11/27/11 FULLER's RICH MOUW TAKES on the TEA PARTY (Nov29'10): "One of the themes of many in the Tea Party movement is the need to return to the thoughts and values of our “Founding Fathers.” My own reaction to such calls is one of ambivalence. I certainly don’t want to go back to everything that the founding generation of American leaders stood for—with slavery and the denial of women’s right to vote as obvious cases in point. But I’m not against testing our present situation against many of the things the founders wrote about. In this regard, I have been struck recently by the special significance of “Federalist Ten” for our current cultural situation.“Federalist Ten” for our current cultural situation The Federalist Papers, co-authored by Alexander Hamilto http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=201011

[comment: rich mouw takes a cheap shot at the tea party, ...in some ways I see mouw doing to republican candidates & conservative values what hollywood liberals do to them...which strikes me as strange b/c mouw professes to be conservative himself...yet here he takes a cheap shot at the tea party falsely suggesting that they want to revive slavery & denial of women's right to vote...that's the same sort of innuendo that liberals have tried to throw out there..including that the tea party is racist ..blah blah blah..I would expect mouw to be more fair than that] 11/27/11 FULLER's RICH MOUW TAKES on the TEA PARTY (Nov29'10): "One of the themes of many in the Tea Party movement is the need to return to the thoughts and values of our “Founding Fathers.” My own reaction to such calls is one of ambivalence. I certainly don’t want to go back to everything that the founding generation of American leaders stood for—with slavery and the denial of women’s right to vote as obvious cases in point. But I’m not against testing our present situation against many of the things the founders wrote about. In this regard, I have been struck recently by the special significance of “Federalist Ten” for our current cultural situation.“Federalist Ten” for our current cultural situation The Federalist Papers, co-authored by Alexander Hamilto
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