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Has the tea party become a GOP liability?

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knothead

knothead

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/has-the-tea-party-become-a-gop-liability/2012/04/05/gIQAqTrdyS_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics


The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010.
In 2012, it’s looking like it could help Democrats retain the White House.
The tea party movement, now nearly three years old, has fallen out of favor with Americans. And Democrats are prepared to use it against Republicans in the 2012 election.

A recent Fox News poll showed just 30 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the tea party, compared to 51 percent who viewed it unfavorably.
A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll may be more illustrative, though. It showed Americans were more evenly split on the tea party, with 44 percent supporting it and 43 percent opposing it. But just 15 percent of Americans supported the tea party “strongly,” while many more – 26 percent – were “strongly” opposed to it.
That suggests opposition to the tea party is more strident than the tea party itself, which means the movement may be doing the GOP more harm than good.
The numbers are similar to the ones we saw during the health care debate, when both sides had about the same number of supporters, but the opponents were much more avid. And that issue, undoubtedly, benefitted the GOP.

othershoe1030

othershoe1030

Well, they have been a wrench in the works of government. Even Boehner can't control them or educate them apparently.

Their tactics opposing raising the debt ceiling was totally destructive and cost us a bundle in higher interest rates and a lowering of the nation's credit rating for the first time in history and they still have the nerve to even show their sorry faces in public or speak of the so called tea party. Give me a break.

Guest


Guest

Palin wasn't even invited to the GOP convention for good reason.Romney is steering clear of her and the extremists due to their increasing unpopularity. They've gone too far and turned off reasonable people.

Markle

Markle

Dreamsglore wrote:Palin wasn't even invited to the GOP convention for good reason.Romney is steering clear of her and the extremists due to their increasing unpopularity. They've gone too far and turned off reasonable people.
Has the tea party become a GOP liability? AnimatedLaughterPink

Once again you have the Tea Party folks confused with your Democrat backed #OCCUPY movement. A finer albatross President Barack Hussein Obama and the rest of the Progressives could not have found to hang around their necks!

Has the tea party become a GOP liability? OWSNewOrleansforSocialism

Guest


Guest

Markle wrote:
Dreamsglore wrote:Palin wasn't even invited to the GOP convention for good reason.Romney is steering clear of her and the extremists due to their increasing unpopularity. They've gone too far and turned off reasonable people.
Has the tea party become a GOP liability? AnimatedLaughterPink

Once again you have the Tea Party folks confused with your Democrat backed #OCCUPY movement. A finer albatross President Barack Hussein Obama and the rest of the Progressives could not have found to hang around their necks!

Has the tea party become a GOP liability? OWSNewOrleansforSocialism

Do you deny Palin wasn't invited?

Markle

Markle

Dreamsglore wrote:
Markle wrote:
Dreamsglore wrote:Palin wasn't even invited to the GOP convention for good reason.Romney is steering clear of her and the extremists due to their increasing unpopularity. They've gone too far and turned off reasonable people.
Has the tea party become a GOP liability? AnimatedLaughterPink

Once again you have the Tea Party folks confused with your Democrat backed #OCCUPY movement. A finer albatross President Barack Hussein Obama and the rest of the Progressives could not have found to hang around their necks!

Has the tea party become a GOP liability? OWSNewOrleansforSocialism

Do you deny Palin wasn't invited?

Where did I make that statement?

knothead

knothead

Dreamsglore wrote:Palin wasn't even invited to the GOP convention for good reason.Romney is steering clear of her and the extremists due to their increasing unpopularity. They've gone too far and turned off reasonable people.


Something that cannot be overlooked regarding the Tea Party is Romney's cohort Paul Ryan who is a dyed-in-the-wool card carrying Tea Party member who played a central role, along with Eric Cantor, in the debt ceiling debacle that cost America dearly. If Romney were to be elected the door would eventually be open to Ryan, a real honest to God knothead, and would be tantamount to letting the fox in the hen house!

Guest


Guest

41 million tea partiers will be voting for romney.

theres no way any of them want another term for obama.

Guest


Guest

Rogue wrote:41 million tea partiers will be voting for romney.

theres no way any of them want another term for obama.


Is that supposed be enlightening news?

knothead

knothead

According to a FOX News poll only 30% of Americans view the Tea Party movement favorably following their role in the debt crisis debacle in 2010.

2seaoat



Sometimes in our history a group like the tea party serves a purpose. It just did not understand how limited their appeal was and how short ranged their time would be. We need government. We need people who work for efficiency and success. The Union will stand, and the civil war was lost 150 years ago.....and yes the Union and the government which represents the same will not be destroyed by terrorist foreign or domestic.

knothead

knothead

2seaoat wrote:Sometimes in our history a group like the tea party serves a purpose. It just did not understand how limited their appeal was and how short ranged their time would be. We need government. We need people who work for efficiency and success. The Union will stand, and the civil war was lost 150 years ago.....and yes the Union and the government which represents the same will not be destroyed by terrorist foreign or domestic.


Well said seaoat well said . . . .

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