Comments on: Update III: The State of the Tea Party Movement (Coulter Mistakes Movement's I.D.)

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:13 +0000

My take is that we need to take the tea party momentum and focus it at the local level with local groups and welcome all people with a constitutional idea of how our government should work. We should not worry so much what political party one belongs to, if any.

By: Theodor Lauppert

Theodor Lauppert — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:55 +0000

Coulter berates California as a laboratory for Democratic governance. I thought that state was governed by a Republican.

She is quoting American Prospect magazine from June 2002, when the governor was still Gray Davis.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:05:34 +0000

I am skeptical enough about human nature to believe that this Tea Party stuff will become a shell for Mitt, Newt, and the Grand Old Party. There is a wonderful old movie called “Meet John Doe” where a spontaneous “John Doe Movement” winds up being manipulated by this proto-fascist industrialist just to promote him to the Presidency. The Tea Party cannot merely be about taxes – in fact, for the spending that is going on, America is UNDER taxed (e.g. it is really really overspending big time). Still, cutting spending has not been anyone’s ticket to electoral success for generations.

By: JP Strauss

JP Strauss — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:26:22 +0000

I wonder if we can have one of those Tea Parties here in Cape Town?

By: Werner Patels

Werner Patels — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:26:08 +0000

I think it’s just great. I am not a believer in Big Government — Big Government is the source of all evil and ALWAYS ends in corruption and waste.

Let’s hope the Tea Party Movement rubs off on Canadians and their pathological fascination with Big Government.