Tea Party Avoids Divisive Social Issues
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: March 12, 2010
For decades, faith and family have been at the center of the conservative movement. But as the Tea Party infuses conservatism with new energy, its leaders deliberately avoid discussion of issues like gay marriage or abortion.
God, life and family get little if any mention in statements or manifestos. The motto of the Tea Party Patriots, a large coalition of groups, is “fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.” The Independence Caucus questionnaire, which many Tea Party groups use to evaluate candidates, poses 80 questions, most on the proper role of government, tax policy and the federal budgeting process, and virtually none on social issues....
Anyway, back to the airy-fairy philosophizing tomorrow.
Confusing the tea party sympathizers and the way the MSM portrays the "Tea Party" is a grievous mistake, unless one aims only to denigrate others as "crackers" or "Christers" or whatever the cool kids on the "left" are calling them these days.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's why I posted it even if it's from the-- ::adopts Nixon voice:: --goddamn Jew York Times!
ReplyDeleteRope and lasso. You have to catch the calves in order to brand them.
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