Tea Party Fallout: GOP Message, Same Hate, Ignorance and Rhetoric

It has become increasingly clear that the basis for the Tea Party event had more to do with the ugly underbelly of people that just hate our President more then it had to do with any of those ignorant people having valid knowledge of history or a real reason to protest.  Taxation without representation, indeed.

The core premise of hate (or the more popular term, racism) showed through, just like heat rays emanating from the sun and melting ice.  Had the event any real structure — outside of “if you hate him, show up” — we would not have been subjected to hearing the same old message we were forced to listen to via our phones, TVs and radios during the general election.  He’s a:

• fascist
• socialist
• liberal
• communist
• marxist

Such a mix of ideologies alone gives way to the confusion of those peoples intellect.  There is no way possible for someone to harbor all those ideologies at the same time.  It is inherently impossible.  Of course let’s not leave out how he’s also a:

• baby killer
• Muslim (with his fake birth certificate)
• stealing our taxes
• destroying our country
• a terrorist

Blah, blah, blah.  On and on it went, just as it did during the general election.  The patheticness of the wingnuts whine seem to escape them completely.  But it did not escape anyone’s knowledge that the whole campaign was pay for by the same bunch of racist that was behind pushing that message during the general election, wealthy conservative corporate lobbyist.  Grassroots does not describe this fake protest, astro-turf is much more appropriate.

That the tea party protest  was promoted by Fox did not go unnoticed as well.  In two days alone they ran over 58 ads.  Nor did the incendiary rhetoric of the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly (with other pundits of Fox chipping in) go unnoticed either.  We all got the theme of the message, they want President Obama to fail; however, the excessive name calling was over the top and only fed into the conservative imaginary hysteria and was a poorly construed mask for racism.

That the tea party protest was suppose to be a time for Americans to stand up for injustices committed by the government towards the people turned into a conservative constant trivia complaint rally that neither had traction or (even though they plan to do it again) real viability.  For example let me compare their rally to attract attention versus a person who is capable of attracting attention:

Tea Party Rally in Denver

Now let’s compare that to real drawing power

Then Senator, but now President, Obama's Rally in Denver

The comparison is stark and obvious in its reality.  The Tea Party had nothing to do with bi-partisanship, Americans or the people.  It was a conservative event that was, judging by the overall attendance, a flop.  So much for the rhetoric that it was successful and the people have spoken.

As if the ridiculousness of the conservatives pretending they were going Galt (even though they neither went Galt or much less went away) wasn’t good enough for the conservatives.  They had to go further and show their silliness by equating themselves with the tag names of tea bagging and 2M4M.  Of course once the full knowledge of just what they had associated themselves with became fully known Fox 24-hours-of-bullshit started whining over how everyone was being childish for noting the irony of the name.  Yet, the laugh still remained on them.  Fox could not save them by pretending their protest had one ounce of reality, much less spending or taxes.  The conservatives had, once again, loss.  Their tag names alone showed their stupidity and total irrelevancy.

For anyone that is not sure this is the same crap from the general election (or have a short memory), I give you a video from the past:

Where is the difference?

The GOP is only exasperating the situation and furthering the isolation of the conservative base by their constant wonky rhetoric.  It does not require an educated guess  (or above average intellect) to know just who the GOP is talking to when they start uttering nonsense such as seceding from the United States or that there is some holistic value in denying their constituents funds for unemployment and education during these horrible economic times.  There is only one group of people that like to call the president a socialist while they hold rallies in tax paid for socialized parks, surrounded by tax paid for socialized police, decrying taxes while they waste money on a million bags of tea, conservatives.

Instead of finding a real message the GOP prefers to dabble in the Lee Atwater stradegy of “us” against “them” hate message.  Thus they have completely emersed themselves into the right wing extremist rhetoric and have much to decry (and be paranoid) regarding the DHS report.

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