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popeye1250 -> RE: The Tea Party and their chosen candidates....America's saviors? (10/15/2010 11:32:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
A look at the quality of cadidates backed by the Tea Party draws a disturbing picture of ideological extremism taken so far that all other considerations for fitness are ignored.
Let's look at some of the standard bearers that the Tea Party hopes to foist on America(courtesy of the New York Times...I know,I know a "liberal rag" but all the same here it is)
Christine O'Donnell(Del. Senate)....amongst other things (and what I consider most trivial) needed to begin a tv ad denouncing she was a witch...in my view her issues with the truth in her own personal history and her financial issues were much more troubling.
Tom Ganley (Ohio 13) is accused of sexual assault and attempted rape by a woman who wanted to volunteer for his campaign.
Jeff Perry (Mass 10)As a police sargeant in the 1990's he was a supervisor at the scene where an officer placed his hand in 14 year old girls underwear saying he was looking for drugs.He was reported to have accompanied the same officer to the home of a 16 year old girl to tell her parents that she had voluntarily pulled down her pants to show she was not hiding drugs.
Rich Lott (Ohio 9) dressed up as a Nazi re-enactor on weekends for years.
Jim Renacci(Ohio 16) Was assessed nearly 1,4 million(yes million) in unpaid state taxes after trying to shelter 1.4 million in income.
Dan Benishek (Mich 1) A judge found in 1995 that he had failed to report $100,000 in income in an attempt to try to reduce his child support payments
(would cheat his children....but we should trust him)
Scott DesJarias (Tenn 4)His former wife accused him of physical intimidation,pulling the trigger of an empty gun outside her door,and threatening behavior including "shoving,tripping,pushing down,etc.
Now this was just a partial list of the most eggregious of Tea Party candidates....is this how the Republican Party seeks to reclaim leadership again?.Did they not learn anything when they sold their souls to the religious right?.....Why would they once again trivialize their party by embracing such candidates?
A two party system functions best when both parties are viable....how can the Republican Party be viewed as viable when they allow themselves to be co-opted by the likes of these candidates?
Well golly gee Mike, it didn't seem to bother the Demos that they had a senator who was a ***Kliegal in the Ku Klux Klan*** for,.....how many years, 46?
Or that another demo senator killed a woman while drunk, got thrown out of Harvard for cheating, and had a father who was a Nazi sympathizer and he was in office for what, 44, 46 years?
Where was the "Outrage?"
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