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Tea Party platform isn’t far right at all; John Frochio; Beaver County Times; October 28, 2010.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Where has my party gone? It took me a while to realize that my party was gone.
“As a lifelong Democrat raised in a blue-collar Democratic family, I believed they were a party for the working class.
“Well, either I was blind all that time or my party has changed.
“Except for a handful of moderates, the Democratic Party has become a far-left, radical, socialist-leaning party, most of its policies indistinguishable from that of failing socialist countries.”
[RWC] A childhood friend’s father called me several years ago to tell me he agreed with a letter to the editor I wrote countering a local leftist’s op-ed piece. To emphasize how much of a Democrat he had been, the man told me he cried when FDR died. Nevertheless, this man told me he has tended to vote Republican for awhile because the Democrat party no longer represents his values. His values haven’t changed since 1945; Democrat party values changed.
“George W. Bush started some of these big spending trends, but the Democratic Congress and Obama administration have accelerated them to an unsustainable level.
“In contrast, I can see clearly that the Tea Party platform is simply a centrist, Constitution-based platform of fundamental American ideas, the foundation on which our nation was built. It is not far right at all.
“Ultimately, I would like to see us return to a two-party system of two truly American parties: the moderates (formerly Democrats) and the conservatives (formerly Republicans).
“The current radical Democrat Party should be reduced to third-party status along with the Green Party, the Communists and the Libertarians.”
[RWC] I don’t know Mr. Frochio and this appears to be his first letter to the editor of a political nature since at least 2004. As a result, I don’t know if Mr. Frochio is “a lifelong Democrat” as he asserted, or a Democrat impersonator. That said, I have no reason to believe Mr. Frochio isn’t who he claims to be. The only reason I mention this possibility is because we get quite a few letters from Republican impersonators. The group of Republican impersonators includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, William G. Horter, Edward “Fellow Republicans” Hum, and George Reese. On the other side, Peter Homitz could be a Democrat impersonator.
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