What is sickening is that the Left has “radicalized” the Tea Party .... and folks in the so-called Tea Party are regular folks, socially and fiscally conservative, a lot of them Christian and certainly not violent. Tea Party rallies in DC ... no problems, grounds left cleaner than than before, etc. There have been plenty of Leftist terrorists .... no Tea Party terrorists that I’m aware of.
I've been to a number of Tea Party rallies.
I won't bring my kids because 1) I'm afraid of what LIBERAL idiots will do, and 2) I think that politics and children should never, ever mix. When they get old enough, they can decide for themselves if they'd like to come.
However, barring those two things, I'd not think twice having my kids around tea partiers. The ones in my neck of the woods remind me more of a bunch of rowdy churchgoers, more than anything else. Rallies are fun.
True story - one of the ones I went to had a goodly number of cops there. They were all fairly young, and since everyone was well-behaved, they were just standing around girl-watching, as young guys do. ;-) Anyway, I asked them what they thought about all this. One said "This is eeeeeeasy duty". Another winked at me, showed me the Gasden Flag button he had pinned to the inside (not showing) of his gear, and said "Not a word.....".
Good times.