The Fall Of Tea Bagging Conservatives In Tea Party Land
By Jamie Monday Nov 09, 2009 8:00amThe title alone might make you think this is some feel-good fairy tale. Well the feel-good part is right, but the fairy-tale part isn’t.
Southwestern Ohio has become something of a Mecca for Tea Parties. On Labor Day weekend of this year a Tea Party was held at Voice of America Park in West Chester, Ohio in which an estimated 18,000 tea baggers showed up. In the lead up to last week’s NY-23 race, John Boehner even brought up this event while talking to John King, which was held within walking distance of his home.
So knowing this, you would expect that any tea party-style candidate would be a shoo-in for local office in this area, wouldn’t you? Well, don’t be so sure:
The reign of the anti-school tax activists on area school boards was a short one
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Fairfield School Board incumbent Arnie Engel, who tried four times to get elected to Fairfield Schools governing board before finally winning in fall 2005, this time finished a distant fourth in the race for three open seats.
In Warren County's Mason School Board race, self-proclaimed "Christian conservative" incumbent Jennifer Miller ended up fifth out of eight candidates vying for three seats.
In the Monroe school board race, fiscal conservative Mike Irwin lost his re-election bid, finishing dead last among five candidates.
All three of the school districts mentioned above surround the district where the big Labor Day Tea Party was held, and they are all represented by John Boehner and Jean Schmidt. They are also parts of the reddest corner of Ohio.
So while Republicans are celebrating their wins in New Jersey and Virginia last week, we need to remember that all politics are local. And you can’t get much more local than a race for school board. Results like these show that when push comes to shove, people really aren’t ready to give the conservatives any more chances.
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we must have a lot more oil in the ground because this is America and God loves us more than people in other parts of the planet so it must be there!
but your response to this is so off topic, it makes me wonder if you have critical reasoning skills. You must have performed very poorly on tests in school if you responded to direct questions with this sort of drivel.
he must be one of those home-schooled kids.
to Op-ed columns forecasting doom for Boehner in the upcoming off year election.
I'm tired of seeing a boner almost everytime I turn on the news.
My mother had the misfortune of playing a round of golf with John Boehner. She said he was one of the most self-centered, egotistical persons she's ever met. No interest in listening to others unless he could bring things back to himself.
My teabag rises in colder weather.
If only the cup were bottomless...
In spite of all the bloviation from the T-baggers and RWNJ's there is a small amount of sanity in the world.
Thanks for reminding me. I needed that.
The "social conservatives" built their power from the bottom up, starting with the school boards. America may be regaining some of its sanity.
the life styles promoted on television aren't worth all the hassles.
as solutions to all our problems now days are being pitched by people who have more wealth than they know what to do with.
1) Acquire more more more wealth while
2) taking from others as much money as possible, legally or illegally, and
3) creating more serious problems (seemingly) solvable only by granting them more money and power.
Keep your hands off of my pie
You want to see reality based television? Watch porn. That's how people really behave.
didn't piss myself after the "wins" in New Jersey and Virgina, things are so volatile right now that I think there's really little way to predict how elections will fall.
Tea partiers are an amalgam of rather silly, self-absorbed, don't want to pay for anything but things which interest or affect them, rather insipid group of people. They continually amuse me with their fiscal concerns when those of us that were paying attention have been concerned for the last 8+ years. I would question using their concern or interests as a barometer for anything. You might as well lick your finger and hold it in the air.
to see what happens as their disappointments mount.
Empty behind the signs, slogans and idiotic dialogue , which are written, directed and paid for by the Rich Establishment. But has a lame plot, not much action, and no visible sex. Boor-ing!
If nothing else, people will just yawn when the teabaggers start their little parties.
Very good analogy!
Tea bag parties will disappear.
They were funded by corporations who saw some type of monetary or political benefit to spending their money on these events.
Corporations will stop throwing money at these clowsn. No return, no investment. It's that simple.
The next big fight. More corps have a dog in this hunt than in the health reform issue.
I don't think the corporations will be able to pull off the faux "personal impact" meme with this group of morons unless they trot them out into a Buffalo snowstorm. Even Fux won't follow them there...
It will be interesting to see how he spins this topic.
Yaaah...now we get to hear Rush talk about global cooling again!
And this is Palin's big moment! She's been blowing energy companies for years, in the quiet confines of Alaska. Now we get to watch her corporate fellating skills 24/7!
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Yesterday I stopped at a local watering hole for an adult beverage. I was wearing my Stanford T-Shirt. This guy went off on me....I'm a leftie liberal, I have no respect for my country, Obama is dope and no change....To hell with Queers in CA. I was so stunned I couldn't even speak, and then he left. I'm Florida by the way! Oh and Teddy Kennedy was the worst thing that happened to American Politics and its Fox News all the way, and NBC is like Nazi Germany....like I said I was so stunned I couldn't speak. All this from a T-Shirt.....WOW
Maybe they thought your shirt said Sanford, a largely black suburb north of Orlando.
probably would have got the same reaction if his shirt had said "university", or even "words" for that matter.
a typical "DEW DROP INN" around these parts
Think I'll play me some Charlie Daniels at my little bar up in Casselberry. Sandwiched between some Dr. Dre and Frank Zappa, of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMN7fGZW_BY
Modern day conservatism can only be popular when it's out of power. Once the idealogues have any responsibility it becomes clear that they can't run a school system, locality, or county, let alone a nation.
