When life gives you lemons-

[KrazyinKS]

make lemonade. Isn't that how the saying goes? So they want less taxes and less government. What do we think they are spending too much on? Well lets start with the Defense Industry. I mean we might as well get something out of this, right?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Dream on.

War is 'holy' on the right, and war profiteers are their saints.

[DebJ]

2. That was my thinking... can we get info pounded out there about the extreme

costs of tax advantages to Exxon, et al, and get the Tea Party to feel forced to support that?

[bvf]

4. Probably not that it would make any difference.

Your average tea party voter doesn't (read, hasn't been conditioned to) regard defense spending as a target. Look at all the right-wing rhetoric aimed at telling the public that ISIS is coming to its front door with weaponized ebola, immigrants in tow.

Oh, there might be lip service paid here and there, but the pervasiveness of fear instilled by 24/7 MSM coverage of terrorism probably leads such a voter (not the sharpest knife in the drawer to begin with) to make an exception here and there.

I like your idea, but don't really thing it would come to anything (forgive me if I come off a bit cynical).

[DebJ]

5. I wasn't thinking of defense spending. i was thinking of the hand outs to

Exxon GE et al.

Pound that they are taking YOUR money to give to billionaires.

That doesn't mesh with Libertarian philosophies.

[bvf]

6. Exxon and GE

both have strong interests in a bloated defense industry.

Exxon's ties may not be as obvious, but I'd bet there's a sizeable portion of tea party types out there who root for an oil company to drill anywhere they fucking want. Because--you know--America.

That was the whole point of Iraq, wasn't it?


More to your point, I don't see tea party voters as libertarian so much as ovine. I would guess a lot of people don't have a political philosophy per se, but being able to self-apply a term like "libertarian" when in action it means "not having to pay taxes for bridges or to provide assistance to those despicable unemployed" is perfectly OK with them.

[freebrew]

3. lemons, limes,..

some Squirt, 7-UP add ice and a fifth each vodka and gin. shake well.