[Henry Hnyellar]

Just one paragraph and it’s filled with lies and inaccuracies.

“While each of the Newest Right’s proposals and policies might be defended by libertarians or conservatives on other grounds, the package as a whole—from privatizing Social Security and Medicare to disenfranchising likely Democratic voters to opposing voting rights and citizenship for illegal immigrants to chopping federal programs into 50 state programs that can be controlled by right-wing state legislatures...”

GW Bush (and others) proposed privatization of SS long before the Tee Party existed.

He cites no proposed law(s) from the Tea Pary that would disenfranchise any voters.

The current law does not allow illegal aliens to vote. It was put in place long before the Tea Party came into existence.

Not all states are controlled by right wing legislatures (probably most are not).

The author is both a fool and a liar.

[Henry Hnyellar]

“Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right” (You’re richer than average, he says)”

All the Democrats in the House and Senate are too.

[cripplecreek]

The author is both a fool and a liar.

He tries to portray the tea party as a southern phenomena but the midwest has been a regular hotbed of serious conservative change in recent years with tea party sentiment driving it. The union fight in Wisconsin, the passage of RTW laws in Indiana and Michigan, Gun laws in Illinois, and Wisconsin. I think Michigan is the only state to seat a tea partier on the RNC.

The tea party has natural strength in the south but the midwest is where its effects have been most striking.