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Diluting The Tea Party Gene Pool (Guest Voice)

Posted by CAGLE CARTOONS in Politics.
Oct 3rd, 2010

Diluting The Tea Party Gene Pool

by Karl Frisch

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In the months since Brown’s election, the pasts and positions of victorious tea party candidates have become even more peculiar. It is as if the tea party gene pool has been diluted with each passing primary.

First, we have the May primary victory of Kentucky’s Rand Paul. The son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, Rand called President Obama’s criticism of BP following the gulf oil disaster “un-American.” Living up to his libertarian namesake — he’s named after Ayn Rand — Paul said that had he been in office at the time, he would have questioned a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which bars private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race. He also opposes the Americans with Disabilities Act, OSHA workplace safety regulations, the Department of Education, and the Department of Agriculture.

It is unclear what type of tea Paul has been drinking to come to such positions, but he’s obviously been sharing it with other tea party backed Senate candidates.

Less than a month after Paul’s victory, Nevada’s Sharon Angle won her Republican Senate primary with tremendous support from the tea party. If you can believe it, Angle’s past comments and positions on pressing issues are even more jaw dropping than Paul’s.

Angle, twice picked as the “Worst Member” of the Nevada legislature, once pushed to spend taxpayer dollars on a Scientology administered drug rehabilitation program for prisoners. Equally disturbing, Angle has indicated her support for an armed insurrection — “Second Amendment remedies” as she called it — should conservatives fail in stopping congressional Democrats this fall. Revolutions aside, Angle also wants to “phase Medicare and Social Security out” and, like Paul, scrap the Department of Education.

The dilution of the tea party gene pool continued well into the summer with the late-August Senate primary win of Alaska’s Joe Miller. The fringe candidate defeated an incumbent Republican Senator due in large part to support from the Tea Party Express.

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I’m of course talking about the Senate primary victory of Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell — a gift from god to comedians to be sure. A lesson in the absurd, her history consists largely of crusades against masturbation, condoms that she called “anti-human” and witchcraft.

You read that right.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Old tea Party — warts and all if you’ll pardon the play on O’Donnell’s misspent Wiccan youth.

Since his election to the Senate, Scott Brown has occasionally crossed party lines voting with Democrats to support the President’s agenda. It remains unclear what these increasingly bizarre tea party candidates would support if elected. (Emphasis added)

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This is a good article that summarizes what the Tea Party really is.

So glad not to be in a Tea Party site!  As far as I know this is not a Tea Party site.

As to Scott Brown, I think that is one candidate in which the Moderates had a big voice, and Tea Party got a lot of credit and mileage because it was the only "social force" that had voice and front in the media.  But Scott Brown seems to be the true moderate in the mix.