| rocketpig said: I'm a moderate Libertarian in my early 30s and I have to say this is the most frightening political movement I've seen in my lifetime. Their views, while often masked in the shroud of individual rights, have a pretty insidious subtext. A few of them are for the removal of separation between church and state (Ken Buck - CO), not knowing the basic tenets of the First Amendment (O'Donnell - DE), and the ever-batshit-crazy Sarah Palin heading the charge. On top of this, there have been accusations of racism within the party and some of the gay-bashing has gone off the charts (before reeling back the rhetoric in lights of a sympathetic public after all the recent suicides) In short, I can't believe people are getting behind this movement, even though on a base level, I agree with some of what they're saying. It's like they took everything bad about the GOP and magnified it instead of coming to the middle on social issues to meet the majority. I'm curious to know what some of the other Libertarians and Conservatives on this board think of the Tea Party. |
WTF are you talking about! There have never been substantiated proof of racism. But there was a pair of libs at a rally pretending to be tea party members acting racist. And connecting the gay bashing to the tea party is foolish as these were collage students and gang members doing the bashing.
And the people who have strayed from the middle as you call it are Libs like president Obama. Man paranoia
