Tea Total

Cowboy Confessional ^ | 4/15/2010 | Guy Smith

[guyshomenet]

The young black gent in the wheelchair raised a fist and shouted “Amen.” The middle aged Hispanic woman, homemade sign overhead, applauded and said “Get rid of them all!” The lady with the butch-cut hair, and her girl friend waving a rainbow flag, said “We’ve had enough.” The teenage girl, bouncing on her toes held a single tea bag aloft.

What a bunch of racist homophobes.

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I chatted with a candidate named Adnan Shahab, which is about as un-Anglo Saxon as one can get without immigrating from another planet. I overheard a woman who carried a sign reading “I’m an angry Democrat” speak of betrayal by her representative. One young lady wore tea bags on her hoop earrings while signing-up at an NRA recruiting table (which, I’ll note was doing a brisk business). All ages, all races, all income levels, and all sexual orientations. A more mixed demographic cross-section cannot be found outside of … well, it just can’t be found.

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But it did raise to the top of my alleged consciousness a question: What is the common denominator? Why have such different people banded together and taken to the streets?

Freedom.

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But in under two years the wholesale assassination of constitutional government has caused people of every attitude to recognize that Washington no longer considers liberty an imperative. The social pact between the state and those who created it has been broken. The government is declining to heel, and its masters are about to jerk government’s dog collar.

It is a people thing. It is a freedom imperative. It is an American movement.

[nolongerademocrat]

We’re a melting pot - the idea that conservatives want to control people’s private lives is a lie told by democrats.

[Mike Darancette]

Starting to look like the Tea Party Movement is the real deal! Hope they don’t peak before the 2012 election.