Not so sure the Tea Party is going to last

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...ea-party-less-popular-atheists-160220531.html

Wow, I didn't realize the Tea Party was this unpopular nationally, and I never cared for it let alone trusted it other than fiscal prudence.

In order for the Tea Party to stay afloat they will have to move closer to the center and hence remerge with the main stream Republicans.

 

Sounds like a NY times and liberal professors hit piece to me. Explain to me how the tea party is a religion since these professors were studying religion.

 

What will last is Libertarianism.....which is essentially the Tea Party credo without the social agenda baggage.

 

Im sure the Tea party will remain and gain in congress.

Its all about fiscal sanity and government responsibility.

 

This news shouldn't come as a shock to anybody. The Tea Party is just another 'flash in the pan.' All they are, are Republicans who were embarrassed from Bush's 8 years in office and tried to disassociate themselves with him.

 

If a poltical part like the **********s refuse to make politcal compromises, then they dont support democracy. Every Republican knows that Bills proposed in Congress will change in order to get them passed. A good compromise is when nobody is happy. And I heard that the Tea Party will refuse to raise taxes, which means they have chopped down their options. They can either print more money or cut programs across the board. If voters want that once they get it, is another quesiton.

 

nope theyre people who think America can be saved from your left handed messiah....

 

No this more of the democrat lies. First it is Reid then somehow professors bring up a 5 year old study and add the Tea Party as a religion. It sounds like BS and shows how much the left fears the Tea Party.

You can't blame the Tea Party for bills not passing and then say they are fading. The democrats are once again talking out both sides of their mouth

 

Ah you beat me to it...This is pretty telling of the **********s. Hated even more than atheists and muslims. Though I don't know many who accuse atheists of much, but they certainly do not like muslims. And to hate a party even more than muslims is quite the statement.

**********s are out in 2012. Good riddance we don't want your religious morals in our government, nor your neo-fascist policies.

 

Sir you are not a very good ambassador(spell?) of the Tea Party. I think your post exemplifies the Tea Party modus operandi, by immediately arguing for character assassination of Democrats, and hence why the unpopularity.


You do understand that by taking verbal swings at your political counterparts at all times will not earn yourself any respect in terms on argumentive merits.

 

I agree with your post, and I will give the Tea Party some credit for making the deficit a top issue, for that much I give them an "atta-boy".

 

I think I'm going to start my own blog then let morons link to it as real news.

It's what passes for un-biased news for the left-handed these days.

Yahoo blogs. Hehehehehehe.

 

The tea party will be the reason the GOP goes the way of the whigs.

 

Don't you think the nation needs a sane social policy to go with a sane fiscal policy?

The Tea Party may not be organizing in a gay bar or demanding the legalization of meth but that's only because they are regular people who do not have time for such nonsense.

 

Stop deluding yourself, the Tea Party is in no way, shape, or form, a "regular" people group. Their demographics are even more marginalized then the current Republican Party, to the point of being an extreme right wing sect of Republicans. Your other innuendos are not worth the bandwidth.

 

Please tell me you aren't that ignorant.

Liberalism is all about challenging social issues. Seriously, how can you say that with a straight face?

 

The Tea Party's unpopularity is due to themselves. When the support of Sharon Angle and Christie O'Donnell reached their fevor pitch 20 months ago, while those candidates made some less than magnanimous statements, they tipped their hand. But I don't think the Tea Party will fade completely, they do have a very narrow sect, but that narrow view does have a following, good, bad or indifferent. They will not succeed in obtaing any real political clout at the national level.

 

Again, what does it matter? There is not a negative factoring of vote loss with the TEA Party movement. They do not flip or withhold on voting. They are now not just a titanic grass roots movement, they are a titanic voting block....which does not "swing" (D)em.

Think about the most adament, stand his/her ground, vocal liberal on PF. If he/she got bad press, or smeared constantly...would he/she suddenly roll over and vote Republican?

They are the balancing vote, to decades of union block voting of Democrats....whose numbers have plummeted. Unions say it, not me, although it is a fact.

They are completely organized now, through Freedomworks (hacked btw, just before the 2010 vote, odd huh) and co-ordinated far better than the hatefilled and out of control, business as usual union leadership and their thugs. Democrats always had the advantage of built in organization block voting because of unions. The TEA Party now has that same advantage, which is incredibly different than just being on your own, with no co-ordinated block voting mechanism in place, as you thought about how you were going to vote.

They constantly pick up D's, I's and L's, which is why they have continual growth.

People want real change in the cesspool known as Washington, and people have always wanted that. And now...it is being delivered, via We The People.

 

republicans are already trying to reign in the teaparty...

in fact the debt ceiling vote looks like a big setup to me....GOP already eating each others lunch over it.

 

Not really. The government needs to butt out of people's personal lives.

The Tea Party is regurgitated Libertarianism with a religious and social bent. It actually offers nothing new.....it's just a bastardized version of already existing political philosophy with the religious right's social agenda thrown in.

It's an interesting hybrid, but like I say, it won't last because it is just a mix of 2 old, pre-existing things. The catalyst was a liberal black president. Once he's gone in 2012 or 2016, the movement will lose its emotion and return to it's actual ideals.....which again are separate bastardized components. The unifying factor of a common anti-Christ enemy will not be there and then people that are motivated more by religion will turn to the religious camp and the people that want a more secular government and care more about fiscal issues will return to that camp, which labeled correctly would be modern Libertarianism.

 

LastBoyScout is pretty much "spot-on-money" with his assessmet, and I agree with it. The fiscal issue becoming a top issue, has been accepted by all; economic times are tough except for the uber wealthly. These are the times we live in today. For that, I will repeat, the Tea Party gets an "attta-boy", but nothing else from me.

 

Libertarianism...not liberalism.

Oh man.....

 

Libertarianism will never become popular. Mainly because it is one step below anarchy and puts way too much power into the hands of business.

 

The Tea Party are very regular people.

They are what used to called the Silent Majority.

People who led very routine lives working, raising a family, paying taxes but were never involved in politics.

Now they are involved.

 

Let's see. Used to be singular Republican, non organized voting...vs...union organized block voting Democrats.

And now that has balanced out, to block voting organized TEA Party (R).

If you think that, the most dramatic shift in the Dem vs Rep voting dynamic is going to disappear, then you don't appreciate the importance union block voting advantage has been to the Democratic party for decades.