Musing About Tea Parties and Party Affiliation

Michael Barone tries to figure out Tea Party affiliations and link them to some other movement in our past. This makes no sense to me. Tea Partiers want smaller government, lower taxes and the founding father's principles adhered to. Since Democrats want none of the above, why is there a question about how Tea Partiers will vote. Could they vote Democrat? Not in this current day. Would they vote Libertarian or Independent. Quite possibly.

But if they stay involved, the tea partiers are likely to gravitate to the Republican Party, just as the antiwar fold gravitated to the Democratic Party, on which they had a long-lasting and pervasive effect...

Tea partiers have caused some internal party splits (see the New York District 23 special election) and some may launch primary challenges or theird-party efforts that will elect Democrats. Any time a large number of motivated people inject themselves into electoral politics, they cause a certain amount of chaos.

Exactly. By not injecting ourselves into electoral politics, we have insane Democrats running the country. New York 23 is a good example of what really got the ball rolling for conservative activists. The GOP did what they too often have done...picked a RINO as a candidate, gave her money...lots of money. Tea Party watchdogs picked up on it when a conservative candidate challenged the RINO. The conservative didn't win, but then he had zero support from the Grand Old Party. Still yet, it was a victory for conservatives. We expect the GOP to be more discerning and actually do some research before future endorsements. It's laughable to think we would expect the same from the DNC.

Barone believes the lash back from conservatives is mainly about spending, but I maintain that it is equally, if not more, about freedom and liberty:

It's not clear whether the tea partiers' influence on Republicans will last as long as the antiwar cohort's imprint on Democrats. But their concern -- the fact that government spending is on a trajectory to increase far beyond revenues -- seems likely to persist. In which case a spontaneous movement that no one predicted and that no one person led could end up again, reshaping one of our great political parties.

I believe if the vigor for smaller government, lower taxes and adherence to the vision of the founding fathers ever diminishes, now that it has been re-founded, it will be a very, very long time. That's the gift Barack Obama's election gave us - the knowledge, insight  and vision to understand what the wrong choice for leadership, by an uninformed citizenry and criminally-complicit press, can do to a freedom-loving people, their children and generations beyond.

I don't see the fascination with decrying a Tea Party connection to Republicans, as long as the Tea Party quest is to advocate for smaller government, lower taxes and adhering to our founding documents. How out-of-character it would be for a Tea Partier to vote Democrat?

Glenn Beck on Tom Hanks' Military Annihilation Accusations

First, a word from Tom Hanks:

Pacific, now, is coming out where it represents a war of racism and terror. It seemed as though the only way to complete one of these battles on a small speck of rock, in the middle of nowhere, is to, I'm sorry, Kill them all. Does that sound familiar with what we are going through today.

Is this what schools teach today? Is this what young adults believe the War in the Pacific was all about?

Japan was set to expand into Asia to countries that did not welcome her. She needed oil. No one  assumed she would not find the oil and take it. There were many complexities in Japan's relations with Britain and France, which complicated matters in the U.S.  Once Japan replaced the Peace Party with their War Party, the stage was set. The plan was to seize the oil fields in the Indies, and they saw the U.S. as an enemy in that endeavor. So they attacked Pearl Harbor.  How is this argued any other way?

America had two choices to end the war. Invade Japan or drop the bombs. An invasion was estimated to leave 35% of our landing forces dead - at least, depending on the size of the Japanese forces greeting us. Civilians were in training to join the fighting forces. Estimates of the dead including both Japanese and American forces were estimated at 250,000 to five million. Some 105,000 people perished in the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The original purpose of the atomic bomb was to clear the beaches for a land invasion, so had the war not ended with the bombings of two cities, the bombs would likely have been used on the beaches. And Americans would have died.

Is Hanks' case that after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor, American soldiers should have, in the end, laid down their lives for the Japanese, rather than ending the war. Apparently, that is what he thinks.

Had we wanted to "kill them all," we could have killed them all. Instead we killed fewer, while they were killing us. If we wanted to "kill them all" today, we could do so. Obviously, that is not our goal. We are building schools, hospitals, electrical grids and water plants. None of which worked for the people under Saddam Hussein.

It deeply offends me that Tom Hanks says the war with Japan was about racism and terror, and that today, we want to "kill them all," as our own soldiers have been blown apart trying to make Iraqi towns safe for the people.

These days, Sean Penn is more palatable than Tom Hanks.

More from Hanks:

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kiss us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

I read a comment saying that Tom Hanks' had more in common with Forrest Gump than we could imagine, but Forrest was a patriot. He didn't make stuff up. It was what it was, and it wasn't what Tom Hanks says it was.

The video below is Glenn Beck with radio sidekicks Pat and Stu. This is a longer discussion but one worth having and listening to. Beck makes the point that America must begin looking out for herself. The way we do that is strike a lethal blow when we are struck, get back to our lives as quickly as possible - and in the main, quit protecting those able to protect themselves.

Watch the video here or go over to RightScoop and read the commentary there before watching the video.

Glenn Beck -America's Military Might and Tom Hank's Annihilation Accusations (video)

William Bill Ayers America A Warrior Nation: Obama 60 Minutes Interview Right Out of Ayers Mouth

Barack Obama's disdain for America's Military-might is taken straight from the mouth of Bill Ayers. Obama's horribly harsh words about our Military in Afghanistan, and the Bush administration's actions there mimicked a recent interview of Bill Ayers. Have to wonder how recently they cozied-up and planned their strategy.

 William Bill Ayers

Barack Obama, speaking with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes, bashed the Bush administration for entering into Afghanistan with an attitude of the war being "some glorious exercise," as our soldiers searched for al-Qaeda and some sense of justice for those who died on September 11, 2001. He mocked the winning attitude taken by the military, as the tendency to believe "We can go in; we can kick some tail."

Well, yes we certainly can kick some tail, even when the Commander-in-Chief is no Commander at all, and even if when that Commander-in-Chief has abdicated all reason for respect of leadership or his love of this country. His children are freerer only because the U.S. can kick some tail, no credit to him.

Disdaining victory, when soldiers are risking their lives, loved ones are sacrificing, and their Commander-in-Chief boils it down to "some glorious exercise," - right out of the mouth of radical Weatherman, William "Bill" Ayers.

From FreedomsLighthouse:

Ayers criticized the United States as a "warrior nation" and said he believes the War in Afghanistan is "an invasion and an occupation." Ayers said Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is a "catastrophe."

He really summed up his view of his own nation by saying that "the idea (America) has been a force for good in the world for the last six decades is utter nonsense."

Ayers is a man who can't stand his own country. Despite the hundreds of millions of people who have been liberated by the United States, despite the defeat of the Soviet Union, despite America's work to feed the hungry and provide medicine and aid across the world, Ayers sees nothing good about the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

These are the people our President has listened to for years. Ayers displays for us the attitude that many on the Left have about America. That's why they are so dead set on "change." They don't like our history, our values, and the principles that have made America the defender of freedom in the world. Essentially, they want America to stop being America, and become a socialist European-style state. I don't believe this is what Americans were bargaining for when they voted for Obama out of emotion, fear and frustration. We'll find out in the 2010 mid-term elections.

As you watch the video below, you'll hear Ayers call for the closing of all American military bases around the world. Be reminded as Ayers talks, that Obama funneled millions of dollars to Ayers, and don't forget this part of the Ayers-Obama relationship. Ayers indicates that he will be a very active participant in turning America into a weak, ineffectual Nation.

 William Bill Ayers (video)

Photo Credit: Chicago Magazine

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