The Democrats and their activist old media are running in circles and working themselves into pretzels trying to define the “Tea Party” movement. It can be quite entertaining to watch. They really have no idea what is happening right in front of their eyes. The media would have an easier time reading Mandarin Chinese than they would deciphering the signs at a Tea Party rally.
You could argue that they don’t want to understand what they are seeing because that means they would have to admit that Democrats have lost the beloved grass roots that they claim to have had forever, and I would not disagree. But, for the moment, let’s just say that they are really trying hard to figure this out and it’s just not sinking in to their brilliant Ivy League minds.
Let’s give them a little hint:
Sunday on Meet the Press, Dee Dee Myers, the former Clinton press secretary, took a stab at defining the Tea Party movement. “I’m not sure exactly where this is going….is it a third party, is it part of the Republican Party?”
On ABC’s This Week, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News said, “I’m not sure exactly what the Tea Party movement is, I’m not sure the people who respond to the polls know what it is, and it remains to be seen whether it is an asset to the Republican Party.”
Saturday on CNN, Don Lemon had political consultant David Gergen on and they wrestled over whether the movement was racist because they only saw one black person in the crowd at the Sarah Palin speech before the Tea Party Convention. They should’ve invited Kenneth Gladney on the show and asked him. Gladney was the man who was smacked around by SEIU thugs at a Tea Party rally in St. Louis. The activist old media doesn’t know Gladney’s story because he’s a conservative minority Tea Party participant and they don’t want that story. I met Gladney at a Tea Party rally in Las Vegas and found him to be a fine man with a fascinating story. I bought a couple flags from him that I proudly hang in my office. The activist old media might want to ask him what this movement is about – warning – be prepared, he will give you the right answer, but it will not be the answer you want to hear. I know, I asked him.
With that, let me tell you what the Tea Party movement wants. I will make it simple and straightforward and easy for all to understand — I will put it in all CAPS and type slowly:
THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT WANTS AMERICA TO RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES.
There it is. I said it, one simple sentence.
The Democrats and its activist old media want to find “leaders” for the Tea Party movement. They feel that the only worthwhile political movement must have direction from a man (or woman—but mainly men). They saw the movements led by Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini and feel that there must be a dynamic personality for people to follow in order for it to be significant. That same game plan was followed in the 2008 presidential election: find a dynamic leader who fits with the values of larger, more intrusive government, and follow him.
They also want a “leader” of the Tea Party movement so that they can destroy that person. This is from the play book of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
RULE 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
By this I mean that in a complex, interrelated, urban society, it becomes increasingly difficult to single out who is to blame for any particular evil… Obviously, there is no point to tactics unless one has a target upon which to center the attacks.
Once they have a fallible human target they can destroy that person, and thus destroy the movement. That’s the game plan. They will not come out and say they want the destruction of the U.S. Constitution, so it’s very important for the media, Democrats and the American left to get a name and face attached to the Tea Party movement.
Sarah Palin understands this perfectly when she spoke at the Tea Party Convention over the weekend and said that “this is about the people,” and it’s “bigger than any king or queen of the Tea Party movement.” This movement needs no leader. With the Constitution as its guide, it is doing just fine, thank you.
While the media tries to marginalize the movement and make it seem insignificant, racist, divisive, angry, trivial, and mean—-the Tea Party movement rolls on. Democrats will twist and turn on a roller-coaster ride of definitions before they ever find the answer. If they really want the answer, I’ll give it to them again in case I wasn’t clear:
THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT WANTS AMERICA TO RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES.
Don’t we all want that? Shouldn’t we all want that? Occasionally you will hear Democrats talk about their love for the Constitution, but were that the case, they would join hands with the patriots of the Tea Party movement and demand that we begin the long road back to our founding documents. For the last 100 years we have made a strong left turn from those documents, and it’s time to correct it.
Those at the Tea Party rallies may not all be Ivy League grads, or brilliant enough to be on those dazzling, luminous, Sunday talk shows, but they are smart enough to know which political party represents a return to the Constitution right now. It’s that party they will support in 2010. It’s that party they supported in elections in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey. If Democrats and their complicit old-media cronies are not smart enough to figure out which party that is, then they’ll sit there at the round table on the Sunday shows this November and wonder what hit them and again, not get it right.
You’ve got to think that if they had Sunday shows in 1773, the British would’ve done the same thing.
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Yes for that is the one thing that all Americans have in common, The Constitution!
You know…I really don't want them to get a clue, either…
There are times its better to cut loose the boat anchors and float down the river…
This is that time…
You must have read my posts on the 912communique website Mr Futrell, I've been saying that for months!
Great minds think alike…
Nice concise description.
Now the attack will be: bumpersticker politics.
Mr. Futrell, this is right up the ally and over the wall.
Than you.
The greatest danger to the movement is to embrace a party outright.
Both the Republicans and Democrats told us wonderful stories while destroying the economy and our liberties.
I'd like to believe your assertion, but far too many Tea Party folks that I encounter fail to question the government's flawed foreign policy–a foreign policy which runs completely counter to the beliefs of the founders.
A government big enough to police the entire earth will inevitably turn its eyes inward toward policing the lives of the citizens. If we have an unfortunate tendency to want our government to exercise control over the rest of the world, our government will likewise have a tendency to want to exercise control over us. Not recognizing that simple fact will ensure that we are stuck with a bloated, intrusive, bureaucratic government for a very long time. At this point, bankruptcy may be the only thing capable of stopping the beast.
Where's Ron Paul?
He's been all about these principles for years now.
And he has a brain.
I'd love to vote for Paul but he's not presidential material.
I just hope that the elitists in the republican party understand and start being the conservatives they claim to be so we don't keep going back and forth with each election cycle
Excellent points. We already see the lengths they go to in order to "look out for our better interests".
The Constitution. Absolutely! But republicans! Not necessarily. Both parties are calcified and corrupt, greedy and bloated. Bush was NO fiscal conservative. Our govt is TOO BiIG and must be reined in.
But Huckabee is?
I never use stupid internet-speak because I despise it, but LOL.
If you want to know who the Tea Party is…just take a look at the polls…and see what has happened to the independents.
These are GDI's…and, for once…they are standing up to be counted.
Both parties would do well to take a closer look at those polls. The momentum has shifted, because leftist Democrats misread a "mandate" that was not there. Ever.
They "saw" what they wished was there, what they wanted to see.
Certainly not a mistake worth repeating by anyone else.
I heard some anti-Constitutional – even Anti-American – ideas parading under the Constitutional rhetoric.
Why not just admit that big money screwed us all over and stop scapegoating?
