[2ndDivisionVet]

Now I think I've seen it all.

[Unam Sanctam]

The whole leftist notion of “political correctness” and the demonization of anyone who disagrees is a religion.

[fieldmarshaldj]

More projection on their parts. Communism/Fascism in the form of an all-encompassing government is the left’s high holy religion.

[98ZJ USMC]

Now I think I've seen it all.

You knew they had to project this sooner or later. It's quite a hoot, though.

[melsec]

The Tea Party scares the Shiite out of them - they are grappling for explanations that don’t include - People do not like the way the country is heading and that elected officials can be an ought to be held to account for their actions.

[South40]

The Tea Party Isn’t a Political Movement, It’s a Religious One

Caca del toro.

Mrs. 40 and I aren't particularly religious people yet we are both big TEA Party supporters.

[Gaffer]

One thing that Tea Partiers and liberals alike both recognize is that the Constitution forbids the establishment of religion.

It (the Constitution) does no such thing! It forbids the establishment of a state religion. The difference is astronomical. It is a document that limits the GOVERNMENT in its actions against citizens.

Likewise, there is no separation of "church and state" doctrine liberals like to carp about.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

Haha. TLDR.

Agnostic Tea Partier here.

Taxed
Enough
Already

Take your communism and well, you know....

[Cap Huff]

Bookmark

[magellan]

Does anyone forget when to the radical left George Bush was the Antichrist and moderate Dems were the heretics? Does The Daily Kos (”We are the mainstream.”), Joe Lieberman, and Ned Lamont ring a bell?

[Vaquero]

Obama is the Antichrist, Republicans are heretics, and compromise is unholy.

Actually he gets it. Doesn't understand the substance of it but he gets it.

The first 2 are a given. Compromising the CONSTITUTION is UNHOLY. So that's the trifecta.

[driftless2]

A philosophically, incoherent piece of crap written by a jackass who basically has no understanding of the Tea Party and its adherents. Basically what this turnip-brained dope is saying is “I don’t like your politics, and if you don’t agree with me, you should be slandered and probably shut down.” In short, typical leftist gibberish.

[D Rider]

One thing that Tea Partiers and liberals alike both recognize is that the Constitution forbids the establishment of religion. The prohibition was erected for good reason: to prevent the religious wars that wracked Europe in the previous century

Do I really need to start with the Founding Father quotes? I haven't even got my first cup of coffee in me yet.

[ilovesarah2012]

Hey, Jack - f off.

[IMR 4350]

Translation

The TEA Party doesn’t worship the black messiah and put him on a pedestal as a god, therefore the TEA Party must be of another religion.

[C. Edmund Wright]

The author is clueless….but there are some local TP groups that do have an emphasis on social issues and faith.

[Sherman Logan]

In this light, shutting down the Government rather than bending on legislation becomes a moral imperative.

Ummm, it takes two sides refusing to bend on legislation to shut down the government.

Somehow, to this guy, refusal to go along with the tea party isn't a part of the problem.

That's because leftism and continual expansion of government is just taken for granted.

If I think government should be reduced in power and size, and Jack thinks it should be enlarged, then compromise and moderation would consist of leaving it where it is now.

Yet to Jack that constitutes extremism. "Moderation" and "compromise" consists of moving just a little less rapidly in the direction Jack prefers.

[Sherman Logan]

This Eden is not located in space but in time: the Republic in the decades after the Civil War when the plantocracy ruled in the South and plutocrats reigned in the North.

With the exception of a few neo-Confederates, I don't know of any conservatives who long for this period in history.

It was an interesting time, and not nearly as bad for most as this guy would like to believe, but it's not my ideal.

I'd settle for a more libertarian 50s, with enforced civil rights for all Americans.

BTW, the subtext behind all this verbiage is that Jack and his crew are intent on fundamentally changing America, and they are outraged that anybody dares to resist this change. No hint in here that his side is the aggressor. To Jack, resistance to his aggression is what really constitutes aggression.

[Yardstick]

Guy seems ignorant of constitutional originalism, which is precisely about understanding the Constitution in light of what the framers were thinking at the time. That is, it’s not just about the text itself as with strict constructionism. Scalia is an originalist, and I’d say most tea partiers and conservatives in general are in that camp. We want the kind of government that the framers envisioned, for the same reasons that they envisioned it. This means we must insist on limited government, which is of course what really bugs him.

[don-o]

I wonder if this person has heard of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Years ago, he warned the West that our basic problem was spiritual; and he knew of which he spoke.

[bray]

Don’t you love it when Marxists define the Tea Party? He only describes his own political cult.

Pray America wakes up