“when are Conservatives going to stop supporting every scammer and nut job who attends a few Tea Parties and then proclaims themselves a Conservative?”
Great point. The downside of the TPM is that many previously failed political wannabes and cranks have simply hopped on the bandwagon hoping that this will be their ticket to the bigs. B/c the TP is really more of a reaction to 0bama’s spending and Big Gov’t than an actual movement or party, people can claim to be a “Tea Party Activist” despite the fact that there was nothing to be ‘active’ in up until about a year ago. Waiving a Gadsden flag at TP rally one or two times doesn’t make someone Sam Addams.
““when are Conservatives going to stop supporting every scammer and nut job who attends a few Tea Parties and then proclaims themselves a Conservative?”
—Great point. The downside of the TPM is that many previously failed political wannabes and cranks have simply hopped on the bandwagon hoping that this will be their ticket to the bigs...”
You call this a ‘great point’, yet nothing that you have written proves that O’Donnell is not a Conservative. You assume that because you have questions about her personality that her political views are not solid... Well, if you have something of substance relating to the issues, I’m all ears.
And who are all these “scammers and nut jobs” who are supported after they “attend a few Tea Parties” and “proclaim themselves to be Conservative”? Is it...oh, wild guess...Sharron Angle? Hhmm, her voting record in NV seemed pretty darned Conservative to me. Or maybe that so-called ‘extremist’ Yale law grad Joe Miller? I want names...