Coffee Conservatives  | Mon Apr. 5, 2010 3:15 PM EDT  A few days
ago I heard the term "coffee conservative" for the first time. I
didn't get it until it was explained to me. And now, here's the
Raleigh News & Observer to explain it for the rest of us:  To
join the Coffee Party in Raleigh, you can't be a screamer, a
name-caller, a loud-mouthed zealot or somebody whose idea of
politics translates to jabbing a sign in the air, red in the
face. All you need are some manners, a good listening ear and a
caffeine jones.  Inside a month, this politeness-first political
movement has jumped from one meeting at the Hillsborough Street
Cup A Joe to five coffee chats scattered across the Triangle.
Nationwide, the Coffee Party USA has drawn nearly 200,000
supporters, sipping java and talking turkey in 47 states.  A
coffee conservative, then, is a conservative who's not a tea
partier. Someone who remains interested in actual policy and
doesn't feel the urge to rant tirelessly about decline of the
west and the imminent tyran