U.S. Conservatives Riled Up But Where Do They Go?

The Texas governor ponders secession from the United States, anti-tax "tea parties" are held and some states snub federal economic "stimulus" funds.

The U.S. Republican Party's conservative base is fired up and taking aim at the old target of "big government" as its opposition hardens to the agenda of President Barack Obama and a U.S. Congress controlled by his fellow Democrats.

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Comments

[AndyWright68]

03:13 PM on 04/27/2009

For those who think insulting Americans is helping this country.

Labeling each other republican, democrat and dividing this country is anti-American. You don't even bother to look up the facts about these tea parties. You follow the MSM and then you mimic the opinion of your favorite commentator. Look up the facts and try to find a compromise with your neighbors.
http://www.reteaparty.com/2009/04/17/what-tea-parties-are-and-are-not/

If you feel these protesters are wrong then get out there and debate with them instead of working up a frenzy of hatred against your fellow Americans. There are serious problems with our government. It's not Obama or Bush. It's the government.

Over the last few decades our government has gained too much power and control over our lives. Both parties have wasted our money and violated the Constitution. Instead of working for us they've dictated to us. Our country is deteriorating before our eyes and all you can do is attack Americans who have a different opinion. These are your neighbors. They are not asking the government to do anything that would hurt you. Please show some respect. Get involved please don't spread hate. It's unhealthy for our country.

[faceplant]

04:20 PM on 04/27/2009

Among other things, they appear to be asking for theocracy. That would hurt me. They're asking for a continuation of many of Bush's stupidest policies, including tax cuts for those who need it least. That would hurt me. They're demanding an end to the practice of Keynesian economics by the federal government. Given where the economy is at present, that's going to hurt me. So yeah, the teabaggers are contemptible dolts, I've very little in common with them, and I wish they'd get the hell out of my country.

[AndyWright68]

05:00 PM on 04/27/2009

You are a perfect example of what is wrong with this country. Thank you for posting your ignorance.

See people. Here is someone who has done no research and has no idea of what protesters are asking of our government. Everything he believes on this issue is false and he criticizes other people he doesn't understand. He is rude and insulting to other Americans and believes this country belongs to him. The last thing we need are people like this who do nothing to benefit Americans and only works to divide us.

Thank you faceplant. Your misguided reply has helped prove my point tremendously. I hope you wake up soon so you can become part of the solution instead of part of problem.

[Konnie]

10:07 AM on 04/27/2009

like all mindless lemmings............they can follow each other over the cliff....................
good buy,
so long,
avedazane(sp)
oarvwah (sp) ,
adue (sp
adyous (sp)
arivadirchy (sp)
and all those other fer-in words................
and texas - well don't let the door..........

[kellygrrrl]

09:58 AM on 04/27/2009

"Riled up"?
sounds like we're talking about a classroom full of second-graders.
let's not make light of the reality that a good deal of these folks are seemingly cr!m!naIIy !ns@ne

[Montreaux1991]

09:53 AM on 04/27/2009

The "Tea Parties" were nothing more than thinly veiled KKK rallies.

[ThatOne4Me]

09:56 AM on 04/27/2009

hee-hee

[AbyssinianLion]

10:02 AM on 04/27/2009

Exactly!

[Budokan]

09:52 AM on 04/27/2009

Heh. Do you really want ME to tell 'em where to go?

http://kennethmarkhoover.com

[Tabasco]

09:46 AM on 04/27/2009

U.S. Conservatives Riled Up But Where Do They Go?

up a tree?.... out in traffic?

[LittleGirl]

09:42 AM on 04/27/2009

Where to go? Why those people, except the vets, have never left the state, much less the country. If only! They want everyone to think like they do and do as they say. They need to put a few miles behind them, on the road, planes, trains and automobiles and see how the rest of the world lives and thinks. Their narrow minded views are STRANGLING THEM. Sorry, didn't mean to shout.

When I think of Texans, I think of sheltered cowboys that don't know any better. Keep the women barefoot and pregnant and don't let them leave the house until they have a ton of makeup on. Sheesh.

[Peter007]

09:38 AM on 04/27/2009

Most people have it all wrong.
The tea party was not a conservative republican idea. It started with the libertarian party.
The libertarians have extreme left wing and right wing ideas.
ie. Barry Goldwater, " Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice".
Because some of the Republican rhetoric is for smaller government, they jumped on the bandwagon. The press, than attributed the movement to the Republicans.
Libertarians do not embrace the republican ideology. In fact, since George Bush brought the evangelicals into the party in 1988, libertarians are closer to the democrats than they are republicans. Its just on the issue of overspending do the libertarians and republicans meet.

[Grunty1]

09:45 AM on 04/27/2009

Faux News isn't the network for the Libertarian Party, Peter...

[Peter007]

11:09 AM on 04/27/2009

They hijacked the movement. Like the evangelicals hijacked the republican party.

[Jamie Kowalski]

10:01 AM on 04/27/2009

I'm willing to entertain the notion that it started as a Libertarian idea. But if that's the case, it was coopted by the far right very early on - probably before most anybody had heard of it. Any Libertarian worth his salt would quickly disavow any connection, as Fox quickly turned it into something that must have become hard to recognize.

[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

09:24 AM on 04/27/2009

The teabaggers garb in the photo is an insult, of course, to our founding fathers. Our founding fathers were not neocons in breeches, quite the contrary, they'd be outraged by these religious right wing nutters. I'd tell them to research Washington, Jefferson, Franklin et al for themselves, but as the saying goes, you can lead a neocon to the facts, but you can't make him think!

[Cookie100]

09:20 AM on 04/27/2009

Timbuktu as far as anyone is concerned. They don't even deserve to be thought about. Who cares what they want or do, go to Alaska, she'll like you guys.
Hey, while you're there, tell her to succeed. Oh, I know, how about Texas, they're succeeding. You'll all be happy in a hot and ugly place.
You're all from the south, but first think, you did this to our country.
You're wrong about everything, please leave now!

[Social Construct]

09:10 AM on 04/27/2009

As far as the Republican base's argument against big government is concerned, I am confused. They rant about getting government out of our lives yet they want government to regulate what we do with our bodies, what we do in our bedrooms and what we do in our schools. How is that smaller government?

Personally, I am for a government large enough to enforce the Constitution for a population of 300 million citizens. The core of the Republican party seems to want much more than that.

[solarian]

09:10 AM on 04/27/2009

where do they go leave the country and not come back

[AndThenOneDay]

09:08 AM on 04/27/2009

Look at that crew. If you weren't told they were going out a-teabaggin, you'd tend to assume it anyway.

[lcdbsez]

09:01 AM on 04/27/2009

Is it a secret?? -- Texas -- !!!!!

It's the perfect solution to everyone's problem: the lunatic rightwing can finally! have a dump -- er, make that, a place -- where they can finally! create that 14th century-like society (with a Confederate States of America-style government) they've been trying to shove down everyone else's throats for the last several decades . . . and the rest of us can finally! move on to the 21st century . . .

And, if that doesn't work out . . . there's always Alaska . . . hmmmmmm?

[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

09:21 AM on 04/27/2009

If Texas already had become its own republican utopian country, with public services in name only, most of its population would be sick with swine flu by now. Think about it.

[RobertHenryEller]

09:52 AM on 04/27/2009

14th century-like society? I think you've got something there!

I know the perfect place: The Swat Valley in Pakistan.

They'll be right at home.

[Bluejay00234]

08:59 AM on 04/27/2009

To h.ell perhaps.