If one reason for demonizing Palin and the teapartyers is that the fact of backing this polititian or that one is an act of futility because once they get elected they are all the same...then it would stand to reason that voting itself is an act of futility...
Hmmmmm............
Voting is never an act of futility. I said ironic, not that it is futile.
If your ideology is that you shouldn't count on the government to do things, then celebrating the election of another politician is ironic.
What's more, the record shows that fiscal conservatives aren't so fiscal when it comes to funding pet projects in their electoral districts. Maybe the tea parties will break the pattern. I'm just paying attention to history.
Edit to add:
As a
recent example, Senator Scott Brown (R- Mass) was supported by the Tea Parties, and one of his campaign planks was to eliminate wasteful/unnecessary government spending.
So what does he do once in Washington? He announces that he will work to fund a multi-billion dollar back-up engine to the F-35, the same one that Liberals here in Canada were so upset over because we didn't have contracts tendered by bids (ignoring the contract process in the US). Well, Pratt and Whitney already won the contract to build the engine, and now Senator Brown wants General Electric to build a back-up engine for billions of dollars, because it could generate jobs in Massachusetts. Yet the Pentagon says that would be a waste of money better spent on other defense programs.
That is not fiscally conservative, and it is breaking a campaign pledge.
Shocking... :lol:
