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Do Americans Really Think the Tea Party are Terrorists?

Do Americans Really Think the Tea Party Comprises Terrorists?

Do Americans really think the Tea Party is made up of “terrorist?” The answer is: no. At least according to both a Rasmussen poll and one MRCTV segment in which 15 ordinary Americans, including Democrats, were interviewed to find out what they think about the Tea Party.

Out of 1,000 likely voters surveyed in the Rasmussen poll 29 percent believe the Tea Party are “terrorists” while 71 percent believe the accusation is outrageous.

Following suit, MRCTV went to Capitol Hill to interview average Americans, including Democrats, about what they think of the Tea Party. Watch the findings here.

The poll and interviews come in the wake of Rep. Mike Doyle stating, “this small group of terrorists [Tea Party] have made it impossible to spend any money” and Vice President Joe Biden adding that “they [Tea Party] have acted like terrorists” during the debt ceiling negotiations.

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  • LibertyMama
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:09am

    Maybe only 29% believe it now, but a lie repeated often enough….

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:27am

      ~~^^~~^^~~
      …. and the left are experts at making lies “facts” in the eyes of the zombies. Worst off all they need is one or two loons to act out they can loosely tie to the TEA party and it will be a lock. My curiosity is WHO started this narrative because it all hit almost at the same time. (please take note of proper spelling of TEA party its in caps b/c it stands for Taxed Enough Already)

      Forget who is saying it lets find out who started it and target them. Better yet why not start calling the left a name or two? Why are so many on the conservative side continually sitting on the sideline taking punch after punch from the left? Is it the time old excuse of “not wanting to stoop to their level”? I have news for you folks you continue t do that and save face all you are going to end up with is a feeling good about yourself and losing more ground to them. These are people and groups who never play by the rules. they are like the kid on the playground who in the middle of a game changes the rules so they can win while prior to it they were losing.

      America you need to come to grips that you must stop playing their game and start playing your game. The heck with the rules and the heck with the one sided name calling and bomb throwing. Give them a dose of their own medicine already!! http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • skilaxdad
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:28am

      That’s right. The Nazi propaganda machine knew that a lie would become truth if repeated enough times. Joe Scarborough (believe it or not) actually hit the nail on the head when he called them “terminally stupid people” who needed other people to think for them. By and large, Americans don’t think, they merely hold opinions… which were given to them by someone else.

      Depending upon the circle people travel in, certain things become “fashionable”, such as “being green”, the more ones get into it, the more fashionable they see themselves. To many, it is fashionable to hate the likes of Rush, Glenn, or Sean, without ever once hearing anything they have to say; but the more loudly they spew their hatred of them the more fashionable they see themselves in their little circles. That is what I see behind the onslaught of false accusations by politicians and media regarding the tea party. They believe that if they say it loud enough and often enough it will then catch on with the pseudo-intellectual crowd (AKA “the terminally stupid), and get enough of their voices to join the choir so as to influence the next election.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:57am

      skylaxdad…I swear you’re describing my sister!…when I mention the TEA Party…I get the same answer from most of my friends…we need to fix our republican party…otherwise I’d join up!…terrorist?…ummm no.

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    • David Hudson
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:09am

      I am a 45 year old retired Army senior NCO, now attending college. I have started to save all of the dumb statements made by some of my fellow students. One of the recent quotes I heard, in an ethics class discussion: “I’m rather fond of Obama. I’m not really sure how good of a President he is, since I don‘t pay attention to what’s going on. I probably should.” This from a 19 y.o. who said she will vote for him if he runs again. The fact is that it is not just our young that are uninformed, it is the majority of Americans. The reason the Left is so venomous in their statements about the TEA Party is that TEA Partiers are informed. They watch, they listen, they read, and then they check the facts for themselves. An informed populace scares the crap out of the Left.

      The Constitution is not an instrument through which the government restrains the people, it is an instrument through which the people restrain the government.– Patrick Henry

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:23am

      Let’s see, we have been called all kinds of names and what happens? .,… people find out the truth .. that the left is LYING and that we are not what they claim and we get MORE people to JOIN! More people are coming to the realization that Obama is a marxist ideologe and cares NOTHING about America except to change it for the worse. Come to a TEA Party meeting or event and you will meet PATRIOTIC AMERICANS! We must keep confronting these LIES with the truth … TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR!

