DEMOCRATS COMPLAIN After Tea Party Group Honors Military in Holiday Parade
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 18, 2010, 9:55 AM
The democrats were not pleased after a Texas tea party group sponsored a float to honor the military in a Texas holiday parade.
Local democrats said politics should be kept out of community events.
P/Oed Patriot reported on this controversy:
The Star-Telegram reported:
A local Tea Party group’s participation in Grapevine’s recent Parade of Lights has drawn complaints from people who say politics should be kept out of community events.
About 20 people, some wearing military uniforms, were in the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party float during the Dec. 2 Christmas parade through downtown Grapevine. The float was a show of support to the military, said Julie McCarty, president of the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party.
Critics said the group itself is a political statement. Some also said they heard people shout politically themed messages from the float, something McCarty said never happened.
“I was taken aback that they were allowed in the parade,” said Mark Bauer of Colleyville. “I’ve been to many Christmas parades, and I don’t remember any other political groups ever participating.”
The Tea Party is widely known as a conservative grassroots movement that emerged last year in response to growing government spending. With more than 1,500 local members, “I would simply say that the Tea Party is part of the community,” said McCarty of Grapevine.
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Published May 16, 2012 at 7:37 pm - 46 Comments
vote for pedro commented:
How is honoring the military political? They(the military) keep us all safe.
Khan Krum commented:
The putrid stinking onion keeps coming undone, one peel at a time.
RedBeard commented:
How far we have declined as a nation. During WWII, and up until Vietnam, liberals were still patriots, as a rule. Now, with disgusting complaints about honoring our military, they are nothing better than pond scum. Actually, pond scum wouldn’t show disrespect to our military, so that comparison was unfair.
bg commented:
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aah, albeit not the same topic, just posted about the TP here..
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Sickofobama commented:
Are you kidding me?
Those liberal rats need to crawl back under their rocks.
They love making life miserable for normal Americans.
Pecozbill commented:
The sad part is that the C of C will listen to the few vocal whiners and not to the vast majority of supportive folks — and probably ban anything similar next year….
The tiny vocal minorities have become the tyranny of this former great country!!!
bg commented:
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“I would simply say that the Tea Party is part of the community,”
Earth to DhimiDems et al..
isn’t that (supposedly) what Obama is all about?? /s/
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Julie commented:
Grapevine is a liberal bastion of people from up north. They are not Texans. Texas seriously needs to amend thier laws so as to make these people feel uncomfortably unwelcome. They move there striclty in an attempt to subvert the laws of the locals.
succotash commented:
I think these idiots complaining has more to do with the teapartys involvement than the military nevertheless it is so moronic that they make themselves look foolish in the eyes of all patriotic americans. The left just hates the teaparty and Sarah Palin so they lash out with the vitriol and ALWAYS make themselves appear very ignorant. I love this country and have great respect for the men and women who put their lives on the line everyday so that I have the freedom to sit here and type this. Shame on the people who do not get it and are aiding and abetting the haters.
bg commented:
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DEAR NORTHEAST TARRANT TEA PARTY..
A BLESSED & MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL,
& THANK YOU FOR HONORING OUR MILITARY!!
It Has Always Been The Soldier
It is the soldier,
not the President who gives US Democracy.
It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes Care of US.
It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.
It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus [community] Organizer who
has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.
~ Father Dennis O’Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain
God Bless America!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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Kim commented:
What a shock!/ ‘Mark Bauer of Colleyville’ is a member of the Mid Cities Democrats:
http://www.cgsdemocrats.com/about.html
http://www.midcitiesdemocrats.com/?p=66
bg commented:
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Kim #11
ever get the feeling they’re not only calling Reps what they are, but
taking over the Rep rhetoric/mantra/banner/whatever?? /truth sarc/
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Michael Lang commented:
Texas DimoRats…just keep marginalizing themselves. Who exactly in Texas is going to agree with them?…other other DimoRats…and Texas there are less and less of them.
Amazed commented:
So I guess that means that Mr. Bauer will speak against Democratic candidates for office marching in the 4th of July Parade in 2012 also? Or does he not remember what path the Declaration of Independence set us on?
