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Old 08-01-2011, 10:32 AM
 
Location: The Land of Reason
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The Tea Party is not afraid to CUT and take the hard knocks that come with it.
The Tea Party is all for reducing the size of the Federal Government, not eliminate it as some would think.
The Tea Party is all for living within our means budgetwise.

Neither the Left nor the Right are happy with that though.

The Tea Party is not afraid of the common man when defending corperate whores.
The Tea Party does not have a clue how to create what they championed for in the first place ....jobs
The Tea Party does not give a damn about anyone that does fit into the slightly educated, elderly, white retired or living comfortably mold.
The Tea Party does not believe in actually knowing about the very same thing that that bring up continuously.......The Constitution
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:35 AM
 
Location: SARASOTA, FLORIDA
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The left is scared of the TP because they make up more in numbers then liberals do.

Liberals only make up 20% of all Americans and are not only a minority group but they are shrinking in numbers while the TP and conservatism is growing.
That is what scares the left knowing they are a dying thing in America.
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:39 AM
 
Location: texas
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The way the left and some establishment republicans react to the Tea Party, it's almost like a Catholic Priest throwing Holy Water on a demon.

The Tea Party caucus are the only part of our federal government who actually take their Constitutional responsibilities seriously.

I guess most people on the left see this as killing the goose that lays their golden eggs.

The less power the government has, the less control they have over our populace.

It scares the hell out of them.
Because they beat their a$$, last election cycle....
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:40 AM
 
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The left is scared of the TP because they make up more in numbers then liberals do.

Liberals only make up 20% of all Americans and are not only a minority group but they are shrinking in numbers while the TP and conservatism is growing.
That is what scares the left knowing they are a dying thing in America.
It's not just liberals. It is also independents, and "Main Street Conservatives" who think the tea party is full of ish.

They tend to support liberal spending programs if they benefit people who are living out their retired "Sunny Days in Florida."
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:45 AM
 
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Tea party activists have helped this country from falling into the abyss of Socialism, and Fascism.

Doesn't mean it still won't happen. But they have slowed the destruction immensely.

LONG LIVE THE AMERICAN ACTIVIST TEA PARTY
Huzzah!
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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The left is scared of the TP because they make up more in numbers then liberals do.

Liberals only make up 20% of all Americans and are not only a minority group but they are shrinking in numbers while the TP and conservatism is growing.
That is what scares the left knowing they are a dying thing in America.
See, the problem with that is that I, for example, am one of many, many people who actually know what a liberal and liberalism is.

Pretty much the entire Tea Party has no idea.

I am not a liberal. I'm a socialist. Most socialists would not classify themselves as liberal.
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:48 AM
 
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Many people do not realize that the teaparty is fractioned there are the Ron Paul and there are the crackpots like Michelle Bachman. I'm neither Dumbocrat or Refutican but I call it like I see it. Many of the teaparty folks are screaming about the constitution but know very little about it. You have a Mr Cain who refuses to read anything longer than a pamphlet and Bachman truely belives in smaller government but want to eliminate porn without any clue how. This is on top of the fact that she believes that our (her) forefathers "worked very hard to end slavery", this airhead wants to run the country? Many of you are also blinded by the overall onesided stupidity of the media, either it be Faux or CNN. Americans have been dumb-down to the extent that they know who the last American Idoless was since it's inception but could not tell you who their state rep or congressperson is.

I have watched intently on the debt debates and what I have not heard from the Teabaggers is a way to provide jobs to Americans, they have ranted about no more taxes especially for the ultra rich for some reason they believe will save them by creating jobs if they are able to keep the billions that they stole from the American people in the first place.

This little note is to those of you who are over 40 years old: Do you remember School House Rock? To those who don't remember it was a little cartoon that taught kids how bills are created, what nouns, pronouns, adjectives ect are. Do you know who ended that sucessful program? Good old Ronnie of the GOP, why? to this day I can only speculate that this was the begining of the dumbing down of the American people
lol! If the schools aren't already teaching those things you have a bigger problem then the loss of "schoolhouse rock".
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Old 08-01-2011, 10:58 AM
 
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The left is scared of the TP because they make up more in numbers then liberals do.

Liberals only make up 20% of all Americans and are not only a minority group but they are shrinking in numbers while the TP and conservatism is growing.
That is what scares the left knowing they are a dying thing in America.
We can only hope.
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Old 08-01-2011, 11:00 AM
 
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See, the problem with that is that I, for example, am one of many, many people who actually know what a liberal and liberalism is.

Pretty much the entire Tea Party has no idea.

I am not a liberal. I'm a socialist. Most socialists would not classify themselves as liberal.
They do in polite company and in politics. And the Marxists do too.

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Old 08-01-2011, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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See, I thought "Tea" was a leaf that was brewed to make a drink, that we dumped into the boston harbor as a protest against "taxation without representation."

The modern tea party has nothing to do with "taxation without representation."
Who said that it did? Do you have a comprehension problem or something?
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