Tea Party Presence Felt as 2012 Elections Approach
- Posted on September 4, 2011 at 3:46pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Like the 2010 midterms, the tea party looks to be shaping the 2012 race for the GOP presidential nomination as candidates parrot the movement’s language and promote its agenda while jostling to win its favor.
That’s much to the delight of Democrats who are working to paint the tea party and the eventual Republican nominee as extreme.
“The tea party isn’t a diversion from mainstream Republican thought. It is within mainstream Republican thought,” Mitt Romney told a New Hampshire newspaper recently, defending the activists he’s done little to woo, until now.
The former Massachusetts governor is starting to court them more aggressively as polls suggest he’s being hurt by weak support within the movement, whose members generally favor rivals such as Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Romney’s shift is the latest evidence of the big imprint the tea party is leaving on the race.
Such overtures come with risks, given that recent polls show that more Americans are cooling to the tea party’s tactics and bare-bones vision of the federal government.
After Washington’s debt showdown this summer, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that 46 percent of adults had an unfavorable view of the tea party, compared with 36 percent just after last November’s election.
It could give President Barack Obama and his Democrats an opening should the Republican nominee be closely aligned with the tea party.
Yet even as the public begins to sour on the movement, candidates such as Romney are shrugging off past tea party disagreements to avoid upsetting activists.
That includes Perry, who faced a tea party challenger in his most recent election for governor and who has irked some tea partyers so much that they are openly trying to undercut his candidacy. Instead of fighting back, Perry often praises the tea party.
In his book “Fed Up,” Perry wrote: “We are seeing an energetic and important push by the American people — led in part by the tea party movement — to give the boot to the old-guard Washington establishment who no longer represent us.”
There’s a reason for the coziness. Those voters who will choose the GOP nominee identify closely with the movement.
A recent AP-GfK survey showed that 56 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning people identified themselves as tea party supporters. Also, Republicans who back the tea party place a higher priority than other Republicans on the budget deficit and taxes, issues at the center of the nomination contest.
Last year, the tea party injected the GOP with a huge dose of enthusiasm, helping it reclaim the House and end one-party rule in Washington. These days, they are firing up the campaign trail in early voting Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
It’s little wonder, then, why many of the White House aspirants are popping up at rallies by the Tea Party Express, a Sacramento, Calif.-based political committee that’s in the midst of a 30-city bus tour. That tour ends Sept. 12 in Tampa, Fla., where the group will team with CNN to sponsor a nationally televised GOP debate. Every Republican candidate faring strongly in the polls is set to participate.
Some grass-roots activists will cringe. They consider the Tea Party Express uncomfortably close to the GOP establishment. Nonetheless, “it’s a moment of political arrival” for the tea party, says Bruce Cain, a University of California, Berkeley political scientist.
Five months before the first voting in the nomination fight, a Gallup survey of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents last week found Perry pulling strong support from voters who identify themselves as tea party supporters, with 35 percent, followed by Romney and Bachmann at 14 percent.
That may help explain why Romney decided to speak Sunday at a Tea Party Express rally in New Hampshire and, a day later, appear at a forum in South Carolina hosted by GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, who oversees a political committee that has supported tea party candidates. Perry, Bachmann and others in the 2012 planned to appear at DeMint’s event.
Tea party groups have indicated they‘ll protest Romney’s appearances. They are irked that as governor, he signed a bill that enacted a health program mandating insurance coverage. It served as a precursor to Obama’s federal measure that the tea party despises.
So Romney has stepped up his courtship in recent weeks. At a veterans’ hall in Berlin, N.H., a voter asked how Romney would handle the “right-wing fringe” that, the questioner said, had taken over the GOP.
Romney’s answer: “I’ll take a bit of exception with that. … You’re not going to see me distance myself from those who believe in small government, because I believe in it too.” He made similar comments to the Foster’s Daily Democrat.
Other candidates are rushing to the tea party’s defense, too.
Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, recently ridiculed a Democratic congresswoman who said the tea party should “go straight to hell.“ Americans on the political left ”absolutely despise the founding principles of this country,” he said.
When Democrats accused the tea party of holding the GOP hostage during the debt debate, Bachmann sent out a fundraising letter that said, “Only in the bizarro world of Washington is fiscal responsibility sometimes defined as terrorism.”
The tea party is felt in other ways.
At an Iowa debate in August, every candidate on stage signaled opposition to a debt-reduction deal if it included as much as $1 in tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts, which the tea party advocated.
The early exit of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty from the race can be attributed in part to his failure to earn credibility with the tea party movement. Bachmann’s entire candidacy could, perhaps, be attributed to encouragement she received from tea party backers; she‘s courted them since the party’s founding.
Each time a candidate is linked to the movement, the Democratic National Committee gleefully works to brand the candidate, and the Republican Party in general, as outside the mainstream.
Tea party activists are emboldened after helping get 30 like-minded House members elected last fall. Their victories changed the direction of Congress so much that demands from tea party-aligned lawmakers nearly halted government during this summer’s debt debate.
Aside from the presidential race, tea party leaders have no less than 100 congressional primaries in their sights as they look to expand their influence on Capitol Hill.
