Personally i find it difficult to take seriously any political group who's members go to political rallies armed, and follow a mantra of no compromise under any circumstances. Makes me wonder if their in the same bread basket as the Militia of Montana.

Even harder to take seriously those who congregate at "political rallies" chanting stupid crap like "This is what Democracy looks like"....ad nauseum while cheering on their Democrat politicians who are running over state lines avoiding Democracy at all costs. All because they lost an election. Looks nothing like Democracy in any way.

And in terms of not compromising, the Democrats have a hard time compromising any serious government waste rollbacks of any kind. And I'm not just talking about the government freeloaders that seem to make up a vast amount of their voting constituencies.

My team's better than your team. Nuh-uh! Yuh-huh!

I don't have a team. Sometimes I feel left right out, but then I watch them playing and realize I don't like the game anyway.

Honestly, i find this whole division and hardcore Us verses them attitude, both stupid and amusing. Fanboys of the left or the right are so close minded, unable or obstinately refuse to see past their own beliefs, utterly convinced of their own moral superiority, and the other's depravity.

It's even more funny when you run into people who are utterly convinced that it is impossible for someone to not be of either persuasion, and not emotionally attached to either side. The creed i believe is, "Your either with us or against us! " To them, your either Left or Right. Period.

I'll be honest, on the subject of poltics, it's much more fun getting Team R's dander up then it is Team D. Team R fan's almost always respond with the most emotionally charged vitriol or rhetoric. Team D fan's aren't as much fun.

Do you remember the first Gay Marriage argument from a few years back? I, as usual, stood up for freedom as I see it, the point being that one guy from the other side finally fell back on "You must be gay yourself!"

As I've said, I've been called a flaming liberal because of my stance on abortion (and obviously gay rights) and a knee-jerk conservative because of my stance on gun control and congressional finances, and I've been called a fence-sitter by both sides.

I think i have been accused the same in the New York legalizes gay marriage thread :O:
And I confess, I'm a lesbian

Of course nobody has ever packed heat at a political rally... Another first for Americas Tea Party! :DL

Look man, the Tea Party is a collection of people who only really agree on one thing. That the Federal Government needs to bring it's spending under control. The classic single issue party for the classic single issue voter.

Stances on any subject other than that single issue cannot (fairly) be construed as reflective of the entire group because they are by nature a coalition of many disparate groups drawn together by a single issue.

Well, to be fair, it's my understanding there was a split in the Tea party some time ago. A division between what can be called reasonable, and the full on whack jobs. I just like using a single brush to color the tea party since all tea party rally under the same flag, and the most politically charged on this forum like to paint everything in singular colors anyway. (usually red or blue. :haha: Being the oddball, i prefer shades of gray. )

That is understandable there are as many splits as there are issues, one split which was obvious from the start was along the very lines that Sea Demon thinks is what is known as "the left" with confused perople wanting to stop government expenditure but insisting it keep its hands off their government handouts.

Pity we can't just eradicate all political parties, and let politician's, and the issues debated, to stand on their own merits instead of these arbitrary pigeon holes we put everything in. Left or right. Black or white, 0 or 1, Red or blue.... it's amusing at times yes, but other times, not so much.

This should be a sticky:

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Well again you should thank Obama, No Obama no Tea Party, No Obama no down grade.

I'll back track even further; I'll blame gore. If gore wasn't such a dolt, we wouldn't have bush, no bush no carter II.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
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