Re: Tales of the Tea Party
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I *will* say that one of the things I find ... curious ... about the > whole phenomenon is the way that someone like Kyle Smith can praise the Tea > Party for ditching religion and social issues in favour of purely fiscal > matters My impression is that this is what the Tea Party was originally. Then we had a bunch of socially conservative people join the movement and push it in that direction. And now, perhaps, it's coming back to its original intent? > on the other hand a Tea Party hero like Glenn Back can lead > a massive rally and, in doing so, downplay political matters in favour of > something resembling a religious revival. That wasn't really a Tea Party rally, though, was it? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot