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[oportet.livejournal.com]

I'm not a liberal, but if I was, I can't imagine what I would have against the Tea Party movement - so hopefully a liberal/democrat could help me out with this.

I understand the movement is made up mostly of conservatives, so wouldn't that either be a good, or at worst, neutral thing for you when elections come around?

Sure, the Tea Party isn't an official party with representatives, but when a big (or the big) election comes around, they'll most likely endorse someone (If they don't, that would fall under neutral). If the person/people they back are Republican, you saw it coming, and you'll pretty much have the same outcome there would have been if the TP never existed (again, neutral result). If the person/people they back aren't Republican, it wouldn't be taking many, if any, votes away from your side - nowhere near the number it would be taking away from Republicans (this would fall under good for you).

Or am I missing something?

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[debergerac.livejournal.com]

so it's not really the tp'ers, its that the movement is made up mostly of conservatives.

as i first said.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

How did you arrive at that???

The group spouting the points not agreed with are the TPers, which is **why** Liberals dont support them.

I'm not sure exactly how you somehow skipped over the part of "BECAUSE they SAY those things" and change it to "because they're conservative..."

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

c'mon now. you can freely switch back and forth from tp'er to conservative without losing a step. you've lumped them all in together.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Not when we're discussing reason WHY we dont support the TP.

come on now, let's not keep putting words into my mouth here... especially when I've **told** you the reasons why I dont support the TP and you keep trying to insert your own.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

nobody's asked you to "support" them. what's most curious is the levels of vitriol that surrounds ae movement tyhat basically consists of middle-aged, educated, small-business people who are for the most part advocating lower taxes..

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Read the OP again.

The the vitriol is coming FROM those men, not at them primarily.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

yes of course. vitriol never comes from the left. qed.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

...and would like to limit my access to a safe, legal abortion. And don't believe health care is a fundamental human right. Those are two big sticking points in my craw.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

And those aren't Tea Party issues.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Seems to me the same people are involved.