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I actually have no data on the distribution of racism in either the general population or the Tea Party. Do you actually have that data? Without it, it's impossible to draw the conclusion you've just drawn.Perception is not the same as reality, and our perception of both the prevalence of racism in the general populace and racism in the Tea Party are unlikely to be accurate, simply because of the bias inherent in what is "news" and thus likely to garner media attention. Jim Bob down the street is unlikely to appear on national news outlets even if he's the Grand Wizard of the KKK; Johnny Racist in the Tea Party is more likely to get on TV because he'll show up at the White House for a large rally with a racist sign and a Confederate flag. He doesn't necessarily represent the Tea Party as a whole, but he'll get TV time because he's likely to get an emotional reaction from the viewers and thus push up ratings...and this, without even requiring any sort of intentional deception from anyone, can color our collective perception and introduce bias in the conclusions we draw from them.I'm not saying anything one way or the other here. I'm just saying that our "gut" feelings are irrelevant because they're easily misled, and we cannot draw the sort of conclusion you've drawn without actual data.

As a matter of fact, no one has data on how many german Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews. Therefore, we can never conclude that Nazi Germany was a Jew hating state. In fact, from that we can derive that Nazi Germany was an enlightened state that was misunderstood by the evil capitalist and communist world. We've come full circle on this. And I have to again point to the fact that presidents before Obama spent money like there was no tomorrow. And yet as soon as Obama was elected, an entire political faction was created for the sole purpose of opposing Obama and his supposed future spending spree.I've been a lot of things, including an idiot. But I can still see the obvious racial/racist push for the formation of the tea party.Remember how much Bush spent? Where was the tea party then?We're not just going on our gut feelings here. The tea party has made it abundantly clear that they really really really really hate the one president that has the least spending increases in the last 60 years.PolitiFact | Viral Facebook post says Barack Obama has lowest spending record of any recent presidentSo, which is it? Is the tea party against less spending or is it against a black man in the office?

You might want to check this chronology. The Tea Party is just a bit older than you imply here.

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Fox News Channel commentator Juan Williams argues that the Tea Party movement emerged from the "ashes" of Ron Paul's 2008 presidential primary campaign...

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On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest obesity taxes proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.[73]

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Some of the protests were partially in response to several Federal laws: the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,[74] the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,[75][76] and a series of healthcare reform bills.[77]

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New York Times journalist Kate Zernike reported that leaders within the Tea Party credit Seattle blogger and conservative activist Keli Carender with organizing the first Tea Party in February 2009, although the term "Tea Party" was not used.[78] Other articles, written by Chris Good of The Atlantic[79] and NPR's Martin Kaste,[80] credit Carender as "one of the first" Tea Party organizers and state that she "organized some of the earliest Tea Party-style protests".

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Tea Party movement - WikipediaNow there is this

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and the Tea Party could be traced to a 1971 memo from tobacco lawyer Lewis F. Powell, Jr. who advocated more political power for corporations.

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But we all know that here was no Tea Party at that time and no organized groups claiming to be a Tea Party until after the 2008 election. If you have other evidence please present it and correct the historical record.

One thign this does not mention is one the think tanks funded by the Koch Brothers had a 'Tea Party' web site out in 2002.Study: Kochs Tried To Start 'Grassroots' Tea Party In 2002 | Crooks and Liars

This is a silly analogy. We have lots of data on the anti-Jewish nature of the Nazi state, in the form of the legislation it passed and the Jews it murdered. The Nazi State banned Jews from the legal profession and from the civil service. It expelled Jewish officers from the army, forbid Jews to be newspaper editors, and removed all Jewish teachers from public schools. It banned Jews from being vets, auctioneers and arms merchants - it would later ban Jews from owning guns at all. It then confiscated their passports and started seizing their property. This was all before the horrors of the Holocaust really got going.And it wasn't necessary to wait until they got into power and starting enacting these laws to conclude that the party was anti Jewish, since the following appears near the beginning of their 1920 manifesto:

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4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.

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which then goes on to exclude non-citizens (including all Jews) from the right to live in the country and equal protection under the law.The two cases are hardly comparable.Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.

Something tells me this sub-topic no longer has anything to do with defaulting...

But that is not the Tea Party as it exists now. Yes the Koch's tried to start astroturf groups many times, but there was not a Tea Party movement until 2008-2009. Also, most tea partiers will vociferously claim they are not Koch funded or an astro turf group, which completely negates the 2002 Tea Party website as part of this same movement.If the claim is to be made that the current Tea Party movement started earlier than 2008, then an argument needs to be presented showing how it evolved from the ealry Koch astroturf to the 2008-2009 protests. Just claiming there were people or groups using the name earlier doeas not mean it was or is the same movement.There was an American Republican Party from 1843-1854. It was an anti-immigrant party. Does that mean that the Republican Party of today is some how connected?

I supported the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the SCOTUS.You did not.The ONLY reason you could possibly have for not supporting his appointment is that he is black.Therefore you are a racist and I am not.Strange since I would consider myself part of the Tea Party movement.

Did you follow the hearings at all? Do you remember any racist signs or comments by liberals during the hearings. Ever hear of Anita Hill? Posse Comitatus too?

Did you vote for Bush in 2000 and 2004? And if so, can you explain how you reconcile your fiscal conservatism and notions of non-interventionism with Bush's exploding of the deficit, expansion of Medicare and the starting of two unfunded wars?

It was A Merkin war on tear!!!!!!

What I have always found ironic is that Obama is taking Republican policies and feeding them back to the Republicans. Obamacare is the Republican health care reform policy from the 1990's, including the individual mandate and health insurance exchanges. The only reason that I can think of is that Republicans really, really hate Obama for some irrational reason.

Have you considered that the Republican party of today isn't the same as the Republican party of the 90s?

LOL the European parliament has its whacoes too.The Romanian representative voted yes on the last 541 votes. He basicaly always votes yes sometimes he abstains but rarely.
Even if proposals contradict eachother.Should 50% of a cigaret box be covered by shocking warning pictures? sureSould 65% of cigarete.... ? SureShould companies be allowed to pick the place of the picture? SureShould the pictures be at the bottom half? sure