The Houston-based Alliance for Self-Governance, a new group that wants to oust long-serving Washington incumbents, is working to train grass-roots organizers to identify potential supporters and get them to the polls. An offshoot, the Campaign for Primary Accountability, an outside group that can raise unlimited amounts of money, hopes to influence House campaigns.
“We are not looking to change the party balance. We want to change the people who will have the power in Congress,” said Leo E. Linbeck III, the alliance’s co-chairman.
Whatever happens, the party is leaving a stamp on the presidential race, and Democrats hope it will last.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (183)
vtech61
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:27pmMitt Romney,
who wanted the dumb asp Meg Whitman to be his running mate last time?
I don’t think so there buddy.
so far ALL the candidates on the republican side look like RINOS to me.
(Except that one fellow who everyone says is too old)…
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Side note:
The Blaze really needs to get rid of that stupid side slide
marquee about the ‘next story’.
(When we all click to close that BS object, is it really just adding ‘hits’ to the Blaze?)…
I have to put my Fire Fox no script on when viewing this place.
It also gets rid of all the other annoying junk this site is feeding us.
Only time I have to deal with these useless ‘bells and whistles’ is when I put my shields down.
Grace1798
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:45pmThe marquee is very disturbing because it’s constantly popping up every time I move the screen. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:54pmI don’t like the “next story” bar either….it is annoying, but I have never clicked on it by mistake…The roll over video screen though……I don’t like that even more….i accidentally roll over that many times per day…
Report Post »iamgillespie
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:34amI am confident in 3 candidates.
Ron Paul
Herman Cain
Michelle Bachman.
Perry lost my vote when I learned about his support for Al Gore in 1988.
Report Post »The Bulletproof Patriot
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:26pmSo we’re down to big-government Republican Romney and another Texas Republican governor who doesn’t understand illegal immigration? Fantastic.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:43pmBeen said here b4, the ptb always make sure we have the “choice” THEY give us. It‘s that ol’ “lesser-of-two-evils” thing.
Report Post »The NWO boys don‘t like losin’.
VermontPatriot
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:20pmThe choices blow…..but they are better than Obama.
My vote is pre-determined. ABO!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:30pmHa! Check it out:
Phony Perry Cameras
September 4, 2011 — American Patrol Report
According to a reliable observer, the Blue Servo camera system established by Texas Gov. Rick Perry is phony as a three-dollar-bill. This observer, who has operated American Border Patrol’s thermal camera system, says the system is not being operated honestly. The system, blueservo.net, is supposed to monitor border activity along the Rio Grande River in real time. In fact, the observer says, many times he has tried to watch the camera, he was actually looking at a tape of the view. “At one point I was looking at a camera at night and the video they were feeding out showed daylight,” he said. “I have also seen situations where the tape is stuck somehow and repeats the same sequence over and over for a couple of hours” The observer says the Texas cameras are not nearly as good as ABP’s and the user cannot control the camera as was the case with ABP’s Operation Virtual Vigilance, which was cancelled after ABP’s camera malfunctioned. Cost of repair exceeded ABP’s budget.
Report Post »http://americanpatrol.com/TEXAS/PERRY-RICK/110904-FakeBorderCams.html
Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:07pmGuess we need to learn how to walk again before we can run.
At this point anyone is better then a racist Black Liberation Theology Marxist.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:53pmIf we don’t vote RON PAUL it will be more of the same, and the end of our Constitutional Republic.
The Global Elite will have won.
America will be DEAD !!!! IT will become the North American Union, along with Canada And Mexico.
The Fed, and all of these other criminal branches of the global elite will still continue the WAR on our Country !
Then I can personally thank all you J@ck@sses were inadequately edified.
Report Post »Edct
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:10pmI agree with you, I was a Perry supporter until I heard he was too friendly with the stinking illegal criminal mexs in our country…now I am reevaluating.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:23pmProbIemSoIver
And there you have it. If Ron Paul isn’t elected the end of the world will come. And where all ^&%#J#(&@%$ whatever he said.
Sorry I don’t subscribe to your God.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:35pmRomney = RINO!!!! I do NOT want somebody else (liberal media) to choose our candidate!!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:33amDon’t count on it just because the media hopes so. Remember, they laughed at all our candidates last Nov. UNTIL THE COUNTING WAS FINISHED!
“Such overtures come with risks, given that recent polls show that more Americans are cooling to the tea party’s tactics and bare-bones vision of the federal government.
After Washington’s debt showdown this summer, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that 46 percent of adults had an unfavorable view of the tea party, compared with 36 percent just after last November’s election.”
Report Post »***
Polls can be rigged, and these guys are “Whistling Past the Graveyard” and hoping that election comes soon and doesn’t turn out like the last one!
