Tea Party organizers are really screwing up
John Hinderaker at Power Line features a letter from a correspondent who'd been at a Tea Party rally, and had the displeasure of finding Ron Paul, the rotten apple of the Republican party who's had connections with racism and anti-war insanity, a featured speaker there.
Reading this, I feel very dismayed. Indeed, as the correspondent asks, what were the organizers - including the head of Freedom Works - thinking? Do they realize that if they continue to associate themselves with people like Ron Paul, they might very well give the left a weapon to use after all in their absurd, less-than-altruistic desire to smear the Tea Party as racists?
The organizers of the Tea Party have a lot of explaining to do, because if John's item is any suggestion, it's that people with common sense are going to start becoming alienated sooner or later. Like many Tea Party activists, I'm also against Obamacare. But to allow people like Ron Paul to be involved is maintaining a double-standard and making perfect fools out of themselves.
Update: just two months ago, Red State, run by Erick Erickson, who may be a Tea Party activist, banished truthers and birthers from his site (Hat tip: Doc Rampage and Instapundit). While this is applaudable, I'm afraid more, very serious work, is going to have to be done, if John's post is any signal, in order to ensure that they aren't associating themselves with racists and such. Even if the Tea Party doesn't want to tackle issues like terrorism, racism, and Islamofascism, that doesn't mean they should allow people like that to dwell in their midst, and if they realize that people like Ron Paul are the very problem they want to avoid, they'd better distance themselves from them as quickly as possible.
Reading this, I feel very dismayed. Indeed, as the correspondent asks, what were the organizers - including the head of Freedom Works - thinking? Do they realize that if they continue to associate themselves with people like Ron Paul, they might very well give the left a weapon to use after all in their absurd, less-than-altruistic desire to smear the Tea Party as racists?
The organizers of the Tea Party have a lot of explaining to do, because if John's item is any suggestion, it's that people with common sense are going to start becoming alienated sooner or later. Like many Tea Party activists, I'm also against Obamacare. But to allow people like Ron Paul to be involved is maintaining a double-standard and making perfect fools out of themselves.
Update: just two months ago, Red State, run by Erick Erickson, who may be a Tea Party activist, banished truthers and birthers from his site (Hat tip: Doc Rampage and Instapundit). While this is applaudable, I'm afraid more, very serious work, is going to have to be done, if John's post is any signal, in order to ensure that they aren't associating themselves with racists and such. Even if the Tea Party doesn't want to tackle issues like terrorism, racism, and Islamofascism, that doesn't mean they should allow people like that to dwell in their midst, and if they realize that people like Ron Paul are the very problem they want to avoid, they'd better distance themselves from them as quickly as possible.
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