Here’s Fox News on the speech by Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa:
The rhetoric coming from speakers at the event was already heated before Hoffa took the stage. Hoffa then declared there’s a “war on workers” and vowed that organized labor would “remember in November” which lawmakers were opposing the president’s agenda.This sounds like violent rhetoric to me. I will expect violence after this union/Obama rally of violent hate rhetoric. These people want us to be more like Greece and Europe riots and all. All that talk about "workers" you would think that the unions are the only workers in this country. The Tea Partiers are workers too. I've never seen so many narcasitic people in one place. I'm sure it will cost Detroit a fortune to clean up the mess these warmongers make. You do remember what they left every city they rallied in look like. Who in their right mind would let such people run this country when they treat the places they meet at like a third world garbage dump. Does anyone think they wouldn't do the same to our government if they had any control over it?
“We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face — a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party,” he said. “And there’s only one way to beat and win that war — the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.”
Hoffa called on workers to get involved in opposing Tea Party-aligned lawmakers next November.
“President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march,” Hoffa said. “But everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these sons of bitches out.”
We the tax payers have done more then enough bailing out of unions. We don't have any money or credit to "build" anything. We don't have any more money to bail out the unions.
The unions are making a stance. They have declared war against those that don't stand with them and their demands. We all know what "war" means and what they mean by it. As they say "all is fair in love and war". Unions have a long history of violence and we should expect nothing less from them.
If you stand with the unions on the war with the Tea Party I'd like to know what you think? Is violence and vandalism to be expected from the unions? Did you go to the war rally in Detroit? What did you think of the Obama speech and the other speakers?
From the Tea Party patriots, what do you expect the unions to do in this war on the Tea Party? Are you afraid of the unions? Will this make you not go to rallies or will it do just the opposite? What are your planes to protect yourself from these warmongers? Do you think the Tea Party should stand against this call to war against them?
UPDATE:
CNN's John King failed to ask Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa about about his threatening "son of bitches" remark at a Labor Day rally attended by President Obama. The interview lasted just over six minutes and covered various topics from Obama's upcoming jobs speech to Mitt Romney. Yet, there was no time to ask Mr. Hoffa about this comment:
"President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong," Hoffa added.
I see a fearful, desperate man that knows his reign is nearing an end.
ReplyDeleteThe TEA PARTY will rescue America from the Progressive/Global elite !!!!
TEA !!!!
what kind of kool-aid did most of you drink ?
Don’t remember a month ago when RON PAUL DOMINATED the Debates and it was covered up?
I REMEMBER !!!
RON PAUL is leading all real polls but you can’t get the info. My worthless local paper, which is socialist-biased and probably Soros owned, had a lengthy article on the upcoming Republican debates, and did not mention his name ONCE !!!! BLAZE is partial.
RON will be our next president if the global syndicate does not stop him.
Bring on your violent rhetoric. You have just lost the war!
Right now the fact is they are stirring people of the left up for any confrontation they initiate; the instant anyone uses hostilities against another — even one where the union thugs start the mess, will be blamed upon the Tea Party and the Conservatives. Then we will see Mr Obama and Holder strike with the Department of Justice to take out the Tea Party on hate and race crimes.
ReplyDeleteThey need to have some event happen so they can bring the roof down and an iron fist and boot as the same time. If no one will provide one, they will make one happen.
Happy Labor Day all.
On this day that is set aside to celebrate the American laborer, Americans should recall the many benefits that organized labor have provided our country:
ReplyDelete1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — almost double what most Americans work now. Yet in the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, labor unions engaged in massive strikes in order to demand shorter workweeks so that Americans could be home with their loved ones instead of constantly toiling for their employers with no leisure time. By 1937, these labor actions created enough political momentum to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which helped create a federal framework for a shorter workweek that included room for leisure time.
2. Unions Helped End Child Labor: “Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organization’s like the “National Consumers’ League” and the National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor. The very first American Federation of Labor (AFL) national convention passed “a resolution calling on states to ban children under 14 from all gainful employment” in 1881, and soon after states across the country adopted similar recommendations, leading up to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act which regulated child labor on the federal level for the first time.
3. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage: “The rise of unions in the 1930′s and 1940′s led to the first great expansion of health care” for all Americans, as labor unions banded workers together to negotiate for health coverage plans from employers. In 1942, “the US set up a National War Labor Board. It had the power to set a cap on all wage increases. But it let employers circumvent the cap by offering “fringe benefits” – notably, health insurance.” By 1950, “half of all companies with fewer than 250 workers and two-thirds of all companies with more than 250 workers offered health insurance of one kind or another.”
4. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act: Labor unions like the AFL-CIO federation led the fight for this 1993 law, which “requires state agencies and private employers with more than 50 employees to provide up to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid leave annually for workers to care for a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill family member or for the worker’s own illness.”
And yet, despite the many benefits unions have provided the United States, right-wing politicians and business interests have for years sought to undermine the ability of Americans to organize to demand better pay, benefits, and conditions. From the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act to the recent GOP-led efforts to kill public worker collective bargaining rights, these assaults have successfully decreased union membership over time. In the prosperous 1950′s, nearly one in three Americans was in a union. Today, it is closer to one in ten.
This has had a deterimental effect on the American middle class. As the following chart from CAP’s David Madland and Karla Waters demonstrates, as union membership fell from the 1970′s to the present, the middle class’s share of national income fell as well:
But Americans do not have to allow the assault on unions to succeed and the middle class to decline. As Wisconsin taught the nation, when people come together and organize, they can help beat back the attack on Main Street America. As you enjoy Labor Day today, think about what you can do to help the same labor unions that brought you the weekend, health care coverage, strong wages, and a robust middle class. One great place to start is to help campaigns like We Are Ohio, which is working to repeal the anti-labor law pass by Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) in Ohio.
This is just a fine example of Jimmy Jr. following in his dads footsteps.
ReplyDeleteF*&% Hoffa!!!
I'd like to know exactly what he meant by his words.
Was it a war at the ballot box or on the streets of America?
It's about time that the unions joined the war that's being waged on them.
ReplyDeleteThe unions are ready and President Obama is ready to take on all the insane Tea party insanity that has taken America down the drain.
Fight on!!!!
This is just a pathetic rally of the Tea party.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a million people to me.
Hahahaha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZIrgPKpKLc&feature=player_embedded
Weekends and health insurance are one thing. Unions also have brought us protected, mediocre workers who get paid without regard to merit or abilities. Unions have brought us states where a person doesn't have the right to be employed in a field without belonging to their socialist cult and supporting their anti-democratic agenda. Unions have brought us school systems that cannot reward talented teachers. Yes, there was a time when unions served a purpose, even a necessity. Today, the goals have been accomplished. It's time to beat the swords into ploughshares and get back to work building America back into the great nation it once was.
ReplyDeleteWell I see the normal liberal think not element has left their cave.
ReplyDeleteIts amazing the amount of attention these libs can give to a group of Middle Class American citizens.
Well the problem to these leftist is the Tea Party aint going anywhere but they are and soon. Its amazing how the Tea Party can be blamed for taking the country down the drain when the LEFT controlled the entire legislative proccess for two full years and actually through inept leadership made it worse.
Left will attack Tea Party for one reason. They have a record of FAILURE and DEFENDING it well is impossible. Its the attack the messenger Rhetoric because the only thing LEFT would be to admitt their FAILURE which the MIDDLE CLASS has felt the most.
Bruce Turn out only counts at election time and that will be the ONLY turnout that matters. The choice will be simple UNEMPLOYMENT,DEBT,BROKEN ECONOMY will be the REAL issues and the REGIME has FAILED and OWNS its FAILURE with actually NO help from anybody over the last two years.
Lets remember Nobama say in 2006 that RAISING the DEBT ceiling was a sign that the President had FAILED. Will he was actually right if only by accident. Once again keep that tim hat and paper mache head handy your going to need it!
Wouldn't you know it, Fox edited the speech to make it appear Hoffa was calling for violence.
ReplyDeleteImagine that.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109050003
In response to UAW Local 228….
ReplyDelete1. Another day where employers pay for workers to stay home, but who wants to give up a freebie? Not the workers.
2. I agree ending child labor laws was a good thing. That was in 1938.
3. Employer based health coverage? Something else for the employer to pay for. We would have all been better off getting the $$$ as income and taking care of ourselves, but that would have meant taking personal responsibility
4. Family and Medical Leave Act – give me a break! What small employer can afford to have a worker out for 12 weeks while being forced to hold that job for them even WITHOUT paying them. Take a survey and see how many small businesses will absolutely NOT increase their worker base beyond 49 employees because of this very act.
