I don’t think the Tea Party can turn against the conservative movement in this country. As long as it is founded on the right principles that the majority of Americans agree with, America will push Tea Party candidates to success.
The only reason all the “Tea Party antics” are an issue to be discussed is, as someone said, the left has decided to assassinate the character of the Tea Party candidates because of their great success, and threat of conservative candidates winning on Election Day.
I find it surprising how so many people discuss only one side of issues! Let me break these down one by one:
Rand Paul vs.
MoveOn.org
This is the tenth time I’ve heard “stomped on her head”… his foot never touched her head. It just sounds more dramatic and scary if you say “stomped on her head”. But if you say “stomped on her shoulder”, you don’t get quite as much attention.
Another thing not mentioned was the woman’s conduct. She is not just a “liberal protester”, she is a well-known member of
MoveOn.org, a prominent liberal website. She disguised herself with a wig, I say again, a
wig, to avoid being recognized, in order to give some manner of fake award to Rand Paul.
Using this incident as a tool to combat Rand Paul is cheap, and shows, as with the many other character attacks made on Tea Party candidates, the liberal establishments’ inability to run on substance and issues.
Yes, the violence was wrong, and notice how quickly a fellow Tea Partier says “No, no, no” in the video and waves his hand to the fellow to get him to take his foot off the woman? That guy doesn’t get any praise or notice, it’s just “TEA PARTY MEMBER STOMPS ON WOMAN’S HEAD”. No mention of her disguise, her status at
MoveOn.org, or anything else.
Separation of Church and State
This one annoys me. The First Amendment’s establishment clause says nothing about separation of church and state. What it says is that the state may not establish a national religion for all Americans to follow under penalty of law.
This was obviously included by our Founders to forgo any worries of America going the way of England. Wasn’t the main reason people such as Puritans, Catholics, and otherwise left England and other such countries their intolerance of certain religions? Yes, it was! So this clause, when you think of it from the perspective of the Founding Fathers, does not provide for “Separation of Church and State” as we know it today.
What does SoCaS (if I may abbreviate it) mean
today? SoCaS today means that politicians who stand on SoCaS would not allow their religious beliefs to influence their political positions. For example, JFK, who promised not to allow his Catholic faith to influence his political decisions.
So the bottom line here is that SoCaS as we know it today does not arise from the Constitution. Now that you see this “issue” in a different light, you notice the vicarious attacks made on O’Donnell and Buck in lieu of their common sense comments.
Angle’s ad
When you come into the country illegally, you probably won’t get a legal job. So what sort of job opportunities are there for you? Illegal jobs, and/or illegal sources of money. Angle is not picking on a particular race. She’s making a particularly tough political point, namely, that the majority of illegal immigrants turn to a life of crime to support their illegal life, and a majority of illegal immigrants are also Latinos from across the border. When you put two and two together you come up with the point made in the ad.
Miller’s thing
This one is kind of disappointing; I like Miller. What’s also disappointing is the flak he’s been getting for this. The thing is, as it says above, he engineered a poll and got on a grand total of three computers, according to documented sources, voted, and cleared the caches. Big deal! So he started a poll and gave himself three extra votes. It’s still dishonest, which is what the left is playing up in this story. I hope Miller wins, because Murkowski needs to be sent home.
I can’t believe she has any support… first she loses the primary, then she endorses Miller, then when she can’t let go of the position and the power, she runs a write in campaign. That’s the real issue for me in this election.
“According to a canvass of 647 local tea party groups conducted by The Washington Post, 11 percent of organizers say President Obama’s race, religion or ethnic background is very important or somewhat important to their members’ participation in the movement.”
As someone said, I think the religion part is far more intriguing to Tea Partiers than race or ethnicity. He’s been fumbling around the issue of religion for a while; I remember seeing a clip where he said “My Muslim faith…” in an interview, then was seemingly corrected by interviewer George Stephanopolous, who said “Your Christian faith”, with Obama then saying “My Christian faith…”
This is the link to the two minute interview clip. The flop is about two thirds through it.
“Also on Wednesday, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips came under fire for an Internet column published over the weekend in which he called for the defeat of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) because he is Muslim.”
The actions of Judson Phillips, of whom I had not heard prior to today, will have little to no effect on the Tea Party candidates. People are smart enough to see that Judson Phillips is not on the ballot, and the country is on the ballot.
The bottom line is that this election is about issues, and not about antics and miniature crises within political campaigns.
