Re: Tales of the Tea Party

Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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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?

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