Air Carl

Tea Party: Just Plain Un-American October 20, 2010

Please, please, please! NO knee jerk reactions from my good friends on the right.  I consider myself to be middle-of-the-road politically (whatever that is). I have always considered both mainstream parties, Republican and Democratic, to be neither right or wrong all the time. I like some of the ideas from either party. If you watch the direction that the “Tea Party” has taken, you need to be afraid. Very afraid.

Many people believe that voting for a fringe candidate such as one from the “Tea Party” is un-American. Does it deserve such a bold label? Here’s why I say yes. Our system of electing officials is not just some tradition. It’s a system that has helped our country flourish as a great nation. We have our problems, but our electoral system is not solely to blame. If you want to protest, carry a sign. Don’t play with our electoral system by voting “against” someone you don’t like. Vote “for” someone who can actually do our country some good.

Has anyone else noticed the enormous state of denial that the Tea Party supporters have slipped into? I’m not one to usually pile on but I cannot ignore the downright uninformed, if not just plain ignorant, Tea Party candidate from Delaware, Christine O’Donnell. Most candidates seeking office across our land have handlers. The job of these handlers is to help the candidate come across as competent, trustworthy, and hopefully- informed. I’m not sure about how trustworthy Ms. O’Donnell may or may not be, but I can’t help but notice how low she scores in the informed and competence categories. It’s very serious for a candidate to be totally unqualified to hold office. Just when you think they didn’t come any dumber than Dan Quayle…. there she is. Having to resort to campaign ads that deny she is a witch. This is something she claimed to have experimented with while in her late teens or early twenties. The smart thing to do would be to not even dignify that with any answer. My thoughts on why her campaign ad contained denials of witchcraft is because she doesn’t have much else to say in a campaign ad. What do you expect her to say? “Here’s how I will turn the economy around…My foreign policy is as follows… If I’m elected here’s what I will do in the interest of National Security…” Youll NEVER hear speak on the issues because she has NO ideas on issues.

Hey, Tea Party fans! Remember ISSUES? It seems that the biggest Tea Party priority is to TWEAK THAT BLACK GUY President at every turn! Christine O’Donnell has NO IDEA that the First Amendment to the Constitution PROHIBITS, yes PROHIBITS, Christian Fundamentalists AND every other religion from establishing a government-sponsored religion.  Anyone planning to vote for her lives in total denial of the fact that she is one of the most unqualified candidates to seek any office to come along in years. She dismissed her total lack of consitutional knowledge on “not having brought her copy of the constitution with her.”

Meanwhile, in Nevada  another candidate for the U.S. Senate is a “Tea Party” favorite named Sharron Angle. I don’t have time to go into the misconceptions that this individual carries, but the one issue connecting her to Christine O’Donnell is that she believes Thomas Jefferson was “misquoted” when he wrote of the need for seperation of church and state. The whole reason that the forefathers came to this land was to escape the grip of the Church Of England which indeed WAS the state. If you are unhappy with the current leadership of our country, or your state or county, please don’t use your vote as an expression of sarcasm by voting for someone who is totally unqualified like a Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, or on the Democratic side, Andre Green of South Carolina.  So far, I have not seen a viable candidate for any office arise from the Tea Party. If you are a conservative and you are unhappy and frustrated as are many of us who are not conservatives, please do the right thing and stay on the road. You can drive on the left, right or the middle of the lane you’re traveling in, but please don’t run our country off the road.