dagblog - Comments for "The Tea Party’s Not-So-Civil War (in South Carolina)" http://dagblog.com/link/tea-party-s-not-so-civil-war-south-carolina-12747 Comments for "The Tea Party’s Not-So-Civil War (in South Carolina)" en This is one of the things I http://dagblog.com/comment/146543#comment-146543 <a id="comment-146543"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/146498#comment-146498">This is a really great</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This is one of the things I particularly appreciated about it---</p> <p>He presents evidence of the same old same old: activist movements, once getting some power, immediately start to change and split for better and for worse--there's the ones that realize they have to moderate to govern or accomplish something, and give up the ideological zeal, and the ones that realize they are in it for ego or excitement or similar, that just start getting off on the power or money and cause havoc. And it's not like set out looking for proof of that, all he was doing is seeking out tea partiers and asking them to tell their stories about what they felt was going on.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:33:22 +0000 artappraiser comment 146543 at http://dagblog.com This is a really great http://dagblog.com/comment/146498#comment-146498 <a id="comment-146498"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/tea-party-s-not-so-civil-war-south-carolina-12747">The Tea Party’s Not-So-Civil War (in South Carolina)</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">This is a really great article, it's about time someone actually tried to find out what's happening at ground level with the Tea Party. A must read for trying to understand the S.C. primary. </span></p> </div></div></div> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:57:28 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 146498 at http://dagblog.com