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I sure hope that a tea party develops in Maryland. I'd do everything I could to take my kids. My 9 y.o. understands The Obaminator's plans to tax and spend, plus to squeeze her generation dry from all this porkulus spending. In fact, when my wife told the kids of her coming promotion, one of the first things my daughter said was "Mommy, Obama will just take most of the extra money you earn, right?"

Mary,

If you're living in MD, I feel your pain. That place is almost as bad as Taxachusetts.

There was a tea party here in Harrisburg that I found out about after the fact and one in DC recently. I'll be on the lookout if anything else local is in the works. I'd like to go too.

4-5K is a pretty good turnout for a conservative cause. I went to a 1K support-our-troops rally, and it seemed big.
I would definitely go to a teaparty. I think our area would go for one, as we had one of those Glenn Beck parties for the Project912.

Hey Maryhunter, you just lost a good-for-nothing leech on society in Maryland, and NY state just gained one more (a worthless brother in law). He must be an Obamabot, as he feels everything, including booze and drugs, should be handed to him on a silver platter. He's too disorganized to actually cast a vote for anyone, though.

And compeltly ignored by the NEW YORK SLIMES,WASHINGTON COMPOST,ATLANTA URINAL/CONSTIPATION,SLIME,NEWSREEK as well as the liberal broadcast talking heads

And afterwards, everybody went home feeling good aobut themselves, and not a damn thing has changed!

A new revolution would make more sense than a new tea party!

And afterwards, everybody went home feeling good aobut themselves, and not a damn thing has changed!

A new revolution would make more sense than a new tea party!

Posted by: Darrel at March 16, 2009 1:11 PM

I agree. Don't we usually point fingers and laugh at the moonbats for their pointless little displays that have no effect?

Not sure about them having no effect. If they were having no effect why the news blackout?
Demonstrations as big as these have an effect on people seeking election or re-election. They are as hypersensitive as bookies.
It's hard to say what effect. But I have seen thousands of demos over my life - all for stuff like saving whales, and ban the bomb, and get out of Vietnam. I can't remember one from the conservative side except right to life marches. It really is too early to tell which way this thing will go. But it is something new to me.

I sympathise strongly with the aims of the Cincinnati Tea Party. But I have a question -

You condemn pictures of moonbat rallies where the children are wearing pro-Obama placards and sporting leftist propaganda signs and slogans. You dismiss them as "Obamatrons indoctrinating" the young ones. And you're right to do so.

Why then do you proudly display photos of children from the other side of the political spectrum doing exactly the same thing?

Whether the political beliefs of the parents are right or wrong, the children should be left out of it. We don't let them vote because we recognise that they are not capable of forming reasoned political opinions on these issues at that age. So keep them out of the marches and the rallies (unless you can't find a babysitter).
They can make up their own minds as they get older - with parental guidance, of course.

I fully explained the situation to them. They understand better than most politicians the difference between right and wrong. The two in the picture are also home schooled. Their trip to this Tea Party was proceeded by a full week of revolutionary war lessons. If anything, this was a field trip for them. They had a great time and explained to people who asked "Why are you here?" well enough to make me tear up. This wasn't a political thing for them or us, it was about right & wrong. We balance our books, teach them to do the same, and have to explain to them why our government can't do the same anymore.

alex -

Because the far left threw out the 'rule book' and we are adapting and changing..........

Be very afraid alex, be very afraid.

With the rule book gone as a rule of the left, and the fact that the Administration did not get a mandate of the vote, as you would believe, the real masses are coming out of the woodwork.

The problem with conseratives and moderates, for you, is that we have fully practiced our ability to blend into everyday live. We are very hard to spot in most situations, and it is shocking to the left that they may have actually pushed the majority of Americans into action.

Just a couple of thoughts you might consider.

alex - I realize on reading your post that you may also be a conserative or moderate, so to tone down my response...... what is good for the Goose is Good for the Gander.

Since most moderates' or conserative families' kids are already getting full socialist indoctrination in the 'public schools', its great to see parents counter indoctrinate them.

Again, I guess it will just be shocking to the extreme left to see the moderates and right adapt quickly to the new game plan, without the rules that the left threw out.

Oh believe me, Oiao, I'm no leftist. And I've often been made to feel quite uncomfortable because of my political views.

I'm an Australian, and we're in much the same boat as you fellas just now - so much so, in fact, that your President Obama recently gave our Prime Minister's stimulus bill a "big thumbs up" (apparently Obama's own words, according to our media here).

But I do think indoctrination of children is plain wrong. To educate them in one's political opinions is fine - all parents do that - but to have them marching in parades wearing sandwich boards is a different thing altogether. And after watching this very website spending so much time and effort criticising leftists who do this to their children, I feel very uncomfortable seeing the same thing applauded when it's done by conservatives. Calling it "fighting back" or "counter indoctrination" does not disguise the fact that it's immoral. You more or less admit so yourself when you talk about the right "adapting to the new game plan" - the left threw out the rule book, so let's play just as grubby as them. You yourself have no illusions at all that it IS grubby.

The problem - here in Australia and in the States - is that the media likes to tar the conservatives with a big ol' brush labelled "Hypocrites! Beware!" Fair or not, they look to the conservatives to play by the rules. The minute we break those rules, even slightly, we get pounced on. Leftists get a free pass. It's not fair at all, but it's no less a fact for that.

