We can add "Pussyfooter" to the ever lengthening list of

Citizen Charlie Baker's sins.

This quote, from the above Boston Globe story is particularly relevant:
"The tea party seems to me to be another example [of] civic engagement, which is always a good thing,’’ Baker wrote during a wide-ranging, hourlong chat with readers on Boston.com. “And most folks I know who are tea party members are terrified about deficit spending, taxing, and jobs. Me, too.’’
They are also terrified that President Obama is a closeted member of the Taliban.
And was it "civic engagement" when the Tea Partei spat at Representative Lewis and called him a "n*gger" to his face? When they howled "faggot" at Representative Frank?
And when they ,march on the Washington Mall with sidearms? Nothing nefarious about that eh Charlie?
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Let me speculate in a hypothetical vein...IF Charlie "Ziplips" Baker was elected Governor and I, Elias Nugator started a fraternal organization called "The Butcher Boys" whose activities included wearing blacks hirts, jackboots and training on Boston Common with rifles...by Bakerian definition above, that would be mere civic engagement...right??
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Honest to Ghod, Charlie Baker is spineless and inept, he really thinks he can persuade these people to vote for him without being tarred with their paranoia...