Comments on: The Tea Party Convention’s Embarrassing Start

By: jakester

jakester — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:18:30 +0000

A literacy test, a modern fair national version, may not be a bad idea. but it would cut down tons of voters on both ends, including the fools that spent their good money to hear the well paid elites of populism rant on.

By: Carney

Carney — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:37:31 +0000

So, shecky and anniemargaret, you are on record as supporting the idea that illiterates should be voting, that is, making major decisions about the future or our nation’s national security, economy, entitlements, social policy, and criminal justice? Illiterates should make major decisions about the future of your family?

By: anniemargret

anniemargret — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:34:21 +0000

shecky: Carney and others know exactly what this tea party stands for. Behind all their virulent anti-government rhetoric, lies a disturbing racism and bigotry. The tea party wants, after all, ‘their country back!’ What else can that mean but a return to 50s America where women were subservient to their husbands and minorities and gays were seen but not heard.

Oh, and Democrats? by golly, how dare this country vote for a half black liberal man from Chicago! He’s not the ‘real Americans’ that they are.

Yep…the rest of us all know exactly who and what these people are… As a 3rd generation Italian American I know how much my grandparents suffered under prejudice and how hard they worked to overcome it. I’m ashamed of Tancredo and that he shares my ethnic background . His commentary about Obama is shameful.

But then again, these tea partiers embrace shameful. They tolerate bigotry and racism and ethnic purity and then expect to be taken seriously in the year 2010. I’m just glad this next generation has the blinders off.

By: shecky

shecky — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:30:22 +0000

Carney,

If it must be spelled out, the idea of a literacy test to vote, in and of itself, is quite odious. I’ll leave you to divine the reasons why. Furthermore, given the history of the Literacy Test in the US, Tancredo has pretty much disposed of the dogwhistle and is flat out advocating something that most of the country rightly distanced itself from decades ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

By: Carney

Carney — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:20:41 +0000

What in the world is wrong with what Tancredo said?

By: rbottoms

rbottoms — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:44:59 +0000

It’s hard to convince American voters that the Republican Party is not intolerant when so many members of the Republican family show themselves to be precisely that.

There's your new slogan: "The GOP, not quite as intolerant as you might believe."

By: msmilack

msmilack — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:28:31 +0000

who is in charge of those decisions?

By: kevin47

kevin47 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:25:52 +0000

Yeah, I wouldn’t have picked Tancredo either. Why not Rand Paul?

By: Dodgeblogium » Palin the polisher?

Dodgeblogium » Palin the polisher? — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:14:38 +0000

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By: andydp

andydp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:02:44 +0000

While the Tea Party people have some goood points, they are constantly being outweighed by the actions and statements of their supporters.

Congressman Tancredo’s “literacy test” statement will make plenty of “points” with African Americans, hispanics and many LEGAL immigrants. In fact, my WW II US Vet, Italian Immigrant dad would have had a hard time meeting Mr Tancredo’s standards.

The various Tea Parties (Monty Pithon’s Life of Brian and the factions he meets come to mind) will wind up being disorganized and disjointed to the point where no one will meet their “standards”. At that point they will split off from the GOP and hand the Democrats more elections.

Eventually the infighting will lead to eating their young