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    Here is a great opening sentence from a NY Times review of a book about the Tea Party movement:

    In his new book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama,” the progressive journalist Will Bunch serves up his own anatomy of the Tea Party movement, that loose agglomeration of right-wing insurgents, libertarians, conservatives, evangelicals, survivalists, gun-rights crusaders, antitax protesters, deficit hawks, antigovernment zealots, militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh “ditto heads,” Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.
    lol

    Are you any of these? Maybe some of us are more tea party than we care to admit.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/bo..._r=1&ref=books
    Last edited by SeattleUte; 09-15-2010, 10:07 AM.
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    Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
    Here is a great opening sentence from a MY Times review of a book about the Tea Party movement:



    lol

    Are you any of these? Maybe some of us are more tea party than we care to admit.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/bo..._r=1&ref=books
    Well, that definitions essentially includes everybody right of Barack Obama, so yeah, a couple of those describe me.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
      In his new book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama,” the progressive journalist Will Bunch serves up his own anatomy of the Tea Party movement, that loose agglomeration of right-wing insurgents, libertarians, conservatives, evangelicals, survivalists, gun-rights crusaders, antitax protesters, deficit hawks, antigovernment zealots, militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh “ditto heads,” Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.
      Those are the ones, I would probably claim.

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      • #4
        If you support the 2nd amendment as currently interpreted by the SCOTUS are you a "gun-rights crusader?"

        that was the only thing that caught my eye.
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        • #5
          I'm somewhere in between survivalists and militia members.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
            Here is a great opening sentence from a NY Times review of a book about the Tea Party movement:



            lol

            Are you any of these? Maybe some of us are more tea party than we care to admit.

            http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/bo..._r=1&ref=books
            According to the various classification tests I've taken I am a conservative with libertarian tendencies (on most issues; I am in favor of oppressing YOhio in any way possible). I'm still taking the survivalist discussions but haven't gone to a meeting yet.
            Last edited by LA Ute; 09-15-2010, 11:57 AM.
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            • #7
              With some obvious exceptions that I've been called on here, I am leaning further toward libertarian on many issues. More than that, I'm a big believer in the 10th Amendment and in the states' rights to make as many (or preferrably as few) of their own rules as the Consitution allows
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