There are many fine people in the TPM that are rightfully outraged at what our government has become they are ultimately unwilling to do what is necessary to change it. In the short term they may accomplish slowing the size of government and spending (not with help from the GOP though) but it will not be shrunk. There are too many believers in too many unconstitutional entities.
Also, GB8898 is correct. This fervent adherence to a failed foreign policy will only serve to further destroy this Republic.
PS, Huckabee is a statist tool.
In my business I talk to many people everyday and I have learned one thing, Some people just don't get it, and they never will.
Who said anything about Huckabee? The Hackster is all about social justice wrapped up as Christian duty whereas Obama is all about social justice wrapped up in Marx. Two different justifications for the same big government outcome.
In order to keep the Tea Party movement going forward, we need to agree to a simple set of principles and leave the rest aside. Limited government, low taxation, fiscal responsibility and Constitutional principles should all be on the list. As much as I have my social beliefs, they shouldn't play a role because they are too contentious. That doesn't mean I should give up on my social beliefs; it does mean that I recognize that a return to the basic principles above give me the best chance of effecting change more in keeping with my social beliefs. Social battles are homefront battles. They shouldn't be national battles, and with a limited government, Constitutional federal government, most of them will be relegated to the state and local level where individual groups can vote unlike now.
People better wise up, I would bet most of you are not even aware your tax dollars are being used to
destroy the tea party movement before elections later this year, read about it
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/09/anti-t...
Ocorpseman & Co. "What is this Constit…er, how do you say it? Er, Constituion you people speak of?"
"Is that the new entree' at 'Le Faux's'?"
If we're going to uphold the Constitution and use the Founding Fathers as role models, we would do well to remember that they belonged to a philosophical movement called "The Enlightenment."
We need far better leaders than someone who believes that dinosaurs and men walked side-by-side 6000 years ago.
I agree. Too many people on the Right want to address everything at the federal level when that should be the absolute last thing we should want. We've gotten in this mess specifically by acting as a "nation" instead of as a collection of individual states. Almost every problem that confronts us can and should be addressed at the state and local levels, exactly as the founders intended.
that's for sure…I'm at a major Texas (not U.T.) university and of course the party line is "liberalism is good – socialism works – we just need to 'do it better'".
Bleeetch….
Thank you, big journalism. I hope that this article is your response to the stupid birther article. We want the CONSTITUTION to be followed. And please let's not get hung up over Huckabee. I doubt he will be the nominee, but he did turn a deficit into a surplus in Arkansas without raising taxes. Comments like "Huckabee is a statist tool" aren't constructive and don't help anyone.
Of course no one knows the Constitution inside out, backwards and forwards; so it is necessary to explain what is meant by adhering to the Constitution (limited Government, property rights, freedoms of many and varied kinds) to name a few. Whether it is in the Constitution or not, Americans either should have or do have the right to not be interfered with by the government as long as they live in obedience to the laws of the land. When it comes to taxation we certainly should not be taxed beyond a small and reasonable amount, and not taxed to help people live off the government dole if they are physically and mentally able to take care of themselves.
That's right, I don't want the MSM to understand the tea party movement, they are Constitutionally unable to understand ha ha. Any group like the MSM that can make fun of Sarah Palin for having 3 or 4 talking points written on her hand from which she then delivers a long speech, but who think that Barry and his Twin Teleprompters without which he can barely speak a complete sentence are just fine, well, they have to be pretty damn stupid.
I want people in office who respect and follow our Constitution – I'll take someone with THOSE qualifications any day, any time over any politicians no matter how much experience or supposed appeal they otherwise have. If they can't follow our Constitution they are low-class no-class bad characters by definition.
Latte Links (2/9/10)…
Some items of interest, well at least interesting to me . Cato @ Liberty: Senate Health Bill May Violate First Amendment Weekly Standard: Obama Has Learned Nothing by Matthew Continetti First Things – On The Square: The Most Influential Conservative Bo…
Very interesting…and typical DemonKKKratSS.
A lot of things Ron Paul supports I agree with, but he loses me when he starts on his isolationist policies.
I have been saying it for years on the internet and in the news media. It is the Constitution and only that.
All news in the U.S. is nothing more than media-revenue-generating-hype.
All media in the U.S. is nothing more than highly paid empty suit pundits.
All pundits- left, middle and right, have one thing in common: they care about just one thing "me, myself, and I".
As long as a big fat paycheck is involved, these pavlovian pups will forever say or day anything.
Don't believe this, the proof in the pudding…Don't Ask Don't Tell = NBC.
Lucy, do-tell, so sorry, as of yesterday, the Breitbart folks made it clear, us -Article II, Section I, United States Constitution and NBC-educated need not apply.
I'm still at a loss to what anyone means by returning to "CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES". Do we mean return to the original document? As in a roll back the rights of woman and minorities?
Or do we mean to fulfill the promises of the constitution? Is the mission to make certain that all men are created equal and have the right to pursue happiness. If that is the case, where are the tea-parties for gay rights? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't civil rights a big deal to us?
I think the issue we have is tone. How can you expect for people to take us seriously when we are warning of death panels and waving images of the president photoshopped to look like Hitler. The other side isn't an evil insidious organization bent on enslaving middle class Americans. It's people just like you and me with different ideas. They are our friends and neighbors, regardless of who they are or what school of thought they follow they, like us, want to live well and be left alone. Misguided thought they may be, with reason and a little compassion maybe we can find a solution together.
Go on YouTube and find some video of anarchist protest. When you remove the labels of left or right what you are left with is a bunch of unhappy people (waving images of Bush with the Hitler stash) who know they are right and want to take control right now! The trouble, of course, is if they got what they want they wouldn't know what to do.
Judging by your post, I have no idea what to expect if you get power.
A "return to the constitution" doesn't sound like a solution to anything except what to write on a bumper sticker. What are our goals? When we take power, what will we do? What concrete things can we expect?
Well researched article with facts that can be verified, and terrifying. I think everyone needs to pass this on so the truth gets out there.
Good post I will check it out, looks like cause for concern but remember astroturf ain't the same as grass roots.
There's a difference between isolationism and non-interventionism. Pat Buchanan is an isolationist. Ron Paul, like the founders, is more of a non-interventionist.
Has an embargo against Cuba been effective at getting rid of Castro? Embargoes are isolationist because they disallow trade between people in different countries. Sanctions act the same way. Supporting free trade and the exchange of ideas between cultures is the polar opposite of isolationism.
Was Jefferson an isolationist when he said, "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." It seems like most people on the Right today would tar him with that label the same way they do Ron Paul, a guy whose political philosophy is most similar to the late Robert Taft, who was called "Mr. Republican."
