I went to the Tea Party Rally at Tempe Diablo Stadium

I have written about the Tea Parties and have defended them against the liberal smear campaign, so I thought I should go and see things for myself and to my suprise my wife wanted to come with me. I had not been able to attend a rally before due to my extensive traveling for work.

So off we went to Diablo Stadium. The first thing we noticed were tons of American Flags and not one of them was on fire. In fact, there was not so much protesting but celebrating. It was really an atmosphere of like minded people coming together to show that they all stand for something.


It what they stand for that gets muddled.


Walking from the parking lot to the front gate is a gauntlet of petitioners wanting you to sign so one person or another can get on a ballot. We signed a bunch since I have no problem with anyone getting on the ballot.


I did not sign the petition to get rid of speed cameras.


We get to the main gate and are greeted by people handing out free flags. Once we got our flags we were accosted by another group of petitioners, luckily these were the last gang of petitioners, thought there were some walking around later.


We have made it into the event and now decide to get a picture of our surroundings and just take it all in.


I first notice that the majority of the people are older. This fits the latest poll of the average Tea Party member. They are our parents and grand parents for the most part, mixed in with the some young. Yes they were mostly white, but I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a few people of color.


AT NO POINT DID I SEE ANYTHING I WOULD PERCEIVE AS RACIST IN ANYWAY.


A security guard at my work, who is black, said he felt uncomfortable. Not because he was black but because he did not wear his Tea Party shirt and people were suspicious of trouble makers. He said people talked to him but where wary. Interpret that how you want, but I will take his opinion.


The stadium stands were about half full and I am horrible with judging crowd size. But the report my wife heard was that there were 4000 people there.


One side of the stadium was set up for booths. The booths contained shirts, pins, books, and a bunch of politicians. ALL REPUBLICAN.


This is where the bad taste started getting into my mouth. JD Hayworth is running the Tea Party line and I find it hard to believe these people are falling for it. I do not like Hayworth.


I think he is a crook and he sealed the deal when he got ate up by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. If you can not go on MSNBC and hold your own then you do not get my vote to represent me.

KFYI was a huge influence and a couple of speakers where from the station. Terry Gilberg was one of the speakers from KFYI and she pushed for the Tea Party to not split the vote.


I wanted to run up on stage and scream, vote you’re conscious. I understand the need to get the power away from the Dems, but if we keep voting in dirt bags like Hayworth we will never get to were the Tea Party, as I understand it, want to go.


We listened to a couple more speakers and we decided to leave. I have to say that I was less than impressed with the direction this Tea Party is going.

It is important to remember that the Tea Party movement is truly grass roots. There is no organizational head running all the Tea Party groups around the US. This, I believe is their strength and their weakness.


They are ripe for take over from Republicans, but if you don’t like the direction of one group you can join another, or start your own.


If any Tea Party members or leaders read this, I encourage you to stay away from the lame phrases and keep on message. No more taxes without government spending cuts.


Stop giving the libs at MSNBC ammo by claiming that taxes are too high for everyone, they clearly are not since 47% don’t pay income tax.


Instead, point out that taxes do not need to go up; government spending needs to come down. No more bail outs for corporations who can not run themselves, no more assistance to banks who give bad loans, and no more pork barrel spending.


This can only be done by demanding that the government get out of the banking business. They can regulate and enforce laws. But we have to hold accountable people, like Barney Frank, who force banks to loan money to people have never paid a loan off in their life.


The Tea Party started off strong and I was behind it. Unfortunately, I see it becoming a pawn of the Republicans and cannon fodder to the Dems. Tea Party members are strong and your original message scares the crap out of Washington. Stick to your guns and you will enact true change in our government.

Liberal Protests

The Tea Party is constantly berated by the left for being racist, homophobic, and down right mean to poor people.



I watch the videos and I see grandmas and grandpas, upset about the direction of the country. I have yet to see a video that changes that opinion and I have tried to find one. If you have one please send it to me.


While you are at, find a video where the Tea Party protestors are yelling racist comments at black congressmen. All while hundreds of cameras were rolling to catch the antagonists strolling unnecessarily through the protestors. Not one video has come forward and there is a 20,000 dollar reward.


Hell when I first heard about the comments I thought, "It's a shill, planted by the left". I was apparently wrong and it was a story made up by dishonest congressmen.


So, I have posted many videos of the Tea Party and feel free to go back and watch them. I now post a video of a left leaning protest made up of all the favorites, code pink, truthers, hippies, and other America hating groups.


Tea Party protests celebrate the flag, the protesters in the video burn the flag. Pay little attention to the individual interviews, because you can pick out enough individuals in any crowd and make the entire group look nuts. Pay attention to the speakers. They are the leaders and their words are what the crowd is cheering for.

Finally, I ask you, "If you had only one choice, which group would you rather be a part of?"

Alan Grayson vs Young Tea Party Leader

WOW!!!

Watch this and tell me what you think.

What I think is that Alan Grayson is a fool!!!

Racist Comments - Death Threats - Broken Windows

Not sure what is happening out there. But I do not know what to think.



I believe the death threats and broken windows. People are cowards and doing things solo and in the middle of the night is just the coward’s way.

My first reaction to the news release that racist comments were made to congressmen during the Tea Party protest at the capital building was that there were shills in the crowd who did it so the Tea Party could be blamed.


I can not imagine someone screaming this out loud in a crowd of people who are making every effort to prove they are not racists. I think the person who did it would have been called out by the people in the crowd.


I may be wrong but this is my opinion. I would have called them out.


In addition, I can not find anything on youtube where these comments have been made. These comments were made to prominent congressmen who were walking through huge crowds of protesters. Brave of them to be sure, but are you telling me that none of the news media was with them and would have caught the slurs?


I believe there are racists in the Tea Party but I do not think the Tea Party is a racist group. The left wants to make these people irrelevant and the only way to do that is to discredit them by calling them racists.

New Jersey Tea Party wants to recall senator

New Jersey Tea Party wants to recall senator. See Foxnews article by clicking HERE.

Short Excerpt: A New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday that a conservative tea party group should have the right to try to throw a U.S. senator out of office, but also said the group would have to wait for a final decision by a higher court before proceeding.

My question, after reading this article, is why shouldn't we be able to recall our senators, representatives, or any other government employees?

The opposition's arguement is that the constitution does not say anything about recalling federal legislators.

I guess its time for a new amendment!!!