10-24-2011, 09:31 PM
Posted by: cbelt3 [PM] [Ignore this user]
Date: October 24, 2011 11:28AM
man, this thread DID get totally jacked. Next thing you know we're going to find it back behind the high school up on blocks with graffiti sprayed all over the body.
I apologize up front cbelt3 - I didn’t realize that folks would go off in the directions they have.
Re: Ron Paul and the TEA Party ? new
Posted by: Ted King [PM] [Ignore this user]
Date: October 24, 2011 12:00PM
The connection of that to what's in the OP must be really tangential because it isn't evident on the surface. If you really want to talk about that, it would have been better, IMHO, to have started another thread.
You are correct Ted and I have noted the same above to cbelt3 – and I apologize to cbelt3 again.
I didn’t think that “losing government programs and pulling on self up by the boot straps” and collectively calling for “a minority to stand together based on ethnicity” were diametrically opposed. I thought there might be a piece of political ground that both bases might share.
To me there COULD BE a good deal of overlap when someone is calling for the “end of some government programs” and someone else is “claiming there is no need to consider the facts of what this the government has done”.
If one does not need to consider the facts then certainly there is little need for a "program" or "programs".
Posted by: cbelt3 [PM] [Ignore this user]
Date: October 24, 2011 10:52AM
Oog, let's not start the "American Voters is SOOOO Stupid" thing again. Work to educate, not denigrate.
I wasn’t headed in the direction of stupidity. I was simply trying to point out/remind Pam of the definitions and the “fun Liberals had” over these folks four years ago.
As for circling the wagons around “ethnicity” Pam is absolutely correct, it has been that way since the country was founded. (Actually history is replete with examples) I personally don’t have a specific problem with it all. Ethnicity certainly does have its place in the political landscape.
Even with that said - I’m sorry she went in this direction with the article.