That ought to show you how far off the reservation most of the Republican Party has wandered.
Obviously you are one of those who just doesn't get it. Have you ever actually read our Constitution? Do you not realize that it sets forth LIMITED government with strictly ENUMERATED powers? If it's not in there, the Federal government is not allowed to do it. I looked just now, and I didn't read anything that says we must "roll back the rights of woman (sic) and minorities" – can you please show me where that is?
Of course we should not take people seriously who wave images of the President photoshopped to look like Hitler. Were you asleep for 8 years when Bush was President (you know who I mean, "Bush", as in "bushchimphitler", remember that?)?
Do you really believe that we need MORE government, that it isn't already bloated enough? I invite you to take a look at the list of government agencies at http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/...
If that bloated, overweight list of blubber doesn't make you ill and want to throw up, you obviously do not belong in the TPM, LOL!
This article hits the nail on the head. The Republicans and the Democrats have had 150 years to run this country and run it into the ground they have. They are toast.
The Democrats can not come out for the Constitution because they hate the constitution and have niot the solightest idea what it is about. They are the enemy for ever. The Republicans might have a chance at recovery but, I doubt it as they are almost as bad. The Tea Party/Patriot movement is and always has been about The Constitution.
Death to Tyrants
What's your point, bigot?
There is a battle today between progressives that want to destroy our constitution because it stands between them and their socialist utopia and conservatives who believe that man is greedy, lazy and power hungry. if there is not a government in place to control those base instincts, then we will fall victim to what so many governments have fallen for and end up living in a facist state with some group or single dictator telling us to live by their(his) rules.
We are a nation of law, and all those laws stem from our constitution. We have amended it, made it better at times, but the basic document survives, however is under attack. We have lost much of it already, it cannot be weakened further, or America may not survive, at least not as a free people.
You make me laugh …. well, not really.
You have to be some kind of stupid to believe that the majority of your political opponents believe in the young earth theory.
I call the Hackster a statist because he is on record as having said that he believes it's government's role to help the less fortunate and do God's work. In other words, he favors big government social policies to further his religion.
It is following the constitution and looking at history. We believe that if we do not learn from history, then we will surely repeat it. Much of what is happening is just like what happened at the time of the great depression. We did not learn and remember our history. We need to now read frantically to learn how to get out. Spending our way out is only going to prolong it. Reducing spending, cutting taxes stimulate economies. Taking more out for the government, borrowing more money prolong recessions and may cause a disasterous collapse.
You nailed it, Futrell….MSM and Dems don't WANT to know what the Tea Party protesters stand for. They don't WANT to recognize that all we are asking is for our Constitutional liberties and powers to be protected and enforced…not revised. And I say OUR Constitutional liberties and powers because they are just that….OURS. The power behind the American government belongs with the people.
When you have engineers, housewives, retired folks, small business owners, and others who have never participated in a single protest in their entire lives suddenly showing up at local Tea Party protests, the MSM and liberals had better pay attention. We vote in every election (not just the popular ones), we contribute money to politcal campaigns, and we are the Silent Majority. It takes a heck of a lot to get us riled, but Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have managed to wake a sleeping giant and we ARE NOT GOING TO GO BACK TO SLEEP. Get used to it!
I said it before, but until the "Tea Party" folks really read their history and learn that the original Tea Party was a criminal act perpetrated by dedicated men who were willing to TAKE RISKS for their beliefs, the MSM and the Democrats will never get it. Are there any patriots today who will do something beyond talking and donating a few bucks? Someone who will, for example, hijack a day's press run of the Boston Gloat and dump THAT in Boston Harbor? Or start a smear campaign on "Pinch" and his lib cronies at the NYT? Or telling the next typical lin TV interview to go pound sand?
Personally, I think the more they attack the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Conservatives, etc, the more they show their true nature and the more people will be disgusted by their behavior and reject them. Plus, like they always say "Any publicity is good publicity". Their obviously vile, childish attacks only serve to raise awareness of the Tea Party movement and cause people to want to know what it's all about.
You've missed the entire point of what people HATE Ron Paul — Ron Paul reflexively blames America for the problems in the middle east. No, it's not greedy Arab governments, no, not Palis who surround themselves with hate, and it can never be the inhuman teachings of Islam — no, Ron Paul blames America first. That's why he's not presidential material. We don't need another president to go around the world apologizing for what America hasn't done wrong. Screw Ron Paul.
What we need is someone who is willing to address the issues, not assume that someone is stupid because they subscribe to the Young Earth theory. This makes you, as others have said, a bigot. (BTW, I guess you never considered where the Constitution came from, did you? It's form of federalism is directly inspired by the Old Testament and English common law — you know, practiced by hordes and hordes of people who believed the Young Earth theory.) Good night, bigot.
You're concerned with popularity and appearance, not truth. "Depart from me, for I never knew you."
Bing search for Bush-Hitler = 7,120,000 hits
Bing search for Obama – Hitler = 214,000 hits.
RULE 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
It is always interesting when they pick Sarah Palen as their target, she has a knack for shooting back… very accurately!
Sarah Palen takes it all and comes back with a beautiful smile, that has got to be extremely frustrating for the sour-grapes, anti-American, liberals/populists/progressives (I am elite and smart, you are stupid, therefore I will be your master). I hope she keeps on smiling and chopping them up all the while making big bucks and exposing them for the mean-spirited hypocrites they are.
Obama Mocks Christian Faith
http://usataxpayer.org/?0033881580
Obama vs. The Constution of the United States
http://usataxpayer.org/?0046741148
Thanks for the question. The answer is to return to Constitutional principles in the current document. If can be amended, and has been. It was designed that way by the Founders.
Great article, and a great point. The American people want the government (at least the part of America that aint getting a government handout) to return to the principles (err … OK,, in reality the RULES) of the Constitution. One problem though. We are assuming the Progressive/Socialist in charge now know what the Constitution is.
Don't you mean he BLAMES THE GOVERNMENT?
I'm not the government and neither are you. Americans are not their government! For the love of all that is holy, please stop equating blaming the government for problems with blaming America for problems. They're two entirely different things.
Does welfare suck? How about the public education system? Medicare and Medicaid? If you think these things are bad, you are by your own twisted logic "blaming America."
The world is a messed up place full of messed up people. The fact that our government sticks its nose into the hornet's nest just because it thinks it can and should doesn't make it smart or right. And pointing out that stupidity doesn't make one a "blame America firster."
Get a new line of argument. You're using the same tired line of thinking that drives every statist.
