What is the Tea Party?

[Craig234]

Crying "racist" is page 1 playbook stuff for libs.

Making that lie about liberals is playbook 1 stuff for the right.

 

[DealMonkey]

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."​

Hmmmm... :hmm: Something makes me think that this is code for something. Hmmm, what could it be?

Also, voters are stupid?? Man, that's a great angle you got going there, Tom.

The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama."​

Yup, still pounding that dumb dead horse, "socialism." Yawn.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Making that lie about liberals is playbook 1 stuff for the right.

Except it isn't a lie.

 

[werepossum]

The far right go to meetings and talk about killing the president.

The far left make movies about killing the president. And the far left would go to meetings too, if their gubmint checks were late.

Wolf pretty much nailed it about the Tea Party and Bush. The same people were irate at the insane spending and huge growth in government, but there were also things about Bush that they liked; they weren't nearly riled up enough to consider organizing and protesting, a liberal activity. With Obama there is nothing they like. Only under a Democrat Presidency and/or Congress could such a movement and party spring up, and it will likely die when the Republicans take one or the other. The correct corollary would be the media - how many stories do we get about the homeless or the "true" unemployment rate under Obama? Damned few, because he sends shivers up the media's collective leg. In the mean time the Tea Party is the Democrat Party's best bet for retaining control of Congress in 2010.

 

[CallMeJoe]

According to yesterday's Greenville (SC) News, South Carolina's and Greenville County's Republican Party leadership approached the state's Tea Party organizers with the suggestion that the Tea Party would vet Republican Party nominees so that they could then campaign as "Tea Party Republicans".

To their credit, the Tea Party locals reportedly "went ballistic", with a number of Tea Party activists threatening to picket the Greenville County Republican offices if they went forward with their plan.

 

[soundforbjt]

According to yesterday's Greenville (SC) News, South Carolina's and Greenville County's Republican Party leadership approached the state's Tea Party organizers with the suggestion that the Tea Party would vet Republican Party nominees so that they could then campaign as "Tea Party Republicans".

To their credit, the Tea Party locals reportedly "went ballistic", with a number of Tea Party activists threatening to picket the Greenville County Republican offices if they went forward with their plan.

Maybe some of them still have their senses, They need to run their own candidates and not be taken over by the repubs. That would show true commitment in their beliefs.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Teabaggers = Racist white people

One only need to look at the live footage from one of these events to see this. What I can't figure out is why anyone gives a fuck what these people have to say.

Racist white people are the minority and will slip further into the minority in the coming years. If the Republicans think they can win national elections by attaching their boat anchors to this sinking ship of an electorate they are in for a big surprise.

 

[brandonbull]

Falling for the media sensationalized events? Those are just a few that they insert themselves into. In case you haven't noticed, there are dozens of these events all around the country. They have been going on long before the media jumped in.

Now that Palin and Beck have gotten their hooks into the 'Tea Party', it is as good as dead.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Except it isn't a lie.

Your correct! Teabaggers are racists, it isn't a lie

Just look at your own Avatar convincing anyone with half a brain that thats not racist ain't gonna happen, no matter how you justify it

 

[Craig234]

Teabaggers = Racist white people

One only need to look at the live footage from one of these events to see this. What I can't figure out is why anyone gives a fuck what these people have to say.

Racist white people are the minority and will slip further into the minority in the coming years. If the Republicans think they can win national elections by attaching their boat anchors to this sinking ship of an electorate they are in for a big surprise.

One main reason is that in our system with elections frequently decided by close margins, and plenty of non-voters, any movement to organize people and get them to vote can change elections.

This is why the Republican party has launched war on ACORN, with the campaign of lies and propaaganda against them, to prevent the poor from voting.

 

[Robor]

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."​

Hmmmm... :hmm: Something makes me think that this is code for something. Hmmm, what could it be?

Also, voters are stupid?? Man, that's a great angle you got going there, Tom.

The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama."​

Yup, still pounding that dumb dead horse, "socialism." Yawn.

Don't forget the HUSSEIN part. FF video to 2:20 or so Ignorant fvcks and they can vote. Of course, so can the 'free money' idiots. :\

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Your correct! Teabaggers are racists, it isn't a lie

Just look at your own Avatar convincing anyone with half a brain that thats not racist ain't gonna happen, no matter how you justify it

and just how exactly is my avatar racist?


...this ought to be good...

 

[cubby1223]

and just how exactly is my avatar racist?


...this ought to be good...

Because the Marxist movement was about black suppression!


It's sad - sometimes I flip over to MSNBC just to see what those clowns are saying - Maddow devoted her entire opening segment tonight to "proving" that since some people were racist during the 40's and 50's, that the Tea Party movement of today is definitely motivated by the same racist, black suppression attitudes...