Remember the story of “Charlotte’s Web” no one believed the pig was anything but just another pig, until the champion spinner came to save it from the big mean butcher wagon. That’s exactly what whoever IS TOTUS thinks of all his little minions in elected offices worldwide. He’s having all his little spinmasters hard at work to get his power with all their pretty words, but their magic spell doesn’t work against Tea Partiers, so they‘ve got to minimize and shut them up because they’ve already let out the secret, “The emporer has no clothes!” , and will soon pull back the wizards curtain. (Yes, I know they’re many stories, BUT, “EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS I LEARNED FROM CHILDREN’S STORIES!”
kifeb221993
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 5:43pmrick perry has been in an office of goverment for 28 years in a row going on 29
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:15pmTo put AMERICA back on track, to bring BACK the amazing producing power; the job maker; the innovator; the imagineering genius; the light for the world; the hope for all humanity; freedom; liberty; justice for ALL (understanding that only 5% of the world has ever lived in FREEDOM) …to wrest America out of the hands of the silly, immature, self-ish, childish PROGRESSIVES, Liberals, Socialists, lazy bums, greedy b@stards, career politicians who think they are ROCK STARS.. to restore HONOR to a Country PURPOSELY inundated by COMMIES from mid 20th century on…to gain control of dignity, modesty, decency…there is only ONE person : SARAH PALIN.
Report Post »Watch THE UNDEFEATED today on your Pay-for-View. This is a Leader for ALL PEOPLE. This jerk we have in the WH now never stopped campaigning, only knows how to lie. We, the people, have had ENOUGH. We want AMERICA back. Take your Regulations, your Czars, your entitlement cr@p, your big GOBMENT and shove them. WE the PEOPLE are speaking. SARAH PALIN for President, Marcos Rubio for Vice President and then in 2020: Marcus Rubio for President. WE LOVE AMERICA!! The “LIBERAL THEYs” out there just want to USE and CONTROL AMERICA. Not just NO. HELL NO.
scudster
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:46pmWell said” GO Sarah!!!!!!”
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:49pmMarco Rubio is a VERY attractive public servant, but Constitutionally speaking, he is not eligible to be president, and I think he knows it. Because both parents were not citizens when he was born, he is not “Natural Born.” If he were to run, that would open up that big can of worms for Barry, too. Don’t think his handlers want that right now.
Report Post »svelain
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:35pmAmen Patty.. I hope and pray she runs!
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:31pmTrue about Marco Rubio, unfortunately, but it doesn’t bother me because my dream team is Sarah Palin and Alan West. Rudy for Attorney General, Ron Paul for Secretary of the Treasury, John Bolton as Secretary of State, David Petraeus as Secretary of Defense, and that‘s basically all we need because I’d disband every other cabinet department except perhaps the Department of Energy, and that only to organize a Drill here Drill now program.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:25pmSteveSD
I’m with you 110% brother!
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 4:24amTO STUCK-IN-Calif: Regarding Rubio: Both parents do not half to be born in USA (Obama’s dad was not a US citizen)
Report Post »Mort
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 8:40amI agree with you 100%, someone who is not aligned already with the RINO’s in DC. Someone who has proven the ability to take on the monied interests who don’t give a hoot about our country.
Run, Sarah, Run. I’ll donate the day you announce your candidacy.
Report Post »denise55
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:59pmStuck_in_CA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:49pm
Marco Rubio is a VERY attractive public servant, but Constitutionally speaking, he is not eligible to be president, and I think he knows it. Because both parents were not citizens when he was born, he is not “Natural Born.” If he were to run, that would open up that big can of worms for Barry, too. Don’t think his handlers want that right now.
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Sorry to say it, WRONG.. He is considered natural born, he was born in America.
Grace1798
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:12pmYes, it’s NOT TOO EXTREME to destroy our economy, it’s NOT TOO EXTREME to wipe out the banks, no, it’s not TOO EXTREME to cause our credit rating to be downgraded because of overspending……..no, NOT TOO EXTREME HUH? Who could trust these Socialist Liberals? Look what they’ve done when the RINOS gave them their way for too long?
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:09pmI have never been to a Tea Party rally or meeting, I have never talked to anyone in the Tea Party, I have never even talked to anybody about the tea party….but I AM a member.
I don’t know how they know how many of us there are… no one ever asked me.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:36pmI had a feeling you were out there. Glad to meet you!!!!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:46pmROB,
Report Post »Oh Really?
Fine for you. Why not go on line and check out “Tea Party Express”, “Freedom Works”, “Americans for Prosperity”,yadda, yadda.
Empathizing WITH the Tea Party is not enough! DO SOMETHING!
You have 13 months to get involved!
Would you rather have 4 more years of Presdent Dunham and his minions?!
Dkoonz
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:22pmHello…nice to meet you.
Report Post »svelain
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:38pmThe never asked me either. I think they are going to get a rude awakening this election year.
Report Post »ScreaminEagle
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:40pmThis Independent has been a TEAParty Patriot for longer than the official one has been around. @ROB
“I have never been to a Tea Party rally or meeting, I have never talked to anyone in the Tea Party, I have never even talked to anybody about the tea party….but I AM a member.
I don’t know how they know how many of us there are… no one ever asked me.”
Well stated you are truly a TEAParty Patriot.
I’m going to post this as many times as is necessary. The Repub’s will high jack the TEAParty anytime it suits their purpose. True patriot’s beware, don’t put your hopes in the GOP.
You will be made fools of over and over.
Don’t tread on me.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:52pmIn my heart I’m Ron Paul Tea Party!
