Let me see…the Teaparty wants to repeal the 14th Amendment (and some want the 13th and 15th to go, too, re-allowing slavery).  There are numerous baggers with signs that read “I don’t want socialism (translation: a fair deal for others) you arrogant Kenyon (translation: Uppity nigger)!”
The Religious Right is symbiotically linked with the Teaparty… and you get….

A White racist religious Taliban just WAITING to take control of America and tell us all how to live, that we must be Christians, and that non-whites aren’t really Americans.

And people WANT THAT???????????????????????

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The reason the founding fathers tried separating
religion from the state were the abject results
when it was so. But religion was useful by
governments to control or placate the masses.

Throwing religion into governing only gives
governing the ‘whims’ that would result from
emotional and greedy moods that occur. My own
anger is the use by government to finance
religion through the faith based initiatives, of
paying religious organizations federal money
which, instead of helping those in need, was too
often used for the theologic leaders to personally
gain from such a program. Basically a system ripe
for corruption, abuse and misuse.

Purely a social program for religious zealots
prone to the misuse and abuse which,
supposedly, would not happen when it was
provided for in the social services of government.

But no more as corruption and the subversion of
the social payments to those wanting their ‘piece
of the pie’ of social grand larceny. So, it seems
that no matter how publicly reviled socialism is
made to be, it is welcomed by those who think
they should benefit from it.

And I tend to think that is what a lot of the
teabaggers want from their ‘smaller and
deregulated’ government no matter how noble
sounding they are. Because, if and when elected
they too will welcome the social monies AND I
have little doubt those ‘lobbying’ bribery dollars
that flow so freely to the people we elect and the
employees at all levels of government.

I wonder if the ‘influence peddling’ and bribery
laws are still on the books and it is just an
oversight that law enforcement and the justice
system somehow or the other ‘overlook’ those
laws.

Thanks, Tobygirl, for your comments.  It’s sad that the grumpy seem to be ruling the day.

LJL, did you read the Rolling Stone piece? Atrophied glutes in scooters and lots of oxygen tanks. And, please, no comments about my insensitivity to the disabled: I’m disabled.

The most depressing thing about aging is realizing that most people don’t get any wiser as they get older. They just seem to get greedier and more self-involved. Very sad.

Yeah and the old testament thinks slavery is okay too. bet the T.P.er’s will approve of that and the demotion of women into that of lower than a dog.

God, save me from your religious lunatics. And hurry please.

ico, suave, October 5 at 7:07 pm Link to this comment

Now there’s a shocking headline!
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Yeah (yawn). It’s a real surprise.

Fat Freddy, October 6 at 7:22 am Link to this comment

Would you care to expand on that statement?
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Be careful what you ask for, FF!

ron paul sucks.

Would you care to expand on that statement?

Tea Party ideas can only be explained by the mental deterioration that accompanies early onset Alzheimer’s.  Clearly the Baggers’ irrational abhorence of the American government, which in fact has been extraordinarily generous to their age group through Social Security and Medicare and their loudly proclaimed narrow minded religion prejudices have no other rational cause than their age related illness.  And for the country to allow itself to be swayed by Tea Partiers’ votes would be to surrender to mental illness.

I’m shocked…shocked, I tell you!

Yes, the Tea Party has been hijacked. Send the Ron Paul faction to the Libertarian Party, where they belong.

When an article like this appears anyplace, we need to first make some corrections.

The Tea Party says it represents stereotoypical Christian ideology, but much of its political ideology is very un-Christian, and not a mere matter of interpretation. They oppose welfare, national health insurance, corporate and banking regulations, action on global warming.  The support wars—even wars of aggression like Iraq and Afghanistan. They tend to believe that poor people “deserve” to be poor and that all “criminals” should be punished severely. They do not support equal rights. All this is un-Christian at the core == ungenerous, unforgiving, and discriminatory. As to supporting the US Constitutioin, They do not support separation of church and state, and have grave doubts about religious freedom for nonChristians.
  They talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk. I’m sure most people commenting here know this, and yet it seems necessary to repeatedly emphasize the differences between words and actions, fact and fiction.

Now there’s a shocking headline!