NAACP Leader Calls Tea Party Racist But Can't Defend The Claim

How The Left Is Guilty Of Exactly What They Accuse Of Us

Typical of Hollywood elites, Rob Reiner sees things like principles and ethics as constructs to be packaged, manipulated, and focus group tested for mass consumption.

Everything is for sell, you see.

No one can have a genuine love and care for America because Rob doesn't see any reason to love America. He can act like he does, but he's not in love with America. Watch how he defines a multi-million membership of Americans who are in love with their country and want to do something to preserve it:

Now watch as we see the titular head of the Democrat Party actually sell fear and hate:

The Tea Party: A Movement, Not A Party (How The GOP Was Rescued By Its Base)

Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.

The first: the tea party is not a "threat" to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

In a practical sense, the tea party saved the Republican Party in this cycle by not going third-party. It could have. The broadly based, locally autonomous movement seems to have made a rolling decision, group by group, to take part in Republican primaries and back Republican hopefuls. (According to the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, four million more Republicans voted in primaries this year than Democrats, the GOP's highest such turnout since 1970. I wonder who those people were?)

Because of this, because they did not go third-party, Nov. 2 is not going to be a disaster for the Republicans, but a triumph.

The tea party did something the Republican establishment was incapable of doing: It got the party out from under George W. Bush. The tea party rejected his administration's spending, overreach and immigration proposals, among other items, and has become only too willing to say so. In doing this, the tea party allowed the Republican establishment itself to get out from under Mr. Bush: "We had to, boss, it was a political necessity!" They released the GOP establishment from its shame cringe.

And they not only freed the Washington establishment, they woke it up. That establishment, composed largely of 50- to 75-year-olds who came to Washington during the Reagan era in a great rush of idealism, in many cases stayed on, as they say, not to do good but to do well. They populated a conservative infrastructure that barely existed when Reagan was coming up: the think tanks and PR groups, the media outlets and governmental organizations. They did not do what conservatives are supposed to do, which is finish their patriotic work and go home, taking the knowledge and sophistication derived from Washington and applying it to local problems. (This accounts in part for the esteem in which former Bush budget chief and current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is held. He went home.)

The GOP establishment stayed, and one way or another lived off government, breathed in its ways and came to know—learned all too well!—the limits of what is possible and passable. Part of the social and cultural reality behind the tea party-GOP establishment split has been the sheer fact that tea partiers live in non-D.C. America. The establishment came from America, but hasn't lived there in a long time.

I know and respect some of the establishmentarians, but after dinner, on the third glass of wine, when they get misty-eyed about Reagan and the old days, they are not, I think, weeping for him and what he did but for themselves and who they were. Back when they were new and believed in something.

Finally, the tea party stiffened the GOP's spine by forcing it to recognize what it had not actually noticed, that we are a nation in crisis. The tea party famously has no party chiefs and no conventions but it does have a theme—stop the spending, stop the sloth, incompetence and unneeded regulation—and has lent it to the GOP.

Actually, Maureen "Moe" Tucker, former drummer of the Velvet Underground, has done the best job ever of explaining where the tea party stands and why it stands there. She also suggests the breadth and variety of the movement. In an interview this week in St. Louis's Riverfront Times, Ms. Tucker said she'd never been particularly political but grew alarmed by the direction the country was taking. In the summer of 2009, she went to a tea-party rally in southern Georgia. A chance man-on-the-street interview became a YouTube sensation. No one on the left could believe this intelligent rally-goer was the former drummer of the 1960s breakthrough band; no one on the left understood that an artist could be a tea partier. Because that's so not cool, and the Velvet Underground was cool.

Ms. Tucker, in the interview, ran through the misconceptions people have about tea partiers: "that they're all racists, they're all religious nuts, they're all uninformed, they're all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever." These stereotypes, she observed, are encouraged by Democrats to keep their base "on their side." But she is not a stereotype: "Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?"

There is also this week a striking essay by Fareed Zakaria, no tea partier he, in Time magazine. He unknowingly touched on part of the reason for the tea party. Mr. Zakaria, born and raised in India, got his first sense of America's vitality, outsized ways, glamour and crazy high-spiritedness as a young boy in the late 1970s watching bootlegged videotapes of "Dallas." What a country! His own land, in comparison, seemed sleepy, hidebound. Now when he travels to India, "it's as if the world has been turned upside down. Indians are brimming with hope and faith in the future. After centuries of stagnation, their economy is on the move, fueling animal spirits and ambition. The whole country feels as if it has been unlocked." Meanwhile the mood in the U.S. seems glum, dispirited. "The middle class, in particular, feels under assault." Sixty-three percent of Americans say they do not think they will be able to maintain their current standard of living. "The can-do country is convinced that it can't."

All true. And yet. We may be witnessing a new political dynamism. The Tea Party's rise reflects anything but fatalism, and maybe even a new high-spiritedness. After all, they're only two years old and they just saved a political party and woke up an elephant.

