03.22.12
No mo’ Gary Stein, puh-leez!
Gary Stein, the US Marine who dared, DARED, to put up a Facebook page and publish his one sentence Tea Party slogans here, the story goes, is threatened with being given the boot from the Corps.
Why, for Heaven’s sake?
Gary Stein, by the evidence of his own hand, isn’t exactly the brightest guy on the block. The Tea Party page doesn’t deliver anything you haven’t seen before, furnished hot and furious but in the same dull way favored by all good Tea Party Patriots.
A sampling:
“The is the Tea Party not the Me Party”
How’s that “Hope and Change” thing working for you?
You don’t raise the taxes to meet the budget…. you cut the budget to meet the taxes… its (sic) common sense budgeting… its (sic) the Tea Party Budget.
Sorry about that last post… We have fixed the issue… Let just be very very clear… Racism is not now, never has, and never will be acceptable here at AFTP. Any racist comment will be deleted and you will banned! -Gary Stein
Scintillating.
Gary Stein’s page, contrary to his post about the Tea Party not being the “me” party, is really about his popularity now.
Not his fault. But he’s not exactly avoiding the perks of exposure.
A Marine sergeant who started a Facebook group that is openly critical of President Barack Obama and posted comments saying he will not follow the unlawful orders of the commander in chief is facing possible dismissal from the Corps.
The Marines on Wednesday told Sgt. Gary Stein — a Camp Pendleton Marine who started the Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party — that he is in violation of Pentagon policy barring troops from political activities.
Stein, a nine-year member of the Corps, said he started the page to encourage fellow service members to exercise their free speech rights
Gary Stein deserves to stay a Marine. And his opinions, along with those who comment on his Facebook page, are fine. They are all as boring as he is, if more spittle-spraying. It’s cyberspace. That can’t be helped.
Pages and pages of people’s one line comments, all misspelled, cursing the president and Democrats. Real dangerous outside-the-box thinking and free speech. Such insubordination. Such bravery to say what you truly believe, such uprightness.
When all is said and done there will be a book contract in it. Gary Stein could be the next Joe the Plumber, fer sure.