Amid harsh criticisms, 'tea party' slips into the mainstream - so says The Christian Science Monitor.Tea party supporters Linda Lester (L) and Deanna Lamoureux at a recent rally in Searchlight, Nevada. A poll by Quinnipiac University suggests that women make up a majority of the tea party movement.
Criticisms of the 'baggers' being racist or complete idiots are near-sighted, if not outright inappropriate – and ultimately may miss the point. As I have offered and warned more than once right here on Blasphemes. The poll suggests that tea party activists are not only more mainstream than many critics suggest, but that a majority of them are women (primarily mothers), not angry white men.
Ugly... old... white women.
"The tea party is the middle 50 percent of America that wants good governance and lean more to the right of Barack Obama on economic issues," says Mr. Hecker, the tea party activist. "By calling them bloodthirsty extremists you're kind of alienating a lot of independents that voted for Obama."
Take note. They're busy comparing Obama to Hitler, while I'm comparing them to the Black Shirts. Maybe I should call them the Black Blouses?
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