And Craig says Fox News is the propaganda machine...

 

[cubby1223]

This is why the Republican party has launched war on ACORN, with the campaign of lies and propaaganda against them, to prevent the poor from voting.

Craig, you still haven't realized that other people are capable of independent thought - we all clearly see the propaganda is coming straight from your keyboard

It really is interesting watching you become more desperate in your arguing as time marches forward

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Because the Marxist movement was about black suppression!


It's sad - sometimes I flip over to MSNBC just to see what those clowns are saying - Maddow devoted her entire opening segment tonight to "proving" that since some people were racist during the 40's and 50's, that the Tea Party movement of today is definitely motivated by the same racist, black suppression attitudes...

And Craig says Fox News is the propaganda machine...

I guess they agree with your answer

 

[OutHouse]

This is why the Republican party has launched war on ACORN, with the campaign of lies and propaaganda against them, to prevent the poor from voting.

that is complete bullshit. i know you drink the democrat political kook-aid but damn dude you are really brainwashed.

 

[heyheybooboo]

that is complete bullshit. i know you drink the democrat political kook-aid but damn dude you are really brainwashed.

The Republican War on Voting from The American Prospect

Unfortunately, the public hasn't heard just how nonexistent the voter fraud epidemic actually is. While progressives have successfully challenged some of the most restrictive laws in court, they're still playing catch-up when it comes to combating the glib sound bites of voter-fraud alarmists. Republicans and the Bush Justice Department have cloaked their schemes under such noble-sounding concepts as "ballot integrity." The GOP's vote-suppression playbook features everything from phony lawsuits to questionable investigations to authoritative-seeming reports, all with the aim of promoting restrictive laws. These tactics were first perfected in the hotly contested swing state of Missouri.

The roots of John Ashcroft's passion on this issue go back to the chaos of Election Day 2000 in St. Louis, when hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly inner-city voters were turned away from polling places because their names were not on voting rolls. The resulting last-minute court battle kept some polling places open for 45 minutes after their scheduled closing time of 7 P.M. Ashcroft, then the Republican U.S. Senate nominee, lost his race to the dead Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, whose name stayed on the ballot weeks after he died in a plane crash. At an election-night party, an infuriated Republican Sen. Kit Bond pounded the podium and screamed, "This is an outrage!" -- and subsequently charged that Republican losses were due in part to dogs and dead people voting. As one local government official observed, "In St. Louis, 'dogs and dead people' is code for black people [voting fraudulently]."

That election night gave birth to the new right-wing voter-fraud movement, while Missouri became a proving ground for the vote-suppression campaigns that later spread to other key states. Missouri's then-Secretary of State Matt Blunt, now governor, launched a trumped-up investigation that concluded that more than 1,000 fraudulent ballots had been cast in an organized scheme. A Justice Department Civil Rights Division investigation, started before Ashcroft shifted the department's priorities, found no fraudulent ballots, however. Instead, it discovered that the St. Louis election board had improperly purged 50,000 voters from the rolls.

Would you like to discuss Florida, 2000 ?




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[Robor]

and just how exactly is my avatar racist?


...this ought to be good...

I don't get that either. It's wrong ( :biggrin: ) but I don't see any racism in it.

 

[Red Dawn]

The face of the Teabaggers

 

[earthman]

What is the difference between the far left destroying the country and the far right destroying the country?

There is no "far left" in this country. There is the right, the far right, and the extreme right.

 

[dmcowen674]

and just how exactly is my avatar racist?


...this ought to be good...

You're lucky you live in Iowa, in South Carolina you would be classified as a Terrorist

2-10-10Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina

"The Raw Story reports that terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

The 'Subversive Activities Registration Act' passed last year in South Carolina and now officially on the books states that 'every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State.'"

 

[CallMeJoe]

You're lucky you live in Iowa, in South Carolina you would be classified as a Terrorist...

At least in South Carolina we are not required to register to buy vinegar.

 

[sandorski]

You're lucky you live in Iowa, in South Carolina you would be classified as a Terrorist

2-10-10Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina

"The Raw Story reports that terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

The 'Subversive Activities Registration Act' passed last year in South Carolina and now officially on the books states that 'every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State.'"

Hehe, that's quite the Law. Didn't realize South Carolina even had a Subversive Activities problem.

 

[dmcowen674]

At least in South Carolina we are not required to register to buy vinegar.

Give them time

 

[CallMeJoe]

Hehe, that's quite the Law. Didn't realize South Carolina even had a Subversive Activities problem.

We call them "Yankees"...


edit: I never could resist a good set-up line.