Hall: Tea Parties & PETA Twits

Dogs and tea parties remind us that we are more likely to fight for something we believe in if we can snatch a few moments of personal publicity from the effort. People who attend meetings of the Tea Party movement are determined to turn their country in a better direction, but they also love standing up in a crowd of their fellow agitators and orating like geriatric Patrick Henrys. Defeating incumbents is invigorating but lapping up the limelight is intoxicating. “Look, Ma, I’m on the TV!” The Tea Partiers are about 90 percent like me. They are the same lovely pale pasty white that I am. They are opinionated as all get out, just like me. And they are way past puberty - by 50 or more years. But there is something surprisingly different this time about my fellow geezers. They are not usually so demonstrative, so showy and so brassy in their utterances/ Bill Hall , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: What do you make of Bill Hall’s description of tea partiers — “about 90 percent like me. They are the same lovely pale pasty white that I am. They are opinionated as all get out, just like me.”