A collection of disorganized points and unsubstantiated insults, the article has little factual basis and relies on name-calling to drive the author’s angry and offensive ranting.  On multiple occasions, these rants directly malign all those who associate with the Republican Party or the Tea Party Movement as idiots.

Well apparently someone missed the memo: I am not an “idiot.” I’m neither a “crazy” nor am I a “racist” and I certainly don’t appreciate having my political views being called an “inherently classist and racist political philosophy.”

Who’s the real bigot here?

Allow me to fill you in on what it really means to be a Republican or to support the Tea Party Movement.  It doesn’t mean blindly following the most outspoken members of our parties that appear on Fox News.  It means standing up against a majority that suppresses logic with mud slinging and passes legislation that opposes the will of the country, due in large part to a grandiose sense of superiority.  The word that most accurately characterizes the ideals and moral foundation of the Republican Party…is ‘Optimism.’

This type of optimism isn’t that type of blissful ignorance traditionally associated with ‘blind optimism,’ but, rather, is a philosophy characterized by the belief that people don’t need to be mandated by the government to lend one another a helping hand and that they don’t need some self-entitled bureaucrat to force “the right thing to do” down their throats.  It is an optimism which I only found because of a number of conversations with a colleague of mine, who, through reasoned and rational debate, opened my eyes to the mistakes of the Democratic Party: mistakes that have been made underneath the misguided heading “the sacrifices that you are making now are in your best interests.”  Never once was a point made by referring to those in power as idiots.  The points instead appealed to reason without the use of racist remarks, scripture or yelling.

As an editorial writer, you aren’t going to win anyone over by throwing around loaded terms and being blatantly intolerant of those who don’t agree with you.  Winning over the minds of those who don’t share your political philosophy requires the same type of substantiated argumentation that my colleague presented to me.  By the time I had really put my unsupported Democratic ideals to the test, I realized that I needed to reinvent my political philosophy.  I write for The Review with the hope that I can make someone else really think about his or her political beliefs and reach conclusions similar to mine.  I will never resort to bigotry, especially at the repugnant levels that are reached in The Sun article.

There are crazies within every political movement, yet it is my goal to point out that the Tea Party and the Republican Party are not characterized by the opinions of the ones who get the most media attention.  The negative stereotype presented in the article is far removed from reality.  I am a Republican because of my intelligence, not in spite of it, and I have never been more proud to say so.