During the fall campaign, most Tea Party-backed activists and candidates attempted to avoid culture wars issues. They sought to keep issues like abortion, gay marriage, teen sex education, “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” and stem-cell research at an arms-length’s-distance
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The Tea Party incorporates three parallel but divergent reactionary tendencies. First, it includes “small government” libertarians who oppose “big government” spending, high personal taxes and the rising federal debt; some “libertarians” support personal rights and oppose rightwing Christian values. Second, it includes a sizable “nativists” tendency, those who share a deep racists fear of the “other,” be it of African Americans or non-white immigrants, even some promoting staunch neo-fascist and Klan-like violence. And third, the Christian conservative right lives on as a mainstay, adhering to “biblical” and patriarchal values. It remains to be seen if this coalition will hold as some of its representatives now have political power and must govern.
Freedom is crushed by Obama because he hasn't done "Tort reform"? They are still touting "Obama Lies and Grandma dies"deMolay wrote:A message to Obama. And his fellow roaders. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JV ... edium#t=19
Daniel_Plainview wrote:The USA desperately needs an Article V constitutional convention in order to rein in the bloated and ever-expanding Fed'l Govt, and to preserve the States' rights which the founding fathers originally envisioned for the country.
But first, the US citizens must put down their bags of potato chips and cans of Bud Lite, reach for their remote control, and turn off Dancing With the Stars ... Can we do it? Is it possible?
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