What some of us "teabagger" types want is for bigjouralism.com to stop running hit pieces
on the "birther" issue which has it's very root in upholding the constitution
and for folks like Breitbart and Glenn Beck to stop throwing "teabaggin" "birthers" under the bus. It's a big tent folks and there weren't a whole lot of Tea Party activist interested in the facts behind the said constitutional eligibility of the TOTUS, oops sorry I meant "POTUS" (get those two confused sometimes), then you can be sure the organizers of the Tea Party National would not have invited Joseph Farah to speak.
A soccer Mom who is a part of the Silent Majority… we are not going Back to Sleep … and we also are educating our young… my 18 year is ready to vote these knuckleheads.. out of office.. I am telling everyone I know to read your site…
Keep up the good fight…
Is Obama Eligible?
This should be a no-brainer, produce the birth certificate so that document experts can examine it and end of story. Unfortunately it is not the end. The Obama Administration claims to have put his birth certificate on the Internet for examination by all. What they posted was a document that had obviously been photo-shopped, and not a very good job at that. ALL AMERICANS SHOULD BE INTERESTED, is this man, who is enacting huge changes to our society, actually eligible to be president.
Obama is in charge of the most powerful military force in the world. OBAMA HAS THE POWER TO START A NUCLEAR WAR with the push of a button, WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYONE. It would seem prudent to check him out.
Video – Is Obama Eligible?
http://usataxpayer.org/?0070027258
Is Obama Eligible?
http://usataxpayer.org/?0053487342
It might be my "handle"… I'm in no way a Mike Huckabee supporter and think he would make a terrible president. Ron Paul is the kind of guy you want as an advisor. I like him a lot. But I wouldn't want him running the show.
That's right. Hold each elected SERVANT accountable. No more BS.
OT-I encourage you all to show up at rallies/meetings with notes on your "Green Palm Pilots". I was thinking it could say "We the People".
Agreed. But we aren't going to be able to right this ship as fast as we would like. Patience & perseverance.
Governing pursuant to the Constitution, while deemed political suicide by most politicians and not fashionable by most people, would put this country back on he track to fiscal and moral supremacy. Not a very tasty medicine but neccessary if we wish to survive as a sovereign nation.
Oops, correction: "and if there weren't"
Looks like a troll but I'll bite…
Where did you find "gay rights" in the constitution?
The whining gays claim they only want the same rights as everyone else. THAT'S A LIE, if it were true there would be no need to change the law. On top of demanding special privileges, they also want to force society to accept their disgusting, deviant life-style as normal.
No one is born gay, we are ALL born either male or female. It is a DESIRE! Why should our laws give special privileges to a desire? A perverted desire at that. Other perverted desires are gay bashing, and pedophilia, should we legalize those too?
What's next? Incestual marriage, Polygamy? Pedophilia? Bestiality, Marry your mom? Marry your daughter? Marry a Goat? Marry a tree?
Perversion Being Taught in Public Schools!
http://usataxpayer.org/?0039156365
There is Nothing Gay About It…
http://usataxpayer.org/?0068297850
I see what you are saying, but I think that it has not been so much "back and forth" as it has been 3 steps forward, one step back. Slowly we have been walking away from our Constitution for a long time now, but what was an outrageously bold move to the left a few years ago has now become accepted common practice today.
Thank you fantum, maybe I'm not a "conspiracy nut" after all as some around here would have me believe. I might add that Joseph Farahs speech at the Tea Party National was very important for reasons other than "birtherism".
Watch the whole thing here:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/Tea_Party_Convention_20...
Thank you, Joel. I agree totally. Hey Breitbart and Beck, I boldy QUESTION YOU on why you won't cover legitimate questions about the usurper in the W.House!
Joel M. you are right this is America by God, and you are certainly entitled to speak your mind. I am in no way even disputing your clain as a matter of fact lats say,
Young Earth Theory?
Is that wiccan or something?
I'm sure that the lefties don't believe in the young earth theory.
If they did, it would show another example of how their educational system is a complete failure.
Birther questions comes with T-Party which means just matter of time before we get aswers one way or the other, but obama had better make up his mind quickly because its on the table now. if he doesnt volunteer the info it will be forced out from authorities.
I read Drew's comment and others. And I'm still not clear what you mean by Constitutional Principles. Which Principles? Some websites report the Constitution as having the principles of Separation of Powers, Federalism, Checks and Balances and Judicial Review. Don't we still have them? Heck, it's judicial review that gets a lot of people angry!
Wow!! I like that and have to consider that it would be swell for a moment or two but ultimately…??? but still it is great for now…thanks!!
One step at a time. No use in critizing the movement because it isn't perfect.
100 % agreement with your sentiments. The real battles are going to be local in the future after this train wreck is stopped.
Such a leader as Obama, who stated that the Constitution tells us everything we can't do, so I'm going to see if I can see what it can do by ignoring it. We understand you elitists twits all to well. Thanks, but no thanks.
Exactly how I feel about him.
To Obamunists, the Constitution is getting to be more of an annoyance than they had expected.
We must fight Obamunism
every second
of every day
at every step of the way.
The point is to WIN BACK THIS COUNTRY, not just to do something illegal or outrageous.
Winning is what counts here.
Obamunism poses the greatest threat to the future of this great nation since the civil war.
Seriously? You haven't been speaking with true Tea Party folks then. I do agree that we shouldn't excercise control over the rest of the World, and last time I checked, we don't. We offer military and financial aid to other countries. And we protect our own security, on foreign soil, so we can prevent attacks on our soil. We do not make policy in other countries. We are getting to the point economically where we won't be able to afford to help other Countries. When Countries are in trouble they look to us.
Yeah, it's similar to how the harmless pro-life Super Bowl ad starring Tim Tebow and his mom revealed how "pro-choice" feminists really are freedom hating femi-nazis. Hence, those who support Roe v. Wade are now less bold about their true feelings.
The attack against Tea Party patriots like yours truly are resulting in the same backlash against the Left overall.
Instead the Left believes in man-made global warming (aka neo-paganism) despite all the recent blizzards in the US.
The idea that man can control the weather as much as God does is a lot more crazy than believing men and dinosaurs co-existed at one time.
Amen to that.
Actually, in the eyes of the Obama administration, exercising your constitutional rights to free speech and peaceful assembly is a crime. Recall that early last year, the head of HOMELAND SECURITY branded Tea Party Patriots as "terrorists."
So, it does take guts to join a protest or send money for a conservative, pro-Constitution candidate.
WE THE PEOPLE – every time I see those words I want to scream them at the top of my lungs. Notice the founders did not write; "WE THE PINKO COMMIE POLITICIANS." We are coming for them and that day cannot come soon enough.
Ahh what do we have here?
Oh, oh, I know… a pseudo intellectual…
Thanks for the link hadn't seen that before.
