Monday, January 10, 2011

Tea Parties are ending with a neocon hangover

This article is long but very cogent and well documented.

I said before that if the Tea Parties won't agree on what they stand for, they'll fall for all the old GOP canards.

Exhibit A, perhaps, was when the Tea Parties went after their small-government libertarian spiritual father, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.

We're now down to like Exhibit W: one of the new Congressional Tea Party Caucus's first actions was a resolution "explicitly endorsing Israel's right to strike Iran's nuclear program."

Exhibit X: Michael Prell, ghost writer for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of the Tea Party Patriots (TPP), has written a book called Underdogma about, in part, criticizing the "underdog" Palestinians's grievances. It's been called "the first great Tea Party book" and endorsed by old school neocons like Amb. John Bolton and pundit Charles Krauthammer, not to mention Palin and Gingrinch.

Really?!? Is this what all you teabaggers signed up for?

If all you fiscal conservatives believe the GOP got away from you at some point, realize that the Tea Parties are slipping from your grasp even faster. Do something about it.


January 7, 2011 | Veterans Today

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