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PENNSYLVANIA?S TEA PARTY: Brewing For Years. For the past several weeks the tea party movement h?

By Glenn Reynolds

PENNSYLVANIA’S TEA PARTY: Brewing For Years.

For the past several weeks the tea party movement has been widely maligned as radical and dangerous. For example, former President Bill Clinton, in a speech and a New York Times op-ed, has cautioned that supporting tea parties could unleash violent militias. The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report claiming they are “shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories, and racism.”

None of this fits with what I’ve seen. The tea parties I’ve spoken at in western Pennsylvania resemble church picnics?although their growing potency may be a signal of things to come on the national scene.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).