Can you provide the REAL thinking behind any of the above?
Sure. The Tea Party is anti-Obama. They hate him passionately. Primary in their mind is giving a Laurel and Hardy welcome to "getting their country back". Second, they are also generally the wing-nut extremist Republicans. I believe the above is enough to predict the TPers position on most things.
Let's apply these principles to your questions.
- The Tea Party is anti-Obamacare. One of their loudest objections was "death panels".
- The same Tea Party is cheering the death of an uninsured man at the debates.
The death panels stuff is just political theater. Only a few idiots ever believed that Obama's health care plan involved death panels. But hating Obama means hating Obama-care no matter what it actually does for them or the country. As for hating the uninsured, that's normal wing-nut stuff.
The Tea Party claims to be pro-troops.
- The Tea Party booed a Marine who admitted he was gay and has served honorably.
Everybody is pro-troops. But booing gays is what wing-nut haters (and a surprising number of supposed liberals) do. Hate beats love.
The Tea Party hates the EPA. Is it that they hate the Environment or the idea of Protecting it?
Most all Republicans hate the EPA with slightly less vigor than they hate ACLU. But wing-nuts think a federal agency policing clean air and water infringes their states rights to allow corporations to pee in TPers own corn flakes. I don't see any inconsistency in the Tea Party position here.
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