Ordinary citizens demanding government live within its means is not an “extremist” position.

And if ordinary citizens support citizens for office who haven’t hob-knobbed at all the politically correct country clubs, so be it.

Because the moment the words “career” and “politician” were joined, this was the beginning of government spending beyond its means.

And frankly, this constant slander and chatter from the “snooty privileged class” against citizen activists of the TEA Party requires a response.

TEA Party, Taxed Enough Already. Get it? Really, that’s it.

There is nothing “R” word (“R” word, because I find these unfounded “racist” cries offensive) about the TEA Party. And to the Astroturf organizer’s surprise, this is a genuine “grassroots” uprising.

And nationwide, citizen-investigative-journalists are exposing TEA Party crashers as staged events, complete with professional protesters. It’s called Astroturf. Artificial grassroots, courtesy of the elected politicians who are supposedly working for us. Isn’t this a great country?

For example, just last week, Ms. Anna Murkowski, the campaign manager for Illinois 11th Congressional District Democrat Debbie Halvorson, and members of the Halvorson campaign staff were busted after sporting Nazi-type posters at her opponent’s event.

Oh, another woman, identified as Ms. Julie Merz, Deputy Director of “Member Services” on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staff, was TEA Party crashing too.

Does anyone want to wager that her opponent, Republican Adam Kinzingera, is a decorated Iraq war veteran and supported by TEA Party activists?

Speaking of TEA Party activists, did anyone know just hours before the Obamacare boondoggle was passed in the U.S. House, a three hour Ironton TEA Party was staged in front of Ohio 6th Congressional District Democrat Charlie Wilson’s Ironton office?

Who is Charlie Wilson? He’s supposed to be our employee, paid to read bills in Washington for us. But Charlie seems too busy sucking up to Speaker Pelosi and hob-knobbing with Washington lobbyists and voting for, without reading, bills.

Was this the same Speaker Pelosi, who witnessed “anger in the ‘60s” and was dispatching her flying monkeys to crash a TEA Party when one of her Washington toadies is in political trouble?

Why, yes!

Undoubtedly a demonstration of how Speaker Pelosi was going to “drain the swamp.”

Charlie voted for Autocrat Pelosi for Speaker. Now if Mr. Wilson doesn’t call for her immediate resignation, Wilson should be fired too.

An Ironton TEA Party was organized with about 24 hours advance notice. And for three hours, 23 attendees partied away on the corner of Wilson’s Ironton office.

No cheese, WIC or other taxpayer provided freebies were necessary to gather these ordinary folks. We simply took time from our busy lives to protest outrageous government spending plans. Does our message fall upon deaf ears?

Ironton TEA Party is working towards genuine change. Because politicians, just like a baby’s diaper, regularly needs a change. Mostly for the same reasons.

We are a genuine grass roots movement, without the career politicians or paid organizers nudging you along with a cattle prod. TEA Party is ad hoc.

Just get involved were you think you might do best. Don’t expect telephone calls telling you to be somewhere with a distribution of professionally printed posters.

So as Mr. Crawford notes, in most cases, yes, the Republican Party is a TEA Party activist’s best political strategy. This is because we’re working much like the Marxists-socialists silently did to seize the Democrat Party. But with one big tactical difference: We’re overt and we tell the truth.

For the record, a military veteran is Wilson’s Republican opponent. Check his website, judge if this man’s character is worthy of your support. Personally, nothing would please me more than to see Pelosi’s flying monkeys in Ironton, for it would mean Wilson, like Halvorson, is in trouble.

As for this “snooty privileged class” supporting career politicians from their politically correct country clubs, they’ll never comprehend this is an authentic grass roots movement.

For the rest of us, the big TEA Party is held Nov. 2 — except tea is too valuable, so we’re throwing the career politicians overboard.

Joseph Benning

Kitts Hill