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Your post was just the typical knee-jerk leftist blathering about the Tea Party. Blah, blah, blah.
Also, your disappointment or approval is of no interest or concern to me.
Must be of some concern, since it prompted a reply...
You folks are just mad because there is nothing the Teas can do to change anything. They ran out of stuff accomplished by other folks that they can take credit for
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I have to tip my hat to the tea baggers and their overlords. They and the republicans in general have been focusing on state control while democrats have been focusing nationally. The state strategy is paying in spades since republicans Gerry mandered the hell of their respective states after the 2010 census and hold widespread state control.
The problem is how they keep reaching further to the right which is tanking their support. Donald trump and Ben Carson are gifts to the Democratic Party in a national election. I got my popcorn watching this.
I think Trump and to a much lesser extent Carson are gifts to the Republican Party, its nice to have a potential candidate(s) that doesn't reference every statement with a bible verse or even worse from the T party handbook. Where is it written that you can't be a liberal republican or for that matter a conservative democrat? Must the extremes at both ends always be in charge....
As for womens rights.... I've been to numerous TP events.
I have a fried that a die hard Republican , and he went to one Tea Party Gathering. He was asked "Did you bring a Gun?" He said the people there where Nuts, and he had some Skinheads sit next to him. He got up and left. Where there any at the meetings you went to ? They seem to draw that kind of crowd.
Eventually, people expect results from their elected leaders. It will be interesting to see what will happen with a party that tries everything in their power to prevent results from happening.
The Tea Party doesn't run the Republican Party. Squishy, unprincipled, RINOs run the Republican Party.
I have a fried that a die hard Republican , and he went to one Tea Party Gathering. He was asked "Did you bring a Gun?" He said the people there where Nuts, and he had some Skinheads sit next to him. He got up and left. Where there any at the meetings you went to ? They seem to draw that kind of crowd.
That's funny... and not creditable. I've never seen a single skinhead at any Tea Party event. Nor have I ever heard anyone being asked if they brought a gun.
I think Trump and to a much lesser extent Carson are gifts to the Republican Party, its nice to have a potential candidate(s) that doesn't reference every statement with a bible verse or even worse from the T party handbook. Where is it written that you can't be a liberal republican or for that matter a conservative democrat? Must the extremes at both ends always be in charge....
Anyone pegged as a Conservative/Moderate Democrat has effectively been purged from the Democratic Party by the kooks that now run the party. When was the last time you heard the term "Blue Dog Democrat" in reference to ANY Democrat now in congress?
On the other hand, there are droves of Liberal Republicans in congress.
Congress overall is at a 12.6% approval rating so in that context they are doing pretty well.
Neither of them are doing as good as the Democrats. On pollingreport.com Democrats are at 35% and Republicans are at 24% Congress: Democrats Congress: Republicans
Tea Bags at the rallies starting in 2010 were always against Obamacare because it is a government program. Yet, they kept reinforcing not to touch their Medicare. A paradox of angry people.
You're making an invalid comparison. People don't want Medicare simply trashed because they've been FORCED to pay into it for decades. They simply want their money back. Settle that account and most Conservatives would be happy to get rid of it.
Anyone pegged as a Conservative/Moderate Democrat has effectively been purged from the Democratic Party by the kooks that now run the party. When was the last time you heard the term "Blue Dog Democrat" in reference to ANY Democrat now in congress?
On the other hand, there are droves of Liberal Republicans in congress.
Blue Dog Democrats were given the modifier "Blue Dog" because they were unlike most Democrats. It was the Blue Dog Democrats that voted against the 1964 Civil Rights act. So that kind of gives the lie to the claim that Democrats were against civil rights
In fact, in 1948, when a Blue Dog Democrat decided top run for President on a platform of segregation he didn't run as Democrat but instead created a third party because he knew the Democrats would never accept his platform. This Blue Dog Democrat, Strom Thurmond, became a hero to the Republicans
I have been to many Tea Party events. Not once was abortion or being gay ever mentioned.
You are mistaking the rally with the politicians. Many "tea party" favorites are against a woman's right to chose over what is done with their body and denying gay rights such as marriage. The intersection between Tea Partiers and religious conservatives are rather big. 39% call themselves evangelical and 38% attend religious services weekly. Most religions are against abortion and gay marriage so its easy doing the math. Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe - CBS News
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