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:32pmRob, there are about 250 million of us. You’re not alone. (psst… don’t tell the idiots in Washington; it would only make them sick)
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:34pmThe original Tea Party, The Sons of Liberty would hold meetings to decide which candidates to support—those that would bring about the desired political change. In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the “Sons of Violence” or the “Sons of Iniquity.”
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:55pmAmen! I have a feeling that the polls are being pushed or taken in Seattle or San Francisco. If the Tea Party was so damn unpopular, how the heck did it elect so many people last fall, after they told us how out of the mainstream they (we) are?
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:58pmWelcome to the group Rob. I am a member of 3 TEA parties. Get involved. Check out Freedom Connector and find some people near you.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:43am@Rob
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:09pm
I have never been to a Tea Party rally or meeting, I have never talked to anyone in the Tea Party, I have never even talked to anybody about the tea party….but I AM a member.
I don’t know how they know how many of us there are… no one ever asked me
Report Post »***
And they won’t, SOME THINGS ARE JUST BETTER LEFT UNKNOWN!
Wouldn’t want to force the lsm to accept reality would you? Must be kind of like waking a sleep walker!
teddie888
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 4:24amOr me
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 4:28amSo all of a sudden, out of the blue, Romney says he’s a Tea partier? WTF? he‘ll say anything to get what he wants and he thinks we don’t know he believes in man made global warming like Gore and the obvious of Romneycare.
Report Post »There are no true conservative Repubs from Mass
Infidel49
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:07pmI will only vote for the best Tea Party Candidate. The Dems and Repubs I will not vote for, they are both full of ****.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:12pmThere is no (T) on the ballot, so i hope you are really paying attention to these candidates, and you judge by what you see with your own eyes, and not what the media feeds you (fox news included)….if so you are on the right track…
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 1:24amThat’s why everyone of us should ask these questions…
Who is your “Famous Philosopher”?
How are you going to do it?
When are you going to do it?
And at whose expense?
This will show were your candidate stands….
Report Post »morak73
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:07pmThe Tea Party should show the country what a truly radical platform is:
Personal responsibility, starting with a candidate who’s going to take ownership of their economic policy results.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:05pmRomney, like Boehner and the rest of the are not “believers.” Up to now they have been tolerating the Tea Party, giving lip service only when they need to. They are the guys who tell the naive love-struck girl, “Sure, I’ll respect you in the morning…” Come on folks, don’t get scr-wed.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:10pmSo who can we vote for? Paul and Palin have no chance, probably Bachman too…
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:35pmRon Paul can win. Stop saying things like that.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:06pm@PoliticiansRCrooks .. RON PAUL IS A FOOL…
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:11pmPoliticiansRCrooks
Report Post »Sorry not with his stance on Islam and the middle east.
Shasta
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:59pmRon Paul could never win, and in a selfish last dash, he will run as in independant and give the election to Obonzo
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:27pmHAHAHAHA see I called it =)
Already with the “vote for Ron Paul, and you will hand the election to Obama.” rhetoric. Part of me doesn’t care if he wins the nomination or not…I would love, love, LOVE to see him run as an independent and cut both parties votes and walk away with a big fat W…..That would be a slap to all establishment RINOS, and the media’s faces…..It will also show the truth….But it is up to real people, to not be duped by party pushers…..that goes for Rush (I do love Rush and agree most of the time…but it’s easy to pick up on when he is party pushing) Hanity…all of the right wing talking heads…..and all of the MSM…..You guys will not decide for us!!
If it happens, people need to be real and vote with what they know is right in their hearts, and not be fooled by political games!!!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:56am@Rob
Report Post »Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:10pm
So who can we vote for? Paul and Palin have no chance, probably Bachman too…
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Paul’s too weak on National Security for these hazardous times, but, “Palin has NO CHANCE in San Francisco or NY, but the last time I looked they‘d lost population so they’d better have less votes than they used to. Guess what, Rob, EVERYWHERE PALIN GOES SHE’S SOLD OUT. (That means no near empty auditoriums for Rushes friends in Rio Linda.) If she really had no chance, they wouldn’t nearly have gotten themselves killed on the roads trying to keep up with her bus on family vacation, and wouldn’t be foaming at the mouth trying to discredit her everytime they can!
LET’S CLEAN UP WASHINGTON! PALIN/BACHMANN 2012 :-)
Bernard
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:57pmThe emergence of the mostly white tea party represents that the veil of illusion fed to us by the left wing and especially the ***** who being backed up by the left wing has forced the rest of the population to feel empathy. pity, compassion to a bunch of illiterate thugs. Once they were called Negros,( which by the way every other nation in the world calls the African man a *****). Then they demanded to be called “blacks” and we bowed to their demands, then once they got that, they demanded to be addressed as “African American” and again the rest of America bowed to that.
Report Post »What next “The chosen ones”? and once we bow to that demand, what next “The divine ones”? The black mentality is so damaged that they barely function as normal citizens.
Now the Tea Party, a simple party with no racial overtones has been demonized by the Obama government and every black leader, one can actually smell the fear in the air for the blacks know once the Tea party becomes a viable force as it is becoming. Then the demand for a small government would be the bane to so many Negros who are addicted to government doles at the cost of the rest of us and even then they have turned into rabid mobs of hatred and brutality now so common in our big cities.
