I am just stating my reaction to Charles approach on this. I rarely disagree with Charles. This time I do.

Oh and I do listen to a lot of FOX radio and I watch FOX, among other sources, and I also dislike the blanket smear campaign some people indulge in here that all members of the right are racists. Some of them ARE completely nuts but not all of them. There is definitely something to the charge that you shut people up who are saying things that are true but you don’t want to hear by calling them racists. Not everyone in the tea party is a white male born again Christian with ties to the Nazis.

It’s like the Arizona issue. I spent the winter in Arizona. There is a real problem with border security that the feds are falling down on and they are not doing their job there. Instead of dealing with the fact that the border is not secure and the border leaks druggies and criminals in addition to decent honest types who just want a better life in the USA, the Feds just scream “Oh those Arizonans are a bunch of racists.” and ignore the issue which is a porous border on Federal land.