      TEA!

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    • blownaway
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:48am

      @skilaxdad – Well said… I’ve come to the same conclusions with regards to people regurgitating opinions they here rather than forming thier own based upon fact. It’s very frustrating to witness…

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:46am

      29% is the number I keep hearing of how many far left there are. Of course they’re going to believe the Liar in Chief. they want to believe we’re terrorists because the alternative is that THEY want to destroy America, and they can’t let that truth out.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53am

      @David Hudson

      Although I did always vote Republican, that describes me before the Obama administration. My husband is a retired Navy man, and I put in 4 years in the Navy. My husband has been a talk radio junkie for probably 26 years. I was oblivious. I would roll my eyes when he got upset about politics. Then Obamacare became a possiblity and I woke up. I guess what did it to me was the threat of putting everyone on Medicare-like programs. I have an uncle who is a doctor and I knew it would ruin all doctors. I started paying attention. Plus the fact that I’m a cold war vet, who tracked submarines and knew Russian strategy. I recognized communism/socialism/Marxism, whatever you want to call it. It’s NOT American. Hopefully the 71% will vote him out of office. Even my Democrat Parents want either Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin.

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    • Lonescrapper
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:22am

      I think the American public is learning the lesson that what you say isn’t nearly as important as what you do.

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    • drago
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:32am

      @ David Hudson
      Thought you were my brother there for a moment, and yes, same name;p
      Try not to judge the kids in college, for they know no what they do….yea right……

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:24am

      It’s another way the progressive left is trying to demonize us for their own gain.
      From Ann Coulter’s book, “Demonic”:
      The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.

      In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob, for instance:

      Liberal Groupthink: “The same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they haven’t heard on NPR.”

      Liberal Schemes: “No matter how mad the plan is—Fraternité, the ‘New Soviet Man,’ the Master Race, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society, ObamaCare—a mob will believe it.”

      Liberal Enemies: “Instead of ‘counterrevolutionaries,’ liberals’ opponents are called ‘haters,’ ‘those who seek to divide us,’ ‘tea baggers,’ and ‘right-wing hate groups.’ Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals ‘liberals’—and that makes them testy.”

      http://www.amazon.com/Demonic-How-Liberal-Endangering-America/dp/0307353486/ref=wl_mb_hu_m_4_dp

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    • futureatstake
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:53am

      They can repeat the lie all they want. How many times must we repeat history before 51% of the voters wise up?

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:57am

      If the Propaganda Networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, & MSNBC, says it true well then it
      MUST BE TRUE..

      Right?

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Is this a purposeful obfuscation? There’s a difference between “the teaparty” as a group of people who clean up the mall (hehe) and the Teapublicons in Congress who were willing to let the American economy crash.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:10am

      Liberals heap coals on their own heads by their lies…and people will find out the truth on their own. Simple as that.

      The old democrats process of politicking (LIES) is slowly dieing out.

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  • survivorseed
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:08am

    I would hope their not strap a bomb on and blow up innocent people type terrorists (although I’m sure as with every group, there is an extreme element) but wishing the country to fail just because they don’t like the colour of the man in white house (lets be honest) is hardly patriotic.

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    • rienheart
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:17am

      Survivorseed,
      You are a Moron. We are not Commie /Socialists. That is why we are not for Pres. Obama. Not because the Color of his Skin. Only Black people voted for his color. They Betrayed Martin Luthor King Jr. They voted for Color of Skin over Content of Character.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:22am

      Yes, lets be honist. Tea Party people/supporters would never strap a bomb on their belly like you think. And no its not because of his skin color. And yes, you are a racebaiter.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:30am

      You can deny the fact as much as you like but I’ve been following this site long enough to know the real reason. Obama is a republican in democrat clothing. He has deported illegals at a much faster rate than Bush ever did, he has got into new wars, he continued the Bush tax cuts, he’s a stooge for corporate america, he just cut social programs with no tax increases, Guantanamo remains operational, iraq and afghanistan wars are still being fought, he folds to republican demands every time and still you call him a commie / socialist.
      Sure, he talks a progressive agenda but look at reality. No, there is only 1 reason limpballs and the tea party wish him to fail and its nothing to do with policy

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    • skilaxdad
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:34am

