the problem is a lot of people know about the party, the party that is funded by special interests while claiming to be against the special interests they disagree with, the fact the party leadership has been purging local leaders that refuse to get on board the gravy train taking money and 'training seminars' from the Kochs through americans for prosperity and other massive super pacs, the fact that the tea party have been bussed by pro business special interests to protest in favour of things against their own core principals such as being in favour of oil subsidies and agricultural gagging orders that make it illegal for the public to be informed and then decide for themselves which business they wish to support.
the problem with the tea party is that they are co opted by special interests to the point former leaders within the movement who were cast out for not joining in with wetting their beaks are denouncing the movement, they put up candidates with extremist beliefs, so it cant be such a minority opinion of the movement as a whole, they push for crazy stuff and refuse to govern, and then they lie a hell of a lot, such as pushing for a government shut down for months then when it becomes unpopular claiming they wish Obama would end his shut down of the government.
tea party darlings are also a big problem. you had nut bag bachman who said Obama was arming terrorists but it was a good thing because if they killed enough people in the middle east it would trigger the end times, they had allen west, who calls war heroes that disagree with him unpatriotic, after he was kicked out of the military because he disgraced himself, carrying out mock executions and ordering beatings of detainees, then the tea party chose that guy to represent them, they have ted cruz filibuster against a bill that he then goes on to vote for, simply to get his name in the spotlight and help his fund raising, they keep having ted cruzs Cuban father say Obama should go back to Kenya, when his own son was born in Canada, but its ok, hes white, then ted cruz after being attacked on that issue in smear ads by republicans during the primaries claimed that it was liberals that had attacked him with smear ads, even though it never happened, not to mention they use Rafael cruz to throw out outrageous comments, then they say hey its his father, that doesn't mean he speaks for ted cruz, yet he is working for the ted cruz campaign, fundraising for them and introducing ted at speeches, so they use him to say what they want to say but cannot because it is sometimes crazy and hateful, they get what they wanted said, said while pretending to be unassociated so they don't take any heat for it. plus again the fact that tea party leaders are visibly intellectually dishonest, such as on that issue, they argued that Obama was not a US citizen, then argue that ted cruz is even if born abroad, because he has an American mother therefore could be born anywhere in the world and still be eligible for the presidency. well Obama definitely had an American mother so by the same logic even if he had been born elsewhere, would also be eligible, that is the problem with the tea party, they do mental gymnastics to make something ok if they do it and demonic if someone else does the exact same thing. or say, ted cruz, making speeches about a young boy saying he did not want a free lunch, he wanted one in a brown paper bag like the other kids, as if the child was asking to go hungry rather than receive that lunch, a story that was fictional and appeared in a book written by a guy in favour of school lunches who was making the point people are not moochers who just want free stuff, they would prefer to not have that stigma, they only take the lunch because they would go hungry otherwise.
that is the problem with the tea party, that don't just have a lot of crazy hateful members, they vote for those people, they protest big government then attack other groups for doing exactly the same thing like when they kept bashing occupy instead of saying we disagree with their goals but this shows there is a problem with the system as both sides have issue with it, they just kept on about how they must have deserved the cops coming after them and they were thugs, never mentioning the fact that the tea party was supported by the big business interests occupy was after, hence why they were immune from similar treatment, you had tea party protesters showing up armed with weaponry calling unarmed occupy protesters thugs for getting pepper sprayed. they are hypocrites on issue after issue, just like now with cliven bundy, trayvon martin was a thug for getting shot dead walking home unarmed, cliven bundy supporters are patriots for threatening innocent workers at gun point and carrying out death threats. that is why so many people discount and disrespect the tea party, because it ignores reality, bends the truth and uses any political trick possible, the tea party should of been protesting voter id laws instead of supporting them if they were truly for democracy and the rights of the ordinary citizen. they only care if that citizen would vote their way, its selective outrage over and over again.
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