We haven't seen any organized Tea Party effort in Cowley County and really don't know of anybody who is active in the tea party cause. Of course there are many people who align with the general tea party agenda - anger at government control, taxes and spending.
The point made that the party leadership of the Kansas GOP is pretty much tea party before tea party was cool, makes sense. The Kansas and local Republican Party establishment is pretty absolutist on less government, lower taxes, etc.
One difference might be the social conservatism of the Kansas and local GOP, which doesn't necessarily jibe with the Tea Party movement. It seems more libertarian in general. And the tea party activists seem to be people not attached to traditional parties but who rose up after the govt. failures to stop the recession and now govt. expansion under Obama. Although I still maintain that much of the anger stems from generalized fear about the economy and cultural fear that somebody not like them is in charge. That fear is misplaced onto things like health care reform and stimulus spending. If this is wrong, then we would have seen tea parties during the run-away deficits the GOP caused during the Bush years - in fairly good economic times.
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If you want to continue blogging & want to be taken seriously you might want to hire an investigative journalist.
"4 in 10 Tea Party Supporters are Democrats or Independents"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001743-503544.html
I don't normally respond to comments, but this one needs some help.
From Websters online dictionary:
Main Entry: jibe
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): jibed; jib·ing
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1813
: to be in accord : agree
And this from the CBS story: Two-thirds of the group identified as conservative, but 26 percent said they are moderate and 8 percent called themselves liberal.
If you don't think the tea party movement is mostly populated by conservatives and Republican-leaning people you haven't been paying attention. Besides, people like to call themselves lots of things. I think of myself as moderate but lots of people around here think I'm a left-wing radical.
The tea party answers the question about politics.
We know that the biggest risk the Dems have in the next election is far right wing Repubs.
But now we see that the greatest risk the Repubs have in the next election is... (you guessed it) right wing Repubs.
The polls are right that many seats are going to be lost to republican candidates. Many incumbent republican seats will be lost to more conservative republican candidates.
I watched the crowd interviews at McCain's Palin rally and many of them said they were there to see Palin, but wouldn't vote for McCain and would vote for the more conservative candidate.
Fascinating. Many of the Republican congressmen will be losing their seats this election, thinking that they have really pulled one off. Oops.
The party of unintended consequences.
I am a registered independent, but I am very conservative. I completely agree with the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement.
I am also smart enough to realize that there are always going to be people, whether right or left, out on the fringe, who act out in ways that the majority of those in the same group find upsetting. You see a few at TEA party rallies, just as you saw at anti-Bush rallies during his time in the White House. BTW, I wasn't a big fan of Bush either, but voted for him because he was the lesser of two evils.
The fact that the left is putting so much effort into undermining the TEA party movement only shows how effective it is. Even your article from the AP in Monday's paper was a thinly veiled assassination piece on the TEA party, but it also had to point out the effectiveness of the movement.
I think you will see a HUGE turn out of people who are fed up with government intrusion in November.
I think you should respond to comments more often. It helps to get a debate going.
And yes, you are obviously a liberal. Maybe not quite a radical, but you do have a powerful pulpit to speak from. The town's official paper should be a little more neutral in my opinion.
Moderates ARE left wing racicals.
I think the 'press' is largely to blame for the shape our country is in concerning the untouchable government employees and representatives, and the massive waste of taxpayers money. The 'press' should be hounddogging every elected and appointed position to hold them accountable for their ways. Instead, the press paints ONLY a rosy picture of our beloved leaders and the way they 'handle' our money, since we obviously are too stupid to know what would be the best way to shore up our country's resources. North American Union is only a very few years away. Thanks dave, for your contribution to perpetuating the loss of our freedoms, our dignity, and our morals.
Einstein's theory of relativity:
(one of them)
The position and velocity of all other things around you are dependent on your own position and velocity.
ie.: if you are on a train going 25 miles per hour and a bird is flying outside the window, but doesn't appear to be moving, you shouldn't claim that it isn't moving. You would be incorrect.
So, if moderates appear to you as left wing radicals, then you should re-consider your own viewpoint before saying it.
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