No matter how much I read, watch, and listen I still can't keep up with all of the attacks waged against us. But I'll do my best and with the help of sites like this someday the country will be back on track. Hopefully in November we'll take a big step forward.
Thanks for that. Very interesting what lengths they will go to. If they weren't worried about "We the People", I doubt they would go to that much trouble and $$$. They have the unions, but their time is limited. We may not have the money, (i.e. Soros, etc.) but we will use our power and voice to inform the "uninformed" and vote. They cannot shut us up, and we are not going away……..every again.
Precisely. The Tea Party should not have a leader.
http://rockportconservatives.blogspot.com/2010/02...
That was "ghost", ladies & gentlemen!
Isn't he great, folks?
Let's give him a hand!
May I suggest the book "A Patriot's History of the United States" I'm picking up a copy in the morning for myself. I heard about it on Glenn Becks show.
Good article and some very good comments thanks to all.
I would recommend "The 5000 Year Leap", also suggested by Mr. Beck.
AMEN!
The current Repubs(RINOS) must realize that the Teaparty folks are the rebirth of the "FoundingFathers" and to minimize their importance and influence, will take the Republicans farther downhill then the McCain Express ever could…
We must take the Republicans where they need to go in order to win…Real Conservativism wins every time it's tried…..and Sarah must distance herself physically from the "TeaPartiers", as she becomes the big beautiful target the Regressives are looking for….
"RULE 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
The liberal statists relentlessly attack Sarah Palin for just about everything she does or says. Why? Rule 13. They are setting Palin up as the de facto "leader" of the TPM for the sole purpose of using her as a target. And a target that they know that they can destroy because they've done it before.
Even though most of us have a great deal of fondness for Gov. Palin, polls show that fondness is not shared by a large percentage of the American people; Palin is one of the few Republicans who does NOT win in a hypothetical 2012 matchup against Obama. So it is in the Dems best interest to "promote" her into the frontrunner position for the GOP in 2012.
I think the world of Sarah Palin; I only voted for McCain because she was on the ticket. But I also think she can better serve the TPM as a thought leader and a rallying point than as a candidate. She is too easily beaten with a single word: quitter. I know she had her reasons and they were good ones; she had a choice between being labeled a quitter or being the governor who had to declare personal bankruptcy, so she chose the path that was better for her family. But politics is a cruel business (especially the politics of personal destruction perfected by the Left) and it never forgets or forgives (unless one is a Democrat, of course). But it would have been no different for her if she had taken the other path.
All of that notwithstanding, we on the Right should not let the Left choose our candidates, regardless who they may be. I don't know who the right person is for 2012. I suspect it will turn out to be someone that no one has even mentioned to this point. But I don't think it will be, or should be, Sarah Palin.
Agreed.
Lots of political types looking for some safe shelter.
Wasn't that ever so eloquent – Gibbs, White House spokesman, doing the same hand writing mocking thing?
Gibbs, mocking someone? We have children in our White House, and I don't mean Barry's girls.
I agree with almost everything in all of these comments. Except which party you elude too. They also belittle the "birthers as well as the 2nd Amendment folks. You cannot call yourself a PATRIOT and then pick and choose which Constitutional Amendments you want to follow. We are speaking of the US CONSTITUTION here. 500,000 AMERICANS have asked for "REDRESS OF GRIEVANCE" about Obambi's birth certificate or lack thereof. That of course is from the 1st Amendment to our beautiful Constitution. All the scum in Washington the (D)istrict of (C)orruption who have taken an OATH to support and defend this sacred document are by definition lying to GOD.
OATH – a solemn appeal to GOD, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise. Further they are breaking "Federal law" TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 79 > § 1621
§ 1621. Perjury. It's time for the CONSTITUTION PARTY to step up and GIVE BACK control to the true highest office in the land THAT OF CITIZEN. Tea party patriots should blow off the other two parties like the self serving vermin they are.
Agreed. The Tea Party needs to agree on those principles to go forward. Media doesn't get it.
Equal rights are equal rights. PERIOD
We don't need to hear from ANYBODY about how they are more…….. "special"
How can it be that the journalists and commentators of the MSM don't understand the Tea Party. None of the statements or messages are given in any foreign language or Latin, but in plain, American English. One has to suppose that all these very brainy Ivy – League graduates can at least understand, if not apparently speak, that language which those "ordinary" Americans manage very well.. This might explain their inability to understand the base of the Tea Party .As the Constitution of the USA is also written in plain English, and therefore understandable in words and meaning to those "ordinary" Americans. But the MSM as the instruments of the Congress, elite academies and subversives in and out of politics whose purpose is and has been within the past 40 years at least, to act as if the Constitution is only an nsignificant letter of intent and therefore can be ignored and managed as of litte importance could not be expected to understand that is is the BASIS of the American Republic. But Saul Alinsky and his ilk did understand and therefore…his manipulations of the "best and the brightest" of America.
I believe those are the principles of the Libertarian Party. If only more people would investigate, they would happily join, as I recently did, and the Libertarian Party would lead us back to the Constitution.
Even those in the movement have not recognized the main point — returning to the U.S. Constitution and founders' principles; due to the dumbing down of the gov.-run education system, the revisionists who deny our history, the younger generation who have not been educated in our history. My belief is that, yes return to constitutional principles but the angry sleeping giant must be educated to the "why" they are angry and frustrated.
I understand your concern with our non-isolationist foreign policy, but he Founders didn't have ICBMs to worry about back in the late 1700's. LIMITED government, but one which CAN raise funds and and an army, and also deploy those troops wherever and whenever needed is imperative.
We would do well to elect wiser, less selfish people to represent us and then, request that they develop a more sensible policy regarding deployment.
No offense 'drew' but wha exactly do you mean 'roll back the rights of women and minorities' comment? What does that mean? The rights of women and minorities will always be protected by the Constitution. However, the rights of the individual is what's being destroyed today. When liberals speak of 'rights of women and minorities' what they really mean is to lump everyone into a 'group' and therefore individualism is crushed. Liberals/statists do not look at Americans as 'individuals'…they look at Americans as 'groups' or 'categories' so as to exploit the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…there is no such thing as 'individual rights' according to the liberal/statist. They must first get you to think of yourself as a 'group' that is oppressed (gays, minorities, single mothers, hurricane Katrina survivors, etc) so you are nothing more than a voting block constituency to them and that is why they are scared to death of 'individuals' to think for themselves.
The lefties believe that Progressivism will solve all of mankinds problems, despite the repeated historical examples which prove that it only delivers misery, mass murder, oppression and ruin of economies. Talk about being stuck in a failing mindset!
