takoma
Post 10/23/2013 18:35     Subject: Re:Anyone out there willing to admit being a tea party member & Why?
Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of Chamber of Commerce types of small/medium sized towns in the Tea Party. They're not stupid/ignorant, they're protecting what they think are their interests.

But after the Oops Moment of the shutdown, the CoC may now put money into backing mainstream opponents of Teaa Partiers in GOP primaries:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2013/1021/Could-US-Chamber-of-Commerce-be-counterweight-to-tea-party
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2013 17:48     Subject: Re:Anyone out there willing to admit being a tea party member & Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html

Yale researcher on science and the Tea Party.....


I believe many Tea Party types actually understand science. That makes their behavior even worse, IMHO.


There's a lot of Chamber of Commerce types of small/medium sized towns in the Tea Party. They're not stupid/ignorant, they're protecting what they think are their interests.