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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
I was going to say the same thing on the previous page when responding the list of Tea Party issues. If you don't want the govt intruding on our daily lives then you can't look to them to mandate marriage, language and who you can and can't hire. Its hypocritical.
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And if you don't want the government removing choices, then you have no basis for standing against infanticide. Come on now, none but the most ardent anarchists are for a complete withdrawal of government from "our daily lives". Use just a little imagination and see the magical italics: "
less government intrusion". Of course liberals, conservatives, and their subgroups are going to differ on which areas the government should be less intrusive (or more intrusive). That tea partiers see a number of areas where the government isn't, in their view, present
enough, doesn't exactly give you a slam-dunk case that they don't believe in smaller government. It's possible for the government to be overbearing in some areas and too lax in others simultaneously.
I don't doubt that there's hypocrisy in the tea party movement. (Not to as great of a degree as with Republicans or Democrats, but hey, it's a young movement.) But you seem to think it's easier to spot than it actually is.