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The Tea Party Is.....

What is the Tea Party to America?


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They are living... and so are people when their families decide to turn off their life support systems. I don't think that that should be illegal either...

The fact is, the unborn does not suffer any more than that once walking, breathing person did before they were on life support, when their support system is turned off. The only people suffering from abortion are pro lifers...

Turning off life support for someone who lived a hopefully, long, happy, productive life, can't be compared to snuffing the life out of one who hasn't had the chance to live life at all.
 
Mostly tea partiers seems to make the association of white=racist. Rev won't even admit that he belongs to a movement comprised mostly of dissatisfied white people.



Really? You are going to stick with that line of reasoning? Okey dokes.

:lamo You're sticking with your racist line of reasoning that this video is only one token black guy? The video was to show that the media (especially MSNBC) is full of **** and these black people have a right to voice their opinions about them. The MSM sure won't give them a chance. Don't you think black people should also be allowed to practice their first amendment rights?
 
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The Tea Party is the Republican party with a few independents mixed in. That's all it is. No need for a discussion about it.
 
Ask any of the ones who voted the Tea Party is good for America and you'll find that they believe Obama is not a Citizen, Obama will use death squads to determine which senior citizen lives or dies, the super rich deserve their ill-gotten gains, giving big corporations tax breaks will mean more jobs, and all Muslims are radicals.

ricksfolly

ricksfolly
 
Christine O'Donnell?

And the better choice in that election based on the Tea Parties views and being in a candidate in a party that actually has a snow balls chance of winning on a federal election was....?

I asked which candidates would've been better for the Tea Party to endorse, not who they endorsed that you didn't like.

Are you suggesting her primary opponent was more in line with Tea Party views? The person that the Fiscal Conservatism focused "Club for Growth" ranked as the least conservative Republican in congress? The one who voted "Yes" on stimulus? Yes on TARP? Yes on the auto bailouts? Who voted yes on extending unemployment benefits? Who voted yes on Minimum Wage hikes? Voted no to eliminate the death/estate tax?

While there are things I like about Castle, what fiscally about him apparently would've made him a better choice for the Tea Party than O'Donnell? Unless you're suggesting Coons would've been the better choice for what the Tea Party cares about with regards to fiscal conservatism?
 
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And the better choice in that election based on the Tea Parties views and being in a candidate in a party that actually has a snow balls chance of winning on a federal election was....?

I asked which candidates would've been better for the Tea Party to endorse, not who they endorsed that you didn't like.

Against Mike Castle? I think the general conclusion was pretty much any other Republican could have beat him.
 
What makes them radical and extreme?

They dress up like the Founding Fathers, talk about reducing the size of government and having more individual freedom. That's extreme to many liberals.
 
What is the Tea Party to America?

The re-branding of the GOP after the 2008 election.

Angry, frustrated middle income people with limited critical thinking skills and deep-seeded bigoted ideas... all ginned up by ideologues and demagoguery.

Fear, paranoia, and ignorance run riot.

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Against Mike Castle? I think the general conclusion was pretty much any other Republican could have beat him.

So essentially you have no other name of another Republican that had stepped forward as interested in Delaware of challenging Castle in the primaries, so the Tea Party is a religious organization because some unknown, unnamed, unseen candidate wasn't who they supported instead of O'Donnell?
 
Ask any of the ones who voted the Tea Party is good for America and you'll find that they believe Obama is not a Citizen, Obama will use death squads to determine which senior citizen lives or dies, the super rich deserve their ill-gotten gains, giving big corporations tax breaks will mean more jobs, and all Muslims are radicals.

ricksfolly

ricksfolly

I voted "good" and......

A. I believe Obama was born in Hawaii.
B. The health care law will have to ration health care.
C. The super-rich deserve what they have earned honestly.
D. All people and companies should pay a fair percentage of taxes with no loopholes allowed.
E. Only a handful of Muslims are radicals, comparatively.

I have many friends who are tea partiers and agree with everything I just said. So, you're misguided.
 
So essentially you have no other name of another Republican that had stepped forward as interested in Delaware of challenging Castle in the primaries, so the Tea Party is a religious organization because some unknown, unnamed, unseen candidate wasn't who they supported instead of O'Donnell?

