilbert confirmed to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise that he is dropping out
of the GOP primary, due to «family reasons.»
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.
Republican activists won't be quiet, assuming that
Tea Partiers and evangelicals aren't completely disenchanted with the eventual nominee, but so far we're not seeing the kind
of organization and training that will help Republican candidates hold their own in the ground war next fall.
The rabbis also urged voters in NY - 19 to vote for neither «pro-abortion Log Cabinist» Republican Nan Hayworth nor Democratic Rep. John Hall, calling for them to write in the name
of Neil DiCarlo, the anti-abortion rights
Tea Partier whom Hayworth defeated in the primary on Sept. 14.
«This MTA payroll tax is the final nail in the coffin
of a state that is trending vociferously into a downward spiral,» said Assembly Member Greg Ball, the Republican and self - avowed
Tea Partier running for the seat.
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.
A reader flagged an interesting, yet overlooked, aspect
of Jacob Gershman's very interesting WSJ story about the lack
of consensus among New York
Tea Partiers on GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who's banking in no small part on the support
of disaffected Republicans to fuel his hoped - for primary victory over Rick Lazio.
Cantor accuses Murdoch
of being in collusion with
Tea Partiers who liberals say have declared «war on Big Bird» by pushing to defund public radio and television.