Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party By Shannon Travis, CNN Political Producer April 2, 2010 6:16 p.m. EDT Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN) -- They are not typical Tea Party activists: A woman who voted for President Obama and believes he's a "phenomenal speaker." Another who said she was a "knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal." These two women are not alone. Some Americans who say they have been sympathetic to Democratic causes in the past -- some even voted for Democratic candidates -- are angry with President Obama and his party. They say they are now supporting the Tea Party [...] Some of these disgruntled voters are taking part in the current Tea Party Express tour. The tour began in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, on March 28 and is making 44 stops across the nation. It ends in Washington on tax day -- April 15. [...] "I think we've gone too far on the side of government doing too much," Ducket said. "The Democratic Party is wanting to take care of everyone, instead of helping everybody stand on their own two feet." Roxanne Lewis expressed a similar point of view. A small business owner in Grand Junction, Lewis described herself as a lifelong Democrat and called the president a "phenomenal speaker." She voted for him because she "believed in what he was saying: change." Asked how she feels about having voted for the president, Lewis said "I feel lied to, cheated and raped." [...] "We hear from folks, probably at every rally, who say, 'I was a Democrat,' " Levi Russell, communications director for the Tea Party express tour, said. "Having more Democrats join the movement shows that it is more representative of the American people than the antics of the Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, Reid leadership," Russell said. The Democratic National Committee declined to comment. [...] David Saucedo is a rapper and community activist who frequently appears at Tea Party rallies. ... Saucedo also said that most of his family voted for the president but now support the Tea Party. He said his sister in law's views sum up the family sentiment. "She regrets voting for Barack Obama," he said. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/02/democrats.tea.party/ Will many more follow?
Or telling people how, when, and where they may stand on their feet. Or whether they may stand at all. This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue, when you get down to it. At the very top of the political pyramid, there is really only one party: the Big Brother party.
Or rather than big brother, big nanny. Or big molester. Big dictator. It's really all about control. Oh, woops! Have I just gotten a one-way ticket to the conspiracy theorist graveyard with that comment? Good.
Yes, Classical Liberals are traditional conservatives in the political spectrum, but then you have to understand definition and political concept, the Neo Liberals of the Democratic Party today are at a minimum Socialist if not outright Communist, not your traditional Liberal.
The typical democrat today is like the conservatives of the past. There is virtually no far left, as in Communist.
First Tea Party Democrat to Run for Congress Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 08:15 PM By: David A. Patten Tea party leaders have been insisting all along that they're not in the tank for the GOP, and now they'll have a chance to prove it: The first Democrat who also counts himself a member of the tea party movement is announcing his candidacy Friday to serve Florida's 11th Congressional District in Congress. [...] A member of both the Tampa Tea Party and the 9-12 Project organizations, Curtis expects serious opposition from entrenched elements of the Democratic base. But he maintains that voters will look at him and evaluate his candidacy as an individual, rather than in the context of political stereotypes. Full article
the question is not only whether the Tea Party is in the tank for the GOP, but whether the GOP is in the tank for the Tea Party faction. There are lots of "conservative" Dems, always have been - in and out of Congress. The old Confederacy, with current bastions of Tea Party wingnuttery throughout, is well populated with Dixiecrats. But many Dems can run against the Tea Party faction - can any Reps? Thirty plus years of unremitting media effort designed to malign, misrepresent, and eventually roll back Roosevelt's New Deal have had an effect - for example, it is now standard political speech to refer to Obama's policies as "socialist" and Obama as a far left wing politician, and expect to be taken seriously in the public discourse. You can even be invited to say such things on mainstream, sober, respected major media news analysis, as analysis rather than example, as sober contribution rather than the target of half-humorous lightweight commentary. Nobody just laughs.
The fact that Democrats are joining this shows we are making progress towards becoming a unified nation. Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter what you are we need to think more about the future and less about hating eachother, that is the only way we will move forward. George Washington predicted that party's would tear us apart, and he was right. Now we have the chance to fix it.
President Obama: Tea Party activists have 'legitimate concerns' By David Saltonstall DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Originally Published:Tuesday, March 30th 2010, 12:45 PM Updated: Tuesday, March 30th 2010, 1:54 PM Obama emphasized that he does't want to paint Tea Party activists "in broad brushes" and that he still hopes to win them over - or at least address their concerns. "I think that there's a broader circle around that core group of people who are legitimately concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much," the President told Lauer. "And I think those are folks who have legitimate concerns. Read more
Cleaver: Maybe the spitting incident was an accident March 31, 1:28 PM Bruce Maiman Video: Interview with Cleaver Cleaver: "I thought, when I first felt the moisture, that maybe it was an accident. That's why I said something to him, but with all the noise, and the crowd, and everybody's whipped up, he just continued to yell." "What many of the Democrats wanted me to do was to stand up and demonize those people and I'm not going to do it." Link
Wow, nice formatting and excellent presentation. Looks like I need to upgrade. I have not seen one lib refute your logic as you shifted the conversation from all tea party folks are violent racists to dems are tea party activists also. Will dems call Dems racists? For example, this is Obama. Typical White Person Obama is drawing a new round of criticism for his comments on a Philadelphia radio sports program yesterday in which he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has fears about black men. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-de...te-person-comment-delights-clinton-aides.html This is clearly racist. Will the dems correctly label a fellow dem like Obama a racist? How about Harry? Reid apologizes for 'no Negro dialect' comment Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_el_se/us_obama_reid How about Chris Matthews? Chris Matthews: 'I Forgot Obama Was Black For An Hour' (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/chris-matthews-i-forgot-o_n_439701.html How about Gov. David Paterson? Gov. David Paterson at the Gridiron: He said what? December 08, 2008 Categories:*Antics Politico Paterson's speech was certainly no exception. Even though he became governor of New York in quite a surprising fashion, it’s not the governor title that he wants, apparently.**Paterson's real goal, he said, is to follow in*Barack*Obama's footsteps*and be president of the United States, because: "Once you go black, you don't go back." Full Text
I never said all teabaggers were racists, and I don't think any of your examples of alleged Democratic racism actually amount to racism. Obama did win over people from all different walks of life, even people that aren't that loyal to the principles of the Democratic party. I do think there is a dissatisfaction out there, due to the recession, and the T.P. has given some of those people an avenue for expression. It's my view those people don't have a good grasp on the issues, and they are basically advocating for those same powers that caused their distress. Obama's numbers are up (I know you guys said polls don't matter when it was about Bush or the Iraq war), and he's using his momentum to do some important things. I don't see the Republicans with any leadership expect radical right wing talkers. I think all this angst is the last gasp of the Republican party. If Obama is successful, the cons won't be back in power for a good long time.
So, if a white person said a black is a typical black person, is that racist? So blacks are negros now? I'll bet they will like that. It is amazing how you people find racism in the pubs that is not there and yet cannot find racism in the dems that is so obvious.
