Posted on 05/22/2014 3:33:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What an ass.
Course it is Salon and they require it.
Oh, okay. Now I know who I am. Thanks, Salon!
The writer is from California. That explains it. A clueless writer who hails from a truly clueless state.
What’s with these lovers of socialism? The Tea Party is just regular folks who want their lives, freedoms, and country back. God bless them.
There was a reason it was referred to as Godless Communism with disgust.
And a further reason why people left an increasingly Godless Democratic party.
Which is that the latter had become the former.
The left, openly displaying ignorance.
A Tea Party by any other name would smell as socially conservative. Just ask Ted Cruz, another Ivy League Tea Partyer who recently made a pilgrimage to Liberty University and declared, “These are troubled times, and religious liberty, the very first liberty in the Bill of Rights, the very first protection we have, has never been more in peril than it is right now.” Or Sarah Palin, another Tea Party favorite who wears her social conservatism on her sleeve.
The tea party is made up of the more conservative, which also means the more religious, and more social conservative, only idiots thought that the tea party was made up of libertarians.
What is this fool babbling about? Doesn’t Salon have any journalistic standards? Yeah, I know the answer to that one.....
It still fits.
Yup, Hate filled Leftwing kook witch-harpy from California.
The hosts of FR hail from California as do many thousands
of FReepers. There is a message for you if you click on
Sivad at the bottom of this post.
Presenting Ms. Digby. Kind of has moonbat written all over it.
Someone should tell the former Democratic County Committee woman I met at a TEA Party rally.
There are good folk in California, but they are far outnumbered by evil ones, Especially in the big cities. Much of the evil propaganda from which we suffer is spewed out of Los Angeles disguised as entertainment.
Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite columnists, and he constantly opines about the rot permeating California.
My apologies to the decent folk of California for any inadvertent offense, but your state has been tarnished by the activities of very evil people who dominate the culture there. (And the rest of the nation as well.)
Many people on the left still dismiss the tea party as the same old religious right, but the evidence says they are wrong. The tea party has strong libertarian roots and is a functionally libertarian influence on the Republican Party.
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/libertarian-roots-tea-party
Very nice post and much appreciated by this Californian. There
are certainly evil people who dominate the popular culture thru the
left wing media. But that is not the only culture. As you never see
the culture of the normal folks of Kansas, Oklahoma, and South
Carolina portrayed by the dominant media, you also don’t get the
big picture when it comes to small town California.
Part of California’s problem started when in good times the
politicians loosened welfare requirements and opened the
floodgates to the “takers” from everywhere, those who are
happy to vote for more goodies for themselves. Many of those
people who created our problems came from elsewhere including
politicians we ALL know like Pelosi, Boxer, Maxine Waters, and
Willie Brown. I do fear for our Texan friends who are in the
process of improving their economy and destroying their
state at the same time. Massive population increases can
bring the kind of negative results that are killing California.
Thanks again.
Actually you have it reversed, most people think of the tea party as kind of libertarian because it’s focus has not been on social issues, that is why the article is written as it is.
Actually the tea party is made up of what one would expect, conservatives, people who are more religious, and more social conservative than the average republican.
“New Poll: Tea Party Overwhelmingly Christian And Socially Conservative. by JJ SUTHERLAND October 05, 2010”
“Tea Party support correlates to religious affiliation, survey finds 2011 By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor”
“Evangelicals and Tea Party Overlap in Congress, Public”
“Libertarians Are Not the Tea Party.
“Though politicians and analysts often conflate the two, libertarians have different views on many issues than Tea Partiers—and they’re not as big a faction of the GOP.”
“The Christian Right in Disguise?
New research confirms that the Tea Party firmly unites right-wing politics and evangelical Christianity, a fact so problematic that it can make even Christine O’Donnell speechless.”
About half of the tea party is not only social conservatives and religious, but call themselves part of the hated, religious right.
That’s not a quote from me, but from the article that was linked ... :-) ...
What killed California, aside form the immigration, was that California was never right wing, social conservative, like Texas is, and always was.
California always leaned rino/libertarian, so it didn’t have the underlying muscle to prevent being absorbed by the left.
Texas actively fights for it’s conservatism AND, it’s Christian conservatism.
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