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Just 4 years ago the Tea Party was riding high. They had a message of cutting excess Govt and deficits. Today by most standards they are a failure, they have alienated most of America and now have the lowest approval rating , even below the Republican House.
The poll shows most see Tea Party as extremist and out of touch with reality on Social issues. Words like backwards and intolerant were given in polls.
This year saw Tea Party folk shutting down Govt. and that did not help America's opinion of them either. We also saw a Democrat in VA win the office running on Obamacare which isn't even popular. The Democrats Terry McAuliffe wasn't even what many consider to be a likable candidate but he handily beat the Tea Party extremist in a year with Democrats in power, something not done in more than 20 years. Most political strategists tell us if they had only run a more moderate Conservative they should easily have won.
Is the term "Tea Party" now deemed by most Americans as someone who is an extremist or a tad crazy? How do they shed this image?
Yes, the Tea Party should have stuck with what they were founded on, reducing the size of government and the horrid amount of government spending. They should not have gotten side tracked by the social crap. The old school religious right branch of the GOP took them over, at least to a great extent.
They're just a loosely organized group of overly emotional fringe right wingers. Typically, they're ignorant hypocrites who elect people in the primaries who are either too fringe to win office or too inflexible to get anything done when in office.
The undue influence they put forward is putting tea baggers in seats in Congress as many of the seats are rigged. They are, however, having a negative impact on a state and city level in terms of the number of Republicans in office. This is not likely to change until someone fixes congressional districts to the point where the seats are actually competitive again.
The tea party is simply too far to the right whether it is social or economic positions. Romney's manta, "smaller, simpler, smarter" government resonates with the public in the abstract, at least. But the tea party goes well beyond that to disabling and dismantling government including programs and services that the vast majority support.
I am not a TP person. But the "movement" appears to have its positions grossly twisted by the media and the people opposed to the TP. There is no single website that represents the movement. But Tea Party Patriots |Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party Movement Platform post core beliefs or positions. No hot bed social issues are on the list. Silent on gay marriage. Silent on abortion. Silent on government and religion.
The positions by and large are about the size of the government and the emphasis on the Constitution.
Let's get one thing clear, the "Tea Party" did not shut the government down, the Democrats did and every rational thinker knows that. They right chose to fund the government except for Obamacare and the Democrats did not choose to compromise ONE BIT!!
And I agree with hoffdano, they media has done a great hatchet job on the Tea Party.
Let's get one thing clear, the "Tea Party" did not shut the government down, the Democrats did and every rational thinker knows that. They right chose to fund the government except for Obamacare and the Democrats did not choose to compromise ONE BIT!!
And I agree with hoffdano, they media has done a great hatchet job on the Tea Party.
So if someone holds a gun to your head and demands you hand over your wallet. You refuse. So, you're to blame for refusing to "compromise"?
Just 4 years ago the Tea Party was riding high. They had a message of cutting excess Govt and deficits. Today by most standards they are a failure, they have alienated most of America and now have the lowest approval rating , even below the Republican House.
The poll shows most see Tea Party as extremist and out of touch with reality on Social issues. Words like backwards and intolerant were given in polls.
This year saw Tea Party folk shutting down Govt. and that did not help America's opinion of them either. We also saw a Democrat in VA win the office running on Obamacare which isn't even popular. The Democrats Terry McAuliffe wasn't even what many consider to be a likable candidate but he handily beat the Tea Party extremist in a year with Democrats in power, something not done in more than 20 years. Most political strategists tell us if they had only run a more moderate Conservative they should easily have won.
Is the term "Tea Party" now deemed by most Americans as someone who is an extremist or a tad crazy? How do they shed this image?
The "image" is purely a construct of people who have no rational argument against the TEA Party movement, and have sought to demonize them through dishonesty, propaganda, hate campaigns, and with a willing and complicit media.
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