Anti-TEA party

The left wing raging about the TEA Party folks continues unabated, with the ire directed at Americans whom Mr. Obama describes as a "core group" of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and that believe he is a socialist. He told NBC that he “recognizes the movement involves "folks who have legitimate concerns" about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously.” But… Mr. Obama also said he feels "there's still going to be a group at their core that question my legitimacy." He further stated that he didn't want to paint Tea Party activists "in broad brushes" and he hopes to win over members who have "mainstream, legitimate concerns." In comparison, many left wingers claim that TEA partiers are “racist”, “mouth breathing rednecks”, “illiterates”, “religious fanatics”, “right wing radicals”, and (horror of horrors) gun owning “militiamen”, along with quite a number of less complimentary descriptors. I guess I can understand where this leftist viewpoint comes from, as the political left is pretty well made up of “intelligentsia” and a wide assortment of over educated, overpaid, and under worked folks with nothing better to do with their time than sit around thinking up new ways for the government to spend what little money the IRS leaves us, new political theories, and insisting they know better than anyone else about almost everything. While I’ve never been able to understand that particular line of thinking, you might note that those same folks never get tired of telling us how smart and wonderful they are either.

Every time some suicidal Muslim blows himself up and kills a few more innocent people, we hear from the Left how we should not judge all Muslims because of a few extremists. Talking heads on TV assure us that Islam is the "Religion of Peace." Well, Okay… Yet these same leftist politicians and media hacks are attacking right wing Americans because somebody allegedly used a politically incorrect racial slur at a Tea Party protest (with no corroboration from numerous video recordings). I’m not defending racial slurs if they were used, but what happened to the tolerance that we're supposed to show others? Don’t our fellow Americans deserve at least the same tolerance as Muslim terrorists?

I’ve attended a couple of TEA party meetings in my role as a columnist, and I apparently see things a bit differently than the liberals. All Tea Party members are ignorant I’m told, (probably because they didn’t attend an Ivy League college). And of course all Christians are close-minded because they believe in Jesus. Then too, it’s okay for a group of gays to run into a church on Sunday morning during the services and scream “Jesus is a homo”, but it's forbiden that anyone should say a prayer in public, despite the fact that even the US Congress opens each session with a prayer... a prayer delivered by the Congressional Chaplain. But counter to those leftist claims, at Tea Party meetings I’ve seen elderly retirees, bankers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, engineers, mechanics, custodians, carpenters, farmers, teachers, and retail workers, all sharing common ideals and values. I’ve seen young and old folks, people with disabilities, rich and poor. I saw people who have the audacity to exercise their Constitutional rights as American citizens, in a responsible and civil manner, almost as if the United States were some sort of democratic society that allowed such free expression of thought.

Even better from my viewpoint, some polls indicate that the “Tea Party” is composed of about 25% Republicans, 50% Independents, and 25% Democrats! That almost sounds like a very broad selection of American voters rather than a handful of “right wing radicals”! Still, I find it rather strange that the left considers pornography to be “free speech”, but if I voice my somewhat conservative political views in public I’m supposed to be a “bigoted racist”. Do we have a double standard here perhaps?

Come November, the voting public needs to remember that what Mr. Obama and his cronies are doing to our nation today has been in the planning stage for many years. Today, the political right is doing nothing more terrible than opposing the socialization of America. Anger in American politics is nothing new, but now the left is happily stoking that fire, a dangerous thing to do in any large group of people. What happens when the people who have been working hard their entire lives to build a future for themselves and their families, suddenly find themselves being forced into poverty by our home grown socialists? Their response might well be something on the line of; “You might try to do this to me, but you really don’t want to try doing this to my children.”

One of the most disturbing things in America today is a mass media that “edits” the news so that no bad things appear in print, or on TV, about the administration. The American media has become a western version of Pravda and that is frightening. But of course anything they can say about the “evil right” is “fair and balanced” in their minds. With the aid of the media, Democrats are exploiting these real or imaginary Tea Party slurs in an effort to portray themselves as victims, political martyrs as it were, and to smear their opponents as racists and bigots. New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht, which suggests a growing paranoia on the left. Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this. Just where was Mr. Rich in 1964? It certainly wasn't the George Wallace populists or the Barry Goldwater conservatives that went off the rails! That was the work of folks who went "all the way with LBJ." Even more interesting is that one of Mr. Obama’s leading mentors was part of the 1960’s radical left Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombing bunch, while at the same time many of today’s leading leftists were busily chanting praises of Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh, while happily throwing fire bombs at police officers on Detroit’s streets.

Mr. Obama preaches “change” to the left, and promptly nationalizes the auto industry, our banking system, and now our health care system. Ms. Pelosi invites a democratic Congress to “kick in the door” because there are more changes on the way (“Cap and Trade” I suspect). If the Tea Party folks think it’s the leftist elites who wish to destroy the America we all grew up in, they’re quite right.