Depends on which part of the Tea Party you are asking about, GfinS...

Like I have pointed out there are two very different components of the Tea Party... There's the corporate end that funds it (Koch brothers, Dick Armey, Health Insurance Companies, FreedomWorks, etc) and then there is the brown-shirt component... The corporate component wants to go back to Reaganomics, except this time on crystal meth, and wants to pollute and poison and rip US off... The brownshirt are just the pawns/dupes/rednecks and yes, racists that the corporate component uses as fodder... These people are racist... These are the "crazies" that TIA is talking about about... These people's daddies and grand daddies were Klansmen...

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B~