I'm going to be traveling off and on a bit over the next few days so some of my posts may be from other spots and on the twitter account. But I did want to comment on the Tea Party rally taking place on the Fourth of July.
A good lineup of conservative speakers and I hope that many folks can attend. I can tell the tea party movement is working since when I was looking at the comments online concerning the story about the rally... well, if the phrase "you can tell the rightness of an idea by the confederacy of dunces arrayed against it"means anything, then the tea party guys have really got something going on.
It's surprising how just a group of conservatives having a meeting sets the members of some groups all a quiver. If all of this anger and fear is awakened by just having a few speeches -- think what happens when conservative candidates win elections.
All of this chatter on the Sentinel website about how the tea parties are dominated by Republicans seems to be a canard. In this area we are generally lucky enough to have fairly conservative politicians and for the most part they belong to the Republican Party.
This is mainly because the local Republican Party has not been so polluted as the national one by fiscal irresponsibility. Personally, I would love to see some more truly conservative individuals that identify themselves as Democrats join the movement. Most of the people I've talked to at these rallies are Americans first, conservative second and whatever other affiliation they're interested in third.
Based on the reaction, all I can say to the tea party organizers is --must be doing a good job.
