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Title: Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement?
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Published: Aug 17, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-08-17 14:35:41 by tom007
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Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement? Grace Wyler | Aug. 17, 2011, 10:49 AM | 3,325 | 64 A A A inShare tea party See Also: the response america PRAYERAPALOOZA: Photos From Rick Perry's Rally To Save The American Economy rick perry iowa state fair Here Are 9 Things GOP Presidential Frontrunner Rick Perry Believes Horse Race HE'S OFF! Rick Perry Jumps To Double-Digit Lead Over Romney, Bachmann In New Poll If you thought the Tea Party was a product of GOP masterminds or the Great Recession, think again. In an op-ed in today's New York Times, big-name political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell examine the origins of the Tea Party movement. Turns out, it is basically just the latest iteration of the Christian Right. According to Putnam and Campbell, next to being a Republican, the best predictor of a Tea Partier was the desire to see more religion in politics: "Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government." As Putnam and Campbell point out, the religious inclination of the movement explains why disapproval of the Tea Party is actually on the rise — even as Americans have grown slightly more fiscally conservative as a whole, they have become more opposed to mixing God and politics. A recent NYT/CBS poll revealed that 40% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party, compared to just 18% in April 2010. Meanwhile, Tea Party supporters have slipped from 21% to 20% in the same period. The Tea Party ranks lower than Republicans, Democrats, "Muslims," and "atheists." The only group with the same degree of unpopularity is the Christian Right. This indicates that 2012 GOP presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will have to walk a fine line to win the hearts of the party's all-important evangelical primary voters, while assuring the broader conservative base that their real focus is on shrinking the size and spending of the federal government. DON'T MISS: 10 New Evangelical Powerbrokers Of The Christian Right Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Grace Wyler on Twitter. Ask Grace A Question > Read more: www.businessinsider.com/w...ment-2011-8#ixzz1VJQDbNXI
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
/s Yeppers - that's the message I took from The Prince of Peace.
Oh, just dandy. I worked Amy Grant in Chicago once. They were nice people, but stupid as a storm. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Actually it was a bit more sophisticated than this article lets on. First of all the Tea Party is not synonymous with the (((((SHUDDER!!!!!))))) Christian Right. Somehow I don't think Suzie Quattro qualifies as "Christian Right". The Tea Party began as a genuine populist movement bordering on a revolt against the stench of business as usual i.e., the raping, without lubrication, of the American People by a small coterie of the well connected. Just following events as they evolved the Tea Party was a self organizing activity of disparate groups whose only common denominator was disgust and outrage at the actions of a perverse and corrupt government. While they did not all agree on every issue there was unity in their demand to end the corruption. The elite banksters, and their pet psychs, appear to have regarded such an outpouring as a threat to their power and so they moved to insert their own leadership into the Tea Party by foisting off such controlled assets as Sarah, the tits that walk, Palin, and Glenn, blowjobs for Israel, Dreck into prominence in an attempt to takeover the Tea Party. While their agents never truly succeeded in taking over they were able to shatter its unity of purpose and break up the Tea Party movement into different camps. Thus they blunted its push and effectiveness. This then allowed for the lamestream Presstitutes to move in and begin with the false labeling characterizing the Tea Party, made up of ordinary Americans upset with government corruption and cronyism, as an (((((DOUBLE SHUDDER!!!!!))))) EXTREMIST group of kooks. The surface appearance is now that it is just another NeoCon operation, but it did not begin that way - it was perverted into it.
Don't buy the PsyOps. The purpose of painting the Tea Party with a broad brush is to plaster an unpalatable label, for a majority of Americans, and create a negative image of them which will turn away people who do not consider themselves "Christian Right" i.e., Fundamentalist Rapture Nutter Ziokooks. That is a PsyOp. It is an old old PsyOp tactic - you create a false negative association to discredit some group or person and make people afraid to be associated with it/them.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Satan. He loves tea.
