The libertarian insurgents are currently gathered around Andrew Ian Dodge, a science-fiction writer and amateur rocker (with a penchant for writing lyrics about reducing the size of government), who serves as the unpaid coordinator for Maine’s Tea Party Patriots. Unlike folks on the Christian right, he and his allies aren’t tied in to a network of endowed think tanks, private universities, and broadcasting outlets that help to amplify their message. And Dodge is skeptical of groups like the Tea Party Express, which, he says, is “a Republican front run by Republican apparatchiks.” As an outsider, he’s enjoying having a chance at being on the inside, and he’s not going to give up his seat so easily. “Look at me: I’m a hairy guy with an earring. It’s a new environment on the American right where someone like me fits in, one driven not by an individual but by a core belief system.” A belief system that is made up of the nonreligious tenets of fiscal responsibility, free-market economics, and limited government, according to Dodge.
Yeah.
What he said.
1 comment:
Amen!
I am very sceptical of the Tea Party since the "Witch of Delaware" announced her "War on Wank".
Too many tea-baggers seem not so much to want "less government" but "their sort of government" and seem almost obsessed with abortion, gay marriage and prayers in public schools (US sense of the last one).
It's like out of "1984" and into "The Handmaid's Tale".
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