Jul 05 2009
Tea Party Draws 800
On a broiling Independence Day morning, more than 800 people crowded into Cannon Park in downtown Charleston for a sequel to this spring’s anti-tax “Tea Party”— minus one of the movement’s standard bearers, Gov. Mark Sanford.
When Sanford spoke to thousands of protesters April 15 at the U.S. Customhouse, he had emerged as a leading national critic of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus strategy.
Now, in the wake of Sanford’s personal and political meltdown, Tea Party organizers are depending on others to tout their anti-big-government views, particularly U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.
At Saturday’s event, the South Carolina Republican signed copies of his new book, “Saving Freedom,” and basked in the adulation of conservative voters concerned about the country’s direction. In a speech, DeMint railed against the Obama administration’s spending strategies to revive the economy. “There’s only one word for it: It’s socialism,” he said.
That it is. The partial nationalization of banks, the nationalization of auto companies, Cap and Fraud, and soon possibly the nationalization of American health care. It’s textbook Socialism and people were warned that Obama was a Socialist, but they just turned their cheeks and wrote it off as mean spirited attacks on the Messiah. No ignorance was too great if it meant keeping another Republican out of the White House. I didn’t vote for McCain, but there were other people running besides he and Obama.
As for DeMint, hopefully he will be able to still get America’s attention as to the danger we are putting ourselves in with this unprecedented spending and we can cross our fingers and hope that he too will not eventually be tainted with some scandalous revelation that he eats kittens for breakfast or touches little boys or something.
