re: #189 Obdicut

Why don’t you think the Tea Party is a mainstream source?

I referred to the individuals who were quoted, not to the Tea Party. (Yes, one of them claims to be the leader of the county Tea Party Patriots, whatever that is. I’m the Grand Vizier of Rumba-Sourdough.)

The Tea Parties are new and fragmented. Their mailings are amateurish. They are in flux.

IMO they started out as middle-class secular protests against government overreaching, but were immediately noticed by religious and other extremists (and by opportunists like Palin) who tried to co-opt them: unfortunately, with considerable success.