The Muslims too see the weakness and have made great strides in reshaping this Christian land according to their Sharia run culture.
wildwood
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:56pmWho care about what they SAY about the TEA PARTY, WE ALL KNOW THEY HAVE NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT ,LET THEM KEEP IT UP., MEAN WHILE we will be working to vote them all out of office!!!!!!
Report Post »We have then where we want them, shaking in their boots!!!!!!KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!!!!!
Stehekin912
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:56pmTACTICS? OK so people regardless of political party or none at all, who make a real effort to be politically aware, participate in politics and hold representatives feet to the figurative fire utiize TACTICS? People who care about who represents them, who care about the Constitution and the principles our nation was founded upon and want to see that reflected within our government have a BARE BONES VISION?
People who won’t lay down and go to sleep and let the politicians do whatever they want, and who look for statesmen to represent them are FRINGE that American opinion is COOLING ON?
What?
TEA Party and similarly minded people have been here quite awhile now, Mitt. Have you suddenly become aware of us? Too little too late, I think. Sorry, Mitt, it’s gonna take a heck of a lot for this conservative to believe you.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 8:48amLOL..me too Stehekin912!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:53pmTed Baxter…oops, I mean Romney felt the wind shift. He wets his finger and puts it in the air in order to make decisions. He just doesn’t get it and on the job training is out of the question. Knowing what America is all about is a deep feeling within and not a school class.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:58pmPerry does the same. I guess every politician does so to an extent. Except that nut, Ron Paul. He has had the same speech for 30 years and his numbers grow and grow. Dr. Paul even said once that it’s the principles that matter, not winning. He said it takes a long time to educate the people. I hope his son, Rand Paul has been taking notes and is as honorable as his father. It may take America another decade or so to truly wake up to the fact that America is operating without a Constitution. Maybe one day, they will dust it off and use it again.
My husband told me I was going to end up in a FEMA camp for expressing my belief online.
I told him “I will gladly die for my country.” — and I mean it.
RON PAUL 2012
Report Post »simply one voice
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:43pmIMHO,
This country is in such bad economic, social, administrative, legal and moral condition that the superficiality of names like Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian or Tea Party are simply words of immaturity. Who are the candidates? What are the most important and real Issues. Where is our weaknesses and dangerous vulnerabilities?
America is a Republic not a Democracy. Like the history of the Roman Republic Empire, the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Unless we as a people, as a country, REALLY change right now, we are, in fact, doomed as much as our fiat currency actually is right now this minute and our economy is tanking fast.
A serious and immediate change to Sarah Palin and a very conservative government that will triage this country before it dies or is attacked by a nuclear nightmare, I believe is our only collective hope. I hope you understand this fundamentally in your mind/body/soul.
God Bless America.
Report Post »ProudConservative1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:35pmHow did the pollsters fram their unfavorable Tea Party questiions?
One thing is for sure, the Liberal Obama Statist Media, Democrats, and Obama fear the Tea Party. They are upset that the Tea Party apprised the public of the Debt Ceiling amount and spending.
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:40pmThey do fear us, and it‘s clear from their comments that they haven’t the slightest clue who we are, which is just fine. Let them yell and scream obscenities, and call us racists and worse. They have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting. Their time is at an end. We dismiss them without comment.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:42pmYou have left out establishment republicans in the fear list…..as it should be…..when the government fears the people……..you know the rest….
Report Post »1654American
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:19pmThe lines are drawn- communists versus Tea Party patriots 2012. It’ not about race, income, or political parties. It is about what we want our country to be. Don’t be drawn into the race baiting strategy of the Obama campaign handlers. They are communists trying to destroy our Constitutional government. Defend it without fear.
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:33pmTea Party has gone dormant. Where have they been all this year when Boehner and the other RINOs were “compromising” with the socialists? My prediction, we’ll end up with a Perry or Bachman candidate, and will lose to Obama.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:04pmnone of the candidates can lose to Obama…..all this electability talk is just to down play Ron Paul……all they can do to stop him is point out his supporters and say…look at them…..and create the atmosphere that Ron Paul is not electable. They can’t point to Ron Paul and say “look at him” They can twist his foreign policy views though….That seems to work….I even have a tiny bit of doubt about them…but i think the most important thing in this time is to worry about us…we can worry about the rest of the world when we are back on our feet….
I am a Ron Paul supporter, and it is true, there are a lot of weirdos (behavior) that I disagree with that also support Ron, but you have to remember that Liberty, and freedom is attractive to a whole plethora of people, regardless of party affiliation. If Ron Paul wins the nomination there is no way Obama could even come close to beating him.
Even if he didn’t win the nomination, and ran as a third candidate he would still win….As long as the people don’t fall for the old “You guys are going to cut the republican vote, and hand it to Obama” line. Ron would cut both parties votes and walk away with a victory!!
