[Newsbot]

Title: Is the Tea Party Canada-bound?
Category: Political
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2010-08-31 10:10:56
Canadian

[andyt]

Just what we need. But then we do always seem to copy the US a few years later. Can't we at least get a brown PM and a shift to the left in govt first. It doesn't make much sense to have a teaparty when the head teabagger is in office, does it?

[uwish]

Not sure about all the stuff The Tea Party stands for, to me it's some kind of Libertarian anarchy mixture. But I think ppl always welcome change, but with most things political, it won't take long for The Tea Party to become another slug of a party whipping the same dead horse..with no revolution, nothing changes it just comes with a different cover on the same book.

[GreenTiger]

You don't want a teaparty movement. They are a pain in the ass at best,

[Guy_Fawkes]

Meh, I think they would end up being like the green party.

[Chumley]

Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:

Meh, I think they would end up being like the green party.

The Green Tea Party?

[Thanos]

We don't have a black guy in charge for the 'patriots' to focus all their precious hatred on so the whole stupid idea is a non-starter right there. We're also too well educated and much less likely to fall prey to empty, vapid sloganeering or phony rural hucksterism, so the chances of any Tea Party mentality coalescing itself around a Canadian version of Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin is practically non-existant.

[uwish]

if we are all too well educated up here in Canada then why do ppl support the NDP?

/that was sarcasm...

[DerbyX]

I wonder if these guys are going to be a driving force to bring in some form of PR into Canada?

[Guy_Fawkes]

Thanos Thanos:

We don't have a black guy in charge for the 'patriots' to focus all their precious hatred on so the whole stupid idea is a non-starter right there. We're also too well educated and much less likely to fall prey to empty, vapid sloganeering or phony rural hucksterism, so the chances of any Tea Party mentality coalescing itself around a Canadian version of Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin is practically non-existant.

Im not so sure, there is plenty of ignorance seeping out of many constituencies on the east coast.

[Mustang1]

Wait a second - this Lawton guy is for "advocating smaller government" and yet he planning a rally in Quebec City?!? In a province known for using big government for everything from daycare to language protection? Yeah...this should be good for some laughs.

[DerbyX]

Mustang1 Mustang1:

Wait a second - this Lawton guy is for "advocating smaller government" and yet he planning a rally in Quebec City?!? In a province known for using big government for everything from daycare to language protection? Yeah...this should be good for some laughs.

Perhaps he is going for ironic.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

We don't have a black guy in charge for the 'patriots' to focus all their precious hatred on so the whole stupid idea is a non-starter right there. We're also too well educated and much less likely to fall prey to empty, vapid sloganeering or phony rural hucksterism, so the chances of any Tea Party mentality coalescing itself around a Canadian version of Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin is practically non-existant.

There's far too many rational and calm people like yourself in Canada for anything like the Tea Party to take root.

[Thanos]

I have zero affection for either the Libs or Dippers, and really can't see anything that so maddening that Canadian Tories could ever do that would make me switch my support to the other side. But American TeaPartyism and all the lies, barely disguised hatreds, and pure idiocy that go along with it? I'd sooner set myself on fire than have anything to do with any of that vile braindead pseudo-populist demagoguery.

[bootlegga]

Dear God, please no!