Editorial - 24 Mar 2010
GOP Not to Blame for Alleged Tea Party Comments
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or the life of us we can’t figure out why anyone would hold the GOP accountable for the actions of some Tea Party Members.
The Tea Party is not part of the GOP. The Tea Party movement certainly draws from the Republican
Party ranks just as it does the Democratic Party ranks, but with some polls indicating that it’s more
popular than both parties it’s hardly reasonable to assume that the GOP is in control of their actions.
It’s also true that the Tea Party movement has been critical of both GOP and Democrat policies,
although certainly it’s the Democrats who’ve captured the ire of our nation at this time, through
their own fault.
The current political climate was created by the arrogance of the Democrats. Hence, it’s
the job of the Democrats, not the GOP, to lower the heightened national tension. And the GOP can't
be scapegoats nor apologists for poor Democrat policies and unbridled Democrat arrogance.
The one thing we do agree with the Democrats on is that if the allegations are true, the comments
made were reprehensible. Beyond reprehensible. About that, no reasonable person can disagree. Having
witnessed eight years of liberal teeth gnashing during the Bush presidency, when virtually every
Democratic rally was framed in angry, belligerent attacks against the sitting president,
when “mainstream” media cartoonists depicted the president as a non-human primate, and when
it was impossible to witness an anti-war rally without seeing caricatures of the president as
Adolf Hitler, we, like many Americans, have had our fill of shameful, obscene personal attacks.
We assumed that when the Democrats took over the White House such personal attacks would end.
But the attacks didn't end. Other groups of individuals, in this case Tea Party members, took a
page from the Democrat's rallies and became equally obnoxious.
That anyone would blame the GOP for this we find puzzling. We also find puzzling that so many
liberal letter writers still appear so angry. Liberal anger during the Bush years was understandable. It’s
not easy being out of power. But still angry? Perhaps the anger of the left has nothing to do with politics.
Perhaps they’re just angry people. And that, too, is not the fault of the GOP.
Editor - bethesite.com