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:30pmAmong the current candidates I’d say Paul is probably my favorite. I think the issue of electibility is real though. I can’t remember where the article is that I read, I’ll see if I can find, but there is a difference between job approval and popularity or personal approval. Obama job approval is low (<40%), but his popularity (ie people that like him personally) is high. Historically when it comes time to vote the popularity is what wins out. At this instant they may not like his performance, but they like him and will vote for him again. And that will be compounded if they outright dislike the alternative… like Perry or Bachman. Making stupid remarks about Irene being the will of God and such. It will be interesting to see how it goes down though. Among moderates and even some on the far-left, Paul would be much more popular. I think Paul could be very electable were it not for all the so-called conservatives that just do lip service to the Constitution. Big government is great so long as money gets wasted on the projects they want…
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:26pmSaid. “Among moderates and even some on the far-left, Paul would be much more popular”
He hasn’t a chance.
Unfortunately the only candidate that is hated by the elitist GOP the far left progressives and the idiots that get their information from the National Enquirer and local news will never be able to make it past the Primaries. I hope I’m wrong. but the stupidity and ignorance of the general public amazes me. They say they don’t believe what the MSM tells them except when it comes to certain candidates. Yeah how’s that hope and change workin for ya.
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:34am@Steve, I agree he doesn’t, but why? Who is it that won’t vote for him? Do you not agree that Paul would get more independent/moderate and liberal votes than say Perry/Palin/Bachman? Paul is only unelectable because of so-called conservatives. And I can’t help but question how “conservative” these conservatives actually are. Perry/Palin/Bachman supporters are all hyper-Chrisitan social conservatives, and that’s all. They would use the Constitution to force their morals on everybody else just as the liberals would.
Report Post »Lt_Taz
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:32pmThis has become a real cluster, just who do you trust, I sure hope they will start to show their true colors soon.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:18pmToo bad you were a little late for THIS party, Mitt.
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:35pmI’m finding it rather amusing, how so many in the media and the progressives look at the ‘Tea Party’ as some strange, radical, far right-wing fringe group. The truth is that the so-called ‘Tea Party’ is actually the Silent Majority — the hundreds of millions of Americans that have now awoken and are, not to put a spin on it, really pi**ed. We’ve always been here, and you have ignored us because we have lives. What no one seems able to comprehend is that we’re not fringe, we *are* America. \
Follow us, or get plowed under, because things are about to change. You aint seen radical yet.
Report Post »dumboldcontractor
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:03pmWhy do so called journalist have such a lack of comprehension of what we are? It’s so simple, just replace the phrase “tea party” with the phrase “U.S. Constitution”. That is why the representative was correct a couple of weeks ago when she claimed we were the enemy. The Constitution IS the enemy of tyrannical government.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:16pmSo true….The TEA PARTY is America….we have been silent because we have been diligently keeping our noses to the grind stone. You won‘t find us accepting loans for houses we can’t afford, because we possess a thing called common sense, wary of the “it seems too good to be true caveat.” You won’t see us in the unemployment line either because we could see the handwriting on the wall. We are more likely to be preparing for the outcome of bad fiscal policy than expecting Big Gov. to bail us out at the expense of our neighbors. The TEA PARTY “can go straight to hell,” as Maxine said, but she knows if we did, no one would be left to pay her constituents. OH the irony….
The one thing that does concern me about the T-Party, is they are so true to their ideals, (which is a good but possibly dangerous thing,) they could, in holding firmly to their ideals, split the vote. Please pay attention to the candidates and if you have to vote out of your comfort zone…choose wisely. And don’t forget those who voted skin color last time. Well there are those who vote looks, etc., all the time….I wish Ron Paul were Rick Perry in the looks department. He’d have it in the bag with all those lady voters.
The same goes for Bachman, Love her spirit but will the conservative America male vote for a woman? And will a charismatic female vote for her? Just asking…..
Report Post »momsense
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:13pmIf you thought irene and katrina were hurricanes–wait fot 2012 and the TEA Party ! You ain‘t seen nothin’ yet!
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:20pmThank you again Rick Santelli, who would have thunk, he wasn’t fired from NBC. Go figure?
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:12pmGo Go Go TEA PARTY
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:12pmThe polls just show that the LEFT is becoming scared of the TEA Party and are voicing opposition. Sort of like the trolls that visit this website. Their goal is to inflict damage to anything that differs from their agenda. Laughing in the dark, so to speak. Americans are just the monsters under their beds. Some never grow out of childhood.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:06pmThese are the faces of citizens that have been Paying America’s Bills for the past 40+years. Not the Takers that have been sponging off the Bill Payer’s. They are fed up with being called cheap, stingy and racist’s.The DEMOCRAT Party has stolen from these citizen’s hard work and given it to the Takers under the premise that the DEMOCRATS use their own money. Thinking Republicans and Thinking Independents and Thinking Democrats make up this TEA Party.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:14pmHere! Here!
Report Post »I love this article thread.
It reminds me I AM NOT ALONE!
Together, we can fix this mess.
Even though we disagree on how/who.
It all boils down to the CONSTITUTION. As long as we all carry that as our banner, it doesn’t matter what they call us.