Let's give him the back of our hands.
Maybe he will snap out of his dream.
The folks responsible for the "Obama Hitler" posters were LaRouche supporters. They have about as much to do with the "TEA Party" movement as Rachel Maddow has to do with Refinement School.
As for the rest of your 1st paragraph, the President consistently and repeatedly makes his opponents out to be objects of ridivule, shows no interest in working with anyone who isn't already on board with his agenda, and the same can be said of the Democrats generally. Liberals in the media are an unpleasant and coarse bunch, and, like the example shown by Al Qaeda, if the rank and fikle of the populace says nothing, it is presumed that they agree with the methods.
Please do a little more research, read more Breitbart-linked artivles on what's going on.
Yesterday, in Suffolk county New York, another blow was struck to the Establishment.
The "TEA Party" candidate, Dean Murray, won the 3rd district assembly seat against Lauren Thoden, an ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Teachers' Union-backed candidate.
Thoden had government-provided ACORN funds, union funds, and a group of long-connected volunteers working for her. She was able to run campaign ads on TV.
Murray had volunteers from the local 9/12 groups, The Conservative Society for action, and other individuals who want a return to limited government and fiscal sanity. They donated whatever money they could.
Again, the "TEA Party" candidate beat the ACORN/AFL-CIO candidate.
Doubters and scoffers, enjoy the bitter taste and we look forward to serving up more real soon.
DON't TREAD ON US!
Its only common sense. However I am not suprise that the left wrestle and struggle with it as they are sure it must be something more, seeing as they (the left) know what is best for us and can't we simple everyday hard working americans see that and just hand over our paychecks and say thank you.
I attended a meeting on Monday night regarding the Constitution. I did not know how far our country had come from the principles of that fine document. I am joining with others to be sure that all of our representatives know their responsibilities and commitment to uphold the Constitution. Democrat or Republican, I want that document revived. This country's future depends on it.
Not a big deal, and sorta OT, but you don't 'read Mandarin Chinese.' Mandarin (like Cantonese, Taiwanese, Shanghainese, etc." is a spoken dialect of written Chinese. While there are unique words to each dialect that might influence the words someone chooses to write, in general, written Chinese is consistent across the dozens of different Chinese dialects. Good article though. Sorry to nitpick.
I wonder how many people realize exactly what a return to following the US Constitution would mean. While many might believe that the Leviathan State only emerged as a consequence of President Roosevelt and the Great Depression, I believe that a serious rollback of governmental usurpation of authority it never had would probably require a return to the kind of limited government we had before Abraham Lincoln became president although I have no doubt that many would be satisfied with a pre-Wilsonian Federal system. My guess is that at least half of the cabinet offices would have to be chucked [e.g., Education, Commerce, Energy, Transportation, HHS, etc.] along with at least half the people working for the Federal government. The dislocation would be massive but eventually quite salutary in all likelihood, especially when combined with a low tax, low regulatory state of affairs. I have my doubts whether I will ever truly see a return to limited government in my lifetime. But this is what I devoutly hope for as this is the only change I could believe in.
Personally, I think it's time to start talking about Tea Party Democrats in addition to Republicans. As far as I can tell, the Tea Party is essentially Libertarian in philosophy and I think we can pick off quite a few Democrats (the old Reagan Democrats) as well.
I thought that the Tea Party movement was not 100% aligned with any political party, that it focused on values which transcend the traditional parties.
It shows just how hard-headed the leftist/statists are when it comes to Palin. They just can't grasp that you don't target someone who can take out a moose at 200 yards while wearing stockings and high-heels.
Racist!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. In the era of Obamunism, anyone who calls for less government is going to be subject to all kinds of smears.
Good description, but you could replace the word "democrat" for "republican" and the article would make the same sence.
maybe just a little troll in my last post
Obviously we have different views on this specific issue. Views that aren't going to change with a simple internet discussion. In my short time on earth I've developed a different feeling toward homosexuality than you hold. I feel that somene chooses to be a homosexual as much as someone chooses to be left handed.
I see Americans (doctors, neighbors, friends, co-workers, soldiers) who feel like they are being given less than equal treatment. That is my point, there are American citizens who feel like they aren't getting the same civil rights as other American citizens. What confuses me is that allowing committed adults to form a state sanctioned union so they can be better members of society seems like a conservative ideal, family, community, etc.
You are right, there is no "gay rights" in the constitution. There shouldn't be, no one should be more special than anyone else, but they don't believe they are on the same level. If two American citizens want to marry under the law, why discriminate? But thats the problem isn't it?
I see gays as just another variation on the American citizen, where you see them much differently.
Less than fifty years ago it was unlawful for whites and blacks to marry. Now we are going to open it up to same sex couples, and yes it will be a slippery slope, and yes we will continue to disagree. Thats the price we pay for ensuring that all me are created equal.
Here's a clue: "Get off my back and out of my pocket",
American A and American B can marry under the law. American C and American D can't.
C and D are same sex. They seem to have less rights, not more.
I'll believe this the day Ron Paul tells an Islamic terrorist where to stick it, and then do something about it! All I heard from Ron Paul, no matter your apologist rhetoric of the guy, is how bad it was to go to war in Iraq. He sounded no different than a Democrat on that issue and therefore lost my and many other Republican's vote.
Wel said. I think Sarah is a great lightning rod for stirring up the angst in liberals. Let them continue to spew their venom until a true candidate emerges … and I don't mean Huckabee, Romney, McCain, or Newt.
I'm waiting for someone or some prominent group to propose a few constitutional amendments. First, that authority over abortion law should be returned to the states; Second, to affirm that questions of marriage qualifications (gay marriage included) belong to the states; Third, that the federal budget must be balanced each year except for a few stated contingencies. I believe the Tea Party movement could use these proposed amendments as a rallying point and the Republicans could rally around them the way Newt's class of 1994 rallied around their Contract for America. But moreover, the passing of Amendments to the Constitution re-legitimizes that document and returns it to the place it held in the country before its usurpation by activist courts and negligent legislators.
I'll take a Young Earth advocate over an Obamabot Statist any day. Its the Phd group of losers that are tearing the Constitution apart anyway. Why should I trust today's educated when they are such idiots to common sense? The "enlightenment" was about self-education and knowledge and not self-adulation and degrees.
Two more reasons why the U.S. Constitution is so grand: it's short and sweet!
It's the SHORTEST and OLDEST written constitution still in use by any nation on Earth today!
Maybe we should follow these words of wisdom????
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you are not patriotic and we should stand up and say we ARE Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with ANY administration”. Hillary R. Clinton
So, if we agree as Tea Partiers to follow this philosophy, will they finally understand? Just sayin……
I leaned toward the LP – until I met some of its members.
