Maine Governor's Race: Another Test of the Tea Party Movement

I don't get he rage against the tea party movement. They are for smaller government (in other words, gov't the way it is set up in the US Constitution), more fiscal responsibility (not spending money like drunken sailors), and more freedom to the people. Paul LePage has acted very responsibly in Waterville, cutting taxes, cutting spending without compromising services, increasing the town's credit rating, and increasing the "rainy day" fund from one mil to ten million dollars. That is the leadership we need in Maine right now, in a big way. If we elect Mitchell, we'll get more of the same garbage that has been choking Maine for years.

TEA party and other right wingers are now in trouble. They actually don't know what they stand for. These are people have been haunting President Obama on big government. However, now they are saying President Obama should have acted quickly on the oil spill. Specifically, they argue the federal government should have conducted environmental impact before allowing BP to drill the eruptive oil well. Let me tell them this: To conduct environmental study entails spending or paying somebody to do the job. That means President Obama could have incurred tax money which TEA party and right wingers do not like. What a double standard are TEA party and right wingers are? President Obama is right for taking steps so far. Fox News people and right wingers cannot have both ways. President Obama is right to take measured steps in the oil spill disaster. This should be a lesson to Fox News, TEA party and right wing not to criticize President Obama on issues they do not understand.

Every election it is the same BS from the politicians. The more money that is behind these politicians the more that politician owes to their donators. It's a song that they should sing by Tennessee Ernie Ford "I owe my soul to the Company Store". Every politician makes promises but in the end the big money get their investments back 10 fold.
CORPORATE AMERICA VERSUS OBAMA
Paul Krugman columnist for
The New York Times/Excerpt:

It’s the same formula the right has been using for a generation. Use Identity politics to whip up the base; then, when the election is over, give priority to the concerns of your corporate donors. Run as the candidate of “real Americans,” not those soft-on-terror East Coast liberals; then, once you’ve won, declare that you have a mandate to privatize Social Security. It comes as no surprise to learn that American Crossroads, a new organization whose goal is to deploy large amounts of corporate cash on behalf of Republicans candidates, is the brainchild of none other than Karl Rove.

bocabrad10:48 AM Jun 13, 2010 - ''It is sad that the tea-party people get any kind of control.''

bocabrad, you feel you are better then anyone else in this country? You feel entitled to look down on others, you feel humans are to be ruled by other humans? You are truly a sick individual.

The participation across this nation is healthy, natural, and required. More need to be involved, the neglect and apathy of Americans led to where we are today, with a corrupt 2-party paradigm that rules without us, legislated us away, and jcokeys for position to gorge on your labors and negotiate away your dignity and your liberty among the elite ''politicians'' and ''coporations''.

Tea Party is humanity, community, and participation. Tea Party is a spot on slice of the American demographic in terms of ideology, age, gender, race, and economic class. 4 out of 10 are self-proclaimed moderates or liberals, 4 out of 10 are democrats and independents, 5 out of ten are female.

So they are a little rough around the edges, they've got a lot to digest, a lot to learn, in a short amount of time. In the last 18 months, have you seen any violent incidents in the thousands upon thousands of events across the country with over 30-40 million Tea-Party attending, have you seen cities absolutely trashed as when Organize for America paid zombies flooded in and decimated and disrespected thier hosts? No. You saw commeradery and you saw the event locations cleaner then when people arrived.

At the rate the movement is growing, it will surpass the broken 2-party paradigm and be the largest movement in the nation by the fall of 2012.

Cutler is a progressive wearing democratic clothing covered up in a moderate cloak, from a past era advising the 2nd worst administration in history (Jimmy Carter). He's no moderate and you'd better look closely for warts, they are there.

From everything I have seen in the news this past year. The Tea party Movement is doing exactly what the Christian Right Movement started to do 12 years ago, i.e. to force an agenda on the American people that meets their own ideological beliefs. We know the result of the work of the Christian Right and where it led this country under President Bush. I am concerned that we are about to face the same situation again with another such group and that will likely have a similar result on American politics and in turn on America as a nation and as a world leader. Majority rule may be the way in which America functions, but I am not sure that the majority is always right. It seems that far too many people vote for their personal prejudices rather than for what is best for the people of the this nation as a whole. The founders of this country firmly believed that an intelligent and well-informed electorate would vote in such a way as to ensure that America as a whole was given first priority over the prejudices and privileges of groups of individuals interested in controlling the Government for their own ends.

I think the American people need to realize that voting based on personal prejudices and personal beliefs, as a way to change this nation's course, is something that this nation cannot afford to continue doing. Our government has become largely dysfunctional due to this propensity of the American voter. The Government becomes less effective in protecting the people of this country from threats posed not only by foreign nations and terrorist groups but from our own corporations and banks that have manipulated Wall Street and our Environment for far too many years. The government of this country has failed to protect us. What is good for business and industry is not always good for the American People, as so many recent examples have shown us (the Gulf Oil Spill, The Wall Street Meltdown, The Mortgage Crisis, etc). We may not need a bigger government per se, but we do need an effective government that can and will protect the American people from those who do not care how much damage they cause this country and its people in pursuit of profit or their own personal agendas. It is time to live up to the expectations of the founders of this country and become a well-informed electorate that votes for what is best for the country as whole, and not as a way to advance a personal, religious, or group interests without regard to what is best for the entire 310 million!

Whenever a man casts a longing eye on office...
a rottoness begins in his character.
Thomas Jefferson

"It's the tea party which is the radical element here."............
Let me try to understand this. The founders of our country had specific ideas about what they did and why they did it. So, balanced power between the three branches, limited federal control, increased power to the states and reduced taxation, the foundational beliefs of our greatest minds, are now radical ideas - but fascist control of major industries is not. Since most of you lefties are barely literate, I need to instruct you before you have a seizure. The word "fascist" has a literal definition. It describes a form of government where there is a titual ownership of private property by individuals but the government has the power to dictate anything it wants, such as the recent take-over of General Motors, the banks, the student loan market, etc. It does not mean I am calling a name - it means that the people who did these things have behaved in a manner consistent with a specific definition.

THE OLD SAYING IS "AS MAINE GOES .....SO GOES THE NATION!!!!! Look out all you Dems ...time is just about to run out!!!!!!1

"The American system of democracy will prevail until that moment when the politicians discover that they can bribe the electorate with their own money" - Alex De Tocqueville 1909"

Minor tweak - He wrote it in the mid-1830's. He was dead by 1850.

This sounds like a great step forward. We all have opinions, but we need to express them with courtesy. What good does it to to berate people who don't agree. Ben Franklin prefaced his opinions with a phrase like "It seems to me" or "to my way of thinking." The person who talked to him was not faced with a belittling comment and so he could listen and consider what was being proposed rather than getting his hackles up.