SkySoldier
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:05pmThe question is not whether the Tea Party’s presence is felt, the question is which version of the Tea Party are we talking about? There is the original Tea Party that opposes unconstitutional government intrusion into a person’s personal life (healthcare, wiretapping (PATRIOT Act) , oppressive business regulations (EPA), gun ownership (ATF) etc) and then there is the co-opted “Tea Party” that supports anything whatsoever, for anyone that has a R next to their name. The progressive leadership in the Republican party has failed to uphold their oath of office and the REAL Tea Party needs to hold them accountable and turn the Republican party back towards its roots or the Republican establishment can expect to lose a large chunk of it’s base in the coming years to third parties or independent status. Not to mention the damage to our country if we continue down this course uncorrected.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:24pm@ SKY
Even tho there are “splinter” factions, when you look at the whole picture what you see is the silent majority, that has been quiet for years, coming together for the good of our country, our futures, and our childrens’ futures. The last thing I want in the WH is a RINO…except what we have now, so celebrate that everyone labeled Tea Party, regardless of their “specific” niche is working together towards a similar goal.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:02pmI don’t like Romney because of who likes him. When Bill Clinton thinks he’d be a good candidate, I know he’s not who I want representing me.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:32pmThe best candidate is the one who is hated by the left and the GOP elitists. To vote for anyone who is excepted as a good candidate by either of these groups is business as usual. And the Tea party is nothing about business as usual. But the MSM will once again brain wash the public based on whats reported and of course whats not reported.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:02pmThe horrible tea party.. what with their smaller government fiscal responsibility and getting back our constitution and the way our founders wanted our government to act… just disgusting…lol
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:41pmI call people like you lazy. You just want hand outs while the rest around you work hard to support guys like you. Your a slave to the establishment and I laugh at people like you and your one image gun. Ohhh Big Whopie
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:05pm@PoliticiansRCrooks you have got to be the stupidest person on the planet.. Do you not understand sarcasm Hell I am a card carrying tea party member TARD.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:08pm@PoliticiansRCrooks .. and as far as the GUN goes I have 2 gun safes full of them.. Thank you second amendment
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:56pmYep, PoliticiansRCrooks and those like him are in such a hurry to attack, that they do not bother to read the original post. Of course what you said was sarcasm. And just to make sure some idiot did not misunderstand, you included the obligitory LOL. And yet here we are
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:00pmRon Paul the Father of the Tea Party movement! Ron Paul 2012! End the FED, Ban THE IMF, the banking cartels and the country will be much, much better off. Get an education here: http://youtu.be/JXt1cayx0hs
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:04pmRon freakin paul is not the father of the tea party movement you dolt no one is …
Report Post »SkySoldier
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:17pmAs a huge Ron Paul supporter I will say that Dr. Paul is NOT the father of the Tea Party but more of its godfather. He did have a massive internet following after the 2008 elections that never went away (still here and growing) and was a spring board that many people used to launch protests and local political groups. While no one (including Dr. Paul) can ever claim to be the sole founder of the tea party Dr. Paul was a large contributer to its early genesis. That said the VAST majority of the Tea Party was true organic grass roots with many people being apolitical prior to their, awakening. On a personal note I am growing so very tired of every talk show host trying to jump in front of the Tea Party and act as if they were there from the start specifically, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, and Levin. While some of what these guys say is spot on and I agree with some of it (some I do not) they were in no way the progenitors of the Tea Party, (NO ONE WAS); although I will concede that Beck and Levin did get on board early on and had a large and beneficial influence.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:28pm@swampbuck… Just ONE example douchebag.. http://www.amazon.com/Ron-Paul-Father-Tea-Party/dp/0986832219
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:32pm@ Sky
Back handled the TP brilliantly. He tacitly but greatly promoted it at arm’s length without tainting it with the “baggage” that the LSM put on him ,that could be put onto the TP by association.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:37pmHere’s another : http://www.dailypaul.com/174430/father-of-the-tea-party-world-magazine
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:40pmendgamer,
Report Post »That was a series of Boston Tea Party reenactments that were held on one day. No movement came from it. The tea party movement started more than a year later and had nothing to do with that day in 2007.
endgamer
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:44pmTHIS is what started it all, THE original, imitated but never duplicated: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:49pmyeah and Al Gore invented the internet. Did you know PR is the only man in America with a copy of the Constitution and the only man that understands it. Everyone else is a trader to the NWO. And if you don’t fall in line with RP you are a neoconservative sheeple…….
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:08pmSkySoldier,
Report Post »You sound like someone who simply agrees with a certain candidate and are not one of the wacky Paulie cult people. While I don‘t agree with a lot of Ron Paul’s views, I would advise you as well as Ron Paul himself to denounce those people who are going all over the internet trying to destroy everybody who is not Ron Paul and lauding him as some kind of a super-human savior.They are the reason several radio talk shows refuse to even take their calls and why many people get sickened out on anything to do with Ron Paul.When they call radio stations, they do it in groups and try to monopolize the conversations.
PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:36pmRon Paul said everything the TEA Party said years ago…. so yes he is the God Father
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:35pm>QP WILLIE. The fanatical devotion of some PaulNuts in literally treating RonPaul 2012 (Lol) as some kind of messianic figure in the mantle of Moses to deliver America from the slavery of “Neocon” Pharoahs is disconcerting to say the least. The scary thing is that it is not just a few supporters here and there that act as though Ron Paul is the equivalent of the Second Coming of Paul Revere, but that he is the spiritual embodiment of Washington, Jefferson and Adams.