Whenever Howard Stern is one of the most sane-seeming members of a group, that group has issues.
many too polite to demand oBungler prove his birthplace.
teaparty is gonna force it out of him or force our Judicial system to dig and give us answers that make sense.
this is a teaparty priority so if anyone thinks this is a dead issue they are mistaken bigtime.
Very insightful article. I hadn't thought about the part you brought up relatively to a grass-roots movement being "Alinsky-proof."
You know, I looked up the oath I took to become a citizen 53 years ago, and it included this:
"…that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.."
The thesis of this article is the reason that, early on, the left fought, successfully, to shut up anyone who dared say Oborgman and the Democrats’ agenda are unamerican. This is the crux of the issue and they didn’t want to fight on that terrain because they’d lose. Now, if you include the sharp left turn over the last 100 years as “american” then these traitors are “american” in a sense. But, if you think of “american” as the founding principles of individual liverty and as little government as necessary to protect it, then these traitors are indeed unamerican. We shouldn;t be intimidated from calling them unamerican anymore. We’ll see which version of american wins out. But we shouldn’t be afraid to sharply define the term american in the founding sense and then note that they are unamerican.
They know it. They don't like the restrictions on their power represented in the document, and they also know that many of the electorate don't know the Constitution, or the principles or history behind it.
You can expect a reduction in the size of the Federal Government, especially dissolution of the Department of Energy, founded to create energy independence and a failure, and dissolution of the Department of Education, founded for ?? and since created, education has deteriorated, and dissolution of Health and Human Services, who finances child trafficking by state governments and promotes violent government supervision and intervention in issues best decided by individual families.
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Less government, more peace and prosperity, lower taxes, more freedom.
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You have to understand the gay agenda, they need government recognition of gay marriage so they can use Child protective Services to steal children from families.
You are welcome to change the law.
Gay marriage really isn't about the Wedding though is it?
Your premise is flawed. Jefferson had Washington's backing in the First Barbary war. A war to protect our economic interests abroad. How is our foreign policy any different now?
If A = man, B = woman and C = man, and D = man then C and D have the same right as A period. You see they have the same right; A can't marry A and B can't marry B and thus C can't marry D as C and D are the same as A. They just want something A doesn't.
Yeah, but it was bad to go into Iraq, and that's the point that's lost on so many folks on the Right. The whole thing was driven by this mindset that we could get rid of Saddam and, therefore, that we should get rid of Saddam. But the government can do any number of things, and that doesn't make it any more smart or right just because the government has money and power (well, power anyway).
Just because the government can do something doesn't mean it should. When stripped down to its bones, that is a liberal concept.
Reagan never would have gone into Iraq, and Republicans know that deep down in their hearts. The Soviet Union presented a problem that was exponentially more dangerous than the threat we faced from Saddam, even the threat we face from Islamic radicals. It's not as if Islamic terrorism didn't exist when Reagan was in office. Remember, he's the guy that pulled our troops out of Lebanon after the barracks were bombed. He realized the irrationality of that entire region and wanted no part of it.
Incidentally, if you still support staying in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely, you sound no different than Barack Obama.
I'm wondering if Mr. Obama is wishing he paid more attention to this part of his Civics/US Constitution classes.
We have 700 to 800 bases around the world, with military personnel in more than 150 countries. We use our troops to train other countries' militaries, to act as "peace-keepers," and to respond to natural disasters on the other side of the globe. That is so far removed from what the founders intended that it's ridiculous.
If you really think we have the same underlying philosophy regarding foreign policy as the founders, you must not have paid much attention during your high school history class.
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I'm an "ordinary Joe": blue collar, veteran, not a college grad. However, I read extensively. I have read, and still re-read the works of philosophers such as Locke, Mill, Hobbes, Jefferson, Voltaire, Socrates, and Plato as well as scientists like Agassiz, Leakey, Skinner and Hawking. I also read George Hayduke.
If the crooked bastards currently operating our political system won't clean up their act, I, and those like me, will.
So beautifully said "We want a return to Constitutional Principles" You politicians and media on the left can search all you want for the leader but you will never understand. This is the people taking back their country. This is the people usinf the most powerful weapon they have the "Secret Ballot". This country belongs to "AMERICAN CITIZENS" AND THEY WANT IT BACK AND THEY WANT POLITICIANS TO ABIDE BY THE "CONSTITUTION"
A focus on constitutional principles/values will result in the re-education of the electorate and the reform of the existing political parties, a task of great importance if the republic is to survive.
The Republic under the Constitution doesn't require political parties at all, but must have an informed and involved electorate.
If the federal government is reduced to its intended role, it seems to me that foreign policy issues will gradually reduce to those truly in our best interest.
Let's be serious, folks.
There would be no "tea party" if a black man were not in the White House.
And entering through the front door, rather than the servants' entrance.
As a student or as a teacher?
He has publicly stated his belief the Constitution limits the central government too much.
Agreed. A truly limited government is forced to limit itself to what is truly necessary.
I see where your coming from, but "A" doesn't want to have anything to do with C and D. C and D just want what A and B can have.
I agree with you that there shouldn't be distinctions. The government should see me as an individual, not as a gender or part of a group. I don't think it is a a problem that persists in only one political group of ideology though. My point is that we are all americans, we should work together, not just to further our own group. The author's saying what the tea party really wants, but return to the constitution is so vague. Obviously I don't share all of your views, but I don't want to just write the "tea party" off, I don't want to shut your ideas out.
A political partymay be useful as an organized issue advocacy group of limited purpose and time.
What must be embraced are the timeless principles of freedom and responsibility without which the Constitution is meaningless.
Good to know about the LaRouche.
I don't see Obama's actions the same way you do. I see him reaching out for input and not seeing anything but no, no, no in return. Granted that is a bit of a talking point, and perhaps I'm not paying close enough attention. It just doesn't seem like there are any other solid policy ideas, its all ideas and broad concepts (lower taxes, public option, etc.). I want to see someone say "I want to do THIS, THIS, and THIS. Here is why…".
Frankly I don't think any of our leaders are on the level with us, aside from a select few.
Your right, I do need to do more research. I'd appreciate some suggested reading.
While I agree to a point that the government is bloated and there is lots that could be removed I also believe that running a nation is a complex thing to do. I would like to live in a place where I didn't have to deal with all this bureaucratic b.s., but I also want water, electricity, my trash picked up, that the food I eat is safe, the toys children play with don't have lead, etc, etc, etc.
I don't see TPM suggesting that we reform, it seems like ya'll want to just cut everything out (apart from defense). Is there a general idea of what fat you want to cut out? What steps you would like to see taken to achieve this?
