The tea party’s detractors want to paint it as radical, when at bottom it represents the self-reliant, industrious heart of American life. New York Times columnist David Brooks compares the tea partiers to the New Left. But there weren’t any orgiastic displays at the Beck rally, nor any attempts to levitate the Lincoln Memorial — just speeches on God and country. It was as radical as a Lee Greenwood song.The author is Rich Lowry of National Review Online.
A New York Times survey earlier this year occasioned shock when it found that “Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class.” We’re so accustomed to the notion of a revolt of the dispossessed that a revolt of the possessed (in the non-demonic sense, of course) strikes us as a strange offense against the nature of things. But it’s threatening to wash away the Democratic congressional majorities in a historic wipeout.
Law Professor Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), who provided the link to this article notes this passage from the article:
The tea party’s detractors want to paint it as radical, when at bottom it represents the self-reliant, industrious heart of American life.and comments:
That’s what some people find so scary.Regards — Cliff
2 comments:
There's nothing self-reliant about abandoning the cause of civil liberty in pursuit of extending government powers against immigrants, though I will agree that it's scary.
Please let Mr. Lowry know it was the Pentagon on which levitation was attempted, NOT the Lincoln Memorial.
Mr. Beck hoped, that day, to channel the Holy Ghost. If Mr. Lowry wants to snarkily quip at magical feats that were attempted in vain, he should have the simple facts straight.
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