POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
John Ibbitson,
You really do have it entirely wrong.
I'm surprised at how much so. Perhaps it's your American-wannabe inner-self seeking expression?
There is nothing new, and certainly nothing genuinely anti-status quo, about the goofy Tea Party.
Good Lord, Sarah Palin - George Bush with a sex change - was there, and they were applauding that total airhead as she waved her arms around like a Baptist tent preacher.
And surely, you understand that there is nothing new about Palin except the color of her hair.
In fact, the Tea Party is the same tiresome bunch we've heard from dozens of times before in the U.S.
It's a re-run of a re-run of a re-run there: back to political basics and origins.
It's almost a hobby amongst the U.S. Right Wing, every once in while, we get a bunch of them with a new set of slogans.
This latest group of clowns reminds me of Lamar Alexander working desperately towards the Republican nomination in 2000, by going around in a red lumberjack shirt and offering the profound suggestion of a part-time government.
Likely it was a custom-made lumberjack shirt since good old Lamar is a multi-millionaire. Of course, in one sense, old Lamar was only talking about formalizing the de facto reality: America does have a part-time government if you count the time spent soliciting money.
Were you aware that one of their speakers at the convention also called for the re-establishment of literacy tests for voting? It's the old code phrase for eliminating black votes.
Anti-status quo? Yes, if you count going backward a century as being anti-status quo.
