Well, you're half-right. What's that term you Aussie's use.."bogans" or something like that? Think of disenfranchised bogans only with guns living in trailer parks with their second cousins and that is essentially the American Tea Party.

Only in the sense bogans haven't started their own political party...yet.

Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class.......

Panther wrote on Apr 27^th, 2015 at 1:36pm:


Right, so much "smarter" they believe the New York Times (a fish wrap heavily influenced by the Koch Brothers - just like the Tea Party) at face value.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Political_persuasion_overall

Political persuasion overall

According to a 2007 survey by conservative-leaning[105] Rasmussen Reports of public perceptions of major media outlets, 40% saw the paper as having a liberal slant, 20% no political slant and 11% believe it has a conservative slant.[106] In December 2004, a University of California, Los Angeles study by former fellows of a conservative think tank gave The New York Times a score of 63.5 on a 100-point scale, with 0 being most conservative and 100 being most liberal. Special Report, an evening program on Fox News, comparatively, received 39.7.[107] The validity of the study has been questioned by organizations, including the liberal media "watchdog" group Media Matters for America.[108] In mid-2004, the newspaper's then public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, wrote an opinion piece in which he said that The New York Times did have a liberal bias in news coverage of certain social issues such as abortion and permitting gay marriage. He stated that this bias reflected the paper's cosmopolitanism, which arose naturally from its roots as a hometown paper of New York City. Okrent did not comment at length on the issue of bias in coverage of other "hard news", such as fiscal policy, foreign policy, or civil liberties.[109] The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican for president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956; since that year it has endorsed every Democratic nominee;[110] although it did endorse incumbent Republican Mayors of New York City Rudy Giuliani in 1997[111] and Michael Bloomberg in 2005[112] and 2009,[113] respectively.

The Huffington Post criticized The New York Times for its coverage of foreign leaders through profiles. It cited a glowing report for Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti versus a dismissive report on Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, despite the fact that the two men have similar background in getting PhDs in economics from U.S. schools.[114]

According to a 2007 survey by conservative-leaning[105] Rasmussen Reports of public perceptions of major media outlets, 40% saw the paper as having a liberal slant, 20% no political slant and 11% believe it has a conservative slant.[106] In December 2004, a University of California, Los Angeles study by former fellows of a conservative think tank gave The New York Times a score of 63.5 on a 100-point scale, with 0 being most conservative and 100 being most liberal. Special Report, an evening program on Fox News, comparatively, received 39.7.[107] The validity of the study has been questioned by organizations, including the liberal media "watchdog" group Media Matters for America.[108] In mid-2004, the newspaper's then public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, wrote an opinion piece in which he said that The New York Times did have a liberal bias in news coverage of certain social issues such as abortion and permitting gay marriage. He stated that this bias reflected the paper's cosmopolitanism, which arose naturally from its roots as a hometown paper of New York City. Okrent did not comment at length on the issue of bias in coverage of other "hard news", such as fiscal policy, foreign policy, or civil liberties.[109] The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican for president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956; since that year it has endorsed every Democratic nominee;[110] although it did endorse incumbent Republican Mayors of New York City Rudy Giuliani in 1997[111] and Michael Bloomberg in 2005[112] and 2009,[113] respectively.

The Huffington Post criticized The New York Times for its coverage of foreign leaders through profiles. It cited a glowing report for Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti versus a dismissive report on Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, despite the fact that the two men have similar background in getting PhDs in economics from U.S. schools.[114]

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Apr 27^th, 2015 at 10:59am:


Quite a few of them are devout Libertarians. Would you consider Libertarians right wing? I wouldn't.

Then again I know beyond a doubt that they aren't the stereotypical extremist hodgepodge as the Left wants everyone to believe. 

Of course Libertarians are Right Wingers, as the rest of the world perceives the right-left political spectrum on the basis of economic policies.