[E. Pluribus Unum]

You're wasting your time.

She'll have to get mugged by the government before she catches on.

If she catches on.

[NewCenturions]

I’ve got a niece who got to interview Ann Coulter for her college newspaper and found her “full of hate” and haughty! I shudder to think who she voted for in the last elections. I don’t ask. Sigh.

[ClearCase_guy]

People on the Left tend to have a very cavalier attitude to the truth. They don't like the Tea party -- therefore: Tea Party people carry racist signs and throw litter everywhere. QED.

They don't like it when you ask them to back up their tales or define their terms. That just shows that you "don't get it".

I don't discuss politics with my family -- 100% Moonbat, I'm afraid.

[Owl558]

Sounds like you’re way off topic. The issue in question isn’t which side is more messy...

[doc1019]

Sounds like she is hearing and seeing only what she wants to hear and see. By asking her for proof you might get her to see the truth if you push her and show counter proof.

[Chode]

ya want stomach ulcers??? she's gone, let it go...

[Soothesayer]

Doesn’t matter if she is your niece. Any and all leftists are worthless animals. Do not show her any love or mercy.

[Tea Party Reveler]

We are all going through the same thing-—She’s going to learn—either the hard way or the easy way but eventually she will come around. Probably when what’s left is a smoking hole in the ground! (too late for all of us!).

She listens to emotional appeals and can’t distinguish fact from emotion. That’s her problem.

Keep hammering at her.

[Mr. Silverback]

I posted about what pigs these people were and she posted back that she went to a tea party, there were guns, racist signs, they left the place a mess. I don't know if she really was there or not.

Sounds to me like your niece lied to you.

Pretty sad to do that over politics, but some people feel this crap gives them justification.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

You’re wasting your time.

You just have to avoid political discussion with her. Nothing you might aver can be proved. Thus, there can be no resolution of any given piece of contention. So just say no.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Two or three swings ought to do the trick.

[digger48]

I betcha that nobody at any TEA Party left any littleoldladies in wheelchairs lying around afterwards though.......

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

A SITUATION IF IT IS FAMILY....LET IT GO.

You will lose the relationship...I have lost several friends over the Bush elections...I don’t miss them, guess we were just light years apart on our perspectives and some values.

But family, my cousins..I just don’t go there.

[fr_freak]

Right now, what your niece is doing, if she plans to respond at all, is sending little emails to all of her leftist buddies saying "Hey, I need pictures of racist Tea Party signs and the mess they left, etc. etc." If you get a response, it will be some complete horse****, like a photoshopped image or an image from a non-Tea Party event that is labeled as a Tea Party event. If you don't get an answer, it is because she could not find anything at all to back up her statement. It's up to you whether you want to press her on it, but I wouldn't bother. If she would lie to you about being at a racist Tea Party event, then she's a true believer and she'll lie about anything.

What you have to realize is that these lefties do not care about any kind of objective reality. If there is a claim that they can make that will allow them to hold onto their leftist worldview despite evidence to the contrary, they will make it, with or without proof, and they will believe it fully. For example, when the Tea Party arose in response to Obama and the Congressional Democrats' agenda, it would have completely destroyed the notion that Obama was some kind of genius messiah, loved by all. This would have left leftists in a state of self-doubt, which they cannot abide. So, all they had to do was come up with a way to dismiss the entire Tea Party movement in one fell swoop. Racism is the most popular way to do this, so they said "The Tea Party is racist" without one bit of evidence to show that and plenty of evidence to show the contrary. However, that lie allows them to keep believing their fantasies about Obama and leftism in general, and therefore they believe the racism charge is true without needing one shred of evidence. You cannot debate with that kind of brainwashed thinking. Trust me.

[gorush]

send this to her...

http://www.timnerenz.com/2011/02/madison-wild-wings.html

[ROTB]

http://goodsensepolitics.blogspot.com/2009/09/compare-garbage-after-tea-party-vs.html

[screaminsunshine]

Bring her along slowly. She is being brainwashed in school. And she is your niece.

[Foolsgold]

August 28, 2010: The National Mall after Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally


January 20, 2009: The National Mall after Barack Obama's Inauguration.

[TribalPrincess2U]

She was confused as to where she was. IMO

[Ditter]

We have a cousin who's daughter works for Current TV and they all think algore hung the moon. We all have crosses to bear.