Rob De Witt commented:
Thumbs up for supporting the troops – but political advertising in a Christmas parade is lame, whoever does it.
If the local Dem or GOP sponsored floats with signs, they’re lame too.
wanumba commented:
The Fourth of July Parade in Monterey, CA would have been closer to the THEME of the DAY without without the scraggly pods of 60ish prozac hippies with signs of WAR is Not the ANSWER and PETA and Greenpeace and several other decidedly non-July 4th concepts loved by socialists and communists and in sharp opposition to everything the Founding Fathers fought against. No one bothered them, except maybe they didn’t get applause and cheers when they walked by as the Patriotic groups got.
But the Left ALWAYS demands only what THEY want and shut down everything else. Ti
Joe commented:
Our 4th of July and Christmas parades always have the mayor rolling along in a convertible, and if it is an election year, there will be floats representing the candidates (dems and repubs) running for office. Last I checked, this is pretty common almost everywhere.
JD commented:
#8 Julie said it right, Grapevine, Colleyville is just like Highland Park in dallas, simply put is a s*it hole for these obama loving libs. Right next to DFW these libs can get out of the state quit. Problem is they keep coming back. Next holiday parade Texas tea party group need to put the Baby Jesus in Cradle or Manger. That would really piss-off these worthless liberal scums.
BigAlSouth commented:
Guess the Texas Democrats never even considered entering a float to honor the veterans . . .
BigAlSouth commented:
#15 btw, I am for ANYONE honoring the troops, in any event, in any venue. There is no room here for moral equivalence lameness.
JKB commented:
Well, first perhaps they shouldn’t use a theme associated with the military (Home for the Holidays) if they don’t want military themed floats.
Secondly, such a float might be inappropriate for a Christmas parade but this was a Holiday parade. No religious context to define the event then other contexts are appropriate.
Old One commented:
Bauer is just another treasonous traitor in democrap party clothing. Bauer is as stupid as Nasty Pelousy, Dingy Harry, and Clyburn who are out front daily reminding the American public of the marxist tyranny loving freaks that the democrap party has become and that it must never be given power in Congress again.
Rob De Witt commented:
#20 – As you’ll note, I agree with you about honoring the troops – anytime, anyplace, at every opportunity. Nonetheless, advertising a political party in a Christmas parade is just wrong. Periodo.
#21 – “Secondly, such a float might be inappropriate for a Christmas parade but this was a Holiday parade. No religious context to define the event then other contexts are appropriate.”
“About 20 people, some wearing military uniforms, were in the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party float during the Dec. 2 Christmas parade through downtown Grapevine.“
TxBitty commented:
Kim #11
Also, Mark Bauer was the 2009 President of the Colleyville-Grapevine-Southlake Democrats. 2008, Vice President.
http://www.cgsdemocrats.com/downloads/12February2009agenda.pdf
Shamballa108 commented:
They, being the Liberals, automatically equate anything Tea Party to the Republican Party or Conservatives. While it is true that the majority of the people who make up the Tea Party have conservative leanings, there are also Libertarians, Independents, and old school Democrats.
The simple fact of the matter is that the Tea Party is not a political “party” at all. So the typical Liberal whiners have once again had a knee jerk reaction and gotten their proverbial again panties in a bunch because they simply don’t know the facts and believe whatever the MSM tells them to believe… but that is nothing new.
Joanne commented:
Ah gee, a military float in a Christmas parade – the shame of it all. Maybe these idiot democrats should give thanks to the military, so that they are able to celebrate another Christmas at home with their families while the military are far away from home fighting for their freedoms.
Whippet commented:
#8 Julie
What are you talking about? Grapevine is a beautiful rather Conservative community. I know. I live here. And yes, I came here from the liberal north to, thank God, find that Texas had turned conservative after the days of LBJ and Ann Richards. Remember them? Texas born, I believe. I have lived in this part of Texas for 25 years. My kids went through their entire school here and the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD is more conservative than most. And just so you know….the friends I have who moved here from the north are some of the most conservative people I know. The liberals that I run into occassionlly tend to be Texas born and bred. I’m of the age where many here still revere LBJ and Ann Richards, to name a few. Many northerners didn’t come here to bring liberalism with them. They came here to escape it.
