Yale Study -Tea Party correlates positively with science comprehension (3 Viewers)

[sublimeone]

liberals are amusing. Why are you guys so threatened by the tea party? Any time the tea party is mentioned you guys come out of the wood work in full force. Remember the whole 'tea-bagging' episode? I've never seen anything like it.

that's what you got from this thread?

it's just kind of funny. The left is so dependent on the caricature they have created of the tea party, anything that questions it must be vehemently attacked. It happens every single time the tea party is brought up. I just find it amusing.

 

[Dr Oadi]

What are we putting to rest?

Racist tea partiers are stupid.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

liberals are amusing. Why are you guys so threatened by the tea party? Any time the tea party is mentioned you guys come out of the wood work in full force. Remember the whole 'tea-bagging' episode? I've never seen anything like it.

that's what you got from this thread?

it's just kind of funny. The left is so dependent on the caricature they have created of the tea party, anything that questions it must be vehemently attacked. It happens every single time the tea party is brought up. I just find it amusing.

You havent noticed these people as lead politicians for the right.... and particularly the tea party strain of the right? Really? Laughable.

 

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liberals are amusing. Why are you guys so threatened by the tea party? Any time the tea party is mentioned you guys come out of the wood work in full force. Remember the whole 'tea-bagging' episode? I've never seen anything like it.

that's what you got from this thread?

it's just kind of funny. The left is so dependent on the caricature they have created of the tea party, anything that questions it must be vehemently attacked. It happens every single time the tea party is brought up. I just find it amusing.

You havent noticed these people as lead politicians for the right.... and particularly the tea party strain of the right? Really? Laughable.

What do you mean? This is all made up by liberals. The GOP is solid. Boehner and Rand Paul are totally in sync.

 

[Lutherman2112]

liberals are amusing. Why are you guys so threatened by the tea party? Any time the tea party is mentioned you guys come out of the wood work in full force. Remember the whole 'tea-bagging' episode? I've never seen anything like it.

that's what you got from this thread?

it's just kind of funny. The left is so dependent on the caricature they have created of the tea party, anything that questions it must be vehemently attacked. It happens every single time the tea party is brought up. I just find it amusing.

Liberals do not need to create a caricature of the tea party, because the tea party does great on its own. Here's Rep. Dan "I was Tea Party when Tea Party wasn't cool" Barton:

"Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is. Wouldn’t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up?"

 

[matuski]

liberals are amusing. Why are you guys so threatened by the tea party? Any time the tea party is mentioned you guys come out of the wood work in full force. Remember the whole 'tea-bagging' episode? I've never seen anything like it.

that's what you got from this thread?

it's just kind of funny. The left is so dependent on the caricature they have created of the tea party, anything that questions it must be vehemently attacked. It happens every single time the tea party is brought up. I just find it amusing.

No caricature could be as awesome as the real deal.

 

[sublimeone]

The left likes to pretend the tea party is comprised of a bunch of half-wit racists but it simply isn't true. No matter how much lefties insist on it, the facts don't support the claim.

 

[MaxThreshold]

The left likes to pretend the tea party is comprised of a bunch of half-wit racists but it simply isn't true. No matter how much lefties insist on it, the facts don't support the claim.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It's long been a Democratic mantra that grass roots conservatives were racist and stupid. (And this goes back way before the Tea Party movement started.) Personally I've never believed this. Most of of the Tea Party people I've encountered are extremely bright, and I've yet to meet to a racist one. They also tend to be very knowledgeable about politics and the information about science comprehension doesn't surprise me one bit.

My problem with Tea Partiers is not their intelligence nor their identification of political problems: it's that, IMO, their proposed solutions tend to be stringent and worse than the problems themselves. In addition, of course, they are a populist movement, and I don't think such movements generally produce positive results. But I would never question their ability. If they were as stupid as some Democrats paint them to be, they wouldn't be nearly as dangerous as they are.

I keep trying to figure out which is more dangerous:

Populist movements.

-or-

Movements that seek to label populist movements as dangerous.