re: #138 9Iron

Just jumping in here, really not trying to flame the thread:

Do most people here think that the majority of attendees at tea parties are bigots, rednecks, homophobes, etc. that they appear to me at least are trying to be portrayed as? Or do more people think that there are idiots in every crowd, and when someone says something stupid they deserved to be slapped down (figuratively speaking)? I don’t know if somebody said something racist to Lewis or homophobic to Frank, although it does seem to me that if there was something to it it would have already been blasted all over the news. That being said, is the issue here with one or two idiots that, or is the thinking here that everyone in the crowd is a bunch of idiots simply by reason of a differing view? I’m just trying to figure out the hate of the tea partiers, is it the bad apples (which is there on the left as well) or is it the political views that they promote?

It’s the bad apples, who just happen to be the ones running the show.