[split] Tea Party & Racism

[Eilonnwy]

they would have formed regardless of whether McCain or Obama won the election.

Bullshit. When you have tea party people demanding his birth certificate, you can be sure it's more than just a political movement based on fiscal ideologies and more about a black man in the White House.

I agree that not every tea party person is racist, but there are strong racist elements within the party, that if I agreed with their views, I would still distance myself as far away from them as possible. Luckily I don't naively believe deregulation and taking unemployment from people who desperately need it is how you fix an economy.