Unions did have a place ‘back in the day’…. But that day has passed. Now they use their power to bludgeon employers. As Hoffa clearly showed yesterday – they are a bunch of thugs with a political agenda and nothing more. It’s a good thing I don’t own Boeing because we would be closing down in Washington and on our way to South Carolina and skrew the NLRB!
UNIONS INSPIRE MEDIOCRITY!
I was there Bruce. It wasn't edited. Ask anyone or watch it on MSNBC or CNN. It needed to be said. Either we take out those sons of bitches or they will take the unions out. The end.
ReplyDeleteMatt, all you have to do is watch the video and you know it WAS edited. He was referring to the 2012 elections, not physical violence.
ReplyDeleteOpen your god damned ears, Matt.
The Media Matters article points out the sentence that was edited out by Fox.
In Nov. the American voters said their peace and put in the Tea Party candidates across the board. People hate what the unions have become. They act more like moffia thugs then workers. They act like they are the only people in the country that are workers. They forget that we are all workers. Unions have been screwing over their own members so that they can have power. That is why so many union members don't support their unions. The unions speak with one vioce even though they have many perspectives not being heard by the union. I know for a fact that many UAW workers are getting sick and tired of Obama and the Democratic Party. They know that the new EPA regulations on car emissions is hurting the American auto industry and cutting into profits. They know that those profits are shared with the UAW workers. They know that when Democrats talk about taxing the rich it means the
ReplyDeleteBig Three will have less profit to share with them. Union members are starting to realize that the members are getting screwed big time.
The lie that Obama bailed out the Big three is just that. Bush is the one that gave the loans not Obama. So why is the union leaders saying that Obama should get the credit? One day soon the UAW will be obsolite and machines will do their work all because of greed. The new employees only make $14 and hr. so that the old employees can keep making their big money. Do you think that Americans will keep paying out the nose so that the union members can make such a huge income?
The middle class supports the unions by paying more for their cars and paying higher taxes. That isn't the unions doing anything for the middle class but screwing them and demanding more. We bailed out the unions in both the private and public sector and it still isn't enough. They want more. Good luck stricking. Without the backing of the American consumer your strick will last forever. And people just don't care about the unions since the unions don't care about us.
I hear that Detroit was a mess after the union/Obama rally. It will cost Detroit a lot of money they don't have to clean up after them. Can't you people clean up after yourseloves for a change?
Bruce, Palin used the same target that Democrats used time and time again. But you guys said it was a call to violence. Telling people that it's time to take the Tea Party out can be taken both ways. If their is violence because of this it is on the hands of unions. You must be held by the same standard as you have held us to. You can't have it both ways.
ReplyDeleteThis is what ABC News had to say...By Mary Bruce
ReplyDeleteWhite House Declines To Comment On Union Leader’s Anti-Tea Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally
Despite President Obama’s repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House had no comment this afternoon after Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa, speaking at an event before President Obama, said of Tea Party activists that, come November, Democrats should “take these sons of bitches out.”
Warming up the crowd before President Obama’s Labor Day speech in Detroit this afternoon, Hoffa warned the largely union crowd that the Tea Party was waging a “war on workers.”
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual event organized by the Detroit Labor Council.
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march…Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he concluded.
The Tea Party Express has called on President Obama to “condemn this inappropriate and uncivil rhetoric,” saying it “has no place in the public forum.”
“Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks are inexcusable and amount to a call for violence on peaceful tea party members, which include many Teamster members,” Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer said in a written statement.
During the 2008 campaign, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., immediately rebuked talk radio host Bill Cunningham when he disparaged then-Senator Obama in his opening remarks at a McCain campaign event. Cunningham had fueled rumors that Obama was Muslim by repeatedly referring to him by his full name “Barack Hussein Obama.”
McCain immediately took responsibility and profusely apologized for Cunningham’s remarks.
Should President Obama do the same regarding Hoffa comments about the Tea Party? The president has repeatedly called for increased civility in American politics. “Only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation,” the president said in January.
“I do believe there is hope for civility. I do believe there’s hope for progress,” Obama said after last November’s midterm elections.
At the time Obama admitted that he had neglected “some things that matter a lot to people,” including “maintaining a bipartisan tone in Washington,” and that he planned to “redouble my efforts to go back to some of those first principles.”
If Hoffa was talking about taking us out with votes then why didn't he say the Republican Party? That is who you would vote against, not the Tea Party. If Hoffa mis spoke he needs to clearify it. At this point he hasn't said anything and neither has the WH. Think about it Bruce.
