I have felt a great relief that folk would be willing to get out and demonstate their dis-satisfaction with the growth of the Federal Government. It's beyond me that some folks actually see something sinister in that. But they do, just as I saw something sinister in the politically based opposition to the Iraq War - that is, opposition based on an opposition to then Presdent Bush, which seemed to exceed by a wide margin the opposition of those who had genuine philosophical issues with the war. This author nails it:
"Yet to read in much of what remains of the mainline press, many tea partiers at Tax Day rallies are nothing good -- racists, fascists, gun nuts, gay-bashers, militant separatists. They are described as generally hateful, ignorant, unhinged, and of course extreme.
Most are none of those things. Rather, they are largely independent voters angry at relentless Democratic leftism, frustrated by big-spending Republicanism (primarily under Bush II), and outraged by the hubris, pretension, shameless immoralism, and patronizing arrogance so widespread among the lofties in both political parties."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/19/tea_parties__the_inconvenience_of_truth_105223.html
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