Racist?

How about the following?There's a priest, a minister and a rabbi out playing golf and trying to decide how much to give to charity.So the priest says, we'll draw a circle on the ground, we'll throw the money way up in the air and whatever lands inside the circle, we give to charity.The minister says "no", we'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money way up in the air and whatever lands outside, that's what we give to charity.The rabbi says "no, no, no", we'll throw the money way up in the air and whatever God wants, He keeps.

I don't know if anyone has read this article today or not.Opinion | Crashing the Tea Party - The New York TimesHere is a quote that I wanted to focus on.

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Beginning in 2006 we interviewed a representative sample of 3,000 Americans as part of our continuing research into national political attitudes, and we returned to interview many of the same people again this summer. As a result, we can look at what people told us, long before there was a Tea Party, to predict who would become a Tea Party supporter five years later. We can also account for multiple influences simultaneously isolating the impact of one factor while holding others constant.

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Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party’s origin story. Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.

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What’s more, contrary to some accounts, the Tea Party is not a creature of the Great Recession. Many Americans have suffered in the last four years, but they are no more likely than anyone else to support the Tea Party. And while the public image of the Tea Party focuses on a desire to shrink government, concern over big government is hardly the only or even the most important predictor of Tea Party support among voters.

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So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.

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More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 opposing abortion, for example and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek deeply religious elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.

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This inclination among the Tea Party faithful to mix religion and politics explains their support for Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. Their appeal to Tea Partiers lies less in what they say about the budget or taxes, and more in their overt use of religious language and imagery, including Mrs. Bachmann’s lengthy prayers at campaign stops and Mr. Perry’s prayer rally in Houston.

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Again, many of us have questioned since the beginning the REAL motives for the origin of the tea party. I find it hard to believe that it was a coincidence that after Reagan doubling the national debt followed by Bush's spending spree like there was no tomorrow, a conservative political party formed for the sole purpose of opposing the first black president in history. Sure, you can find one or two black people here and there in the tea party just like you could find one or two jew here and there among the nazis.

I was very happy to see that they are becoming unpopular. I honestly don't know if I can stand living in this country if those bastards succeed in taking over MY country.Anyway, the point is I've been saying this since the beginning that the tea party originated from bigotry. The only reason they claim to be about anything else is because bigotry ain't politically correct. Even the KKK these days don't want to admit they are racist.

Everyday, first thing I do in the morning is I google search to look for a way to bring about the rapture faster. This article came up because god's chosen political party (the tea party) becoming unpopular = end of times.

Thats nothing. I am also a democrat in my republican party. My ultraconservative brother voted democrat last year because the republican candidate promised to stop all construction work in order to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations. Since my brother is a civil engineer, they would have cut his job as well.Dont you find it odd that republicans are too willing to spend trillions of dollars on wars in other countries but refuses to fix our own goddamn bridges?

That rant gave me a headache. Is it for real?