Reid expects Tea Party to fade away

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  1. Trinnity

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    Well, I guess your cred is on the line in 2012. We'll see.
     
  2. Viv

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    Do the Tea Party supporters not care what Robert Zoellick warned your country about? :below:

    http://news.google.co.uk/news/story...t=more-results&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQqgIwAA

    Do you not care if the world economy (not just your country) implodes because of the instability your chaotic politics are creating?

    The best thing you could do is realise even if you don't agree with the current Government, shut up until your Party is in Government. Tea Party included.

    I realise the world ends at the US shore for many right wingers, but hopefully some will be taking some kind of note of what is going on around you.
     
  3. yguy

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    You don't get it. Civil war is very likely unavoidable; and if it can be avoided, it will surely not be because anyone follows such airheaded advice as you have given - unless of course the commie-libs finally achieve hegemony in America by way of lack of effective resistance, in which case planet Earth will be one giant gulag for the next thousand years.
     
  4. Libhater

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    What you failed to understand is that the Tea Party isn't a political party as in having elected leaders. The Tea Party is a grassroots movement to bring back our Constitutional values. But I do appreciate the fact that you libs do get confused on this, and that the TP has you so worried that you'll be seeing your socialism put to rest for good next year. :-D
     
  5. Johnny-C

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    Not everyone is a pessimistic warmonger; America STILL has a lot that can be worked with/for.

    Here you are talking about a darned "civil war"... man, that is some extreme and stupid stuff. Come on... GET A GRIP on reality. The kind of EXTREME thinking you are engaging in here, is a part of the problem. You've leveled INSULTS and name-called... there is no semblance of REASONED solution or compromise in what you're saying above. That kind of BS (that has gotten America nowhere), is both sickening and distracting overall.

    Lord knows, I don't want to shut you up (even if I could), but please... say something that makes sense and is CONSTRUCTIVE, BENEFICIAL, HELPFUL, REASONABLE. Come on... guns/bombs, you should know, won't solve anything as well as people working together and landing upon the proper consensus. And here you are, disgustingly relegating the nation to "civil war". Man, I despise that kind of TALK, and so do MILLIONS of Americans who know better.

    If the "Tea Party" is ultimately comprised of individuals with the kinds of extreme thoughts that you and others I've observed within it, then yes... it will MOST LIKELY (as Reid suggests) become 'marginalized' and fade away. If the people in the movement are constructive and make some darned sense over time, then it will likely stick around for awhile.
     
  6. Think for myself

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    I thought it was the taxed enough already party. Odd. Your claim seems to run counter to reality.

    Grassroots? That is certainly laughable considering Republican involvement in it.
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Shhhhhhh, y'all don't tell the libs... but there's really no such thing as 'The Tea Party' therefore it can't be polled, analyzed, investigated or speculated about. It's like that big ole boogieman that used to hide under liberal's beds at night when they were children. Except now it morphs from Tea Party to Sarah Palin to Michele Bachmann. Prob take on the form of Rick Perry & Mitt Romney before next Nov.

    Wishful thinking, Harry, but I bet the phrase 'tea party' will outlive you.
     
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    Even the "Civil Rights" movement was challenged; so will be the the "Tea Party"; and THAT (right now) has far less of a moral and Constitutional foundation, than the former.

    If the Tea Party isn't (at least) "changed" in due time, it will fade or turn into something else completely.
     
  9. MissJonelyn

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    Tea Party sponsors Republicans. You have it backwards.
     
  10. Think for myself

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    I don't think so.

    The tea party mantel has been held up by a lot of folks in the GOP. These folks taxed and spent until a scant few years ago, and continue to pay nothing more than lip servic3e to cutting spending.
     
  11. MissJonelyn

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    Name a GOP lobbyist or politician who organizes and attends TEA Party events. If you can't you'll understand why.
     
  12. Think for myself

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    Sarah Palin.

    'Well slap my ass and call me Sally, looks like you are dead wrong.

    Not surprising. I am now predicting you will move the goalposts to defend the utter stupidity that is that particular tea partier.
     
  13. Foolardi

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    Reid only said that because that is his style.Like another Democrat,
    Pelosi.Or Obama.They just say things on the spur that tend to
    perk up fellow Libs.
    Saying the Tea Party will just fade is rather stupid,even w/o the
    political reality.What is that stupid comment based on.Nothing.
    Sure the Tea Party could easily fade like Nader's Green party however
    the big difference is the 80 year near historic turning of the Political
    tides last Fall,under the compound authority of a Tea Party.
    Proving the Tea Party is a huge Political force to be reckoned with.
    Just making dopey comments like Reid,probably is more about
    making him feel good or that he did his job and spread another
    stupic Liberal Democrat notion,hoping it will fly.
     
  14. Think for myself

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    Your rambling diatribe has nothing to do with me or anything I have said.
     
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    Now that's just silly.

    I do hope, however, that they don't become a singularly unified political party. No doubt, the corruption and self-serving hypocrisy endemic of the other two parties would soon follow.
     
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    Yeah, we know. The "t-party" is just the militant extremist wing of the Republican Party.
     
  17. MissJonelyn

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    Sarah Palin isn't a politician nor lobbyist.

    Try again.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You are making comments about the Tea Party as if there's been
    another grassroots movement before like it.
    There hasn't.
     
  19. Think for myself

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    Yep, just picked up those goalposts and moved them. your post was absolutely unashamed in that one.


    this is why I have zero respect for the posts of the right around here. They senseless cheerleading and the complete inability to admit that your favorite candidates have huge flaws. Zero respect. It is as if there is a clique a people so rabidly hyper partisan, so afraid to admit that Bachmann or Palin are idiots that they defend idiocy just because the idiot resides in their own party.

    Your post's flat out denial of reality seems to cement that feeling for me. I can not believe anyone with a straight face can claim that the lady who has held public office for years is not a politician.
     
  20. Think for myself

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    Congrats! Your post just joined the utterly ridiculous claims club. Right up there with that other gem "Pailn ain't no politician".
     
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    Just one? Well, that's pretty easy:

    Dick Armey
    Tim Phillips
    Matt Kibbe
    Alan Cobb
     
  22. MissJonelyn

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    I didn't move the goal post. You're just very ignorant. You could have easily named someone who actually was a politician but you couldn't. That would only prove my point. Instead you tried naming the easiest TEA Party supporter you know without considering the details: She isn't a politician or a lobbyist.

    A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making. A politician is someone who makes a career out of politics. She only been Mayor of Wasilla for 6 years and Governor of Alaska for 3 years and last time I check, she quit her job as Governor and she isn't involved in any of the decision processes. That's what you call a civil servant. Not a politician.

    Needless to say, your example fails. Try again.
     
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    Furthermore, here are some Tea Party special interest groups:

    Contract From America Initiative
    Tea Party 365
    Fair Tax
     
  24. Think for myself

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    yes, you did.

    Insult noted. I find it so very odd that when one is shown to be worng, as you clearly were, you resort to petty insults.


    Actually, I did. you were simply wrong and now are attempting to shift the universe to fit an obviously failed argument.

    Again, claiming something that is not true multiple times will not make you right. it is only showing how utterly ridiculous your argument is. Saying Palin is not a politician is like saying I am not an (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*). Repeating your falsehoods does not make them true.


    I don't need to try anything. you are posting plenty of insults and ridiculous untruths for me to watch your posts flounder.
     
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    The only one I'll give you is Dick Armey.

    Tim Philips is a Political strategist and Matt Kibbe is party of Freedom works. That's a non-profit organization.

    And I have no idea who Alan Cobb is.
     

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