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The Revolt Against Cronyism (What is Tea Party Movement?)
The American ^ | 06/24/10 | Lee Harris

Posted on 06/26/2010 6:27:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

The Revolt Against Cronyism

By Lee Harris Thursday, June 24, 2010

Filed under: Government & Politics, Public Square

What the South Carolina Republican primary means.

Just when we think we have a handle on the Tea Party, it immediately slips out of our grasp. Up until quite recently, the Tea Party was widely accepted as a racist movement made up of grumpy old white men only interested in keeping their pockets well-lined. Then, only this week, the Tea Party pulls the tea tray right from under us by helping Nikki Haley, a woman of Sikh descent, and Tim Scott, a black man, to win Republican primaries in South Carolina—South Carolina, of all the states in the Union! This kind of unconventional, wisdom-defying behavior just won’t do. It produces consternation in the minds of those who prefer never to change theirs. Some, of course, will still not change their opinions. Many will no doubt deride Haley and Scott as mere tokens supported by the Tea Party in order to conceal their true racist motives. Or perhaps Haley and Scott will be dubbed the unwitting stooges of the Tea Party, and of the sinister corporate interests which ultimately pull all the strings behind the scenes—in short, as stooges that other stooges were conned into voting for.

In the immediate aftermath of the South Carolina primary, however, two more charitable interpretations of the outcome were prominent in the media. The first is offered by those who seem to be stuck in the sixties. The victories of Haley and Scott indicate the depth of voter anger at “the establishment.”

(Excerpt) Read more at american.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: cronyism; haley; nikkihaley; scarolina; socarolina; southcarolina; teaparty; timscott
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1 posted on 06/26/2010 6:27:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wow

This jerk really doesn’t understand us

Free, or die.

I mean it.


2 posted on 06/26/2010 6:35:12 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m on to them. Nikki Haley is a grumpy old, white racist man in drag and Tim Scott is a KKK’er in black face. His name Tim is the tip off. Tim, Tom. As in uncle Tom.


3 posted on 06/26/2010 6:36:58 AM PDT by all the best
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There’s no such thing as being “of Sikh descent”. Sikhism is a RELIGION. You are not descended froma religion — would you say someone was of Protestant descent? You can be descended from a race, national or ethnic group. She is of Punjabi/Indian descent


4 posted on 06/26/2010 6:44:24 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is typical of our opponents. They are obsessed with condencending labels. They are devoid of any principled ideas. They truely do not understand people’s anger over government.

They are not just opponents, they are enemies against this country and what it has stood and stands for.


5 posted on 06/26/2010 6:46:56 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: kabumpo

Do not stress them out further. Apparently, they already have enough trouble figuring out what is going on with Tea Party Movement. Piling more for them to figure out is simply mean and cruel.:-)


6 posted on 06/26/2010 6:49:00 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TMA62

Yeah, we got them confused and stressed out. That is a good start.:-)


7 posted on 06/26/2010 6:50:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There is not one shred of evidence that the Tea Parties harbor racists, and the first and only place I’ve heard about Haley and Scott’s ethnicity is the leftist MSM-it’s only important to them.


8 posted on 06/26/2010 6:52:26 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Yeah, we got them confused and stressed out. That is a good start.:-)”
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I agree. I proves that they still don’t get it and have no idea on how to stop it.


9 posted on 06/26/2010 6:58:16 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

The writer is making a point that Tea Party members want people elected on their qualifications, and not because they are connected to family and friends. Tea Party members are not hesitant to oppose Establishment Republicans in elections.


10 posted on 06/26/2010 6:58:35 AM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"Up until quite recently, the Tea Party was widely accepted as a racist movement made up of grumpy old white men only interested in keeping their pockets well-lined."

Good grief, the media is even MORE dumb than I thought....and I thought they were really stupid before. They keep the hole deeper & deeper in terms of credibility. Sheeesh!

11 posted on 06/26/2010 7:00:50 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: kabumpo

How soon will you finish picking the fly shit out of the pepper pot...we have the socks to iron and the drawer to organize! ;-)


12 posted on 06/26/2010 7:08:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ah, yes the metrosexual, bedwetting, little, freedom stealing, Chavez loving, Marx-o-Fascists are actively trying to find the appropriate disparaging bumper-sticker stereotype for the Tea Party. Unfortunately, we already have their number and it fits them well.


13 posted on 06/26/2010 7:25:27 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: all the best

I believe the Tea Party also endorsed Bill Randall (NC-13), another black, conservative,Republican who won his primary bid.


14 posted on 06/26/2010 7:59:46 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Redleg Duke

Sorry that you think accurate despription of a person’s identity is nitpicking —I loathe the current tendancy — which I had until now associated with lilberalism — toward slovenly, quasi-illiterate writing.


15 posted on 06/26/2010 8:24:21 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Its not nitpicking. The liberal assumption is that a Sikh is a different race than “the grumpy white man”. Its the same kind of assumption that liberals wield when in a room of people, and they know they will automatically like all the blacks because they’re easy, they’re always democrats. To a liberal, they want easy identifiers of who to love and who to hate. Middle aged white guy with a pony tail they love; a pretty, successful mother and former governor, hate, and so on...


16 posted on 06/26/2010 8:32:44 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Thanks TigerLikesRooster. I love how some readers don't understand satire and its uses in ridiculing opponents:
Up until quite recently, the Tea Party was widely accepted as a racist movement made up of grumpy old white men only interested in keeping their pockets well-lined. Then, only this week, the Tea Party pulls the tea tray right from under us by helping Nikki Haley, a woman of Sikh descent, and Tim Scott, a black man, to win Republican primaries in South Carolina -- South Carolina, of all the states in the Union! This kind of unconventional, wisdom-defying behavior just won't do. It produces consternation in the minds of those who prefer never to change theirs.

17 posted on 06/26/2010 8:51:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv; TigerLikesRooster
"some readers don't understand satire and its uses in ridiculing opponents:"

Yes, one needs to go past the first two sentences and actually read the article. It raises some very important points.

18 posted on 06/26/2010 9:00:19 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: kabumpo

I was only kidding you. Lighten up, already!


19 posted on 06/26/2010 9:17:28 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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To: Redleg Duke

hard to discern humor from someone one doesn’t know via email.


20 posted on 06/26/2010 9:30:38 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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