CinnamonGirl wrote: JMC, we all know your thoughts on the Tea Party. I would like to know what you think about the Occupy Movement. Do they bother you too. (Warning: before you answer.... If you are sympathetic to that side then you are just against the Tea Party because they are conservatives)
How does one compare the Occupy Movement with the Tea Party Movement?
CinnamonGirl wrote: JMC, we all know your thoughts on the Tea Party. I would like to know what you think about the Occupy Movement. Do they bother you too. (Warning: before you answer.... If you are sympathetic to that side then you are just against the Tea Party because they are conservatives)
Only if you assume that the OWS people are just the mirror-image/liberal manifestation of the teaparty... They aren't.
CinnamonGirl wrote: JMC, we all know your thoughts on the Tea Party. I would like to know what you think about the Occupy Movement. Do they bother you too. (Warning: before you answer.... If you are sympathetic to that side then you are just against the Tea Party because they are conservatives)
The OWS crowd will also be co-opted and used by the Democrat establishment. The difference is that the TP was expecting to matter with the Repubs, the OW crowd knows they are insignificant. JMHO
jmc wrote: The tea party has been ineffective , except to get Romney to lie about his positions. The Republican establishment will win and then lose again. I was hoping for a different outcome." Sound and fury signifying nothing" should be the Tea Party's new motto.
Maybe right now, but they were a factor big time in 2010. And they may be a factor in many local primaries & elections in 2012.
You just get a loopier member in the safe districts, nothing really changes.It is rigged.
CinnamonGirl wrote: JMC, we all know your thoughts on the Tea Party. I would like to know what you think about the Occupy Movement. Do they bother you too. (Warning: before you answer.... If you are sympathetic to that side then you are just against the Tea Party because they are conservatives)
The OWS crowd will also be co-opted and used by the Democrat establishment. The difference is that the TP was expecting to matter with the Repubs, the OW crowd knows they are insignificant. JMHO
