Tea Parties

[one love]

Though I like what has been taking place I have to wonder where was all the protest when Bush did the bail out plans? It does make it appear to many that this is just against Obama period. I saw some pretty hateful signs that were displayed in NC!!!!!!

I hated the treatment Bush received and yet we are doing the same thing and it has not even been a few months


Again I love the idea behind NO INCREASE on taxes etc. but the bailout is on us as well.

Did we really want the banks to fail? Was it the right answer? I do not think so but I do remember the last time the banks failed (not personally but through history) and the great depression lasted a LONG time. America would not make it through another one of those, we are to powerful and that would end as well....

So I am proud of those that came to protest respectfully against the bailouts, high taxes but I have NO respect for any racial or hateful comments , just as I did not when they did it to Bush.

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[MacUser]

Onelove..
Even in a racially charged atmosphere such as Greenwood MS.. it was democrats and republicans that protested. Black and White. This was bigger than typical politics.



This is more third party birthing than anything else... but I hate that idea because third parties never win elections.. and thats another subject.

[Pastor Gary]

This is more third party birthing than anything else... but I hate that idea because third parties never win elections.. and thats another subject.

I tend to agree about 3rd parties, but I sense that may change soon. The Republican Party has lost its brand... it stands for nothing, and offers no serious, viable alternative to the Democrats. It is also identified in the public mind as the party of old, white, Christian, conservatives, and is largely unable to gain traction with college students, black and Hispanic voters.

It is time for a rational, intellectual, conservative, non-reactionary, broad-based party with charismatic, electable candidates -- and then let the GOP merge with the Dems all the way and fade into history.

[EagerBeaver]

This is more third party birthing than anything else... but I hate that idea because third parties never win elections.. and thats another subject.

I tend to agree about 3rd parties, but I sense that may change soon. The Republican Party has lost its brand... it stands for nothing, and offers no serious, viable alternative to the Democrats. It is also identified in the public mind as the party of old, white, Christian, conservatives, and is largely unable to gain traction with college students, black and Hispanic voters.

It is time for a rational, intellectual, conservative, non-reactionary, broad-based party with charismatic, electable candidates -- and then let the GOP merge with the Dems all the way and fade into history.

You would not believe the buzz in libertarian circles about disenfranchised Republicans joining the ranks of the Libs because they're simply fed up with the GOP expanding government.

GOP started it, Obama walked right through the door and is accelerating it.

[one love]

This is more third party birthing than anything else... but I hate that idea because third parties never win elections.. and thats another subject.

I tend to agree about 3rd parties, but I sense that may change soon. The Republican Party has lost its brand... it stands for nothing, and offers no serious, viable alternative to the Democrats. It is also identified in the public mind as the party of old, white, Christian, conservatives, and is largely unable to gain traction with college students, black and Hispanic voters.

It is time for a rational, intellectual, conservative, non-reactionary, broad-based party with charismatic, electable candidates -- and then let the GOP merge with the Dems all the way and fade into history.

You would not believe the buzz in libertarian circles about disenfranchised Republicans joining the ranks of the Libs because they're simply fed up with the GOP expanding government.

GOP started it, Obama walked right through the door and is accelerating it.

that was my point as well

[MacUser]

Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04 ... use-humor/

For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.

For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word "teabagging" in a sentence.

Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.

... CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed "teabagging" references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still "searching for their voice."

"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.

... The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."

He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.


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No wonder nobody takes this network seriously any more.

[Full Quiver]

A local talk host proposed that citizens that choose to campaign for the 2010 cycle could try out in an "American Idol" fashion and we select the best candidate that way. I say we pick the top three. Run was as a GOP, one as an independent, and run one against the incumbent democrat in the primary. This would ensure 2-3 conservatives to vote for. The dems could always run their guy anyhow. They've been doing that type stuff lately. It sure would burn some campaign cash for them though.

[pastorables]

"It's TEA time children."

[EagerBeaver]

"It's TEA time children."

Best nanny EVER. She knew style too.