The headline writers at the N&O are at it again, this article by T. Keung Hui does a good job reporting on campaign mail being sent out by liberal groups attacking conservative candidates running for Wake County School Board, but the headline “Fliers try to tar Wake school board candidates with tea party label” reinforces the notion that the “Tea Party” is a bad thing.
It is true, the liberal organizations (including Common Cause and the AFL-CIO) that are paying for the mailers supporting liberal candidates in this year’s Wake Board of Education races have decided this local election is all about the Tea Party. Many of the mailers do not even mention issues relevant to the 2011 election and include pictures of Tea Party participants holding American flags and signs that say things like “The Constitution and Bill of Rights not liberalism or socialism” – oh my, the Tea Party really is bad isn’t it? (now that is sarcasm)
Click here to access a few of the mailers on the News and Observer blog site.
The anti-Tea Party strategy appears to be an attempt to test the tactic before using it in the 2012 election. But, it is worth noting that the last Civitas poll to ask whether respondents supported the Tea Party movement was in July 2011 when 42 percent of the respondents indicated they did support the Tea Party and 20 percent had no opinion.
Will this strategy backfire? We will know for sure when the votes are counted on Election Day – but some seem to think that the “Tea Party” may find these tactics reason enough to get out and vote in an election they have never voted in before.
The tea party people are traitors to the country and the constitution of the US. They are the extreme wing of the right -they are not independent and they gain power from your sites host Art Pope. They use hate and ignorance to try to return us to the 1900s why? to keep women and minorities in their place- I suspect that is the real reason they are so upset about our current leaders both at state and natl. levels-
I have to ask – why do you think people in the Tea Party are traitors to the Country and the Constitution?
Well Susan, I’m betting you never get an answer to your question. Calling the tea party members names such as traitors, extremist, racist, etc. is just playground antics to keep the public from considering the real issues. The commenter not only gave no evidence of their accusation, but would even give their name. I’m not a tea party guy, but I recognize that they are just another group of people looking for political change…like the Occupy(insert city) folks. Of course, they have really different points of view; which is why the Occupy people are not negatively targeted in the media.