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If tea party types aren't blaming foreigners for crime, then why did they support SB 1070 (which expands government) and why is Joe Arpaio (hardly a limited government guy) speaking at the Las Vegas Tea Party Convention?
So, if they're so fond of state's rights, then why aren't they supporting the marijuana legalization initiatives in AZ, NV, CA, and OR with as much fervor as they supported SB 1070?
So, if they're so fond of state's rights, then why aren't they supporting the marijuana legalization initiatives in AZ, NV, CA, and OR with as much fervor as they supported SB 1070?
They are hypocrites, just like many Dems.
If they supported state rights, then they would have been appalled by Bush's faith base initatiaves. After all, that funding is supposed to come from the state level.
Teabaggers are not classical conservatives. They are pissed Republicans who are mad that they are out of power.
So ultranationalism, blaming crime and unemployment on immigrants, and blaming liberal politicians for the decline of one's country (and concocting conspiracy theories about said liberal politicians) are now LEFT-WING qualities?
The many posters on C-D who hold these beliefs would be quite surprised to find out they're "leftists"
About a month ago, I mentioned that radical leftists such as yourself, make no distinction between immigrants and illegal immigrants; I believe that is strictly for propoganda purposes. Thank you for validating my believe.
About a month ago, I mentioned that radical leftists such as yourself, make no distinction between immigrants and illegal immigrants; I believe that is strictly for propoganda purposes. Thank you for validating my believe.
Go on the immigration forums of C-D and you'll see hostility directed against legal immigrants as well as illegal immigrants, and hostility directed against Mexican culture and Islamic cultures as a whole (regardless of whether said people are illegal or legal) just like the Zaitokukai have hostility directed against Korean culture as a whole.
That's what the tea party WAS about before the GOP took it over.
If it's about stopping the trampling on our rights and freedoms, then why has the tea party movement not jumped on ending the drug war, repealing the Patriot Act, or opposing the wars?
So why does the tea party support Joe Arpaio who has a long record of trampling rights and freedoms of LEGAL residents of Maricopa County as well as trying to shut down opposition?
If the tea party was about defending our rights and freedoms it would make common cause with the ACLU. The tea party, unlike Ron Paul, is unwilling to cooperate with liberals on ANY single issue.
Wrong on all three counts.
The GOP took over "the" Tea party, supported Arpaio, and made it all about illegal immigration?
First of all, when did the GO-freaking-P ever give a crap about reining in illegal immigration?
Second, the is no single TEA party organization that anyone could take over.
First of all, when did the GO-freaking-P ever give a crap about reining in illegal immigration?
Rhetoric about it does seem to excite a good part of the "base", OTOH action is a whole other story.
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Second, the is no single TEA party organization that anyone could take over.
All the tea party groups have similar beliefs and if there are any major differences between them I am unaware of those differences. Care to elucidate the differences between the tea party groups? The only issue that I am aware of which divides the tea party movement is marijuana - and that could be the issue that forms the next US mass political movement and spans the right/left divide (something tea party groups have no interest in doing)
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