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Karl Hungus
03-13-2010, 08:41 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/us/politics/13tea.html

This is from today's NY Times. The point of the article is that the Tea Party groups are avoiding social issues like gay marriage or abortion because they are divisive. It says they're trying to stick to fiscal and economic issues. Sure, there are lots of social conservatives among their members, but they're trying to be 'big tent' and they are attracting a lot of Democrats.

If anyone here has been to any meetings or is actually involved in a local Tea Party I'd be interested in reading your comments on the article.

Hughduffel
03-13-2010, 11:55 AM
Hm, party for government that avoids social issues, sounds good to me!

MrBlah
03-13-2010, 05:12 PM
it's really upsetting the liberals, they continue to paint the moment as a bunch of crazy people

Hughduffel
03-13-2010, 06:58 PM
because they don't understand how a group of people do not want social issues to be decided at a federal level.