The messages which could be construed as social conservative/right wing ALL LOST last night, for the tea party candidates.
The messages which honed in on the Constitution and fiscal responsibility ALL WON.
Losers were anti-masturbatory, 'semi' witch related, home schooling, do away with social security, so called 'social-conservative Dobsonian' ( a broad,inaccurate brush, I know, so sorry) 'deens' mixed into the base view of the tea party.
Losers were O'Donnell and Angle.
Winners were Johnson, Rubio, Paul, Haley, West, Kasich. Paul (who this morning called for a House-Senate Tea Party caucus) even survived a controversy over the 1964 Civil Rights Act (whose main function was to be sure Americans who happened to be black got to vote without intimation and problems), in which he exclaimed hesitation over the right of the govt to tell a private business owner who he could do business with. He survived because he remembered what the MAIN POINT IS
Unknown yet are Colorado, Washington and Alaska. The first is a growing blue state, the second ALWAYS blue though close, and Alaska is an (R) no matter what.
Tancredo got CREAMED because even though the USA wants, UNQUESTIONABLY, secure borders, we are NOT against immigration, and Colorado reflected this.
If the tea party sticks to the values which fueled it's birth and existence, ADHERENCE TO THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS, AND THE PRINCIPAL THAT THE FEDERAL GOVT MUST ADHERE TO THE SAME RULES OF PHYSICS IN ITS CHECKBOOK THAT WE MUST ADHERE TO AT HOME..IT CANNOT LOSE
That message has NO IDEOLOGY.
It reeks of common sense and those who oppose it, oppose reality, and are seen to do so.
This CLOBBERED a significant number of the political elite on the D side last night.
California, the most broke state in the nation went all D. HEROIN? Best of Luck.
But if messages of how to live your life are added it, the people KNOW what they see.
In January-February Congress will face a vote on raising the national debt levels
The battle for the republicans will now be the dance over the line of adhering to the tea principles as outlined above vs being perceived as totally negative, and for Barack Obama, he will either swallow his bile (I doubt it) and work together for REAL, become irrelevant while whining (there is a real chance of that), or trying to achieve what he 'knows' he really believes in thru executive regulation.
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homeschoolers on your 'hit' list now?!
Carol-CS
Great summation, Epa.
There is nothing wrong with homeschooling from my perspective. I admire people who decide to take up the challenge.
The other day my kid came home from school and told me not to vote for a certain local candidate, because teachers would "get a 16% cut in pay." (The horror.) This is the kind of crap teachers pull with my kids all the time.
Here's some other stuff my kids have told me (that I know, for sure, they got from school):
1) Global warming is going to kill us all
2) Star Testing is the most important test of the year, even if you have had great grades the whole year, you could get left back, if you don't do well on the Star Testing
3) Islam is a peaceful religion, and they believe in the same God as Christianity and Judaism - and, by the way, the time when Islam ruled Europe was very peaceful, learned, and they treated Christians and Jews well
4) vegetarianism is good, recycling is good, gaia is good, following such paths is a moral choice
Homeschooling is a natural reaction to this kind of bullshit.
My wife and I simply do not have the time and energy to homeschool, so we don't.
Additionally, I think it is a good thing for kids to have to learn to get along with the assholes, freaks, and brainwashers, so school is good despite it's malevolence.
But, I admire people who do homeschool.
These are my OBSERVATIONS.
Plz don't confuse that with what I may or may not think is a good idea.
The FACT is that the bulk of the nation forms an impression when they hear 'HOME SCHOOLED'
That is a fringe alert phrase.
There are some values we can agree on as the basic values of what SOME PEOPLE think of as the christian rightc (Falwell et al). That goop melange of values is, right now, the cost of being a sure loser.
It's the difference in the public mind of - BEING FAITFHUL to your spouse (GOOD) - and insisting anyone and every ELSE be faithful or be ... WRONG, or evil (INTOLERABLE)
This is what I observe.
The majority of the public demands you practice what you preach inside your head, they don't want to hear it and if you become obnoxious enough to preach it .. you and your whole entourage and party had better live up to it.
EVERY DAY
INCLUDING YESTERDAY
This is what I OBSERVE to be true
I agree that that is the perception of the general public.
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