Posted on 03/09/2010 5:09:27 PM PST by James H. Shott
Watching the left try to cope with the Tea Party movement is fascinating. Some evidence suggests that fear is in control, like the desperate marginalizing and demonizing of the Tea Party movement that so effectively shows the dissatisfaction of millions of Americans with government over-reaching. The left resorts to name-calling and tries to paint the Tea Party participants as a bunch of wild-eyed radicals, bent on revolution, perhaps even violence. But that is a gross distortion of these Americans, the vast majority of whom are everyday citizens merely taking advantage of their God-given and constitutionally-protected right to speak their mind.
Some on the left are unable to accept this movement as a genuine citizen protest against Big Government excesses and intrusions into personal freedom. That perspective is represented by columnist Reg Henry, who wrote last week, “If you happened to see the health care summit that President Barack Obama hosted the other day … you saw the Republicans insist with great certainty that Americans don’t want health care legislation.” Well, Mr. Henry, that’s not what Republicans said, which is that Americans don’t like “this” legislation, and are saying so loud and clear.
I have enjoyed reading lefty columnists, notably Leonard Pitts, pretend they harbor nothing but sheer reflexive hatred for the Tea Party. They just can’t manage it.
Kinda like their feelings toward John Bolton when Bush nominated him. They hated him but didn’t have a clue as to why.
The lummoxes in the short-lived Coffee Party made those of us on the right laugh.
There is nobody to freeze , isolate and destroy. Smears and labeling fail because it’s just millions of everyday Americans. They have to address the arguments, something which they cannot do for they are wrong even before they start. No wonder they are afraid.
They need to isolate and discredit, the tea party has no leader by which they can do this. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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