random3434
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If anybody fails to see the usual neocon suspects' hands behind the mainstreaming of the tea parties and some of the groups directing them and the people in them, you need your head examined.
That said, many individual tea partiers are of course not neocons and never were. Similar protests have been going on for decades, usually held by Libertarian and like minded groups. I have a lot of respect for those foilks, even though I don't agree with them. I have no respect for the usurpers who are co-opting a legitimate nonpartisan movement for partisan political gain - or stop loss, in this case.
Call me whatever names you like, but there is an obvious division in the movement between the core supporters and many of the organizers, as well as between the on-message protesters and those who are using the platform for their own agendas. I'm not sure the commentary in the OP is nuanced enough, but in many ways it is spot-on.
Exactly.
We DO need a third party in this country imo, but the Tea Party movement is not going to unite us, but separate us.
The so called "non-partisan" folks don't see this I'm afraid, because the Tea Party "Party" is certainly not non-partisan. Many groups ARE using it to promote their own agendas, and I'm afraid the division will only get bigger.