Letter: Tea Party offers thanks (April 27)
Thank you for your generous publicity of the Madera Tea Party and for your unwavering support of the ideals our founding fathers set forth in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and many other historical documents.
We will continue to stand firm against the encroachment of big government. We will continue to speak out loudly and boldly against infractions that undermine our freedom and liberty. We will continue to embrace the Christian principles, ideals, and values that have carried this great nation for over 200 years.
Travis Taylor, treasurer,
Madera Tea Party Team
Where were you Tea Party goers when Bush was leading us into socialism with his bailouts?
First to claim something as upholding the Constitution and fighting the encroachment of big government…it’s a load of cr-p, you’re toeing a GOP party line. The politics in their party are driving their influence down, and pushing them backwards into a regional party.
Look at the facts…these Tea Parties are a response to having a Democratic majority, and the fact that the President is black. No two ways about it. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the guilty conscience statements on your posters and t-shirts. “it’s not about race, it’s about politics” It’s a line of cr-p all around.
You’re joking, right?
Actually what “Concerned” stated in the last paragraph is more true than what you and a lot of Conservatives might want to admit.. But that does not make everything else stated completely accurate.
It appears that we have some delusion occuring here in the Red Line. For those of us that attended the Tea Party heard reasons for the displeasure with current spending policies. Many of the reasons and comments during the event made mention of President Bush. Once again, I would advise that we review history and actually go back to FDR’s New Deal and the negative effects that it produced. The policies and ideals of the New Deal have oozed into our society for many years and through many presidents.
To make the record straight on the other two accusations, the Tea Party is a response to over taxing and fraudulent spending. While this can be a strictly financial or economic concern, the overspending and welfare state that we live in has begun to cross moral lines that should not be crossed.
As far as race is concerned the accusations could not be further off the mark. Many of us have financially supported minorities, their causes, and specifically minority candidates. To be more specific in case a skewed definition of minorities is perceived, many of us have supported black candidates. Our displeasure with Mr. Obama has nothing to do with the color of his skin. The reason we do no support him is that he does not align with the beliefs we hold dear and that founded our nation. In fact I would invite anyone to google “neglected voices” follow the link to the New York University of Law and review the influence black leaders had during the reconstruction period. Review the facts and I believe you will discover these great men do not align with the positions of today’s proud Democrat.
God Bless America!
The point continues to be: why now? If the negative effects have been oozing in for many years, is it just a coincidence that these protests have started around the same time as having a Democratic majority and a president who is black? I’m sorry, but when I see shirts, signs, and bumper stickers demeaning the President…all of which have either nothing to do with spending, are a retread of the (untrue) talking points from the election, or are calling the President a socialist (which also is an unfounded accusation at worst and an extreme example of over exaggeration at best), I’m left to wonder.
It’s all just a coincidence that these protests have happened since we elected a new president (who happens to be black, and has a “foreign” sounding name). It’s a coincidence that now they happen and they’re about “spending” when the alternative option in the election was planning on spending too, though not to the same degree. It’s a coincidence that Bush did more to start the chain of bailouts and enlarged the government more than what has gone on since…and it’s about here that I start to see too many coincidences. You may truly believe deep down that it’s not about race or political affiliation, but let’s not go crazy and act as if they don’t play a role in this coming when it did.
WEBMASTER’S NOTE: In fairness, perhaps I should point out the disappearance of protests in the U.S. against the war in Iraq after the election of President Barack Obama, despite the fact that his timetable for withdrawal is unchanged from the one the previous president left behind. Obama has also boosted spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Partisanship is a common affliction in the U.S., regardless of arguably noble sentiments that cross party lines. Neither party is immune. But that doesn’t mean the values championed by protesters, whether anti-war or anti-taxes, are necessarily invalid.
The first (modern-day) Tea Party was actually 12/16/07 (when Bush was in office), where we raised 6 mil for Ron Paul.
There is a large subset of the “Tea Party” movement that has consistently protested the overspending of BOTH administrations – check out Judge Napolitano, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, etc.
“Concerned” seems to want to rant on and on about race. Can you just face the facts that the Tea Party has a perfectly good reason to be doing what it is doing? The “race card” is played oh so often these days. Nice “defense” but it doesn’t always work. Seems like you have absolutely nothing to argue about against the Tea Party therefore pulling the “race card”.
If you attended the Tea Party speech (which I can guarantee you did not), you would have heard countless outrages toward President Bush and his bailout stance and start. You would also find that many in the makings of the Madera County Tea Party are not Republicans either.
Chew on that and realize that its not always what it seems to be (or what you want it to be).
More often than not, people like to run interference, which is why I’ve not mentioned that yes, I was at the Save Mart Center, and was witness to a man painted completely brown, with a sign that read: “Even Blacks Hate Obama”
There were far too many shirts with comments based on Republican smears from the campaign (which some have taken as Gospel truth), far too many people buying into the notion that the President is anything more than the leader of the executive branch. I did assume that all of the Tea Party members were Republican, forgive me, there are clearly other parties that buy whatever Fox News Corp is selling. The entire Save Mart Center Tea Party was sounding like Rush, Savage, and O’Reilly’s leftovers…not exactly the brightest bunch to take after.
So forgive me for assuming that it had everything to do with the President’s race, when there are blackface painted men with signs, people with shirts bearing the president’s image but with his skin darkened (similar to what news stations did to OJ Simpson’s picture…it made him look even more sinister than he already does), and bearing slogans about being a secret Muslim…and bashing his Christian pastor too.
Oddly enough, logic seems to not work on the most hardcore of the zealots, and this is coming from a left-leaning moderate. The hardcore right has gone so far to the right that it would be laughable, only that they’re moving themselves right out of viability into near insanity.