OK, now, let me get this straight--the pilgrims were running from socialism or they started it?

Todd Akin, representative from Missouri, stated that the reason Pilgrims left England was because of the socialist government in that country...umm...Mr. Aiken? The socialist government of the Monarchy?????? Do you understand the difference between socialism and a monarchy???? Of course this is the same congressman who, while speaking to tea-baggers, botched the Pledge of Allegiance by forgetting the word "indivisible" cuz he made such a bid deal about the phrase, "under god". He says that the revised pledge drives liberals crazy...I don't know what persuasion my elementary teachers were, both public and catholic school days, but what would have driven them crazy was messing up the Pledge!

And now for another completely crazy idiot, Rush Limpballs---he says that the pilgrims started under a socialist regime!:

Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.

"All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the '60s and '70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way.

Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.

He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.

"That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened?

It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh?

Sure. Of course there is no proof of this, there are no letters. There are letters and proof that the pilgrims came over to make money, not live in a commune, but why should facts get in the way of the rants of teabaggers and their ilk? Factual history has never been their forte.

And, obviously, they don't even agree on the way they want to lie about history, no wonder the tea baggers are so confused....