God is always good!
He'd blow innocent people around the world to kingdom come in order to further entrench elites in a world controlled by them via money and bloodlust power! AKA, The Synagogue of Satan. That's the message I get from most of today's "Christian" churches. If I wasn't already a Christian and knew better what Jesus really taught then I sure wouldn't want to become one with these people representing him.
God is always good!
Amen.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson I ain't in the 40% ... I like Tea Partiers. I don't think that the Tea Party folks are primarily fundamentalist Christians either. What I mean is that the Tea Perty folks aren't trying to convert anyone ... they really do want smaller government ... so small it can't interfere with people's religious choices. I think this article makes claims that are impossible to validate and the Jew York Times is hardly a credible source. If the Tea Party were losing steam the Republicans wouldn't be trying so hard to commandeer it. All of a sudden asshats like Newt (World Order) Gingrich are dissing the FED RESERVE and threatening audits ... Rick Perry is threatening Bernanke with treason if he continues printing money ... a subject that neither of these phonies ever broached before Ron Paul and the Tea Party. I don't participate in anything corporate or FEDERAL so I don't have a dog in the fight ... but if I did it'd be Ron Paul because the Constitution is the only means for such a diverse society to live together without one group or another feel like they're being used.
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”. Thomas Jefferson
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Groups are important. While we can be very able as individuals the synergy of well run group is greater than the sum of its parts. That is, I think, why the PTB so fear effective groups and immediately act to infiltrate and destabilize them. Yeah, ha, ha. That again comes back to their fears.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Debating ignorant TeaParty hating losers is a waste of time. Let'em do what they always do, which is vote demonRAT then whine.
"You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day. It's great to be an American" - Sail Away by Randy Newman
I'm not interested in debating them I'm interested in discrediting them.
Cool. Philosophically, I view them as the enemies of freedom. Philosophers have pondered justice vs forgiveness, and a few have found the proper balance between the two. "One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine
"You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day. It's great to be an American" - Sail Away by Randy Newman
I rather fancy Anatole France's solution: "The best revenge is living well." Grey Poupon is no substitute for a good Guillotine!
"You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day. It's great to be an American" - Sail Away by Randy Newman
It's hard to "shrink the size and spending of the federal government" while starting a new war with the enemy-du-jour, Iran. Isn't that right, Michelle Bachmann??
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#3. To: Eric Stratton (#2)
He'd blow innocent people around the world to kingdom come in order to further entrench elites in a world controlled by them via money and bloodlust power! AKA, The Synagogue of Satan.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#4. To: tom007, Eric Stratton (#0)
Turns out, it is basically just the latest iteration of the Christian Right.
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#6. To: BTP Holdings (#4)
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#9. To: Original_Intent (#5)
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#11. To: Eric Stratton (#2)
WWJD?
#12. To: Eric Stratton, 4 (#9)
As for me, and you and others here I realize, I do not associate myself with any groups. Problem is that we have a nation of people that need a "jersey(ies)". ... history repeating itself.
#13. To: tom007 (#0)
A recent NYT/CBS poll revealed that 40% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party, compared to just 18% in April 2010. Meanwhile, Tea Party supporters have slipped from 21% to 20% in the same period.
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#15. To: Eric Stratton (#9)
Funny how that works, ain't it.
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#17. To: Original_Intent (#5)
First of all the Tea Party is not synonymous ........
#18. To: Flintlock (#17)
Debating ignorant TeaParty hating losers is a waste of time.
#19. To: Original_Intent (#18)
I'm interested in discrediting them.
#20. To: Flintlock (#19)
"The best revenge is living well."
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#22. To: tom007, Michelle Bachmann (#0)
This indicates that 2012 GOP presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will have to walk a fine line to win the hearts of the party's all-important evangelical primary voters, while assuring the broader conservative base that their real focus is on shrinking the size and spending of the federal government.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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