The Department of Education is "unconstitutional"? Repealing the 14th amendment because it denies businesses the right to ban blacks if they feel they want to is a good idea? Speaking of businesses, they will be "damaged" if laws on pedophiles are toughened? The pressure on BP to pay more restitution is "un-American"?
Reporters are handcuffed and detained by a candidate's security; another candidate threatens to "destroy" a radio station if they didn't comply with her request to destroy all evidence of an embarrassing interview she granted them. Threats to trade "unpatriotic" Americans to other countries to "swap them" for those that will. Threats of extortion (to the President no less) by suggesting they will call for impeachment if he does not show his birth certificate...
What. Thee. FUCK? Wake up, America! This is 2000 all over again, just on a much grander scale.
I don't take the Tea Party seriously (in the sense that I give their ideals/platform any merit), but I do believe they have great power over the misinformed. After all, at one point in history Hitler was just seen as a passionate man with lofty ideas. We really won't kill off a large portion of a whole race just because one man says it's right...right? Yeah. He was harmless. Really...
If a transparent blowhard like Bill O'Lielly and a walking, breathing advertisement for hypocrisy like Brush Limbaugh can incite Joe Schmoe to violence, what do you think the Tea Party can do (even if they are just a front for the Pachyderms who don't have the guts to grab their balls and agree with them or support them outright)?
My Lord. I just got a massive headache...
What's more terrifying than the Tea Party? The fact that there is a large number of Americans who not only drink their Kool-Aid, but also follow blindly behind the music streaming from their pan flute. Wake me in 6 days. Better yet: don't.