Like my friend’s mother (in Atlanta) said, the republicans turn out to be sore losers. Just like the sons of the confederacy.

As for the tea partiers in the north and west, many of them are libertarians, pretending that if the government would go away we could just have things like they once were. As if that could happen. Or, indeed, as if it were actually true.

What are you really arguing here? The issue of race interjects itself into every single national debate we have. Do you honestly believe, or expect anyone to else to believe, that out of all the political movements to ever be created the tea parties are the only ones that managed to not garner the support of a single racist at any of their gatherings? I mean just the presence of a few birthers, an entire movement founded on passive aggressive racism, will undoubtedly lead to racist things being said.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt yesterday and googled “racism tea party”. In the first five pages 2/3s of the links were people holding racist signs and tea partiers being quoted as saying racist things. The other 1/3 is conservatives saying that didn’t happen. Its long past the point of willful denial.

Let me give you some advice, if you legitimately care about the tea parties being taken seriously you will drop the racism denial. Denying the unfortunate reality of the situation just gives the critics more reason to let the issue of racism dictate the conversation. Admit that some racist things happened at a few tea party rallies, but that being a series of public protests this is bound to happen, and that no one should be using racism or accusations of racism in place of an argument for or against what the tea partiers are complaining about. Stick to the big government issues, those are arguments you can win.

Are Tancredo and (Constitution Party’s) Dan Gonzales liberal crashers out to make the tea Party look bad, too? They must be damn good infiltrators, to have gotten the chance to actually speak at a TP event.

I´m not an American, but:

1-) I find astonishing that in fact so many Americans in fact defend the *prosecution* in this case.

2-) Well, well, We are talking about Italy, a country that has a Prime Minister so corrupt that even people in Brazil are astonished about it.

I don’t think Tancredo said word one about his citizenship, merely that he should be sent back to Africa.

I’ll be the first one to admit some rotten stuff has happened at liberal rallies, too. There are certainly crazies in both parties and I would never deny it. But if people are claiming that calls for sending the black guy back to Africa aren’t racist, well, I’m having trouble taking that seriously.

That’s not racism, that’s questioning that he’s a citizen (birther/etc). And it has been pointed out, a lot of ‘crashers’ have been trying to infiltrate the protests with racist signs on purpose. Considering the outright scum I’ve seen at anti-war, eco-terrorist and SEIU rallies (where there IS actual hatred and violence) … I still find the backlash against this Tea Party stuff beyond laughable.

I’m getting pretty sick and tired of hearing anyone questioning this congress or administration being called racist. We all know it’s BS. And ‘playing the race card’ is getting REALLY old in all of American life. The next president should wear a bear suit their entire campaign and presidency … then we can complain about them without any BS excuses as to WHY.

I simply went to one site covering a single TP event, and found two asshole speakers addressing the crowd. No nutpicking among the riff raff needed. Do attendees really need misspelled signs and three cornered hats when their own headliners are wearing crazypants enough for everyone? If you’re part of this nonsense, where the only recognizable uniting cause is Obama Derangement Syndrome, then you are full of shit.

Then either he is defining “Racism” very strictly or he owes some money to Talking Points Memo and everyone else who has video of Tom Tencredo’s Tea Party Rally speech where he was saying Obama should be sent “back to Kenya.”

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Fair warning would be that this political movement is in danger of being usurped by radicals seeking to monetize this bitch. (Make “Home Alone” hands-to-face gesture now)

It is at least interesting to see how this develops, but don’t condemn everyone as “full of shit”. Then, YOU would be full of the shit.

PS: I can go through close to 500 photos I’ve taken at 4 different TP events and I might be able to find one sign that would be in questionable taste (much better than any Philly sporting event). I am not a TPer.

“First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Gandhi

Once again, the Tea Party movement is full of shit, venting stream of consciousness nonsense now that a Dem (and a black Dem at that) is in office. I’m proud that so many TPers are sane and non violent. So get the fuck out and boot these lunatics from the podium already.

My local tea partiers are the “Obama is a socialist!” (with a picture of him as Hitler or the Joker) and “Go home Mexicans!” type. True, you could say that there’s no racism in those messages (even though the first is a lie, and the second is just silly, IMO)… but given the type of people that live near me, I’m pretty sure racism is at the core of their message.

The Tea Partiers who only started making noise when we got a black president are a lot different than the libertarians who were doing so all along. I can respect the latter, but not the former.