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Tea Party’s hot mess: Inside a noisy, disenchanted movement (buckle up for this)
Salon ^ | June 25, 2014 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 06/25/2014 12:32:49 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“——— Another misconception [is] that the Tea Party is really just a bunch of racist people and that their movement is about racism — and it’s really not … It’s bigger than racism. People who tend to support the Tea Party, they tend to be sexist, they tend to be homophobic, they tend to be xenophobic; so it’s not just about race. It’s about difference”

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What the hell?

Lots of us here,me included, have members of other races in our own families.

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21 posted on 06/25/2014 1:21:08 PM PDT by Mears
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To: cdcdawg

[ Liberals really don’t understand conservatism, and know almost nothing about it. Sometimes we might need to remember that. We are arguing with people who don’t have any idea what we are talking about. That should be a huge advantage. ]

Everytime they Talk about conservatism they always seem to project their OWN flaws and dirty little secrets from Liberalism onto it..

They will accuse the Tea Party of voter fraud is a poll worker had a crooked toe nail but ignore their own blatant voting dead....


22 posted on 06/25/2014 1:22:29 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Like a drunk Jane Goodall, he writes about the Tea Party from behind a blind, not understanding a thing about their goals or motivations, but projecting his biases onto them to try to explain their actions.


23 posted on 06/25/2014 1:24:08 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Mears
“——— Another misconception [is] that the Tea Party is really just a bunch of racist people and that their movement is about racism — and it’s really not … It’s bigger than racism. People who tend to support the Tea Party, they tend to be sexist, they tend to be homophobic, they tend to be xenophobic; so it’s not just about race. It’s about difference”

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What the hell?

Lots of us here,me included, have members of other races in our own families.

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"People who tend to support the Tea Party, they tend to be sexist, they tend to be homophobic, they tend to be xenophobic; "

Xenophobic

I didn't realize we hated Extraterestials so much here....

24 posted on 06/25/2014 1:24:57 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: TigerClaws

[ Exactly. Leftists don’t understand conservatives at all.

Saw this story this morning and it was so removed from reality decided not to post it here. There’s a groupthink that goes on with these Marxists. Echo chamber. ]

We fight like Tom Cats in Heat at times here on Free Republic, the Libs all line up like sheep about to get sheered on the Lib sites....

The Libs have survived for so long because the environment is so good so far..... Should we collapse “totally” as a nation, those sheep will be helpless as babies...


25 posted on 06/25/2014 1:27:49 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Right....KKK = Tea Party
However it’s good to know there are millions of us,
probably even more than this jerkwad thinks.

Crikey the propaganda is strong in this one.


26 posted on 06/25/2014 1:28:42 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This Jackass doesn’t realize that over 90% of the negative things he decries about the “Tea Party” are actually the Bad things we LOATHE about the Republican GOPe.....


27 posted on 06/25/2014 1:30:02 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: mojito; Cincinatus' Wife
Salon is a proto-communist webzine for so-called hipsters - in other words, it's sad and pathetic and so biased and doctrinaire that it makes the NYSlimes seem fair and even-handed in comparison.

Quit kissing up to Salon, FRiend. ;}

They make iguanas look like Tom Cruise, they're all such a bunch of left-wing golems.

[Liar Parker] Another misconception [is] that the Tea Party is really just a bunch of racist people and that their movement is about racism — and it’s really not … It’s bigger than racism. People who tend to support the Tea Party, they tend to be sexist, they tend to be homophobic, they tend to be xenophobic; so it’s not just about race. It’s about difference. It’s about anything that violates their phenotypical norm of what it’s supposed to mean to be an American
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Down with phenotypical norming! Down with the normalizers! Down with normalcy! Down with normal people!

Kill them all!

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Parker is really giving us a list of his own hates, his own "preferences". Notice the comprehensiveness of his hatred of Norman Rockwell's America -- it's got more dimensions to it than one of those mathematicians' representations of multidimensional space-time.

I think I'm safe in saying that this guy wants us all dead.

28 posted on 06/25/2014 1:39:36 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Political Junkie Too; Impy; InterceptPoint; smoothsailing; Just A Nobody; ...
McDaniel is only five thousand votes out, and I guarantee you there were that many fraudulent votes from the black districts.

Actually, from what I saw last night, almost 7,000 votes. Unfortunately, the idea to get black Democrats to vote in the GOP primary runoff, though it may be very sleazy, is not illegal, at least in most cases, because of the open primary law in Mississippi. As long as someone is registered to vote and didn't vote in the Democratic primary this year, he or she was eligible to vote in yesterday's runoff. Seems like the GOP establishment took full advantage of that loophole in the law.

