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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I don't think it's helpful to have a contest on whose extremists are the looniest or scariest.
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This. Gingerdeltaz, this is the problem I have with your post. It sounds like you are trying to say that the Tea Party extremism is ok because there are people on the left who are worse. Do you really want to start a competition where we all trot out examples of idiots on either end of the spectrum? How about the guys who got kicked out of the GOP convention for throwing things and making racist comments to an African American cameraman? Threats on the lives of House Democrats after votes on health care reform?
I'm doing exactly what I agreed with MC is silly to do, but only to illustrate the point. I don't think anyone here is going to say that extremists on either side are ideal. The problem is that many (most?) Tea Party members can be numbered in the "extremist" category, and it's starting to make it look like the entire Republican party belongs in the extremist category, which I do not believe is reality. I would think that more moderate Republicans would be concerned about the image that the Tea Party is giving to the rest of the right.
(I will also agree that comparing a professional political pundit like Limbaugh, someone whose family has long been associated with politics and who is known synonymously with the Republican party, with an actor like Samuel L. Jackson, who is known for being an actor, is laughable.)