Tea Party

[Resurrexi]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg[/media]

[TotusTuusMaria]

this video is cute.

yeah, i believe i do...

[Hilde]

I'm not even sure what this is about.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Hilde' date='27 February 2010 - 07:11 PM' timestamp='1267315884' post='2063990']
I'm not even sure what this is about.
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement"]This[/url].

[jeffpugh]

I said "no", but I guess as a Canadian, I have no right to vote in this one besides, I thought with the music video, it was referring to something else

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='27 February 2010 - 07:24 PM' timestamp='1267316675' post='2064002']
I said "no", but I guess as a Canadian, I have no right to vote in this one besides, I thought with the music video, it was referring to something else
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The music video doesn't really have much to do with the movement. I just posted it because I thought it was a cool video and because I didn't have anything to say in the first post.

[CatherineM]

Not a fan, no. I consider it a privilege to live in a democracy and pay taxes.

[aalpha1989]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='27 February 2010 - 07:28 PM' timestamp='1267316892' post='2064003']
The music video doesn't really have much to do with the movement. I just posted it because I thought it was a cool video and because I didn't have anything to say in the first post.
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I like your new avatar. Where's it from?

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='27 February 2010 - 09:00 PM' timestamp='1267322440' post='2064030']
I like your new avatar. Where's it from?
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It's from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Basilica of [url="http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Sofia_a_Via_Boccea"]Santa Sofia a Via Boccea[/url] in Rome.

Edited February 28, 2010 by Resurrexi

[Jesus_lol]

if you ever want a conservative in the white house, you probably shouldnt support the Tea Party movement.

as soon as it decides its a political movement, its gonna steal a huge chuck of the voter base away from the republicans(im not too unhappy about this personally) and then say hello to a liberal president! forever!

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='27 February 2010 - 09:52 PM' timestamp='1267329158' post='2064089']
if you ever want a conservative in the white house, you probably shouldnt support the Tea Party movement.

as soon as it decides its a political movement, its gonna steal a huge chuck of the voter base away from the republicans(im not too unhappy about this personally) and then say hello to a liberal president! forever!
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Stranger things have worked better than anyone might have imagined in politics. It's an odd game.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='27 February 2010 - 10:52 PM' timestamp='1267329158' post='2064089']
as soon as it decides its a political movement, its gonna steal a huge chuck of the voter base away from the republicans(im not too unhappy about this personally) and then say hello to a liberal president! forever!
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The dying Whig party probably said the same thing about the nascent Republicans in the mid-19th century.

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='27 February 2010 - 07:51 PM' timestamp='1267318308' post='2064012']
Not a fan, no. I consider it a privilege to live in a democracy and pay taxes.
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Thats great then you agree with the tea party people, they consider paying taxes is commendable, they just do not beleive in unfair taxes.

ed

[aalpha1989]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='27 February 2010 - 10:52 PM' timestamp='1267329158' post='2064089']
if you ever want a conservative in the white house, you probably should[s]nt[/s] support the Tea Party movement.

as soon as it decides its a political movement, its gonna steal a huge chuck of the voter base away from the republicans([s]im not too unhappy[/s] ecstatic about this personally) and then say hello to a [s]liberal president! forever![/s] multi-party system.
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Fixed it.

Edited February 28, 2010 by aalpha1989

[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='27 February 2010 - 11:56 PM' timestamp='1267343790' post='2064172']
Fixed it.
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hmm, personally if it wasnt for the abortion thing, i wouldnt mind if the GOP never won another election. the way the party is currently anyways.

and the teaparty being a political party would pretty much ensure that. no liberals would join it, it would cut out enough support from the republicans so they wouldnt win, and not enough so that the tea party could beat the liberals. not to mention, the remaining conservatives might just jump ship to liberal s and other third parties.

it would be a weird system for an election or two.

[princessgianna]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='27 February 2010 - 06:46 PM' timestamp='1267314393' post='2063975']
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg[/media]
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Wow that is an cool video.

And yes I do consider myself a proud tea party supporter*.

I was once told that "Even though there will always be disagreement, it's important that everyone exercises their freedom of speech. Because once you stop talking, the government will assume you support what they do. "


*Does that surprise anyone???

[eagle_eye222001]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='28 February 2010 - 03:37 AM' timestamp='1267346261' post='2064173']
hmm, personally if it wasnt for the abortion thing, i wouldn't mind if the GOP never won another election. the way the party is currently anyways.

and the teaparty being a political party would pretty much ensure that. no liberals would join it, it would cut out enough support from the republicans so they wouldn't win, and not enough so that the tea party could beat the liberals. not to mention, the remaining conservatives might just jump ship to liberal s and other third parties.

it would be a weird system for an election or two.
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The whole reason the Tea Party is off the ground and getting national attention is due to the incompetence of the majority democratic party under their community-experienced-undeserving-Nobel-Peace Prize President. I don't think you have been paying attention to politics recently as there are two cases of conservatism outright crashing the general political party atmosphere.

What about NY-23 where the conservative came out of nowhere in the last few weeks, forced the Republican in name only to withdraw days before the race to avoid a scandalous loss at the polls and barely losing to the democratic by 5 thousand votes with no party support until mere days before the election? If the party was behind the conservative guy to begin with, it is very reasonable to think the democrat would have lost.

What about the upcoming senate race in Florida with the conservative Rubio coming out of nowhere and sending Crist, a very popular LIBERAL Republican who was completely winning in polls and very likely to decimate the opposing democrat (while not scientific nevertheless tend to accurately portray trends) scrambling? Rubio was behind by thirty points in the polls when he entered the race. Now the race between the conservative GOP and the liberal is a dead heat.

While liberals are not going to join the Tea party, there is a great dissatisfaction with the status quo and independents as evident by the recent special elections in Virginia and New Jersey. While a conservative did not win in these states, it was a big loss and a telling sign that the democrat candidate lost and the GOP won.

[Veridicus]

I am in favor of constructive dissent against the bureaucratic political class that stalemates real progress. Democracy is strengthened when people care enough to let their voices be heard...and sometimes voting simply isn't enough for your voice to be heard. This is true whether I agree with a particular movement or not. The voices of special interests are sure to make themselves heard.

Edited March 1, 2010 by Veridicus

[elizabeth09]

I like paying taxes because they help roads to stay nice, but I really do not like paying them. I take no side.

[Saint Therese]

I went to the big Tea Party last year in San Antonio. I think a better term for the people who attend these gatherings might be "constitutionalists". I never heard anyone there advocating not paying taxes.

And on a side note, Ted Nugent plays a wicked guitar!

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Edited March 1, 2010 by Saint Therese