Posted on 09/23/2010 2:07:17 PM PDT by mojito
WASHINGTON -- Is the tea party one of the most successful scams in American political history?
Before you dismiss the question, note that word "successful." Judge the tea party purely on the grounds of effectiveness and you have to admire how a very small group has shaken American political life and seized the microphone offered by the media, including the so-called liberal media.
But it's equally important to recognize that the tea party constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics receiving attention out of all proportion with its numbers.
Yes, there is a lot of discontent in America. But that discontent is better represented by the moderate voters who expressed quiet disillusionment to President Obama at the CNBC town hall meeting on Monday than by tea party ideologues who proclaim the unconstitutionality of the New Deal and everything since.
The tea party drowns out such voices because it has money -- some of it from un-populist corporate sources, as Jane Mayer documented last month in The New Yorker -- and has used modest numbers strategically in small states to magnify its impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Watch this scam kick your @ss in November, wuss.
Do you suppose this pantywaist actually believes that? (I hope he does--boy is he in for a surprise)
it’s equally important to recognize that the tea party constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics”
Tea party gets near 50% approval, and the strong anti-Tea Party faction is about 20% of the voters - liberal elitists hate them, the rest of America agrees with them.
One thing the Tea Parties never got was a microphone from the mainstream media.
Most of the time they were ignored. If they were mentioned at all by the MSM, it was always in a negative light.
Barack Obama can take responsibility for the very fact that they exist and grew to the point they could no longer be ignored.
So the real scam here exists in the media.
EJ makes me puke. Ya shouldda warned me.
The heavies from Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 live!
But effective only if you're ignorant, unaware, disconnected and permanently intellectually lazy.
That description, by the way, describes the undocumented president and his shadow cabinet perfectly!
"...seizing the microphone ...including the so-called liberal media" is a cute but hilarious touch.
Are the liberal MSM mouthpieces all on drugs, or what?
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