You have a very biased and jaded opinion of the GOP.
The Tea Party is an outsider when it comes to the GOP.
Not really:
Beginning in 2006 we interviewed a representative sample of 3,000 Americans as part of our continuing research into national political attitudes, and we returned to interview many of the same people again this summer. As a result, we can look at what people told us, long before there was a Tea Party, to predict who would become a Tea Party supporter five years later. We can also account for multiple influences simultaneously — isolating the impact of one factor while holding others constant.
Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party’s “origin story.” Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.
Which was pretty obvious from the start.
Besides....Republicans aren't like Democrats, Liberals, or Progressives. They don't have to change their stripes to become palatable to the public. They don't have to appear to be moderates to get their foot in the door.
Nonsense. There are dozens of examples one can point to, large and small. For example, Paul Ryan scrubbing use of the word "vouchers" from his Medicare issues page last year and re-branding it as "premium support" this year. Branding is at the heart of politics--there isn't a party or a person who doesn't do it.
Oh, so it's wrong to rename issues....like calling it
revenue instead of
tax-increases. Calling it
Shared Sacrifice instead of
wealth redistribution. Calling it
investment instead of
spending. Calling it
affordable health care instead of
Universal Health Care. Calling it
climate-change instead of
Global Warming.
People in glass houses should refrain from throwing stones.
Of course people in the Tea Party are biased. They would rather have smaller government that is less of a burden on the taxpayer rather then a bloated abusive centralized government that continues to spend us deeper and deeper into debt. If you want to call that being biased...so be it. That is what Tea Party members wanted to, in all respects, protest about, do something about. Republicans that turn out to be tax and spenders get the axe just like the Democrats. They want a system that works for the people not against the people.
They have a problem with all of the fat-cats in Washington living high on the hog, rolling around in limos and eating Chilean Sea-Bass while the rest of us lose our jobs and lose our homes and eventually lose our futures.
They don't like the direction we're going. They don't like a President that sits on his ass and waits for others to come up with ideas, then turns around and insults them.
They don't like corruption and crony-capitalism, picking winners and losers. They don't like government regulations designed to scare businesses and even force them out of business. They don't like restrictive policy that rewards slackers and punishes success.
They see the American Dream fading. They see the hope for the future dying. They see for the first time in their lives an America that won't be better for their children. They see a President that lies about his policies, saying nobody wants to take over GM and Chrysler..
..then takes them over and replaces their leadership. They see a President that says "there comes a time when you've made enough money" then tries to place ceilings on income of CEOs. This is as UnAmerican as you can get.
They see a President that finds fault in this country and our allies yet bows to the will of our enemies and accepts gifts from them while returning gifts from our allies.
They see a President that is encouraging an entitlement mentality in our kids and places more importance on Green programs when we need to be more competitive in the world market, chases away jobs and industry in favor of his anti-Climate Change restrictions. GE's CFBs are just one example. Restrictions on deep-sea drilling is another. Instead of becoming energy independent he's allowing our enemies to have the upper hand in the most important aspect of our planet by making us more and more dependent. Ending the
Shuttle program without a replacement putting us at the mercy of the
Russians.....which proved to be folly when they announced they would allow the
International Space Station to fall into the sea.
The Tea Party wants to return to a more common-sense approach instead of this counter-productive pie-in-the-sky kumbiyah approach. The Tea Party wants the massive spending to stop. They want an America that is strong, not weak.
And what do they get for their concern for this country?
They're called
Tea Baggers by
the President himself and
terrorists and
racists by his representatives. Personally I think they've shown great restraint under withering attacks from his media and what are supposed to be
our public servants.
