stdreb27
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Originally Posted by Fishtaco
http:///forum/post/3251020
First of all, you people have got to stop using what the far-left does as an excuse or a "we are not that bad" deal because I am a former moderate Republican and now a independent voter, so that arguement carries very little weight with me and we are talking about the Tea Party not the Far-Left.
Secondly I disagree that it is just a "few" bad apples in the party and the movement has also since it morphed from what Ron Paul started into what it is now refused to address the actions of any of it's more radical members. Sorry but when I see someone with a sign with a AR-15 on it and a threat of next time coming armed, I take that as a threat to myself and this country and if Obama is everything they accuse him of, then just like any other dictatorship, those people would be swept up by secret police and never seen again. I do agree that the Dems are running with the crap that happened this weekend, but for a bunch of people who think they have the right ideas for government, then you would think that they would be smart enough to tone down the rhetoric on their signs and curb their actions enough so they are not giving ammunition to their sworn political enemies.
I would also like to address what American means since the Tea Party is 99% percent white and conservative, seems like somewhere along the line somebody forgot that America is a melting pot and all Americans that care would be for honest government, term limits and less spending and taxes. I know I am, but at this point I would never even think about throwing my hat in with the Tea Party and neither it seems do any other minorities. If these Tea Parties are a friendly and good hearted as everyone claims why is it a sea of white conservatives faces only?
As always people are focusing way too much on the red or blue instead of the red, white and blue.
Fishtaco
The point of the comparison wasn't to say "we aren't as bad as them" although I can definately see how you reach that conclusion. The point was the illustrate why I think it is a trumped up bag of manure. Pelosi decided to parade through the crowd of protesters with a black man (remember you brought up race) surrounded by video cameras. Then comes out and says oh they called us the N word and drop a few F bombs. But not one of those surrounding video cameras catch it.
Then 10 congress men come out at the same time to report threats... And they are with no investigation being immediately attributed to tea part activists...
Meanwhile actual violence happens and no one hears about it.
Remember all those town halls over the Christmas season. SEIU thugs beat up a senior citizen with cancer in a wheel chair. A Moveon.org member bit off a 65 year old man's finger.
There was no media outcry. No 3 days of stories. This is a trumped up faked load of indignation.
The other point is to illustrate reality. Senior citizens getting beat up by liberal thugs, black panthers with illegal weapons parading around polling places, people trying to blow up the pentagon, McCain campaign workers getting maced. I could understand getting worked up about that... As a public official getting a death threat? Come on...
http:///forum/post/3251020
First of all, you people have got to stop using what the far-left does as an excuse or a "we are not that bad" deal because I am a former moderate Republican and now a independent voter, so that arguement carries very little weight with me and we are talking about the Tea Party not the Far-Left.
Secondly I disagree that it is just a "few" bad apples in the party and the movement has also since it morphed from what Ron Paul started into what it is now refused to address the actions of any of it's more radical members. Sorry but when I see someone with a sign with a AR-15 on it and a threat of next time coming armed, I take that as a threat to myself and this country and if Obama is everything they accuse him of, then just like any other dictatorship, those people would be swept up by secret police and never seen again. I do agree that the Dems are running with the crap that happened this weekend, but for a bunch of people who think they have the right ideas for government, then you would think that they would be smart enough to tone down the rhetoric on their signs and curb their actions enough so they are not giving ammunition to their sworn political enemies.
I would also like to address what American means since the Tea Party is 99% percent white and conservative, seems like somewhere along the line somebody forgot that America is a melting pot and all Americans that care would be for honest government, term limits and less spending and taxes. I know I am, but at this point I would never even think about throwing my hat in with the Tea Party and neither it seems do any other minorities. If these Tea Parties are a friendly and good hearted as everyone claims why is it a sea of white conservatives faces only?
As always people are focusing way too much on the red or blue instead of the red, white and blue.
Fishtaco
The point of the comparison wasn't to say "we aren't as bad as them" although I can definately see how you reach that conclusion. The point was the illustrate why I think it is a trumped up bag of manure. Pelosi decided to parade through the crowd of protesters with a black man (remember you brought up race) surrounded by video cameras. Then comes out and says oh they called us the N word and drop a few F bombs. But not one of those surrounding video cameras catch it.
Then 10 congress men come out at the same time to report threats... And they are with no investigation being immediately attributed to tea part activists...
Meanwhile actual violence happens and no one hears about it.
Remember all those town halls over the Christmas season. SEIU thugs beat up a senior citizen with cancer in a wheel chair. A Moveon.org member bit off a 65 year old man's finger.
There was no media outcry. No 3 days of stories. This is a trumped up faked load of indignation.
The other point is to illustrate reality. Senior citizens getting beat up by liberal thugs, black panthers with illegal weapons parading around polling places, people trying to blow up the pentagon, McCain campaign workers getting maced. I could understand getting worked up about that... As a public official getting a death threat? Come on...
