The group called Tea Party Nation has its own weekly radio show. ThinkProgress is reporting that during a recent show, the president of Tea Party Nation (TPN), Judson Phillips, declared that voting rights in America should be restricted to property owners. That’s how the Founding Fathers wanted it, says Phillips, and “that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner, you actually have a vested stake in the community.” That’s the Tea Party Nation, folks: Building a bridge to the 18th century. Of course, doing it the Founding Fathers’ way would also mean that no women or African-Americans could vote, no matter how much property they own. Oh, wait a minute, we forgot: women and blacks wouldn’t be allowed to own property; or is Phillips only talking about voting rights? This ancestor worship thing can get confusing. It’s not the first time Phillips has gotten attention for making ass-backward statements. It was only a month ago that he went on record as saying Americans shouldn’t vote for any Muslim candidates because the religion tells its followers to kill whoever disagrees with them. Read all about Phillips’ disturbing proposal for restricting voting rights here, where you’ll also find out how the rolling back of voting rights is just part of the plan for prominent members of the far right; if you feel like it, you can even listen to a clip of Phillips, our newest constitutional scholar, sharing his obnoxiously retro ideas.
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This is partly why I don’t affiliate with any party: Tea, Republican, Democrat or otherwise. I don’t want ignoramuses to assume that a guy like this represents my thoughts and beliefs. And if we want to talk about people who continually make ass-backward statements, I can start quoting Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. And of course George W. had his fair share.
Does that mean if you have a mortgage the bank votes for you?
The Tea Party is a wonderful example of how easy it is to whip up a mob of non thinking followers.
Most people in the Tea Party don’t even realize that the party was organized by the Republican Party. They actually believe that they just sprang up because (fill in your favorite bumper sticker here).
If the Democrats actually had a collective spine, they could easily sweep the Republican Party into the dustbin of history, but they will go down in defeat still trying desperately to compromise with a party that just wants to destroy them.
This Tea Party Nation guy misses the point completely. It’s not whose voting that’s the issue. It’s the candidate choices we’re faced with on election day. They all suck a$$. And until someone can put forth a candidate that has a set of principles and beliefs that he/she sticks to (and a proven track record of sticking to said beliefs), even in times of adversity, I’m kinda leaning towards George Carlin’s views on voting. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/67538.html
Judson Phillips has inspired the capitalist innovator in me. If you want to vote, but you do own any land. I have the solution! I have some land out in the desert. There are no roads there, no water, no public services, and it is land- locked. It will make a great rattlesnake farm. If you want o vote, I will sell you one square foot of it for $5.00.
So Sgt. York would only be allowed to vote AFTER he became a WW I war hero and was given a farm by the State of Tennessee? Talk about elitist? Sharon Angle should have saved her “second amendment solutions” for her own party!
Tea anyone?
Judson Phillips is a fool, so all our military personnel, firemen, policemen and elderly who don’t own property can’t vote?
How about all people who have filed bankruptcy can’t vote (like Judson Phillips), or those you fail to answer questions about our country history can’t run for public office (like Sarah Palin or Christine O’donnell), how about that, please.
So what do you think these losers want next, SLAVES?
Judson does not represent rank and file Tea Party members, and if you read the comments on his Tea Party Nation Blog, you will see that Tea Party members regularly rip him a new one. He is a lawyer and, in my opinion, has hijacked the Tea Party label to circumvent tort reform. He is against any candidate who advocates tort reform, despite this being a basic plank of any conservative platform.
Hey Virginia:
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