Many in the Tea Party like to claim that the movement was formed solely as a reaction to federal spending. However, many in the Tea Party, like Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, and Rand Paul all have made extremely controversial statements that don't have much to do with economics at all. O'Donnell made an ad saying she was not a witch and did not understand how bond ratings work, Sharon Angle spoke of second amendment remedies to losing an election and constantly dodged any media that did not completely agree with her, and Rand Paul came out against the Civil Rights Acts on the Rachel Maddow show.
Now another Tea Partier is in hot water again. Her name is Kim Simac and she is running in Wisconsin. What has caused the controversy to erupt is a blog post she made on the Patriot Action Network, a Tea Party website, where she compares American public schools to Nazi indoctrination camps. She laments that the separation of church and state is a problem, and taking God out of public schools is wrong. Her specific example is students not being able to sing "Silent Night," even though that is specifically Christian. She ends by stating, " Add to that Kindergarten Sex Ed classes and I really wonder how it is American parents smile and kiss their children good bye every morning and in good conscience hand their most precious resource over to the hands of such questionable people." She makes it seem as though it is a very scary thing and children are being indoctrinated with something awful when they go to school. She also thinks evolution and creationism should both be taught. Another example of Tea Partiers living in their own reality. Here is a link to the blog that was deleted by recovered by TMZ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zpd9G0I7E4sJ:www.patriotactionnetwork.com/forum/topics/the-scary-comparisons-of-the&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com.
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