Bob Ingles and the Tea Party

Interesting article in Mother Jones magazine about Rep. Bob Ingles (R-S.C.), who was defeated in the Republican primary on 22 June by a rival who successfully challenged Ingles' conservative credentials. Ingles has a number of insightful comments about the Republican Party, Tea Party activists, and how party politics can hurt the country. His firsthand accounts of encounters with tea party activists are disturbing, to say the least: the idea that I share citizenship with people that ignorant and that fired-up to spread their ignorance bothers the hell out of me.