      SURVIVORSEED

      AKA: “Terminally Stupid” Has it even occurred to you to ask yourself why the tea party loves Herman Cain and Allen West?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:38am

      Survivorseed…

      Either you need to get on some meds which will straighten out your thought process or you’re just simply being a Troll. Either way you make yourself sound ignorant.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:42am

      So far those of us who have replied to you have called you:
      Moron, Race Baiter, Terminally Stupit, Troll
      I hope you get the message.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:48am

      I do get the message, thanks. I also found these little quips

      HAIROFTHEDOGSOB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:29pm
      Without the equal opportuniry bs..there would be no black employees
      SEABEE79
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:33pm
      Lesson learned,

      Next time carry guns and shoot the mother f-ing black kids dead. maybe the black community will get the point.

      HAIROFTHEDOGSOB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:25pm
      Worthless race are blacks that can not survive without someone elses money

      ERATY BAB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:48pm
      I refuse to call them African Americans. They are Black Americans…pure and simple.
      Although Obama is a Halfrican.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:49am

      HAIROFTHEDOGSOB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:29pm
      Without the equal opportuniry bs..there would be no black employees
      SEABEE79
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:33pm
      Lesson learned,

      Next time carry guns and shoot the mother f-ing black kids dead. maybe the black community will get the point.

      HAIROFTHEDOGSOB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:25pm
      Worthless race are blacks that can not survive without someone elses money

      ERATY BAB
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:48pm
      I refuse to call them African Americans. They are Black Americans…pure and simple.
      Although Obama is a Halfrican.

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    • phil1765
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:02am

      survivorseed
      You can kindly kiss my arse. I have many different reasons for disliking Barack Obama and not one of them is because he is black, well he isn’t even black he is a half breed. You can spout all of your little talking points about him being a republican more than a democrat all you want but that doesn’t change the mans roots which are all based on marxist/socialist principles. Obama‘s only problem since he has been in office has been that the country wouldn’t just roll over and accept his social justice agenda. There will never be any type of racial harmony in this country as long as idiots like you state your opinions as if they were fact. You have an opinon, fine, but keep it to yourself and your other braindead buddies cause it is about as nauseating as it can get.

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    • amuzed_right_guy
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:55am

      Yeah, let’s be honest. There is plenty of racism to go around. I hear and see the comments of as many, if not more, black racists today than the white ones. How many blacks voted for Obama just because of his skin color? Hmmm? sounds like racism. On the other hand, how many guilty-feeling white liberals voted for this inexperienced dictator-wanna-be for the same reason. Hmmm? also sounds like racism. Trying to insulate your incompetent president from criticism because of the color of his skin is a very poor use of the tired old race-baiting canard. Obama should be thrown out of office, not because he is black (half-white, actually), but because of his gross partisanship, his corrupt use of power to promote his far-left ideological agenda, his obvious contempt for a majority of the American people and their cherished values, his attempt to impose failed european-styled sociialsm on our country, for doubling our nation’s deficits during his tenure, for trampling on the rights of those of us who disagree with his policies, for stealing from his political enemies to reward his political friends, anf for his many other abuses of presidential power. If this man survives the next election to continue his reign of terror on America’s traditional values, freedom and liberty may very well cease to exist in our nation and his rush to collapse our economic system may very well succeed and be made permanent.

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    • termase
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:03am

      What??? Are you serious?? Do some research for yourself. You will find that the TEA Party peeps are more informed than any other group out there. The Progressive\Liberals are smearing the TEA Party because we know what lies they spread. Liberals use the methods by Sal Alinksy to produce lies and misinformation. So, the next time you open your mouth and say something that makes you less intelligent, go read facts first then submit your reply.

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    • drago
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:54am

      @suvivorseed
      You truelly are a moron, all the quotes you posted are from trolls on here just like you, now grab your bag of cheetos and go back to the basement and play world of warcraft……….

