Frank Rich on the Racist Sexist Xenophobic Homophobic Tea Party

The Rage Is Not About Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=print

If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

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Gee, I thought this whole time the reason I was against Obamacare is because I oppose big government, big deficits, and value freedom. Instead, I am told that I oppose Obama because I hate on black people, Mexicans, women, and gays. How did Frank know?

The fact is that Frank Rich doesn't know. As a libertarian, I support human rights for gay people. I believe in immigration especially for Mexican immigrants wanting a better life. I'd like to see an end to "don't ask, don't tell." I am antiwar. But Frank Rich is right. These aren't principled stands. I'm just hating on Obama because he's black.

This ad hominem type thinking is why leftards like Frank Rich don't get it. I listen to Tea Party people, and they are monomaniacal about one thing--government spending. That's it. And this is why they aren't too pleased with a lot of Republicans either who pursued big government policies. The error that Rich makes is because Republicans supported a lot of Obamacare proposals before they were Obamacare proposals that tea party people were in favor of big government programs so long as they served the interests of whitey. But I can tell you from talking with Tea Party people that they despised what Bush did. They despised what Newt did back in the nineties. And like me, they give praise to Bill Clinton for abandoning the big government agenda.

What changed things is the candidacy of one man--Ron Paul. Ron Paul woke people up to a lot of issues. He challenged Republicans, and then those Republicans watched as Bush then Obama brought out bailouts and stimulus packages. The Tea Party crowd is a diverse lot and includes conspiracy cranks, closet racists, homophobes, Bible beaters, and the rest. But this is why you deal with the issues instead of the people. The issue is a government that is eating away at prosperity and diminishing our lives with tomfuckery. Why is this considered crazy?

Frank Rich epitomizes what is to be the standard leftard response to the Tea Party:

-You went along with this big government shit before.

-You are no longer going along with it because Obama is black.

It's not much different than pro-Israeli people condemning critics as being anti-semitic. It is a neat trick, but the reality is they are wrong. They are simply trying to change the subject. It won't work.

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