| It seems it may be high time for FreedomWorks to stop carrying on about how much the Tea Party movement is "about education" and to start saying that it's only interested in hearing from those who tout the party line. You see FreedomWorks is going to pull out of the Tea Party Express' cross country bus tour because the tour has allowed Mitt Romney to participate in its political discourse. According to Alex Altman "On Wednesday, citing opposition to Romney, FreedomWorks announced that it will sever its ties to the tour and join local New Hampshire Tea Party groups in protesting Romney's speech." (Romney at the Center of a Tea Party Spat; http://swampland.time.com/2011... is a blow to Romney who had been seeking to reach out to the Tea Party movement and will now face Tea Party protestors at his upcoming New Hampshire speech to be held in Concord this Sunday. In stark contrast to the position taken by FreedomWorks, the Tea Party Express endorses a more open forum where all of the candidates, even those they disagree with, are given a chance to state their case so that the movement's members can come to their own unencumbered conclusions.
Now the follow on issue is this, if FreedomWorks, one of the primary financial engines behind the Tea Party movement, has no interest in the give and take of political ideas in the process of picking a presidential candidate, then what kind of candidate would they place in direct opposition to Barack Obama? Furthermore, if FreedomWorks is hell bent on operating some variation of a one party democracy where the ruling clique controls the message and picks who will be allowed to run for office or hold appointed positions, then just what type of democracy can we expect to flow forth from a FreedomWorks backed candidate if he or she were to be elected? This is no idle question based on all of the concerns that are being raised about some of the candidates undisclosed attitudes on the role of religion in governing or the separation of church and state. These are all serious and pressing questions that need to be answered well in advance of November 2012.
sjg
9/1/11
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