Xtra, Xtra! Tea Party Not Racist!

All the October Surprise items seem to be backfiring.

There is no such thing as a "Shovel Ready Job"...

Whether or not the Chamber of Commerce is receiving foreign money...

Meg Whitman being referred to as a practitioner of the worlds oldest profession by Jerry Brown, then Brown acting as though this just wasn't a big deal, "a 5 week old story...", then the NOW endorsement of Brown, then the defense of that endorsement of Brown...

And now, in perhaps the most damaging of all revelations, it seems the Tea Party might not be made up of racists after all.

Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington last month by scouring the crowd, row by row and hour by hour, and taking a picture of every sign she passed.

Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a "limited government ethos," she found - touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism. Examples ranged from the simple message "$top the $pending" scrawled in black-marker block letters to more elaborate drawings of bar charts, stop signs and one poster with the slogan "Socialism is Legal Theft" and a stick-figure socialist pointing a gun at the head of a taxpayer.

There were uglier messages, too - including "Obama Bin Lyin' - Impeach Now" and "Somewhere in Kenya a Village is Missing its Idiot." But Ekins's analysis showed that only about a quarter of all signs reflected direct anger with Obama. Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the president's race or religion, and slightly more than 1 percent questioned his American citizenship.

Reality can be a really troublesome thing, especially when it doesn't go your way.

The Democrats and all their ancillary organizations, as well as the Mainstream Media, should be ashamed of themselves, really.