Shortly after a Kamikaze pilot in Texas drove his plane into building occupied by the Internal Revenue Service, leftist bloggers began to speculate, on very slender evidence, that the pilot may have been connected with Tea Party protestors. His obvious preference for communism over capitalism in a sign off letter he left behind soon spoiled that hastily constructed thesis. But the faulty thesis begs the question: Who are these people who call themselves Tea Party Patriots.
In an effort to arrive at an answered to that question, the National Review Institute commissioned McLaughlin & Associates to study two separate groups of Tea Party Patriots: the “6 percent of the 1,000 likely voters polled in mid-January who told McLaughlin that they had participated in tea-party rallies and the additional 47 percent who said they ‘have not participated in a tea party protest but . . . generally agree with the reasons for those protests.’”
The results of the study are certain to disappoint those on the left who feel constrained to demonize the group as a negligible fringe phenomenon.
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The easiest way to undercut an idea or a movement is to call them crazy. This is just like when the watchdog in CA saw Americorps funds being used improperly. Check out Rick Torres for example. He seems to be a level headed guy and yet I see many Tea Party principles in him. Doesn't mean he'll be flying any single engine planes soon. But hopefully he can help get us out of this mess!
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