http://www.reteaparty.com/

BUT
Theres more.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/04/nytcbs-poll-tea-party-supporters-more-educated-prosperous/

This report from two “mainstream” media sources does its best to portray Tea Party people as rich, dangerous, racist and hypocritical…but then what’s new? The MSM has been doing that since they realized they couldn’t get away with totally ignoring the Tea Party movement.

But I thought it was interesting that, since the “mainstream” media also likes to portray conservatives as ignorant hicks, at least this survey did shoot a hole in that little smear.

“So don’t worry too much about the MSM’s silly polls, my fellow patriots. You know you’re over the target when you catch a lot of flack, and with the amount of triple-A the liberals are throwing at patriotic Americans, their hair must be turning white as they contemplate what will happen when our bomb bay doors open on Election Day in November.”

Heh, no more good than it does for you guys to invoke into everything you can and being your cheapest lamest form of rebutal.
I doubt that Eric was making light of racism but more making light of how the left uses it to make issues out of nothing just they can say they’ve concluded the argument.
Just saw the local news on our local Tea Party rally.
Chock full of every race under the sun. The more you guys keep throwing in the race card the better you make my arguement.

“Making light of an obvious and real problem is just immature and only serves to further prove the accusations. ”

Make laugh some more, please. Get off your high horse.
You sit there and call people I respect offensive names and tell me to get a sense of humor when I protest.
Eric got tired of your hypocrisy or the sexual connetation you used against the Tea Party and banned the use of it.
What a phony,” yeah I can call people who disagree with me some sexual expletive, but you cant point out the ironic idiocies in my party”
You labeled and segregated a sect of Americaas nothing more than stupid racist hicks.
Did you read the NYTs poll ?
“The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45. ”

Yeah, there you go. It says only 18% white.

Have a seat

I also don’t think it does them much good to assume that because a person has a lot of money they must be “productive.”

These are the kinds of things that turn people off on conservatism.

Racism is real and ubiquitous, and the wealthy as a group aren’t really very productive.

And finally, switching the accusation unto the accuser, with underhanded comments like “Every bogus claim of racism,” just makes the Right looks just plain ol’ nasty.

The viscerally defensive reaction of conservatives to the accusations of racism also serves them poorly. It’s similar to the way many in the black community take offense to Bill Cosby when he “airs the dirty laundry” of black counter-culture. People in groups often react defensively when they know their is an element of truth in accusations made of their groups. Conservatives know full well that there is a palpable element of racism among them. So, when some conservatives are accused of racist behavior, the whole group often over-reacts to the accusations, rather than to say, “Well, yes, there is some elements of racism within the conservative community, and we should work to purge it.”

That level of honesty would go a long way to endearing conservatives.

Making light of an obvious and real problem is just immature and only serves to further prove the accusations.

JMJ

“Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated
By KATE ZERNIKE and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
Published: April 14, 2010
“Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated
By KATE ZERNIKE and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
Published: April 14, 2010
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The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.

They hold more conservative views on a range of issues than Republicans generally. They are also more likely to describe themselves as “very conservative” and President Obama as “very liberal.”

And while most Republicans say they are “dissatisfied” with Washington, Tea Party supporters are more likely to classify themselves as “angry.”

The Tea Party movement burst onto the scene a year ago in protest of the economic stimulus package, and its supporters have vowed to purge the Republican Party of officials they consider not sufficiently conservative and to block the Democratic agenda on the economy, the environment and health care. But the demographics and attitudes of those in the movement have been known largely anecdotally. The Times/CBS poll offers a detailed look at the profile and attitudes of those supporters…. “

I am reminded that over 12% of the budget (federal) is not
paid by those that are required to pay taxes ( one-half the electorate).
The others get off with lower incomes, exemptions, deductions from
AGI, tax incentives, real estate tax deduction, etc.

That means, in my estimation, about 100m are within the requirements to
file and pay taxes.

For example: in 2004, the tax gap ( taxes that would have been paid
had everyone filed proper tax returns, paid on time and filed returns)
was about 400 billion. Of that, the IRSS collected 50 billion, of which
30b was straight collections ( taxes shown on return, and not paid with
the return).

The budget that year was, to the best of my knowledge, 2.4 trillion.

I do not know what the gap will be on this year’s budget of over
4.5 trillion? One can only imagine.

And besides, the IRSS is allowing for the sub-prime mortgage problem
aftermath and the mini-depression There are still over 9.5% unemployed
and an equal amount underemployed..totalling about 30 million
workers.

According to the Prime Minister of Singapore, what worries the world
is the US dept (still). It is antisipated that China will again bail US out,
by paying the deficit..for interest, and probably not change their
calculation of the value of their currency. That means they will still
prevail in exports..w/o creating much new demand within their country.
Our answer, is to save more and spend less.

Tell that to the liberals.

One of the foremost labor leaders just resigned, while Conan
is taking the opportunity to work after George Lopez. No recession
for them I guess. But they are really both funny…
He achieved an amazing fete, he helped Obama get elected.
Considering only 20% of workers are unionized..that’s an accomplishment.
He did create some controversy within his union..which detached itself
from the larger Teamsters (if memory serves me well). Some thought
this was a bad move for labor. I don’t know?

He is also an adviser to Obama.

Note that a UCLA head shrink just became a member of GM.

Will that increase the value of their stock?

Can they now better compete with another US company, which
did not receive 80b in bail-outs..Ford, whose stock is now over 13.00 per share. Good old US enterprise. It works guys, when people buy American.

Dont get me wrong, I love the Japanese and Germans. I just don’t buy their cars. Or as one former survivor of the Holocaust said (Romania),
if Hitler had won the war, there would have been thousands of camps worldwide, to get rid of the untermenchen…(moi).

Sooooo, I buy Fords and Chryslers.