Sleeping Giant

Greetings sonnygears and I too say welcome to myLot. When I first saw mention of the Tea Party movement here in this small town in Ohio, I saw mostly conservative racists who already had judged Obama before he did anything. I always wondered why this movement had to start when we have a Black president. They paint President Obama with a liberal brush although some things he believes in are liberal, but not all. All one has to do is compare the 1040 tax booklets for 2009 (Obama's influence) and for 2008 (Bush's influence) and wonder what all the fuss is about. We have better tax breaks for the poor and middle class this year than under Bush. So people talk about what Obama might do, but it's all hot air. We need health insurance. We need hospitals to stop charging us $200 for one tetanus shot. The law of supply and demand says that if there is a great demand So for a tetanus shot, then the price should go up. That is not the case. So sometimes we need the government to look out for us when big business won't. The times of the fuedal lords running roughshot over us peons are over. So if people are going to wake up, they need to wake up before one of these myLotter's predictions comes true of some kind of violence, because in the end, it will be the big money people who win and things would be far worse for those who are not filthy rich.

Welcome sonnygears, if in fact you are a new member and not a reincarnation of an old one. No, there is no Sleeping Giant that has been awakened in America. There are simply a few who have taken advantage of a true and honorable movement of the people, and by the people, in order to promote their own political agenda. Please let me say to you, loudly and very clearly, that I am (for now) a Republican and have been a voting member of that party for over 30 years. At the Tea Party I attended here in Florida I met other Republicans...but I also met Democrats and Independents...all of the same mind and with the same goal. The recent "national Tea Party convention" was a very good example of politicians ramming through their agenda without listening to what the people want...as you have said. Many, many democrats and independents supported the tea party movement...all across this land...but now the GOP is attempting to take it as their own so, yes, let the voices of liberty be heard. We are not swayed by the glitz of the Republican party...we are not impressed by the big names that one faction of a nationwide movement brought to the forefront...we do not support isolating ourselves based on party affiliation and hatred for those of other party affiliations...or no party affiliation. It was a good scam. It was a good show...BUT the Tea Party movement is NOT the GOP and the GOP will not take this away from us. I have spent the past couple of hours in conversation with those who believe in the movement and who believe that the movement is in danger of being hijacked by the GOP for it's own selfish purposes. We will not willingly allow that to happen. Wake a sleeping giant? The GOP has been described as thieves and manipulators and I agree. This is OUR movement...a movement of the people...not the GOP's movement. We are not done....and xfahctor, if you're reading this...it's not too late for the Independents. So many people all across the internet...and here in Florida...are so disgusted by what happened yesterday that backing an Independent who actually cares about what we stand for sounds like a great plan. It does to me.

Sonnygears, welcome to myLot and I hope you love it here and make lots of great friends like I have. I hope you don't let Rose give you the wrong idea about the rest of us here! We don't care if you have a different opinion as long as you're respectful about it. The truth is, there are many Sarah Palin supporters and defenders and tea party supporters here, so don't worry about being "pounded" for expressing your views. That having been said, I have to respectfully disagree about the majority of Americans being Christian conservatives. It's true, a majority identify themselves as "Christians" but that takes in a lot of degrees of religious faith and a lot of denominations. My view is that the branch of the tea party movement currently being led by Sarah Palin is further to the right than the mainstream and has been taken over by the right-wing of the Republican Party. It's become a for-profit operation and I don't think that's what the majority of those who first got involved in what they thought to be a grassroots movement had in mind! Annie