Is it for real? Or just a seasonal marketing effort?

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August 31, 2010

Our opinion The Moultrie Observer The Moultrie Observer Tue Aug 31, 2010, 11:25 PM EDT

| — We hear a lot these days about the “Tea Party” movement. It resembles, in philospophy, another movement several years ago with the moniker “Contract With America.”

Movements come and go. They need names for marketing purposes. It’s hard to get people all riled up if there isn’t some kind of slogan that easy to remember.

Tea Party is supposed to be one of those grassroots things kind of like the original Tea Party at Boston Harbor. It’s about people demanding response from their government based on the groundswell of feelings from those who put them in office.

Of course a movement has to have more than a name. It has to have substance. There is a big question posed in the Tea Party movement. Is it truly groundswell or is it clever marketing by political strategists?

The proof of the pudding is said to be in the partaking of it.

Traditionally we see much political apathy in elections. Now given, there are bigger voter turnouts in some years than others but considering thatwe consider ourselves the showcase for democracy, even on our best turnout apathy could also be showcased.

If the Tea Party movement, or any other movement, is for real, then it shoul be revealed in voter turnouts across our land in local, state and national elections. Otherwise, it will amount to little more than seasonal sparring.

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