Reading tea party leaves

L.A. Times ^ | 3/16/10 | Jonah Goldberg

[Eterna1Soldier]

The tea partyers certainly aren't "dropping out" of the system; if they were, we wouldn't be talking about them. And they aren't reading Marxist tracts in a desire to "tear down the system" either. They're reading Thomas Paine, the founders and Friedrich Hayek in the perhaps naive hope that they'll be able to restore the principles that are supposed to be guiding the system (to the extent they're reading radicals such as Saul Alinsky, it's because they've been told that's the best way to understand his disciple in the White House).

[jessduntno]

There's no omnibus label for this argument, but it's a giveaway that a person subscribes to it if he or she describes the "tea party" movement as "tea baggers," an awfully telling bit of condescension from the camp that affects the pose of being more high-minded.

Clearing up the confusion for the media...

[hosepipe]

LoL...

[HiTech RedNeck]

I do not recognize the bagger. Who is that?

[nathanbedford]

I think the first comment appearing in the Los Angeles Times in response to Goldberg's article speaks for itself and is instructive of the liberal mind so I present it here without further comment:

Given all that I've seen and heard about the tea party movement and its themes, I wouldn't want anything to do with them. This whole idea of going back to the concepts in the constitution and the ideas of the original framers is simply hype, total illusion and nonsense. The only concepts that the tea partiers truly embrace are greed and hate. Patriots and true Americans? I don't think so, not for a second. chandlerwood (03/16/2010, 2:03 PM )

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yet other comments rate Bummer as conservative or right of center!

[nathanbedford]

Bummer?

[HiTech RedNeck]

My pet name for Obama. A bummer for this country fer shure.

[nathanbedford]

Gotcha.

I thought you meant the poster of the comment in the Los Angeles Times.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Anderson Cooper of CNN.