The second fact of 2010 is understood by Republicans but not admitted by Democrats. It is that this is a fully nationalized election, and at its center it is about one thing: Barack Obama.

It is not, broadly, about the strengths or weaknesses of various local candidates, about constituent services or seniority, although these elements will be at play in some outcomes, Barney Frank's race likely being one. But it is significant that this year Mr. Frank is in the race of his life, and this week on TV he did not portray the finger-drumming smugness and impatience with your foolishness he usually displays on talk shows. He looked pale and mildly concussed, like someone who just found out that liberals die, too.

This election is about one man, Barack Obama, who fairly or not represents the following: the status quo, Washington, leftism, Nancy Pelosi, Fannie and Freddie, and deficits in trillions, not billions.

Everyone who votes is going to be pretty much voting yay or nay on all of that. And nothing can change that story line now. (source)

Independence Day Rally At Cape Coral, Florida, 7/03/09: Tom Walsh

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The Left: A Dionysian Comparison

On my favorite blog, Sweetness & Light, an astute contributor started a thread which I thought worthy of reproducing here. The readers of Ann Coulter's blog (administered by Steve Gilbert) are a cut above ther rest:

proreason
April
16, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Has anybody noticed that every single thing said by these left wing hacks is a lie or one sort or another.
At least there is one area where The Moron is demonstrating his leadership.

englishqueen01
April
16, 2009 at 9:45 pm
It’s not lies, proreason.
It’s PROJECTION. As in, everything liberals say about us is absolutely 100% true…about them, their beliefs, their policies, and actions.

jrmcdonald
April
18, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Your both right. Ayn Rand said that people do not believe in the irrational, but they do believe in the unjust. The lefts core beliefs in the unjust are:1. Punishing the producer while rewarding the parasite.2. Mocking the moral while celebrating the deviate.3. Killing the innocent while protecting the homicidal.4. Removing the sacred while expanding the bureaucrat.

proreason
April
18, 2009 at 8:17 pm
jr: “The lefts’ core beliefs in the unjust ”
It’s a rather profound thought.

But is eq correct in saying the belief in the unjust is a projection (a generous assessment, imho), or am I correct in saying that it is a simple case of defending one’s own deviant behaviour patterns (which I summarized by just calling them liars….in fact, it goes way beyond lying to all sorts of immoral behaviours, including the one jr points out, but well beyond them as well)?

It may be a fine point, but I personally feel the left compounds their immoral and anti-social behaviours by defending them, much like children twist themselves in knots when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

And I also believe that the core liberal beliefs arise out of their immorality. For example, the reason they defend abortion with such gusto is that they know it is murder. Another example, the reason they defend taxes in the face of the obvious failure of almost all government programs is that, like Biden, they are selfish and will give nothing to charity themselves without being forced.

Howard Roark
April
20, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I like all of the responses to PR’s original question, here. I think they all are true: projection, Rand’s thought on the unjust, immorality.

My only addition to this is my belief that we see a present-day version of what the Greeks knew of as Dionysian principles in the modern liberal Democrats.

We Conservatives are the Stoics.

25 years ago, you couldn’t have convinced me of the value of Stoicism. I called myself a Dionysian. In fact, I remember doing a class report in the third year of my Latin studies during my senior year in the public high school I attended. I passed around plastic cups of Kroger-brand fake wine to everyone, and launched into what the differences were between Stoicism & Dionysianism, and why I, (a 17 year-old immature kid) was indeed a Dionysian. After all, who could be an adolescent and turn your back on wine, intoxication, and ecstasy?

It took me nearly twenty years to understand the other component of living a Dionysian lifestyle, though: chaos. Add to that: irrational thought, insincerity, and faithlessness. I now merely shake my head at my foolish youth.

Democrats/liberals are stuck in their adolescent youth, living a life of satisfying their every impulse, especially the base ones. They aren’t full of “principles” as we know them.

Their only “principles”, I have found, are based on doing the exact opposite of what they think a Republican or Conservative would do. And they are happy with that shallow definition of their core belief system. They are chaos, plain and simple.

Some of us Christians would call them “lost”.

As much as J. Gerofalo would love to medicalize the “condition” of being a Conservative (her laughable display on K. Olbermann’s show recently saw her attempt at diagnosing all “Teabaggers” as having a limbic brain disorder of overgrowth, resulting in misfirings of the synapses in our frontal lobes, ‘natch.

Isn’t it ironic that a good liberal like her would rest the diagnosis of “intelligence” on brain size/growth? The last time cranial studies were done to “prove” intelligence,
African Americans didn’t fare too well, so we demonized those scientists, of course. But I guess you’d have to be one of those “readers” to know that. Perhaps Gerofalo didn’t get that Twitter blast.), I, like EQ above, believe that they project the neurological/brain condition on us, yet it is they who suffer from a condition of underdeveloped sectors of the brain. As the Colonel might say, “can’t prove it, just know it.”

Their brain suffers from a suite of maladies, I believe: unresolved phobias, coping problems, attention span deficiencies, irrational thought, etc. I am not trained as a medical scientist, but I see these patterns in the arch liberals I’ve encountered in my life.

