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I keep reading threads calling for the silencing of, or removing of the "Tea Party" (as if the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to these people, but that's a different topic) anyway, there is no "party." We are a collection of people who share the similar idea of the government cutting spending and getting their house in order. People of all political affiliations, races, religions and ethnicity's. Basically when you say that we have to be "silenced" you're unwittingly advocating fascism.
I keep reading threads calling for the silencing of, or removing of the "Tea Party" (as if the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to these people, but that's a different topic) anyway, there is no "party." We are a collection of people who share the similar idea of the government cutting spending and getting their house in order. People of all political affiliations, races, religions and ethnicity's. Basically when you say that we have to be "silenced" you're unwittingly advocating fascism.
\People of all political affiliations, races, religions and ethnicity's. Basically when you say that we have to be "silenced" you're unwittingly advocating fascism.
I don't know a single Democrat who calls themselves a tea party member. Even if they are I am certain its below 1% of the caucus. Why do you need to misrepresent the political diversity of the Tea Party?
Why do they seem to have so many consistently social conservative opinions on social issues?
I could get behind a group that wants the government get its financial house in order.... But not this group.
I keep reading threads calling for the silencing of, or removing of the "Tea Party" (as if the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to these people, but that's a different topic) anyway, there is no "party." We are a collection of people who share the similar idea of the government cutting spending and getting their house in order. People of all political affiliations, races, religions and ethnicity's. Basically when you say that we have to be "silenced" you're unwittingly advocating fascism.
This should be obvious to anyone. There is no political party called the TEA Party, and there never has been. It is a movement, not a political party, that began with a handful of Libertarians in 1974 and became national on April 15, 1977.
Contrary to popular belief, Ron Paul had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the TEA Party movement.
I don't know a single Democrat who calls themselves a tea party member. Even if they are I am certain its below 1% of the caucus. Why do you need to misrepresent the political diversity of the Tea Party?
Why do they seem to have so many consistently social conservative opinions on social issues?
I could get behind a group that wants the government get its financial house in order.... But not this group.
I first heard about this group back in 2009 from listening to Beck. He was pushing it as a non partisan mixture of a Republicans and Democrats. I was very skeptical but willing to consider this might be true. After having observed their handiwork, however, I conclude they are the same patchwork of John Birch elements that have plagued us for decades. They are non partisan in that they are made up of conservative Republicans and fringe groups that are ever further right.
I don't know a single Democrat who calls themselves a tea party member. Even if they are I am certain its below 1% of the caucus. Why do you need to misrepresent the political diversity of the Tea Party?
Why do they seem to have so many consistently social conservative opinions on social issues?
I could get behind a group that wants the government get its financial house in order.... But not this group.
The ONLY issue the original TEA Party movement was concerned about was taxation. Hence, their acronym: "Taxed Enough Already." Whenever Congress enacted a massive tax increase, there has been a TEA Party protest on April 15th of that same year. The first one was on April 15, 1977. Their second national protest was on April 15, 1993.
Since 2008 the TEA Party movement has been hijacked by those with different agendas. It is nothing like what it was originally created to do.
So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.
These are TEABAGGERS! the difference between them and the real TEAPARTIERS is this: If they were against taxation would it be against Repuplicans AND Democratic politicians. These TEABAGGERS are a front for the republicans and claim that they are not. In otherwords they will say and do things that the republicans cant/will not, and if they say something extremely stupid like Bachman often does they can say that they had nothing to do with it.
Okay, using that logic, or lack thereof, can you talk to me a bout the Black Party or the Hispanic Party, since they too have congressional congresses.
I don't know a single Democrat who calls themselves a tea party member. Even if they are I am certain its below 1% of the caucus. Why do you need to misrepresent the political diversity of the Tea Party?
Why do they seem to have so many consistently social conservative opinions on social issues?
I could get behind a group that wants the government get its financial house in order.... But not this group.
See you just did it. I can join the National Republican Party,National Dem Party, National Libertarian Party, etc. I can not become a "member" of the National Tea Party; because there is none.
As for social conservatives, so what, are we not allowed to have an opinion or do you wish to muzzle us as well? There are many social conservative democrats, where is your post regarding them?
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