Even if Cochran should win the general election in November, it's very possible that he may not be able to serve out a six year term. That could open up another opportunity for McDaniel. Changing the state law to allow only Republicans to vote in Republican primaries (and run-offs) would be a helpful change for the future.

If he fights this thing, he can win.

Yes, we are justified in being teed off at the sleaziness of the Cochran operation, but as long as the black 'Rat voters yesterday were legally registered and did not vote in the 'rat primary this year, there's no ground to argue that fraud occurred.

30 posted on 06/25/2014 1:52:12 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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...actually the Bad things we LOATHE about the Republican GOPe.....

Well, actually what he is doing is second- or third-level lying. Call it a "layered lie", of which one layer of slathered-on deception is glued onto another layer of baked-in falsity, and that in turn is stacked carefully on yet another Huge Lie.

Hard to do, Liar Parker, without leaving fingerprints.

What he did was to point to things that Bush did w/r/t budget priorities and TARP and deficit politics (in a couple of cases of which Bush was blatantly competing with the 'Rats at slop-trough politics, e.g. Medicare Part D [truth in advocacy: I get scrips through Part D these last couple of years, before which I self-paid 100/100ths], but do we hear any complaints from Mr. Smoothie? Noooo.....), and attach them to the Tea Party (which didn't exist yet) in a form of anticipatory vilification for things they didn't do or say, before Rick Santelli stood up and issued his grito against gigantic crony capitalism and government (= fascism).

Thus Parker: Tea Partiers failed to time-warp back to protest Bush's budgets and TARP (never mind that Santelli did), ergo the Tea Party owns Bush's budget politics, and ergo ergo the Tea Party people are inconsistent = hypocrites = people of no worth/credibility/value.

False. RiNO does not equal Tea Partier.

If anyone is being inconsistent, it's Liar Parker. He criticizes Bush's budgeteering (which he himself liked, I'll warrant) and lyingly assigns Bush's crony-capitalist priorities to all the Santellis and Ayottes and Rubios and Cruzes.

That's massive, first-water, in-your-face Communist lying, straight out of all the hellbound black-propaganda manuals of the last 100 years.

31 posted on 06/25/2014 2:01:21 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: justiceseeker93

I don’t think that many black voters showed up. I think the election managers voted for people who didn’t show up.


32 posted on 06/25/2014 2:22:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Masses have been convinced that the Tea Party is an Evil Organization, just like the Constitution is an Evil Governing Document.

We are losing the battle if Minds can be twisted so easily through the Propaganda Media. Common Sense is a thing of the past, you know, it’s Old School.


33 posted on 06/25/2014 2:26:54 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Proud Antiobamunist since 2008...)
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To: justiceseeker93

Turn November into a write-in campaign.


34 posted on 06/25/2014 3:18:48 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; holdonnow; Sean Hannity; theothercheek; Texas Fossil; RitaOK; SunkenCiv; ...
I've heard of this Christopher Parker before. He's a known leftist black professor whom Solon is interviewing merely to tar the Tea Party, which is essentially what Parker's work is all about. After all, Salon and Parker are ideological bedfellows.

Comparing the Tea Party to the KKK and the Know Nothings of earlier eras is hardly accurate historical scholarship. Yet in the perverse minds of leftist ideologues, it's taken as such with no questions asked.

The left (and its MSM lackeys) has an obsession with trying to marginalize and destroy the Tea Party that is way out of proportion to the Tea Party's strength and influence. But they know that Tea Party ideas and values more than Tea Party political power pose a barrier to their design of a complete transformation of the United States into a Soviet-like state. Kind of telling that in this interview with Parker, the word "Constitution" never comes up.

35 posted on 06/25/2014 3:35:06 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

The McCain-McConnell PACS probably fund this commie prof, pay him to go to war to kill off the Tea Party voter.


36 posted on 06/25/2014 3:49:31 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Toilet paper isn’t important to liberals. They’re so anal retentive they only need one sheet, anyway.


37 posted on 06/25/2014 11:27:05 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I wonder if this guy has ever considered that those who are elected to run our country are the real slaves. They have to answer totally 100% of the time to their masters which isn’t the people and do 100% of the time what they are told to do. The people are not the real slaves.


38 posted on 06/26/2014 9:32:47 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: justiceseeker93
Comparing the Tea Party to the KKK and the Know Nothings of earlier eras is hardly accurate historical scholarship.

It's hardly a real comparison, but it's the objective of the article -- sliming Tea Partiers.

39 posted on 06/27/2014 2:27:25 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Thanks justiceseeker93.


40 posted on 06/28/2014 10:22:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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