Essentially I am too lazy to bother looking up candidates who lost in 2010 and the people who may have won had they run in their place. I think you know that nobody gives a crap enough to bother to go through that much work and so you are trying to use it as a tactic to win the debate, but really you haven't presented any evidence to the contrary so my argument still stands.
 
Essentially I am too lazy to bother looking up candidates who lost in 2010 and the people who may have won had they run in their place. I think you know that nobody gives a crap enough to bother to go through that much work and so you are trying to use it as a tactic to win the debate, but really you haven't presented any evidence to the contrary so my argument still stands.

You being too admittedly lazy to look up the information to back up your claim, or to erroneously make a claim as if it was fact without any prior knowledge other than your gut instinct, isn't showing that your argument stands. If someone can show me a legitimate Republican primary contender to a tea party backed Republican who was more in line fiscally/governmentally with the Tea Party, or somehow someway a Democrat that was more fiscally in line with the Tea Parties fiscal conservatism than the tea party backed Republican I'd be happy to relent. To date, I've not heard of one such case. Bitching that they supported some candidates who ALSO happened to be social conservatives to varying degree's while ignoring the other realistic alternatives presented to them is a useless and non-informative argument.
 
Dissatisfied white people.

so black people are supporters of massive debt and taxation/ is that because percentage wise most of them aren't paying federal income taxes
 
Gotta a percentage of how many communist, socialist, white people with trust funds make up the anti-war movement?



No, but this video gets interesting at around the 4:00 mark. Notice the yellow socialist sign and booth? Notice right beside it (no more than 2 ft) the Code Pink Booth? Well, so right beside the anti-war booth they are selling all kinds of socialist books, but more than that the guy is really pushing the Communist Manifesto. There's all kinds of room to set up, so apparently code pink is more then happy to cozy up to the commies at the one nation rally.
 
Actually, as I have stated before, I am all for evicting the fetus intact.

By full term live birth then?
Otherwise it will likely be ripped apart by at least one method. Not sure about the saline burning alive method. Are they kept intact then?
 
You being too admittedly lazy to look up the information to back up your claim, or to erroneously make a claim as if it was fact without any prior knowledge other than your gut instinct, isn't showing that your argument stands. If someone can show me a legitimate Republican primary contender to a tea party backed Republican who was more in line fiscally/governmentally with the Tea Party, or somehow someway a Democrat that was more fiscally in line with the Tea Parties fiscal conservatism than the tea party backed Republican I'd be happy to relent. To date, I've not heard of one such case. Bitching that they supported some candidates who ALSO happened to be social conservatives to varying degree's while ignoring the other realistic alternatives presented to them is a useless and non-informative argument.

Meh, whatever. You could point out just one tea party candidate who was pro choice or pro gay rights and I would be happy to concede the point.
 
Because the anti-war movement is divided up into different individual groups, and the tea party is one large group that has people in political office because of their backing.

I believe there are many more tea party groups than anti-war groups. Some support candidates, some don't. Some don't even allow politicians to speak at their rallys because they don't want to be affiliated with any one party.
 
Meh, whatever. You could point out just one tea party candidate who was pro choice or pro gay rights and I would be happy to concede the point.

I'm okay with gay marriage, but I'm not a candidate. :shrug: You know Obama isn't for gay marriage, right?
 
so black people are supporters of massive debt and taxation/ is that because percentage wise most of them aren't paying federal income taxes

I dunno, let's ask this guy.

Democrats embrace bottom up economic policies and Republicans favor trickle down economic policies and as black folk tend to be more impoverished, they favor Democratic policies out of self interest. The fact that the tea party is 89% white is indicative of the socioeconomic realities of the tea party's composition and it represents a segment of the population that is not nearly as impoverished and thus is more likely out of self interest to support trickle down policies.
 
I'm okay with gay marriage, but I'm not a candidate. :shrug: You know Obama isn't for gay marriage, right?

I didn't vote for Obama. I'm not a Democrat.

Of course now I know you are just another partisan.
 
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(smile) What a crock, you are a bigot.

Ask any of the ones who voted the Tea Party is good for America and you'll find that they believe Obama is not a Citizen, Obama will use death squads to determine which senior citizen lives or dies, the super rich deserve their ill-gotten gains, giving big corporations tax breaks will mean more jobs, and all Muslims are radicals.

ricksfolly

ricksfolly
 
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