Tea Partiers are a joke

[W.E.B. Du Bois]

OK, so we got Christine O'Donnell, who even her Republican opponent (Mike Castle) refuses to endorse and calls totally unqualified. We got the ultimate Tea Partier: Sarah Palin, who cannot tell you what she reads and has probably flunked out of three colleges. We got Sharon Angle who doesn't believe in global warming, and thinks abortion should be outlawed even in cases of rape, and talks about armed uprising against the government. We got Ken Buck who says that a UN bicycle program was part of a plot to take over the United States.

Now we got tea bagger Joe Miller who is opposed to entitlement programs, but......he won't reveal whether or not he's been on entitlement programs!


politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/11/miller_refuses_to_talk_about_his_background.html


Alaska U.S. Senate nominee Joe Miller (R) said that "he will not be answering any more questions about his personal background for the remainder of the campaign," the Anchorage Daily News reports.

Said Miller: "We've drawn a line in the sand. You can ask me about background, you can ask me about personal issues. I'm not going to answer."

Miller "has faced scrutiny in recent weeks on a number of fronts involving his personal background, including that his family received low-income medical benefits, low-income hunting and fishing licenses and that his wife drew unemployment benefits. Miller has been critical of such programs at the federal level, saying the nation suffers from an "entitlement mentality" and is on the brink of bankruptcy"

Miller also opposes the 17th Amendment, which allows for Senators to be elected by popular vote. Apparently, he wants to go back to the system where state legislatures elected senators and not ordinary people. Yet of course that doesn't stop Miller from RUNNING FOR SENATOR SEEKING THE POPULAR VOTE.

* Puts head in hand and laughs *

[Kazikli Bey]

Seriously, the TEA party has always been, and will always be, a joke. It's nothing but a conservative reaction against a Democrat in office. Think about it for a minute, this is a party that is for fiscal responsibility, so why didn't they pop up when Bush was in power? Not only that, but most of the online supporters that I have come across were people who supported Bush and his policies of fiscal ineptitude. How can you take them seriously as a party with sound platforms when they are really just Bush styled neo-cons pretending to be fiscal conservatives?

[W.E.B. Du Bois]

The Tea Party is the far right of the Republican Party. They are to the right what MoveOn.org and Daily Kos are to the left. They are the professional right to paraphrase the Press Secretary. They might even be farther to the right than those liberals are to the left. What makes them significant is that there are a lot of them. If there were half as many of them, people wouldn't give a shit because their behavior and statements makes no sense.

[Kazikli Bey]

Personally, I don't really think that there are THAT many of them. I think a lot are cottoning on to the sloganeering more than what they are actual real TEA party supporters, it's more like bandwagon support more than it is real support. I think that there are a lot of social conservatives who are converging on the party and showing their support because it is an easy way to get elected. Originally, the TEA party was nothing, it's only when a number of social conservatives cottoned onto it that it actually gained huge numbers. I don't think that this is good news for America though, if a crazed group like this gets power, think about the problems it will cause! I wonder if the supporters will realise that you cannot rebuild a country solely on the promises of vague slogans.

[Mike]

I am pretty critical of the Tea Party, but to my dismay I know a lot of people who relate to it. The thing about the Tea Party movement is that it is popular, not unlike the set of all American Idol followers. It’s a movement predicated upon gut reactions and emotional paradigms that have existed for decades, but have only recently been focused via the lens of some uglier motivations. We may criticize many of the nuttier (more visible) members of the movement, but I gotta say we fool ourselves if we disbelieve in its potential for changing the political dynamic—its members vote! Combine this with the fickle nature of American voters in general. Moreover, I fear that too many who were enthusiastic for President Obama have succumbed to political doldrums; and they feel a sort of general political malaise from what feels like endless economical bad-times and war. I think the GOP fully get this, and has co-opted the movement, possibly to its advantage in and after the upcoming election.