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View Poll Results: What Is Your Opinion Of The Tea Party's Performance So Far?
Strongly Disapprove 113 48.50%
Disapprove 16 6.87%
Neutral 12 5.15%
Approve 24 10.30%
Strongly Approve 68 29.18%
Voters: 233. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-15-2011, 02:30 PM
 
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Yea, he played the Tom for his white constituency and attacked Kieth Ellison for absolutely nothing. Ellison didn't even know that the guy had a problem with him, and West just goes to the media and launches on the guy. Here is the link to the story:

Keith Ellison defended by Baptist, Jewish leaders after Allen West attacks - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter

Shameless Tomming!
Allen West is what happens when you think your religion somehow makes you "MORE AMERICAN" than somebody else.

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Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible. ~ Sinclair Lewis 1935
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:31 PM
 
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Shouldnt you tea.......be asking for this poll to be closed. The longer it is up the worse it gets for you guys.
Are you typing tea...... or is the forum removing a word that you can't post here? I'm just trying to figure out what you're actually saying.
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Texas
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This thread is a shining example of how racist the Dems are. Every racist comment I see comes from the leftist.
lol You shouldn't go that far. Besides being untrue, it gives the left something else to deflect so we can't discuss the issues.
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:32 PM
 
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I absolutely love it when a tea party right winger tries to tell black people what is racist and what is not. To a tea party member it is only racist if the racist signs a confession with witnesses and a notary there,plus video.
What if that tea party right winger is black? Is that ok or is that even worse because they're supposed to tow the liberal agenda?
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:33 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Are you typing tea...... or is the forum removing a word that you can't post here? I'm just trying to figure out what you're actually saying.
Ive been trying to figure out what your saying all day
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:36 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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What if that tea party right winger is black? Is that ok or is that even worse because they're supposed to tow the liberal agenda?
Thats even worse. Nothing worse than a person who hates their self
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:37 PM
 
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What if that tea party right winger is black? Is that ok or is that even worse because they're supposed to tow the liberal agenda?
And anyway there is only like 12 of them. The same ones you see at all the TP events.
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:43 PM
 
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So basically you're going by word of mouth which let's be honest, is a very small number of people that you know and chances are most of those people have similar beliefs and ways of thinking.
The news I see and read iis not word of mouth. Public opinion polls are not word of mouth.
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:46 PM
 
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All of those candidates you listed made great political and economic gains with the Republican party, what's the difference?
The difference is that overall in the long term Black Americans have made greater poltical and economic strides under Democratic presidential administratons in the last 50 years.
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Old 03-15-2011, 02:55 PM
 
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Ive been trying to figure out what your saying all day
I don't have a saying.
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