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Not the teaparty as a whole, but the Teapublicons in Congress? Very subtle: Have candidates who run on promises to grow jobs for the purpose of getting elected. Get to Washington with the sole purpose of destroying the system from the inside out. Focus on nothing but a search-and-destroy social agenda for at least the first seven months. Hold the national/world economy hostage…
      http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQcl_KNdfXo/TjS_cfsyTCI/AAAAAAAABVc/4N1NB95HuxI/s1600/tea+party+cartoon.jpg

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Your insults don’t affect me in the slightest, in fact they just prove that you have no contradicting argument. You can spin it any way you like but the truth is plain to see. Name me a single policy that could be classed as far left commie or socialist. You have all the time you need

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  • jim
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:08am

    The name doesn’t matter… it’s the core principles, the 1st principles… smaller gov, less taxes, legislation that is Constitutionally based. And… drum roll, please… the Balanced Budget Amendment. This is terrorism only to liberal progressives.

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  • Skee
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:08am

    Tea party isn’t in the streets smashing store fronts and looting, like the leftist bolsheviks.
    We can make war if they want to play that game.
    They can bring their rocks and pipes. I‘ll bring the FMJ’s.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:05am

    Tea Party‘s Terrify democommie’s YES.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:04am

    The vast, vast majority do not think TEA party members are literally terrorist but I know a lot of people (maybe 40%) who unfortunately believe TEA party participants are extremely right wing & intransient in their stance & thus they view them as dangerous.

    And for those of you who want to yell at me, I support the TEA party movement & candidates; like I said I just know a lot of people who fear the TEA party.

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    • ohnomrbill
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:15am

      Ron you be right people fear you people because you have no issue other the god, gold, and guns

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  • Richard Compton
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:01am

    You want to see terrorism in action, watch Obama lie the the public over and over again, listen to him tell the American people that their social security checks may not be comming cause the republicans won’t do as he wants, listen as tells military service men and women and their families that the checks won‘t be comming at the end of the month because he doesn’t have money to pay them, that’s terrorism straight up!

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  • Comeandtakeit
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:00am

    I was so incensed when I read of the comments of Joe Biden I wrote about it. One of my friends liked it and put it on his blog. Here it is if you care to read it:

    http://www.asmallcornerofsanity.com/

    It’s called an Open Letter to Mr. Biden and is a little long to post here. I tried to post it the other day and it cut off.

    I have about had it with calling tea party patriots “terrorists”. I express my thoughts more fully on this matter on the accompanying link.

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    • louise
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:05am

      Your article is fantastic!

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    • Comeandtakeit
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:13am

      Thank you Louise! I’m glad you liked it. This “terrorist” nonsense ticked me off as does use of that nasty sexually explicit slur they call us. I didn‘t even know what that meant until this nonsense started and I bet a whole lot of other people didn’t either. Just shows the low character of the people who oppose our principles for which the tea party stands.

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    • Perspective
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:00am

      That was a great letter.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:59pm

    are the tea party’s terrorists? Well let us see. The tea party’s are the largest group of voters in the nation, the Independent party is the second largest voteing group the republicrats are the third and the democommies are in last place, so I guess you could say that the democommies may very well be TERRIFYED Of the TEA PARTY”S. Voteing power.

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  • skilaxdad
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:58pm

    Wasn’t the poll taken in Washington? The 29% probably included Joe Biden, Mike Doyle, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc., etc…. and all the others who constantly accuse others or what they themselves are doing. It’s only those progressive smear mongers and the mainstream news agencies (talk a bout a contradiction in terms… for they are neither mainstream nor news agencies, but rather far left fringe propaganda agencies) that say those things as loud and fast as they can; hoping that they can convince enough people to believe it to actually cause damage to the tea party movement. What they do has gone so far beyond shameful that I don’t even know what to call it anymore.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:57pm

    Well, if Glenn is an anti-semite, it’s only fair to consider myself a terrorist. We do need to share the pain right?

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:18am

      Sharing pain would be all well and good if the Left shared it alongside us. Unfortunately, they are the ones dishing out the pain, the BS, our tax money, the lies, the propaganda (now with little kids in it), and we are the ones on the receiving end.

      Sharing is caring but getting dumped on still smells like sj1t.

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  • VTDave
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:54pm

    The fact that 29% believe that the Tea Party are “terrorists” is a sad statement about how much brainwashing the Dems are able to accomplish with their MSM accomplices. You can see what these 29 percenters European counterparts are doing in Great Britain. It won’t be long before that crap gets ramped up here.

