Palin's latest tweet attacks the NAACP for considering a resolution to condemn the Tea Party for "explicitly racist behavior." Palin's Tweet says:
I'm busy today so notify me asap when NAACP renders verdict: are liberty-loving, equality-respecting patriots racist?Bated breath,waiting...
I'm surprised she even has to ask the question. Obviously she knows that, no, Democrats aren't racist. I assume that's who she was referring to? Oh, that's right, she means the people who want to repeal the 14th Amendment aren't racist. Right.
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Wanted to get this out there quickly so kept it short and sweet. The rest of my thoughts, for what it's worth:
I'm going to strain my thinking skills and assume that Palin's oh so subtle sarcasm was in reference to the Tea Party as she refers to "liberty-loving, equality-respecting patriots."
"Liberty loving?" As in liberty for me but not you. We have Rand Paul saying he wants to deny children born to illegal immigrants the right to citizenship, despite what the 14th Amendment says.
This Amendment was enacted, of course, to grant citizenship to slaves, people whose parents were brought here "legally" through kidnapping. Therefore, if you were born a slave on a plantation in South Carolina the 14th Amendment granted you citizenship in the United States and South Carolina. Therefore, in today's world, if your parents sneak over here from Mexico and give birth to you while they're here (a choice that I assume Rand Paul would prefer since he's against abortion) you get to become a United States citizen.
What is it about the tea party that insists on one hand the Constitution be enforced to the letter of the law and on the other hand just willy nilly amended when it suits their purposes? I suppose you can argue that about just about any party, but it seems dominant among tea drinkers.
The topsy turvy logic of Paul and the Tea Partiers makes me think I'm losing my mind. If they were allowed to govern it would be, as Dr. Peter Venkman so eloquently put it, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"