Posted on 02/10/2010 5:28:49 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
Dear Meghan McCain -
As someone who has attended several Tea Parties in my state and who has close friends across this nation who attended and/or organized Tea Parties in their own state, I feel as though I may have a little more of an inside picture as to what the Tea Parties are about. To steal a phrase oft used by the current President, let me be perfectly clear, "innate racism" is not anywhere on the agenda. I'd like to enlighten you a little bit about Tea Party attendees, since apparently it is a topic on which you are ignorant.
We are not easily identifiable by a race or an age. Are there more Caucasian attendees than African Americans? Yes, however, I'm certain you remember the case of Kenneth Gladney - the African American selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags that was brutally attacked by SEIU goons and hospitalized. I, personally, have met and spoken with several African American attendees in my own state, as well as those of Hispanic and Asian heritage. The difference between the Tea Party movement, though, and you and as other liberals and elitists, is we don't divide the world by color. When I shake a man's hand, I give no pause to think about what his race is, I merely shake his hand. We don't take attendance, and we don't have quotas, because we do not judge, nor do we seek to judge, a man by the color of his skin, but rather, as Dr. King would have had it, we judge someone by the content of his character. We don't identify each other by race; we greet each other by name.
We are united, not by shallow and ridiculous ways you would categorize us, but by ideals and philosophies. We are the people who think the government spends too much, taxes too much, and is too involved with our everyday lives. We believe that we, not the government, should be responsible for our lives and major decisions in our lives. We believe that health care is not a right, but a privilege and that the word "right" is thrown around too easily. Such casual use of the word has diminished the value and the appreciation some people have upon their true rights.
We are the people who believe that the Constitution should be adhered to. You do know about the Constitution, right? It is the founding document of this country that was written, not by "young people" but by adult, 30 - 40 year old men who fought and shed blood for the very ideas they outlined and we feel are becoming more and more bastardized. Just in case you aren't completely clear, the blood they shed was in a revolution and these men are oft referred to as "revolutionaries", so I take extreme issue with your ill informed comment that "revolutions start with young people" alone. (I could further school you on the age of other revolutionaries whose inspirational words and actions lit the flame that caused young people to join in "revolutions", such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, et. al., but I would hope, despite your youth, you are capable of utilizing "Google".)
We disagree with the direction this country is headed because we do not think the government should "bail out" businesses. It does not matter whether the person proposing, supporting, or voting for the bailout is a Republican or a Democrat. We believe President Bush's stimulus and President Obama's bailouts were wrong. Government should not be interfering with private industries. We disagree that our American rights are universal rights. We heartily accept the motto, just as Thoreau did, that that government which governs least is best and we still see America as the "Shining City on the Hill" that President Reagan, and Winthrop before him saw. We believe, as President Reagan stated, that government is not the solution to the problem, but is the problem. We believe in a balanced budget and the free market. We disagree with a single payer system of health care, because we believe the government should not determine our level of care. We, too, have watched loved ones fall ill and struggle in the current system. We know the system isn’t perfect, but we don’t believe completely dismantling it will improve it. We have alternative suggestions, like tort reform, and increasing insurance portability, even if the lame stream media and other elites want to pretend that we don’t.
We are the people, who across America, wake up at 6:00 a.m. and tend to the farms. We are the people who work 40 plus hours a week, and cherish the rest of the time with our families. Some of us are in college, and some of us, like me, have graduated from college with our degrees in hand to become productive citizens. While some of us may have GEDs or high school diplomas, others have graduate and doctorate degrees. We are doctors and lawyers, farmers and factory workers, students and teachers. We're retired, we're just starting our careers, we're homemakers; we're mothers, fathers, children; we're veterans, soldiers, civilians, young and old. We are the hard working citizens across America who demand to be heard. This is the first time some of us have ever been involved in any sort of “political movement” while others of us have been politically active from birth, it seems. We voted for McCain, Obama, Buchannan, or not at all. Most of all, we are overburdened and we are tired of having our public SERVANTS ignoring US! We are refusing to allow our employees (i.e. Congress, Senate, the President, and other elected officials whose checks depend upon our tax dollars and job depends upon our vote) to continue to ignore our wishes. We are united behind our First Amendment right to Free Speech and Assembly and we will not be deterred.
We are not trust fund babies who only garner any attention because our daddy made several failed bids for the Presidency, nor do we have to exploit our bodies just to keep our names in the news. While each of us is thankful for our station in life, whatever that may be, we are not elitists. There is not a leader to this movement, because the leader is each of us.
I realize that you have a vested interest in making the statements you make, regardless of how hurtful, ill informed, and incredibly incorrect they may be. I hope I have helped to see beyond your petty biases to realize there is more to the Tea Party movement than you stated and maybe I've encouraged to pause and think before you speak about topics on which you are so ill informed.
Thank you, IMPR
Megan McCain is a nobody except on the Obama networks. She is every bit as smart as her father.
Brevity is MORE EFFECTIVE!!!
She describes herself as a *Progressive Republican*. Like father, like daughter...nuff said.
Don’t you actually have to DO SOMETHING before you write a book? Megan could’t get laid in an NBA locker room.
Progressive Republican.
Nazi Zionist.
Okayyyyyyy....
Dear Megan McCain,
Fat,drunk and stupid is NO WAY to go thru life.
(I’d still...’tap it’)
Your letter is quite excellent; it’s well written and definitely comes from the heart. It puts the Tea Party movement in good perspective.
Great work!
Progressive Republican = slow witted democrat
Enough said.
Spot on! Very good...and truly speaks for the rest of us!
Exceptional!!!
****There is not a leader to this movement, because the leader is each of us.****
Sarah Palin made that same powerful point.
I can imagine the response to this after somebody reads it for Meggy:
“like, some dude or something wrote an email that totally trashed me bc i GET the internet and she h8s it bc she doesn’t like get it. Like, I’ll explain it to u,’k?
MY father is a SENATOR and yours isn’t. So that’s why they pay me like $1500,00 to explain it to u.”
Very nice letter. Glad you sent it. I’d like to think she would read it and contemplate it, but I’m doubtful. She’s a spoiled, cocky person with very limited mental faculties.
I like, good job!
Like Churchill said, if you're twenty and not liberal, you have no heart, but if you're forty and not conservative, you have no brain! < /bad paraphrase >
I am not sure being condescending is going to get the message out to the people you are really trying to convince.
Damning with false praise? I'd add duplicitous.
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