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  • Impenitent
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:52pm

    the useful idiots are losing their usefulness …

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:52pm

    This is going to get real nasty the closer we get to Nov 2012. I need a computer program that will make up bad names to call these people because my vulgarity vocabulary isn’t big enough to accurately describe these lying, thiefing, traitorous, sell your soul for a dollar, power hungry who*es who presently run our country.

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    • Restored One
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:01am

      My daughter has come up with some. I don;t know how she spells them, only what they phonectically sound like. My favorite is FA-CHISELS. “What a stupid Fa-chisel“ ”what a bunch of Fa-chiseled up dumb Fa-chisels.” Just an idea Captain.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:04am

      LOL…I love it!

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    • AreYouForReal
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:47am

      Hey CAPTAINCRUNCH get a grip you moronic idiot.

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    • blownaway
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:53am

      Hey AREYOUFORREAL… you might want to get your head out of the sand while there is still time. Captain Crunch is speaking truth… if you haven’t figured out how crooked our govt. is yet, you are way behind the curve!

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  • thepatriotdave
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:52pm

    This story has a gaping hole in it. You ask the reader to “Watch the findings below” and the ‘findings below’ has a big “video not found” alert on it?!

    Let‘s ignore that technical glitch for a moment and have a serious talk about the Tea Party movement in this country and where it’s future may or may not be.
    The latest rift within the Tea Party must be solved if we are going to help elect the next president of the United States. This means we are going to have some very honest and serious conversations about the future of the Tea Party movement.
    I would like to start the conversations by asking one serious question…

    Knowing how the left looks at us (yes, I call myself a Tea Partier but I find the need to add something to the moniker) Tea Partiers is no secret and lately we may have given them a bit of a present. I’m talking about the rift with some large Tea Party groups that are actively seeking to destroy the careers of any Republican in the House that voted for the Debt Ceiling bill. The arguments some of these groups are using are not based on any logic that I can find. It is all based on emotion, the one thing we point to when we are talking about the thought process of a liberal.
    Sure it was a lame deal, but all the other alternatives would have been much worse. So my question is… Should Tea Party groups come together under on umbrella and supress any illogical out breaks, or should we continue on as is?

    http://hewillbeatobama.electioncandidates

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    • team1blazer
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:13am

      Dave, good post. I’m assuming you are referring to Allen West voting “yes” to the deal…which was for me (a West proponent) a real turn off. This deal was BAD for all Americans, as it gives WAY to much control to the super comittee (which excludes conservatives who voted against the measure) and does not really cut any spending. It just gives the government the ability to add 7 TRILLION dollars of debt to the already underwaterTAXPAYERS with no way to recover (except raise taxes). IMHO, the TEA party and Boehner and the Republicans CAVED…PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE (CUT CAP AND BALANCE) AND STFU….Let the chips fall where they may. You (TEA Party conservatives) are going to get blamed for the downgrade anyhow, so, why not make it worth the effort? Really frustrating to see RINOS like McConnell, Boehner and McCain ruining the party.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:05am

      team1blazer…

      See, this is what I’m talking about. teamblazer is doing what will tear the Tea Party apart. Nobody caved! When you ONLY control 33.33% of the government, you are lucky to come away with anything that favors our side. As it is, our side came away from this with more than Obama did. This was a minor victory.

      teambl;azer is only listening to SOME in certain Tea Parties that never stopped long enough to evaluate reality. If we had stuck to our guns and held out for either ‘cut cap balance’ or just did NOTHING, there would have been a disaster in this country and every single moment would be blamed on us. And rightfully so. There is a huge difference between the USA Defaulting and having oru credit rating downgraded. A default would have meant economic chaos, as with the downgrade can be managed.
      I’m not happy about the bill, but it sure beats the alternatives!

      West did the right thing by signing the bill. He didn’t like it either, but it was the only responsible way to move the country forward because we were out of time. And we actually got lucky because we came away with more than the left did. I’m not a big fan of John Beohner, but in this particualr battle he did a fairly good job. People calling him a RINO don’t know what they are talking about. A RINO would not have come away with more than Obama did!
      FYI… Obama doesn’t get two Trillion dollars to spend. The House still has to approve any $$$ to be spent. Ain’t gonna happen!
      http://www.AllenW

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:50pm

    That means 29 % of people are my enemies. No quarter expected , none given.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:08am

      Are you using the military concept of no quarter? Are you really willing to kill 29% of the US population because they have a different political opinion from yours? No quarter means killing every single man, woman and child.