ReplyDeleteWhat does an "army" do when they "take those sons of bitches out"? Is that enough context for ya? All is fair in love and "war", right? What do you do in "war" with an "army"? Those are Hoffa's words not mine.
ReplyDeletei JUST UPDATED THE POST
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Gabriel Giffords is going to be a division leader in Obama and Hoffa’s Unionista Army? Perhaps Nancy Pelosi will be commander of the Unionista Air Force, since she has so many hours with her head in the clouds as ex-speaker of the house of representatives under both progressives, Bush and his ‘Super Steroid Patriot Act’ wanna-be, the ultra liberal Neo-Con war monger himself, Obama.
ReplyDeleteDon’t get me wrong, unions used to server a useful purpose and they where actually about the worker. No longer though. It is about crony capitalism, power and money. Unions are nothing more than a money laundering tool for the democratic party. They espouse pure disdain for liberty and freedom from the top down to the very last worker as they funnel union dues to illegal activities designed to rig elections. If they are paying dues they are complicit in the destruction of the American way of life.
Is this the "civilian army" obama was talking about in 2008?
ReplyDeleteThe stock market didn't like Obama's Labor Day speech much.
ReplyDeleteWhen are things going to get better instead of worse?
January 20, 2013
ReplyDeleteBruce, you are a real dumbass. Stop apologizing for Hoffa. He meant what he said and said what he meant and I agree with him. BAMN
ReplyDeleteI was there. Where were you Bruce?
How pittiful, only 13,000 people showed up to see the POTUS speak in Detroit. That shows you that no one cares what Obama has to say. You would think that the unions and Democrats could have gotten more support then 13,000 people. Matt and Bruce, it turns out no one was there but a few radical leftist union thugs. LMAO at how lame the unions and Obama are. And Bruce is making fun of the Tea Party packing DC with hundreds of thousands of Tea Partiers. Good luck in 2012. You'll need it.
ReplyDeleteChris 13,00 for POTUS talking points!
ReplyDeleteOver 30,000 cross bridge with SNYDER! Ouch!
Oh Bruce, once again you need to STOP reading media matters. They bald faced lied, like their claim (from your link) that "During the segment that the bloggers have latched onto, Fox edited out the bolded portion of Hoffa's comments"
ReplyDeleteWill guess what, they didn't...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/05/hoffa-on-tea-party-take-these-sons-bitches-out/
The claim that Fox took out "President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march, but everybody here's got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son-of-a-bitches out."
Fox never removed AYTHING.
You just take MM word for it, but don't do your own homework.
Matt, I was there. Gosh, I guess I didn't see you.
ReplyDeleteI bet you feel like the fool now Bruce. Mark sure did a great job of pointing out how Soros' Media Matters is full of crape. Keep up the good work Bruce. LOL
ReplyDeleteMedia Matters got it right. I have my own video of the speech.
ReplyDeleteHow does it feel to know that only 13,000 people showed up to see the President? How can you say Media Matters got it right when they got it wrong? Who cares about your video? Media Maters lied about Fox and you can't handle that truth. Typical liberal.
ReplyDelete13,000 was all the venue would hold. I'm sure he could have filled a bigger area.
ReplyDeleteWay more than the Tea Party can put together these days. AFP only had a handful of people at their rally.
Teabaggers are now reduced to a joke on the American scene.
Security was very tight and all you gun toting mouth breathing teabaggers never would have made it through security. You certainly wouldn't pass a psychological profile.
Bruce Tea Party will be around in 2012and will reduce the joke of a regime to what it deserves FAILURE at the ballot box.
ReplyDeleteIfin theres ANYBODY that would know first hand about psychological profile my moneys on you! hey when you wear a paper machet head to event kinda hard to miss that psychological thingy you know so well!
Where was that venue anyway? The bridge crossing seemed to have many more Citizens. You'd have thought liberals in all their wisdom simply would have gotten a BIGGER venue. Liberals cannot seem to get anything RIGHT!
Bruce only 13,000 people showed up. No one was turned away. They would have packed the downtown area if anyone would have shown up for that lame event. The UAW sent letters begging us to go to the event. I'm sure the other unions did the same. We Tea Partiers have more control then the unions have and that is why they are jealous of us and keep talking about us. I hate to tell you this Bruce but the Tea Party is busy with all it's new members in government. We don't have to try and gain power since we have it. The unions are nothing more then specks on our asses to us. When Palin comes to town she even gets more people to show up. Maybe next time Obama comes to town he can have it at the mall. It will be more coasy that way. LOL. But as AL pointed out Rick Snyder was able to bring out a much bigger crowd then that and he ain't the President.
