Boston Tea Party on The Common

[buckman]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

About the tea party movement...

Let me ask a question.

In Rhode Island, the number of participants at the Tax day Rally last yearand this years rally was estimated to roughly be the same. I'm not sure about Boston.

Does that have any significance (i.e. because there were not significantly more people there after a year as a 'movement')?

Not a dig at the tea party. Just curious what you guys think.

I think the movement is losing steam. People are feeling like they don't matter. They are being misrepresented and the media has portrayed them poorly. Bashing the Tea Party movement is the new "cool thing" to do if your on the left. Bush bashing is so 2009.

I think come election time, the true feelings of the American people will come out. People who support the Tea Party vote.

[scottw]

well, when the president spends his time impuning you and prodding you for reactions, and the former president is trying to link you to domestic terrorism and the media is misrepresenting you by highlighting whatever fringe element they can drum up, I suppose you become a bit wary as a loosely affiliated "member" of such a "movement"..bottom line, these are not pot smoking hippies that don't have jobs or need showers and can just hang around for days ...and they aren't Union rent-a-mobs that show up on a moments notice...they're average Americans, most who have never done this stuff before and would prefer to be working and taking care of their families but see very clearly where the country is headed and decided this is an outlet for their voices...it's a strange obsession with Palin, Tea Parties and the like for some...can't stomp them into the dirt enough...do you feel threatened ??? they can't affect your life, they aren't on your lawn with their crazy signs and hats...Obama is taking care of everything now, you have nothing to fear....just chant "hope and change" and leave poor Sarah and the Tea Baggers alone will ya? JD...I'm talking to YOU !

[spence]

Originally Posted by buckman

They are being misrepresented and the media has portrayed them poorly.

I love it, blame the media

I thought Republicans were the party of self responsibility?

-spence

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

I love it, blame the media

I thought Republicans were the party of self responsibility?

-spence

How does being "self responsible" stop someone else from portraying you poorly?

[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

How does being "self responsible" stop someone else from portraying you poorly?

Who proved they did?

-spence

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

Who proved they did?

-spence

Actually, you didn't answer my question.

[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Actually, you didn't answer my question.

Which was based on circular logic...

-spence

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

Which was based on circular logic...

-spence

My question was not based upon the discipline of logic, circular or otherwise. It was a simple query regarding your non-sequitur.

Buckman opined that the media portrayed the TEA PARTY movement poorly. Your response to that was that you thought REPUBLICANS were the party of "self-responsibility." I don't see the connection. Perhaps you are a victim of the media's "poor portrayal" of the tea party (or tea baggers as you refer to them--nice portrayal!) in that you equate the tea party with the Republican Party. So then, I suppose, in your estimation, the portrayal of the tea party also portrays the Republican Party. That is erroneous. Tea partiers are against Republican malfeasance as well as Democrat. But, I expect that sort of biased (centrist?) comment from you.

My question was, also, not based on that. I was merely wondering how being responsible for one's own actions can stop someone else from lying about you, or having and stating a biased, slanted, untrue view of you. The answer is, of course (since you're unable to answer a simple question--I will), YOU CAN'T.