In my home county we had a similar issue when the Christian Right was on the ascendancy. My county was (still is, actually) fairly conservative, and the extremists took control of our school board-Ralph Reed celebrated us and said several times that we were the future. It only took a couple years to practically bankrupt our school system and get us involved in a few lawsuits, and they were all voted out at the next election.
People who hate the government are bad at governing. Maybe one day we'll learn that lesson and it will stick.
That's help to explain a fair amount. Back when I lived in Ohio, we used to say that most people in SW Ohio didn't live in homes but in compounds. We were, frankly, not willing to drive through that part of the state after dark (and especially not on a Sunday night when everything was closed) for fear of who we might have to deal with in the event of car trouble. That the people down in that part of the state are way into the Tea Bagger movement doesn't surprise me one bit. Now I'm sure there are fine people living in that part of Ohio but you all have to realize what all those bad apples that live down the road are doing to your image. And if Boehner's from that area? Well, at least I don't have to live with the embarassment that he's one of my House reps. (Of course, now we live in Illinois so now we have a different set of bad politicians that make us shake our heads while watching the nightly news.)
can see West Virginia from their front yard.I think they are the same people maybe just a smidgen up class
Boehner and Schmidt represent the exurb sprawl north of Cincinnati. Cincinnati itself is quite a Democratic city. And we haven't shot any unarmed black kids in almost 10 years!!
rnturn - Having lived in West Chester, Ohio, I feel the need to clarify this a little bit. Though there are parts of this area (meaning the Greater Cincinnati metro area) that are in fact bordering on White Power compounds, West Chester isn't one of them. WC is sort of a lily-white upwardly mobile suburb about 25 miles north of Cincinnati proper. I moved there from Cincinnati when I was about 14 and moved back to the city when I went to college.
I now live in Mariemont, a small town just outside the city proper, but my Mom still lives in WC - I'm of mixed Asian / Caucasian descent...my wife is African-American, and we have two children. I drive out to West Chester all the time, and have never once feared for our safety out of concern for racist hostility.
That said, West Chester has become a huge repository of meth labs - there's still a fair amount of farm land in West Chester and it seems they bust up a meth lab every week or so up there.
Also, my brother went to High School with John Boehner's daughter. We used to jokingly refer to him as 'John Boner'.
Re. "have never once feared for our safety"
[I now live in Mariemont, a small town just outside the city proper, but my Mom still lives in WC - I'm of mixed Asian / Caucasian descent...my wife is African-American, and we have two children. I drive out to West Chester all the time, and have never once feared for our safety out of concern for racist hostility.]
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Hostility can and does happen in odd places. The reason is a secondary issue I believe. I took my Son to a Bengals/Packers pre-season game last year and I liked Cincinnati. Like the Republican party in general is divided among conservative strains, so too are the Tea-Party peeps... divided by their racist ideologies. Some KKK'ers, some primarily anti-government and some pious, though they're mostly a far-right religious fellowship kinda Klan/clan.(IMO)
Amended: There are in fact, like-minded individuals in the Democratic party as well... to be fair.
I'm not saying there's no racism in Cincy, but generally speaking West Chester isn't a hotbed for Klan rallies - that was my point. Whatever racism exists in West Chester tends to be of the 'we don't go downtown because of all the poor, black neighborhoods and we like staying in our nice little gated community' variety.
Maybe they should change the name to "Tea-o-cons"?
I'm sure that the fine people of Ohio are ashamed to have Mr. Bonehead as their representative in Congress.
http://www.cleveland.com/medical/plaindealer/...
http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ss...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/1428...
The Tea Party dummies will eventually destroy themselves. Until that happens, however, I certainly don't mind helping them along...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_kAz9n6_pg
Best,
MTD
gee, i guess those tea-bagging ex-school board members won't be able to vote on the health care bill along with the new governors of va and nj. good news for president mccain!
"Southwestern Ohio has become something of a Mecca for Tea Parties"
...Voice of America Park,(Formerly Ronald Reagan Voice of Freedom Park)
Park Location: 7850 VOA Park Drive, West Chester Township, Ohio 45069
And the famous Creation Museum is located statgicly perhaps... a mere 43 minutes or 42.5 miles away!(at 2800 Bullittsburg Church Rd. Petersburg, KY 41080)
A mere anomaly?... yeah right :-P
Mike Wilson, the leader of the Cincinnati Teabagger Party is running for a seat in the Ohio statehouse as a republican. It's no surprise to us, of course, that the teabaggers are republicans, but Wilson has angered some of his teabaggers by violating his 'non-partisan' pledge.
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2009/11/...
The Voice of America Park was the Voice of America radio station until Boehner did nothing to keep it open and it was closed. Rather ironic he was at the VOA spewing BS.
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