Tea Party Talking Points

[Who new]

I DO think for myself.

It isn't showing.

Congratulations on all that education. I hope you didn't rely on tax funded student loans for it cause that would be SOCIALISM!!!! And I hope you didn't rely on the public library or school systems either cause that's GOVERNMENT funded. I trust you get the point madame. Your protest is conveniently in lock step with the party with a failed agenda.

[Who new]

Do I sense a little anger? Getting scared?

No Macuser, I'll tell you what chaps my hide. I'm outraged! Morally OUTRAGED that you people are making my Christianity look bad. I can't speak a word positive about a walk with God without it looking like I have a tax agenda or a Roman Catholic abortion protest. None of that is from God and all of you act like it is. You're foolish pawns of a republican agenda that doesn't have a clue or care what the kingdom of God is. What's more, you don't have the spiritual discernment to know when they are playing you.

If you want to believe garbage then believe it and live with the consequences. But don't act like you got it from God 'cause you didn't.

[Pastor Gary]

Do I sense a little anger? Getting scared?

No Macuser, I'll tell you what chaps my hide. I'm outraged! Morally OUTRAGED that you people are making my Christianity look bad.

"YOU PEOPLE"?? Please. To whom do you refer? Political conservatives who also happen to be saved by grace? Jude2 posters? Southerners? You are aware, I am sure, that the use of "you people" is considered an insulting pejorative.

I can't speak a word positive about a walk with God without it looking like I have a tax agenda or a Roman Catholic abortion protest.

So, you're suggesting that inequitable, punative taxation and abortion on demand ARE Godly? Really? Would you defend that view scripturally for all us ignorant rubes?

None of that is from God and all of you act like it is. You're foolish pawns of a republican agenda that doesn't have a clue or care what the kingdom of God is. What's more, you don't have the spiritual discernment to know when they are playing you.

Wow... so many misdirections here; where do we begin?
• "None of that is from God" - protecting the unborn and defending the defenseless is not from God? Interesting Theological spin.
• "Foolish pawns" - That presupposes that all conservatives (in general) and Christian conservatives (in specific) are lock-step Republicans. You must have missed the months of debate here in which many Christian Conservatives on Jude2 bemoaned the lack of moral foundation of the GOP, cried over the nomination of McCain, and argued vehemently for 3rd party alternatives.
• "...republican agenda that doesn't have a clue or care what the kingdom of God is..." - You are correct. NO political party is attuned to the Kingdom of God. The Republicans don't and the Democrats REALLY don't. It is always a lesser-of-the-two-evils choice at election time. If the die-hard Republicans seem to be deceived about politics/kingdom, imagine how deceived the Democrats appear when they weep over their "messiah" and absolve Barney Frank of all responsibility for his role in the current financial crisis.
• "spiritual discernment" -- Hmmmm. I can certainly discern the spirit in your posts. Does that count?

If you want to believe garbage then believe it and live with the consequences. But don't act like you got it from God 'cause you didn't.

Okay. All good Christians line up, drink the Kool-aid and vote Donkey. Happy now?

[jinjer]

Congratulations on all that education. I hope you didn't rely on tax funded student loans for it cause that would be SOCIALISM!!!! And I hope you didn't rely on the public library or school systems either cause that's GOVERNMENT funded. I trust you get the point madame. Your protest is conveniently in lock step with the party with a failed agenda.

I have and am paying for my schooling with my own money, not funded by the government. I do not and have not for many years, relied on the public library. I purchased encyclopedias before the internet. I am not a product of the public school system. Unfortunately, the days of being able to avoid anything that has government funding involved is more difficult. Especially now that the gov't owns a portion of so many private companies due to the bail outs.

You must have missed all my protests against the bail out as presented by one Pres. Geo. W. Bush. My protest is equal to all political parties, both are and have been failing horribly when it comes to fiscal responsibility. We must return to the original intent of the founding of this country.

One last word, I cannot and will not support a party that supports abortion or gay rights.