What is revealing is that there are literally hundreds if not thousands of Ron Paul people scouring the internet like U-boat commanders hunting down any pings that bode ill for their captain and possibly (if not usually) an insult laden volley or two will follow when they detect the enemy… and the enemy is not in agreement with their limited view of the world around us.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:10pm@endgamer .. I stand corrected you found it on the internet it must be true..lmao at you
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:39pmI wouldn‘t call him the Godfather he’s more like the crazy uncle that shows up for family functions and takes pictures of everyone but has no film in the camera.
U.S. intervention in the Middle East is a main motivation behind terrorist hostilities toward America, and that Islam is not a threat to the nation.
“I don’t see Islam as our enemy,” Paul said. “I see that motivation is occupation and those who hate us and would like to kill us, they are motivated by our invasion of their land, the support of their dictators that they hate.”
Paul cited a University of Chicago professor, Robert Pape, whose research argues that most of the suicide terrorism in the past 30 years was caused by military occupation. Pape’s research, funded by the Defense Department, shows that suicide bombings in Afghanistan went up one third after the Obama administration surged 30,000 troops into the country.
Not only is Pape wrong; he’s on the dole of Hamas-linked CAIR.
If in fact they hate us for these reasons then explain this.
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Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:42pmBut one cannot get around what Jefferson heard when he went with John Adams to wait upon Tripoli’s ambassador to London in March 1785. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America’s two foremost envoys were informed that
“it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman did not fail to mention the size of his own commission, if America chose to pay the protection money demanded as an alternative to piracy
The level of tribute demanded began to reach 10 percent of the American national budget, with no guarantee that greed would not increase that percentage, while from the dungeons of Algiers and Tripoli came appalling reports of the mistreatment of captured men and women.
There were many Americans—John Adams among them—who made the case that it was better policy to pay the tribute. It was cheaper than the loss of trade, for one thing, and a battle against the pirates would be “too rugged for our people to bear.” Putting the matter starkly, Adams said: “We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:50pmRon Paul is the “father of the Tea Party”, like Al Gore invented the Internet. Both are lies. Why doesn’t Ron put the record straight instead of letting his followers put out this BS?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:50pmEndgamer, that‘s a great link to explain what happened to America’s money too! Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Report Post »http://youtu.be/JXt1cayx0hs
Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:52pmShasta — Ron Paul has never said he started the Tea Party. He just says “the people did it.”
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 3:54pmTEA! 2021 cant come fast enough. Ever sence obama took office we have needed CHANGE! Its time to change direction away from the socialist, economy killing policys of the liberals, and get back to what made this country GREAT!
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:00pmLet’s see, you can’t spell or use proper grammar or punctuation and have your date wrong. That pretty much sums of the Tea Party for me.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:05pm2021? lol I assume you mean 2012 …lol
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:08pm@13thGenerationAmerican STFU ..He got his point across…. where is your family from,and would you like me to buy you a ticket back?
One way of course…
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:15pmEconomy killing policies have been going on for a long time….The results of shipping manufacturing jobs overseas at slave wages are just becoming visible now.It seemed like a great idea to get cheap goods at the expense of our neighbour‘s jobs but now that everyone’s manufacturing job is gone (otherwise known as middle class jobs),all thats left is minimum wage jobs selling the products made in another country,and for those not that fortunate,theres extended unemployment and food stamps….The problem is the current administration and even some in the Republican party seem to like this policy…We need to get someone in charge who is determined to produce products in America again .
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:17pm@ 13th
Dolt. Trolls only attack people, never add to the conversation in n intelligent manner.
Stupid people talk about other people, average people talk about situations, intelligent people talk about ideas. Where do you fit into this
NoBama 2012
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 4:19pmFreeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it. Demonize it. Thank you Blaze for the Anti-Tea Party perspective from the Saul Alinsky School of Journalism. They site “experts” from Berkeley the school that is ground zero for conservative perspective. They have pols from the AP. This is the news organization that still refuses to call the Beslan child murdering terrorists anything other than “Freedom Fighters”.
Report Post »So Blaze readers pay no attention to the last election results. That was the evidence that the tea party is a fringe element soon to be over taken by the publics enthusiasm for the New Utopia that our dear leader has created for you.
qpwillie
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:19pm13thGenerationAmerican,
Yeah, you and your buddy, LIBSALWAYSLIE played that real good. ….well, except for being so pathetically transparent. Now both of you, go back and play at the huffington post where you belong. You’re not going to fool too many people around here.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:32pm13th and SWAMP:
Report Post »The TEA PARTY is made up of Americans. Some are white, black, asian, and from all walks of life. Some can only sign their name with an X, but they are Americans. You seem to be picky in who can join your club. The TEA PARTY is above that.
Shasta
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:47pmThanks @Micmac, I was going to respond to 13th, but your response said it all, so now I don’t have to. I try not to engage to much with these trolls anyway, it is not productive, but sometimes you just have to. Ok 13th, run my comment through spell check…
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:00pmTypical progressive. Never speaking to the facts of the post but will be the first to let you know about typos and misspeelled rewds. Smoke and mirrors with deflected answers. They never disappoint. lol
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:33amDan Foster still thinks 13th GEN is a dipstick. Didn‘t like him before doesn’t like him now.
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