ReplyDeleteChris, you don't have much power. You have control of one branch of the government. You will have no control after 2012.
ReplyDeleteTea baggers are even less influential now than they ever were. The American people identify far less with the Tea party than they did in 2010 after seeing how unreasonable they are and how little they care for middle class Americans.
Here's to taking out the Tea Party at the ballot box.
At a Labor Day event yesterday, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa gave a fiery speech about the tea party, telling the American people that “It’s time to take these sons of bitches out.” And each and every one of us should listen. For the last thirty years, the American people have been under assault from the right-wing and their corporate overlords. Everything that makes America strong is being weakened and the American people are suffering. So if you need a reason why we should end the Republican/Tea Party, here are 80 of them.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/06/80-reasons-why-its-time-to-take-these-republicantea-party-sons-of-bitches-down/
Bruce Once again you seem to miss the point but thats not surprizing! The American people for decades have been under assault by politicans in general. The Tea Party is quite simply CITIZENS of all Partys who are FRANKLY fed up with any politican that seems to think Citizens are the Servants to them. Well some politicans found out in 2010 that is no longer exceptable and Im afraid REGIME will not learn its Lesson and will be dispatched for one reason FAILURE. No amount of Rhetoric or THREATS will keep the Tea Party from doing the RIGHT thing. The ones you call Terrorist Barbarians Racist and god knows what else are True American Citizens doing their God Given right to protest and demonstrate. You know those CONSTITUTIONAL thingys that seem to get in YOUR way!
ReplyDeleteLiberalism has FAILED and RIGHT now being you really SUCKS!
If you want to hear bloated, bureaucratic blowhard ideas that have never worked to make America a strong, powerful, successful, wealthy, and an influential nation, listen to Hoffa and Bruce.
ReplyDeleteEverything that has made "America strong" is liberty, free markets/enterprise, entrepreneurship and the will to find one’s own prosperity through ones own initiative and determination. TO be competitive of your own accord and not having things given to you by demand, made this nation what it once was.
Time to take it back and leave the nannie state in the dust.
If what you say about the Tea Party not having any power then why has Obama and the Democratic Party try and blame them for everying the Democratic Party has done over the last 5 years? Why is it that our control of the 1/2 of the House has done more to change Obama? After 2012 there wont be a liberal left to make fun of. And you liberals can go back to placing blame on the Republican Party for cleaning up your mess.
ReplyDeleteAl, the Tea Party is just a re-branding of the Republican party, only they are more violent, more racist, more white than the old Republican party.
ReplyDeleteNothing more, nothing less than mostly old, white, racist Republicans under a new banner.
Bruce If thats the best RHETORIC you got you'd better reload Ooops! Your post is a sign of the FAILURE coming your way! Being you any time must SUCK but Defending this Failure of a regime must have you ready to put that paper mache head on!
ReplyDeleteLets remember the experts with high pressure hoses!
Oh, Al. I wish it were just rhetoric.
ReplyDelete"the Tea Party is just a re-branding of the Republican party, only they are more violent, more racist, more white than the old Republican party.
ReplyDeleteNothing more, nothing less than mostly old, white, racist Republicans under a new banner."
Violent? Where?
Racist? Where?
White... That's a pretty racist statement
Ever interact with this movement, Bruce?
Be honest, HAVE YOU?
Ever go to their website?
Ever talk with them in person?
Or interact with them on comment boards, like this one?
The last one I can answer for you... Yes you have.
One being me.
Have you ever seen ME comment in a racist tone or rhetoric?
Being a part of the movement is not being loyal to any one party. Or how much money you have in your wallet.
It's a movement of liberty!
Plain, straight forward, simple and factual.
Mark, this article pretty much lays out what I said. The Tea Party is just the same old Republican party re-branded.
ReplyDeleteThey are NOT independents. I have interacted with the Tea Party at several of their protests. One threatened to kill me, (I have witnesses to the threat) a "pro-life" Republican. Pretty funny.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/09/15/129876488/who-is-the-tea-party-republicans-by-another-name
Bruce if that happened you would have pressed charges and you know it. That is the funny part. You always carry a video camera and try and play gotchya. First you get in their face with your passive agessive behavior and then you turn the camera on their standing up to you. We actually have violence from the unions and liberals on video without provocation. You can't say the same.