Jinjer

[Shellie]

Who new wrote:

No Macuser, I'll tell you what chaps my hide. I'm outraged! Morally OUTRAGED that you people are making my Christianity look bad. I can't speak a word positive about a walk with God without it looking like I have a tax agenda or a Roman Catholic abortion protest. None of that is from God and all of you act like it is. You're foolish pawns of a republican agenda that doesn't have a clue or care what the kingdom of God is. What's more, you don't have the spiritual discernment to know when they are playing you.

Thanks. It's been a long time since I laughed so hard that I spewed Diet Coke from my nose......I needed it...thanks again.

[MacUser]

Who New.

We love you brother. Sorry your ideology and indoctrination isn't working well with your core Christian principles. It sort of sadly conflicts that way. That fence riding will make you hate one and love the other - so chose wisely

Seriously. My dad paid for my college education. I send my kids to a Private school because the public school is dangerous, horrible, below standard in ranking and run by liberal reprobates. I work extremely hard for this privilege! I also pay plenty of taxes ( should have seen my check a few days ago ) uggggh!!

God Bless!

[Dr. Ron]

Who knew is a great name for this character.....

Just your post lets me know "takes one to know one"
You know ....them uneddycated, toothless, hillbillies, barefooted, and dumb.

My friend there are some of us on here who have paid dearly for our education....and some of us paid dearly for your right to be stupid.

We have paid with our time, our military service, our willingness to lay down our lives if necessary.

Your idiot (minus his village) will have only one term to wreak havoc with this nation....then all the tea party folks will have gained a ground swell and we will rid Washington of all those Liberal crooks......yep....that thar is some uneddycated discussun.........

What a dolt you are .....

[dolfan]

What did she need talking points for then? And to be accurate, I called ALL of you simplistic and unreasonable. Even you, Pastor Gary, would only repeat Dick Cheney fears of Nancy Pelpsi and the democrats. Remember that? If you guys have educated perspectives it isn't showing. It's time to grow up and think for yourselves instead repeating the nearest autocratic bloviator.

Disagreement with my views and opinions? Great. Fire away. But, surely you're smart enough and patient enough to sit down and peel away on the particulars of these so drastically flawed expressions. I'm going to toss you a bone of consideration, here. I'm going to invite you to spell out what it is you have a problem with in what any one of us have said. Not just the fact that you disagree with it, but the nature and scope of the reasons for the disagreement.

It is not enough to point to the use of government provided services such as schools by government-does-too-much critics as myself, and then to say, "Aha! You're a HYPOCRITE!" First of all, government mandates school attendance in one form or another. Secondly, most parents see no options or alternatives to government-run schools, or they are unwilling for their own reasons -- good or not -- to avail themselves of those alternatives. Thirdly, those of us who have grown up with public educations and are critical of the federal government are, by and large, older than the era of federal domination of education and we feel quite free to disparage it now, thanks. Fourth, the government controlled models of education and commerce leave people who still wish to be productive in spite of those models are left with no other options but to work with and through the gatekeepers who have set themselves up nicely as gatekeepers funded by other people's money taken from them against their will. I do not deny that there is good produced from the governmental system; I do deny that the system is worth it. And, when I say "it", pick your topic. I'll probably agree with it.

Do yourself the respect you deserve by arguing with the ideas and not running away, childishly, pointing back at the rest of us because you think you've identified a "gotcha". You haven't. What you've argued by implication, if nothing else, is that we all ought to be thankful for the big hand of government for serving us so well and doing so justly, and for not having already straightened us out with pains of confiscation and constraint. Yyyyyyeah. Right.


Edit: And, I just saw where people who believe in limited federal authority are being tagged by DHS as quasi threats to national security. Well, count me in, I guess. I'm not going to stand still while government treats people as slaves. That's why I've been vocal, including here, about our drug laws. I won't be one, either, for you, Obama, Napolitano or any other big-federal-government power hungry hack. This is a GMD -- a government of mass destruction. Destruction of liberty. Destruction of private property. And, I'll say this .... "this government" means the Republicans AND the Democrats. This didn't start with Obama. But he's pushing the throttle on it as far as he can.

[MacUser]

people who believe in limited federal authority are being tagged by DHS as quasi threats to national security. Well, count me in

*sigh* The line is already forming behind me also...