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11/3/10

USA November elections: Why European liberals see the tea party as 'a circus of fools' - CSMonitor.com

From Britain to Germany, newspaper editorialists – albeit for mostly liberal and leftist party publications – have in turn called those who sympathize with the small-government, antitax tea party movement that sprung up in early 2009 "ill-educated," "drooling imbeciles," "rednecks," and even a "traveling circus of fools."

To be sure, going into Election Day many Americans also had choice adjectives to describe tea party folks. The allegation that the tea party is a Republican fringe over-fixated on race and the past is at the heart of much of the criticism against the movement in the USA.

For more: Vote 2010: Why European liberals see the tea party as 'a circus of fools' - CSMonitor.com

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