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Party has taken over the Republican Party, not the other way around. You know that we are going after the Democratic Party the same way. We want to destroy the Progressive movement within both Parties and it is working. You will see Democrats running away from the Progressive idiots within their Party. That is when you will know it is over for you and your ilk.
ReplyDeleteIf the Democratic Party doesn't sluff off it's Progressives then they will go the way of the Wigg Party. I'm sure the Libertarian Party is just waiting to take that project on.
Liberalism is the Democratic Party now and for that Democrats will pay the price. I recall last November the True Democrates were Running from this Regimes record. Regime cannot DEFEND its FAILURE so Tea Party is their Target if for no other reason to take Citizens eye off the ball. Citizens have for the most part figured this group of Merry Socialist. Citizens will throw out the Failures!
ReplyDeleteLiberalism which is trying to Destroy OUR Nation from within will do the same thing to the Democratic Party and that is a fact!
Chris, I did have my camera but I wasn't filming when he said it. I tried to get him to say it again on camera and he wouldn't say it. He was totally unprovoked and like I said, there are several witnesses.
ReplyDeleteBruce You had your camera but did not have it on.
ReplyDeleteBruce You tried to get him to say it again but he would'nt.
If this alledged incident took place what did you say to provoke him? Was it Hi how are you doing?
Was it my you seem like a nice guy?
Was it hows the family doing nice sign you have there?
Or was it None of the above just your Liberal Hog Wash!
Bruce, if that is the cast and you were threatened, those kinds of people are NOT welcome in the movement. However, with that said, we will defend ourselves if attacked.
ReplyDeleteJust as a very small few who did, at first, bring out questionable signs on Obama's race. It was not acceptable then, nor now, to us. PERIOD!
However, with that said, it doesn't make the movement racist, nor does one fringe person make them violent.
Now on to your link: This quote from Jon Rauch.
"Tea Partiers are white, bright and right on average. The minority presence is relatively small."
Does not make them racist, as there is a presence, and the presence is of the individuals choosing.
Have you ever heard someone, who is not white, say that the Tea Party Patriots didn't want them at their rallies?
Have you?
I have never heard such a thing and I am sure if it HAD happened, it be ALLLLLL over the news by now.....
"-->I don’t think that’s because they’re racist. I don’t think they are.<-- WHOW, did you catch that???
"I think it’s because they’re conservative and conservatives tend to attract more white voters than minority voters."
It's not because they are conservative. There are independence and Democrat supporters, also within the movement.
They are "Constitutionalist" first and foremost.
"They are bright. They are well educated. Finally, they are, many of them debranded Republicans."
There are disfranchised Republican with in this movement but also I will refer you to my above statement of independence and Democrat supporters, as a reminder.
RINO, in case you and NPR don't understand it are those republicans who are "liberal" minded republicans, like Olympia Snowe...
"That is to say they look and talk and sound like Republicans. They often vote like republicans. But many of them think of themselves as independents."
Have you seen the polls lately. Many independents have turn away from liberalism in recent years because of Obama, Pelosi and Reid and consider themselves more right leaning then left lately. This is the tread Rauch is seeing.
"That’s one reason they’re so unafraid to vote for Republican candidates in primaries who might lose to Democrats. They say it’s not about party and in their minds it really isn’t."
Christine O’Donnell comes to mind here when referring to 'they’re so unafraid to vote for Republican candidates in primaries who might lose to Democrats.' It’s about principle. They will vote on principle every time, regardless if they think they can beat there opponent.
Isn't it funny, Bruce, that I just got done posting pretty much saying the very same thing earlier..."Being a part of the movement is not being loyal to any one party. Or how much money you have in your wallet."
Hope you are getting a clearer picture here, Bruce.
Bruce if you want to see real violence just look at my newest posts on liberals and unions.
ReplyDeleteHerman Cain. Is he also racist? Are we racist for standing with him?
Let's look at the way liberal pigionhold blacks and make them victomes. Look at the way Democrats treat women like Clinton,Bachmann,Palin and such. Look at all the signs that were about having sex with Fox News hostes and raping them. That is why women are running from the Party that tries to make victomes of everyone so that they can control them.
ReplyDelete