tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post829957294857443551..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: The Tea Party is not dead!Zenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-31382487948603154562014-06-12T11:50:06.383-07:002014-06-12T11:50:06.383-07:00Among David Brat's philosophies is Christian c...Among David Brat's philosophies is Christian capitalism. Whether he intended it or not, it certainly played into the hands of voters with latent (or otherwise) anti-Semitic tendencies, as the Republicans are now losing their only Jewish member of Congress (the GOP was none too kind to Arlen Specter, either, essentially running him out of the party for not being conservative enough).<br /><br />The latest Pew study also shows that the majority of conservatives prefer to live among those of their own faith (and would be unhappy if a close family member married a non-believer in religion):<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pew-poll-in-polarized-america-we-live-as-we-vote/2014/06/12/0b149fec-f196-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.htmlKathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-23082697123436981022014-06-11T16:01:49.901-07:002014-06-11T16:01:49.901-07:00Note that Eric Cantor just lost his primary to a t...Note that Eric Cantor just lost his primary to a tea-partier... The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1924082188205145322014-06-04T12:09:55.198-07:002014-06-04T12:09:55.198-07:00NPR Morning Edition had a report this morning abou...NPR Morning Edition had a report this morning about Americans' propensity to believe conspiracy theories (as your cousin clearly does). See "More Americans Than You Might Think Believe In Conspiracy Theories":<br />http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318733298/more-americans-than-you-might-think-believe-in-conspiracy-theories<br /><br />The gist is that "the research was trying to address [...] the stereotype about people who believe such theories [..] that they're poorly educated, or superstitious or that they are political partisans. It turns out the consistent predictor of such beliefs is something that you might almost call an All-American attitude - a belief in individualism, distrust of authority. And together those things translate into a desire to avoid being controlled by large secret forces."<br /><br />P.S. Why aren't Herman "9-9-9" Cain and Rick "Oops!" Perry in that potential candidate array too?Kathienoreply@blogger.com