Z, I think you go overboard, but just by a little, not a lot.
Odd how during the entire Bush-2 era there was little seen of the TPers even though the enemy Reps were in power. They did seem to just get loud and angry about the time a dem got voted in, didn't they? I do believe the race of the dem president is not a big issue for some of the TPers but it certainly my is for some others of them--as I have had many of them tell me very bluntly. It is unfortunate that someon both sides have made race their primary decision factor. Some LWWs refuse to criticize obama because he is back, some RWWs critisize him as a gut reaction because he is black. And of course each side only sees these evils in the other side (just look at the vehement denials by certain members on here when their excessively racially toned comments are challenged). Originally Posted by Old-T
I'm surprised but maybe I shouldn't be. I'm not even going to answer Z because he has proven himself to be a mindless troll and nothing more. You....you should know better. The Tea party is not an organization that you can point to. It is a collection of Americans with ideas on how our government should run. For you information (put this someplace where you can get to it in the future) the Tea party rose up under George W. Bush and not under Obama. Remember when Bush talked about amnesty? Who stopped him? Millions of Americans contacting the White House and their representatives. That's who stopped him. Remember Harriet Miers and her Supreme Court nomination? You don't remember her because those same people made it known that we want no unqualified cronies on the highest court in the land. Bush listened. Too bad the left has no such organization (Occupy???) that Obama listens to on American matters.
As for Canton and the Washington establishment, they're going to have to change, really change, or get out of the way. We are taking our party back from the insiders who send their children to the same private schools, marry them to each other, and keep politics all inside their families. You don't have to spend most of your life in DC to understand how the world works or how government is supposed to work. We will suffer the occassional setback but we are not going away and we have been here since the days of Nixon ("the great silent majority"). We elected Reagan twice and we will see to it that Hillary can only get into the White House as part of the tour.
What is so wrong with having a smaller government that works? How can anyone with any intelligence oppose that?