What was it? 7 or 9 people who complained? The fact that this is even a news story doesn’t have to do with northerners or the City of Grapevine, who did the right thing by letter the Tea Party float participate in the parade. It’s about a liberal news media trying to create a controversy and force the will of a few on the lives of the many…..
Whippet commented:
#23Rob DeWitt
#20 – As you’ll note, I agree with you about honoring the troops – anytime, anyplace, at every opportunity. Nonetheless, advertising a political party in a Christmas parade is just wrong. Periodo.
Again, the Tea Party is not a political party and what parades do you go to that aren’t filled with cars carrying political office holders down the route? You think people don’t know what political party they represent?
This is an issue because of the media and a few liberals who are so terrified of the popularity of the Tea Party movement that they want to take away their right to free speech and participation. It’s the liberal way. If you can’t beat them….silence them.
midlandewing commented:
Democrats just dont get it, never have never will because they are brain damaged
bg commented:
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hey, if Pelosi could march with NAMBLA in
a GAY PRIDE PARADE, what’s the beef??
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AuntieMadder commented:
“Democrats complain” begins as many headlines as “Muslims are outraged.” Bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. Both of them.
AuntieMadder commented:
Whippet #27: Yeah, I’m one of those Texans who liked Ann Richards. For a Demonrat, she was okay…or, aside from her politics, she was a hell of a gal. Besides, everyone knows that a Texas liberal is like a New England conservative and, while left of center is still further left than one should be, it’s all perspective.
You twice mentioned “the days of LBJ and Ann Richards,” as if the two didn’t hold political offices a couple of decades apart from the other, as if Johnson had been governor of Texas (he wasn’t), and as if the Texas governorship didn’t flip-flop between Republican and Democrat from 1975 to 1991, each term. (As you stated, it’s been Republican since 1991.) Are you sure you know recent Texas history that well? It also bears mentioning that Richards was elected by default. Had her Republican oppositon, Clayton Williams, not been so stupid and thoughtless as to make a rape joke* publicly, she wouldn’t have been elected to her first and only term as Governor of Texas and the Texas governorship may well have been held by a Republican from 1987 to the present day.
*”Rape joke” is an oxymoron if I ever heard one. I’m not into political correctness or any of that BS, but some things just aren’t funny, rape being one of them. If the insensitivity of saying that, as with rape, you can’t do anything about the weather so may as well lie back and enjoy it, isn’t reason enough to vote against a candidate (or just stay home on election day, as many Texans did), then the stupidity and foolishness that must possess a candidate to say that is reason enough. Look at Prezdint Jackass as a prime example of what happens when stupid is elected into power.
AuntieMadder commented:
Whippit #27: You said, “…I came here from the liberal north to, thank God, find that Texas had turned conservative after the days of LBJ and Ann Richards. Remember them? Texas born, I believe. I have lived in this part of Texas for 25 years. My kids went through their entire school here and the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD is more conservative than most. And just so you know….the friends I have who moved here from the north are some of the most conservative people I know. The liberals that I run into occassionlly tend to be Texas born and bred. I’m of the age where many here still revere LBJ and Ann Richards, to name a few. Many northerners didn’t come here to bring liberalism with them. They came here to escape it.”
I understand that you were defending your community when you posted that. However, I’d appreciate it if you’d re-read it from the perspective of a native Texan, born in Dallas 46 years ago, and who spent the summers during her teens swimming in Grapevine Lake, back when it was surrounded by farms, not homes. Is that statement reeking of insult and arrogance and do you have the urge to suggest Interstate Highway 35?
Militant Conservative commented:
I’m outraged. You cannot honor your vets no matter what party????
Pure BS, TPM is not a party nor partisan. Constitution is a good thing.
Wonder how many were carrying guns??? LOL it’s TEXAS after all.
Thus the after the event WHAAAAAAAAAA! powder is dry, so is Texas.
Hank Brown commented:
The leftist attitude toward the military will probably change now that they’ve finally managed to sodomize it.