Washington D.C. Tea Party protestors

cnpanyu ^ | 2009-09-13

[TaxPayer2000]

It's about "fighting socialism" in our own country

What are the demographics of today's Protesters Against Obama Care rallying in the Nation's Capitol?

The Wall Street Journal offers a hint from two of their embedded reporters. They road with a group of Tea Partiers all the way from Florida. From Michael M. Phillips and Naftali Bendavid of the WSJ:

The 54 riders on the Tallahassee bus provide a window into the new conservative energy. On the road, they listened to reminiscences of President Ronald Reagan's life, including his battle against Soviet-style communism. It is a fight they say must now be waged at home, against an administration and Congress that is inserting government deeply in banking, car-making and, perhaps, health care.

"I can't figure out to save me what [Mr. Obama and the Democrats] are trying to accomplish, unless they want socialism," said 73-year-old Joseph Wright, a retired paper-mill worker.

Forty-four of the riders identified themselves as Republicans, with eight independents and two Libertarians. The average age was 56 years old. Fifty-one said they voted for Republican John McCain in his White House bid last year, though several said they did so to support his running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The remaining three riders said they voted for Libertarian Bob Barr.

The article goes on to characterize the unifying beliefs of the protesters:

"The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are spending too much money on programs that insert government too far into people's lives."

Mary Mangell, described in the piece as owning a baby-sitting company was quoted:

"There really should be a smaller role for the federal government... Keep it simple. Keep it constitutional."

[TaxPayer2000]

It's about "fighting socialism" in our own country

[xuberalles]

Absolutely!

[UncleVanya]

TAKE ACTION NOW - NO MORE SITTING ON THE SIDELINES
The thing we have to do now, without any hesitation, is vote out this current Congress in 2010. Then take back our Nation in 2012. If we do not mobilize ourselves and others now to do this in ways far beyond where most of us have ever engaged in political matters, we will lose this country. And have ourselves to blame.

[PRO 1]

Now. We know the enemy, THE NEO-MARXIST DEMOCRAT LEFT, what is another enemy, just as deadly, just as destructive, which is an “enemy from within” IE...

IF WE TRUST OR ALLOW TO USURP “JOHNNY COME LATELY” HASBEENS AND LIMP WRISTED SELLOUTS LIKE JOHN MCJERKOFF, TRENT (IDIOT) LOTT, NUTE GINGRCH, HUCKABEE, AND OTHER LIKE “PLAY ALONG TO GET ALONG” NITWITS THAT DON’T UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF THE ENEMY, WHAT HAS BEEN STARTED ***WILL***BE***DESTROYED***.

I YELL FOR A DAMN GOOD REASON.