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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Classic strawman argument
	Date:	2/25/2013 11:10:33 AM

What the left does is present a false position of the Tea Party and then argue against it and use the false position as a reason why this group or that group is outside the mainstream. Why let the truth get in to the way of a good Saul Alinsky strategy?!?!? I don't belong to any Tea Party group but I know literally dozens of people that do. Not one of them advocates for no government. That is anarchy and no conservative thinks that way.

Your characterization of them is much more accurate and it is undeniable that the scope, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government has increased dramatically in the last four years from an already overreaching starting point in 2008. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either not paying attention or willfully blind and ignorant. That is not to say that someone can realize this fundamental truth but still like it (definition of a liberal). But to say it isn't true is just plain dumb.