      If that is what you mean, get out of the TEA party, you are corrupting it.

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  • cobra two
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:50pm

    NO they Don’t BUT the Anti Americans such as your congress and senate and phony ass president
    think we are!

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    • seeker9
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:05am

      I don’t think they believe it, but they use the smears and lies to marginalize us. That is the tactic of the left. Tells me something about their morallity; say anything, do anything. Toss in the MSM in to the lot as well.

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  • grannyjojo
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Well, I would like to respond intelligently HOWEVER the video is not available. According to what the ARTICLE states I would have to say I truly don’t believe that 29% of American’s think of Tea Partiers are TERRORISTS. Probably more like 15%, in my opinion. Its most likely how the question was worded. I personally believe there are more “Tea Partiers” then either republicans or democrats either one, or combined. I believe the “silent majority” of American’s lean more towards “Tea Party” then most realize. I have been a “republican” for years but I NOW proudly say I am more of a Tea Partier then a republican. To me its really semantics more then anything. God bless. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:51pm

      3 out of 1 Americans don’t understand statistics.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Huh? 3/1 ? ……Oh I get it. Liberals only have 1/3 of a brain. Gotcha.

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    • skilaxdad
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:16am

      It’s dyslexia… After all 10 out 3 people have it.

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    • Wilkins
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:37am

      Hey is it too late to pass a constitutional amendment saying that liberals, socialists and progressives only count as 3/5 of a person?

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:48pm

    Tea is being served; be advised, libs…you are ‘over’ and might as well get used to it. Real Patriots love their country; libs only demand of their country and that cannot be anymore. Progressives, Marxists, socialists and the like are now on notice. Bring on 2012.

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  • texanpatriot
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:47pm

    If one were to ask the average Brit what they thought of the colonists in 1770 they would have been considered to be “terrorists” as they understood it in that day. At the least they would have been considered trouble makers.
    I would rather think of us as freedom fighters, much like those of the 18th Century. Our liberty has again been taken away from us and we have no representation by the ruling class. Therefore We the People have again declared our intention to live as a free people.
    Frankly I don’t care what people think of us. We intend to vote in 2012 and then in 2016 and so on until we elect and hold accountable a group of people who think both like us and the 17th Century “terrorists”.

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:45pm

    The real terrorists in our midst is Obama and Biden with that jerk Senator Kerry running in third place. I could probably name 50 more terrorist who are in public office in Washington DC.

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  • kindling
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:43pm

    Just who do they ask these question of and when do they ask them? Do they call single mothers home sleeping off the binge from the night before or do they call cell phones of drug pushers? I have never been called and I don’t know anyone that has been called. I never believe these polls for that reason.

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  • Nigel2
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:43pm

    29% That is about the percentage of far left wing moonbats.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:41pm

    If the Tea Party were terrorist would not Obama hang with them?He loves himself some terrorist almost as much as Commies.

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    • Restored One
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Good one!

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    • tarbush
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:20am

      He would at least call for ‘civility and to tone down the violent rhetoric’. No? Oh, wait a minute, your supposed to only say that kind of crap when you are trying to tie the violent acts of a mad man to some innocent non-communists. It‘s ok for Joe and all Barak’s other buddies to call people terrorists that simply want the country to be fiscally responsible. Wonder which one of them dreamed up the terrorist smear campaign; Van Jones, Holder, Napalotano? Maybe that weasel Carney.

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  • xoke
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:34pm

    Out of 1,000 likely voters surveyed in the Rasmussen poll 29 percent believe the Tea Party are “terrorists” while 71 percent believe the accusation is outrageous.

    That 29% are MSNBC employees and the idiots you see out protesting everywhere (think Wisconsin), the rest of the Americans have G-damned jobs to go do.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:51pm

      actually have you ever wondered why the large majority of polls have a dissenting view of around 19 to 22 % ????

      thats the percentage of lefty idiots in our country

      if you ask an ideological question, you will ALWAYS have 20 % of the population that opines that way while the other 80 % are more tea party leaning in opinion or somewhere right of center

      they always think they are the majority cause someone forgot to teach them that loudness doesnt mean they are right

      think of children and parents ……………which one throws a tantrum when they dont get their way ? those are your liberals and progressive lefties

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