Mainstream Media: Apparent Experts On TeaBaggin', Anderson Cooper Et Al Carry Their Purses Proudly

No surprise here that Anderson knows a thing or two about having a mouthful of male genitalia:



Rachel, here, whom no one watches, seems perfectly unphased by the slang term, "teabagging", due to the fact that she is repulsed by male genitalia, anyway. Watch her smugness as she tries to belittle both the numbers and purpose of our protest across the nation. (after all, when her carpet-munching sisters and limp-wristed LGBT crowd gather to pelt the California churches over Prop 8 results, do the MSM children treat her people this way?):



Now watch as Rachel seems to be stumped for a typical smirk of superiority over the notion that someone called this nation-wide protest the "largest grass-roots demonstration" in American history. ("WOW!!...The largest???...The largest???") According to insiders, the last time she was this lost was when someone hid her toolbelt. Poor Rachel can't fathom that someone besides her bedwetting Leftists may garner attention for political activism.

She recovers quickly, though, at the prospect of flirting with her Air America bull dike guest, who is equally flustered at attempts to sound above it all and aghast that heterosexuals may take to the streets for once. Their smug commentary reveals why Air America is bankrupt and MSNBC has only 4 viewers:



Notice how the self-described veteran protester (from her college days, of course, which we all know is a time of great persecution and disenfranchisement) immediately paints the protest in DC as "flaccid", filled with "mildly racist" signs. Between her condescending snarks about how a real protest would have been held, she actually tried, as did the rest of the MSM, to under report the numbers that were there. By her math, there were only a "few hundred" at the DC protest. She mockingly laughed at the stage that the citizens provided for the rally, calling it an "umbrella on a picnic bench".

I guess this veteran college protester was thoroughly unimpressed with what us regular Americans look like up close. It was probably her first time rubbing shoulders with "the masses". Poor thing.

For the record, here's some shots of the "few hundred" from the DC tea Party yesterday:



Now watch this incredibly over-the-top example of the MSM trying to tickle each other's asses to make themselves laugh. After all, when the grown ups aren't watching, the kids will do practically anything for a laugh:

Cape Coral, Florida Tea Party

This rally was officially canceled days before it was to be held. The city council of Cape Coral became afraid of the type and amount of people that would show up when they discovered that the local Republican party headquarters sent out an e-mail blast to its members, asking them to show up.

This is the "canceled' event.

I apologize for the amateur video quality. I had no tripod, but wanted to tape our numbers there to show the amount of outrage and motivation, despite being told to "stay home". It gets better at 4:00 into it, with a couple of passionate speakers.

Ft Myers Tea Party

I wish the quality was better, but besides being windy that day, I had no tripod.

Tea Party In Cape Coral Scares The Weak

Unfortunately, much ado has been raised over a proposed gathering of concerned citizens in Cape Coral, Fl, to the point of shutting it down before it even begins.

The city council became alarmed when Lynn Rosko proposed the gathering at a recent council meeting. When the councilmen discovered that a list of party members of the local Republican party were sent email announcements, they showed great cowardice and shame by thrusting the request for assembly into no-man's territory: they tried to price the event out of reach for Rosko.

The city council is probably full of dirty politicians who can't stand to see their authority challenged. A protest against government spending run amok threatens their position, of course. They depend upon the taxpayers being meek little slaves of their system.

You can read the whole story here. I will be attending it because I believe wholeheartedly in the cause. The system our prophetic forefathers started has been turned on its head and is being used against us. To read some of the comments below this story on the WINK site illustrates how badly our education system has failed us. Anti-protesters write their screed with the coherence of a mad idiot.

This was all planned, of course, many generations ago by anti-freedom communists and anarchists, starting with Fabians, union thugs, and the ACLU. But the history of these things isn't taught in American high schools. Only the Howard Zinn version of history will suffice for these malcontents we call "teachers" here in America. These same irrational idiots who couldn't work at McDonald's stand in front of our kids every day, filling their minds up with the same kind of hate and ignorance that courses through their veins.

The Obama Constituent: Is This Our Tea Party?

It looks like more and more people are sending in their pics to various sites on the web. Michelle Malkin found some at another site with a nice slideshow at Sticker Patch.

The Obama Constituent: Inspiring Millions To Do The Same

Not long after Obama did the Ft Myers, Fl tour appearance, the spark of a little black woman caused the world to sit up and take notice! Why, if she could just push her way to the front of that large sea of white people in order to tell The Great One her story. Her trials. Her needs.

Her pitch.

Henrietta The Homeless has become the Rosa Parks of her time, refusing to sleep in her car with her family any more. No sir, no sir. She is going to declare that she be given a kitchen and place of her own. Not just a park and such will feed her and her family, you know.

So the idea took on! When The Great One did an appearance in Meza, Az a week later, radio station KFYI did a promotion to bring a similar crowd out for him:

Credits to Michelle Malkin's excellent blog readers for sending these pics to her. She really has a great site.