We. Must. Not. Give. Them. The. Opportunity.

And frankly, if we travel down this dark path (and I'm not just talking about kids in parades, but the dirty tricks of the left in general) we won't ever get back. We'll tarnish ourselves forever in the mind of the public, the independents, the swing voters who make and break governments, tarnish ourselves just enough to make them mistrust us for a long, long time. And we'll never win an election again.

Excellent comments alex.

All I'm saying is that the rules you are applying in your argument don't apply now.

The press and the left will always tar the right. So be it.

Now its time to change up the game.

If acting like a conserative has not produced any results, change the game.

If you can't, the left has you boxed exactly where they need you to be, as is apparent in what is going on in your country. We are not quite there yet, but soon it may be the same.

So, roll over and turn the other cheek.......

I'm so proud of my little city! 5,000!

To tell the truth, I'm ashamed to say that I had no idea about it until after the fact. I was quite angry with myself for not keeping up on M/M's website...

That'll teach me.

Incidentally, to commenter "alex",

The Right may very well become the counter-culture. I think that there may be some room for a couple rule changes because of it.

It is certainly a new thing for us (this generation), and so far, I think that we have demonstrated quite admirable restraint and class.

Aside from alleged "spitters", I have not yet heard from ANY media of a single violent (the peace activists brick that my father suffered in ROTC), overtly vicious (any SF activity), or garishly overdone (dressing up as a tree, or staging a mock "execution") act from these people.

Good on them all.

Come April 15th, I WILL be there...

Alex, as the parent of the children in the picture I can give you some background.

We intentionally parent our children. Along with teaching morals, reading, writing, math, history, and citizenship we instill in our children that the pursuit of liberty, freedom, and happiness is important. We also teach them personal responsibility. We don't just teach them this in the class room. We take them into the real world. We take them to our State capital to stop our state from taking away our right to homeschool. We take them to church. We take them to museums and let them play the sports the choose.

In our family, we are actively engaged in the culture war and it shows. One day they may choose on their own to go down a different path. They may also one day choose to not go to church. That will be their choice.

There are two guiding principals with regards to this...

"Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray."
Proverbs 22:6

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan

We're not taking them to a political rally that's for one person, or about one person. We're not having them sing songs about a presidential candidate - on ANY side of the political spectrum. I do have a problem with that.

By taking them to the Cincinnati Tea Party, we were, however, teaching them about fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, freedom, respect for the founding principals of this country.

If my wife and I don't teach them to be God-fearing, freedom-loving, motivated, morally upright children, who will?

I have to agree with Alex. Shouldn't take the little ones to these types of gatherings if for nothing else than to keep them out of harms way just in case it gets out of hand or some wacko radical decides to open fire.
Educate them at home. Yes. Keep them informed. Yes. When they're old enough to vote then they are old enough to participate IMHO.

Joe, that's like saying I shouldn't take them to Cincinnati at all. It was safer that day than any other this year. Off hand I knew 5 people there with conceal carry, there were dozens of police on ledges, horseback and on foot. A crowd of 5000 fiscally conservative people is not going to instigate someone shooting them - unless it's Obama Brownshirts. I normally won't take them to the city except for sporting events because of the high crime rate in some of the neighborhoods. Sunday was the safest I've felt in 10 years.

Question for those saying I need to keep my kids out of the process. Do you have children?

Paul, allow me to re-phrase. I wouldn't.....IMHO
I have little if any knowledge of Cincinatti so I have nothing to compare.
I applaude you for making sure that your children are educated instead of indoctrinated and am sincerely glad you all had a great time at the party / rally.
Yes, I have children. Both grown and gone.

PS - It was not my intent to imply that you "should keep your kids out of the process".

Got it. The south-west Ohio is pretty much safe since we all have guns and are not just sheep for the slaughter. Thus, we felt safe, as parents, taking the boys there. We left our youngest @ home with grandparents.

I feel they learned more in person, seeing it, tasting it, hearing it, than they would have at home. I still don't think we'll ever take them to a POLITICAL rally or event because I don't want them getting caught up in that nasty game. This was a different sort of event. It really was all the walks of life coming together and telling the government to stop being bad stewards of our national wealth.

The reason I asked if you guys are parents was just to make sure what perspective you were brining to the table. I understand it. I think if I were in Cleveland, Philadelphia or New York, there's not a chance we'd take them to it.

I find it interesting that the freepers and other conservatives claim to be such a big grassroots bunch...yet the freepers who came in from out of town stayed at the Westin Hotel (the most expensive hotel in Cincinnati).

I find it interesting that you equate "grassroots" with "poor." But then again, logic and reason never really was the strong suit of the left, ya know?

I guess I wasn't paying attention.
#1) The speakers were all local, as far as I know.
#2) I know a ton of people who went. In my van alone we had 2 non-partisan (possible Neo-Ice Cream Party) kids, 2 Republicans, 1 Libertarian, and 1 Democrat. This wasn't a party thing - why can't people get that?
#3) This was a grassroots as anything I've seen in this area.
#4) Why light the fire of class warfare Rick? Really? Just because some people stay at the Westin rather than 20 miles away in a cheaper motel, you think that makes them illegitimate?

Ugh. Just ugh.

Rick, The Westin is not the most expensive hotel in Cincy.

The Cincinnatian Hotel is.

4 star, 4 diamond, $1500 Presidential Suite.