Constitution? What Constitution? Oh, you mean that piece of dead paper that the Progressives wanted to make it alive; a living Constitution ( a Zombie?) to keep up with the time, or otherwise be rewritten.
As far as I can see, the Tea Parties' goal is to take over the Republican Party in the primaries, then knock off the Democrats in the general. So the Tea Parties are not good for the Republican old guards. They are not inclined to support the leadership against their own beliefs because they were not supported by the leadership in their election. In fact those who are supported by the Republican establishment are tainted, and are doomed to at least a contentious primary.
And what did all those bush-hitler people get done? I'm saying that it didn't work for them, it wont work for us. When I see protesters like code pink I see dedicated people who believe very strongly in something, but ultimately aren't making any difference. They are mocked by the right and largely ignored by anyone on the left not trying to get their vote.
Right, see that sounds absolutely insane. I live in a big city, know plenty of gays and that doesn't seem like something they are in to.
As far as I know there are already police in America.
Who's on first?????
Aside from being fed up with the reckless and unconstitutional acts of the government, people distrust both parties because both parties have failed them. They also distrust the “elites” with Ivy League education because they are the scoundrels who got us into this mess.
Your point is well taken: The Tea Party doesn’t need a leader in the traditional sense. Various people are needed to coordinate the gatherings (”meetings” denotes too much structure for the assemblies I have attended), however the people I have met at Tea Party events have an innate sense of justice and they know that big government leads to tyranny. They don’t need any leader to tell them right from wrong.
Finally, as far as the snarky comments about the Tea Party consisting of nothing but the great unwashed masses, currently emanating from the left-wing pundits, I am an attorney (we’re not all lefties) and at the last Tea Party I attended the guy standing next to me was a doctor. I would reather associate with these people than any politician or journalist.
WE THE PEOPLE!
To paraphrase: "It's the Constitution, stupid."
[...] *It’s the Constitution, Stupid: What the TEA partiers really want, by Ron Futrell. [...]
Small government, of, for and by the people. Is that to complicated for you! If so, try France.
yeah I'm lost now.
drew,you wrote",I feel that somene(sic) chooses to be a homosexual as much as someone chooses to be left handed. "The same argument can be made for schizophrenia.They are born that way.Should they be given the right to listen to the voices in their head to murder?After all,they were born that way.
Err, those are things best dealt with at the local level. Let's leave them there and let the federal gov't just deal their constitutionally defined powers.
You’re absolutely correct. It’s about THE CONSTITUTION
And Andrew Breitbart says the idea of Obama not being CONSTITUTIONALLY ELIGIBLE for office is a crock.
Look to your own house.
CLEAN your own house.
listen up Drew…If you actually read the thing you will see there are amendments in the Constitution o address the inequities you are concerned about.
1 – C and D will NEVER have what A and B can have. Or, to be more precise, a homosexual couple will NEVER develop the love and "oneness" that is only available to a heterosexual couple sealed together within the bonds of matrimony.
2 – The "gay marriage" farce is NOT a civil rights issue. I, as a heterosexual male cannot marrying another heterosexual male either. Homosexuality is a BEHAVIOR, and civil rights cannot be hidden, denied, or turned on or off – think skin color, gender…
3 – By continuing to favor my left hand, because I was born with a predisposition to do so, doesn't automatically place me in a demographic that has a MUCH higher rate of HIV infection, suicide, promiscuity, self-destruction, etc.
Thx so much…. I'm still lol over the 'what an idiot…' Timed and written with extreme grace. Thx again, I can't stop laughing….
True that, but he sure as hell can't plead ignorance, as he was a Constitutional Law Professor at Chicago University
Precisely.
The Obama-Hitler signs were traced to the LaRouche people. As in Far Left.
No they want something different. They want society to think of them as normal; or the same as a heterosexual couple when that hasn't ever happened before in history.
we need to read the constitution so that we know what we are standing for here is a link to read: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constit...
James Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute wrote a compelling and intellectual piece regarding the 7 principles for free government. I encourage BJ readers to check out the article and share it with others.
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary….
"These seven vital principles have been largely forgotten in recent years, obscured by the haze of a centralized government, a citizenry that no longer thinks analytically, and schools that don’t adequately teach our young people about their history and their rights. Yet here’s the rub: while Americans wander about oblivious in their brainwashed states, their “government of the people, by the people and for the people” is being taken away from them." John Whitehead
They will get it when we are controlled by the "New World Order" better known as the "One-World Government" planned for and backed by the elitist EU. These sheeples will believe any lie that is presented to them, but cannot accept the Truth when it is staring them in the face. So, they will believe the lie that the evil one presents to them, believing that they are going to have utopia on earth, only to find out too late they have been tricked, and now they will be confined to "hell on earth prepared for them by man" who has convinced them there is no GOD. One has to wonder why if those who say they do not believe in GOD spend so much time trying to disprove him and blaming him every time something bad happens in the world. Wisdom comes from the Bible, GOD's Holy Word, and those of us who read and understand Prophecy know how this is all going to end in the not to distant future. When the real KING returns he is going to make "Shock and Awe" look like a cakewalk.
My bad: his name is John Whitehead, not James.
"The Democrats and their activist old media"
Wow. The author of this 'article' must watch a lot of Fox news. Claiming that the tea partiers want to go back to the constitution is outright false. For example, they're overwhelmingly against the separation of church and state, which the constitution establishes.
You don't know anything they don't. They just don't agree with you.
Big Govt Bush line and you took it hook, line, and sinker. "And we protect our own security, on foreign soil, so we can prevent attacks on our soil." Do you have any IDEA how many times this has been used by governments throughout history? And you're buying? Wow, what a fiery independent you are!
Some of us live in the real world and realize that your God is only in your imagination. Reality is great, you should try it sometime. FSM FTW, Ramen!
Everyone here sounds crazy, you wonder why you guys get mocked
I've seen yer so called "protests" bunch of carzies with elemenets of racism thrown into the mixed and crazy religous nuts, and cant you see those racists groups are using you guys to go mainstream?
Its sad USA politics is so crazy…. oh well at least theres daily show for sanity and comedy out of it all.
Crazies*
[...] I think Ron Futrell has been reading the Classic Lib! [...]
I respectfully disagree. We would not have a Tea Party Movement if the government were not expanding exponentially out of control, bankrupting our society for generations to come, and stripping us progressively of our God-given rights as human beings. We would not have a Tea Party Movement if our government were not tacking rapidly to a Communist persuasion, getting further and further from the anchor of the Constitution. Is Barack Obama black? I hadn't noticed. I can't see through his Red cloak.