Stop Smearing the Tea Partiers
The popular conservative movement we are currently witnessing via the tea parties, the Sarah Palin booksigning rallies, the election results in Massachusetts, the overwhelming popularity of conservative talk show hosts etc - is not angry. This is a misconception based on a deliberate tactic of the left to smear us - Barack Obama personified this tactic when he characterized us as "bitter people who cling to their religion and guns."
The tea parties are a civil movement. The tea party events themselves are not characterized by bitter rhetoric or violent demonstrations. For that, go to any liberal movement: Code Pink rallies, the anti-globalization demonstrations against multi-national corporations (and the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO), the pro-choice (pro-death) people. These are the people who are angry, bitter, and more: they are violent, reactionary, intolerant.
I am an American first, a conservative second, and Republican a distant third. I practice guerrilla capitalism in plying my trade, which is soldiering. My political ideals embrace laissez-faire capitalism, and I believe that "every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats" (H. L. Mencken). Having said that, I am not a revolutionary. The only revolution I follow is the American Revolution.