Republican leaders in Washington, including SpeakerJohn Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Senators McCain (R-AZ), Graham (R-SC), and Corker (R-TN), are supporting President Obama's call for an American attack on Syria, but Tea Party groups around the country are united in their opposition to such military action.
Tea Party activists appear to be virtually unanimous in their support for the position taken by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who said on Tuesday the United States "should not serve as Al-Qaeda's Air Force."
Lynn Moss, co-organizer of the Mid-South Tea Party in Memphis, Tennessee, expressed a view held by many Tea Party activists around the country. Moss told Breitbart News on Thursday, "both sides of the conflict in Syria are enemies of the United States. It would be foolish," she said, "and self-defeating to involve ourselves in this already volatile situation."
Joanne Jones, vice chairman of the Charleston Tea Party in South Carolina, told Breitbart News Thursday that "conservatives of many stripes are opposed to U.S. military intervention in Syria. Particularly in light of today’s account of al Qaeda-linked rebels murdering residents of a Christian village, it is becoming increasingly difficult to convince us that the United States would indeed be helping the 'right' rebels."
Bobby Alexander, chairman of the Central Kentucky Tea Party Patriots, told Mother Jones, "[c]onservatives in Kentucky do not want us involved in Syria." John Kemper of the United Kentucky Tea Party added, "[t]he things I'm seeing and emails I'm getting from folks around the state, they're not in favor of [an American attack on Syria.]"
Mark Kevin Lloyd, a Tea Party activist in Virginia, told Breitbart News that "the Obama administration and some in the Republican leadership seems overly concerned about the president's credibility in the eyes of the world. Both President Obama and Speaker Boehner need to understand they each have the same credibility problems in the eyes of the American people.
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