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No,The Tea Party Isn't Dead. It's Just Waiting.
Breitbart.com ^ | October 27, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 10/27/2015 4:36:05 AM PDT by Biggirl

The left chortled on Monday after learning the results of a new Gallup poll showing an all-time low for Tea Party support. According to Gallup, just 17 percent of Americans say they support the Tea Party, with 24 percent calling themselves opponents and 54 percent saying they have no opinion.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; republicans; teaparty
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It is still alive and active via interest in outsiders such as Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, and Sen. Ted Cruz.
1 posted on 10/27/2015 4:36:05 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

“The Tea Party” of course is not dead .... but a nation


2 posted on 10/27/2015 4:39:33 AM PDT by knarf
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To: Biggirl

They’re still very much alive and still making a difference. They just know they’re being monitored. It’s just radio silence for the moment. Good SOP these days.


3 posted on 10/27/2015 4:41:20 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Biggirl
The lib sites were so busy screaming about the 17% support number, they completely ignored the 54% no opinion votes. This poll is not a definitive statement of the tea party’s demise. Nor does it mean that conservatism is dead. Not every conservative is a tea party member.
4 posted on 10/27/2015 4:43:44 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Dead?

That's the MSM and the DNC whistling past the grave yard.

The MSM has a news blackout where the TEA PARTY is concerned or else only reports derogatory news about them... then says ‘The Tea Party’ is dead....

Now THAT'S unbiased and professional ‘journalism’. (Sarc)

5 posted on 10/27/2015 4:45:36 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: Biggirl

Take out the Tea Party and there is no Cruz, Trump and Carson. The remaining is Bush. So easy to see if you are looking. The Tea Party is stronger than ever.


6 posted on 10/27/2015 4:47:34 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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Of course the Tea Party is around. The thing is, waiting for who? Like the military, being attacked and in a trench while the bombs drop, we need an active battle plan. NOW. The final year of this administration is going to be a blitzkrieg.

While the campaign for president goes on, the administration continues its assault. Where is our air support? Where are our propagandists who need a media outlet? And who gave the stand down order? Did those who inspired us pull a Bergdahl?

Would those who lead the TP at the start come out of the trenches and rendezvous TOGETHER to get something done?


7 posted on 10/27/2015 4:53:28 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Biggirl

Tea Party dead? Snicker, snicker. I see no harm in allowing our opponents to believe it is so. We know better.


8 posted on 10/27/2015 4:55:54 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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actually the organized TP is dead. Obama killed it.

rather than rise up and yank obama from the whitehouse nothing happened. those that were the TP passively watched as their organizations were destroyed and showed no emotion or strength to oppose.

The DOJ let Lois lerner go free with nary a ripple


9 posted on 10/27/2015 4:58:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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In truth, the TP has come back to life, take a look at the outsiders, Carson,Cruz, and Trump. This is the time of the outsiders.


10 posted on 10/27/2015 5:15:51 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: bert

as a national organization, you’re right. Locally, not so much. There are a number of small groups fighting on. Also, we are finding common ground with other groups. It is not as simple as the survey suggests.


11 posted on 10/27/2015 5:35:48 AM PDT by bioqubit
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To: Biggirl

They are lying low because they don’t want to keep being targeted by the Obama Admin. They are not getting new members because people thing, “I don’t want to join that IRS audit group.”


12 posted on 10/27/2015 5:39:26 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Where are all the reports about OWS being dead. Chirp...chirp...chirp.


13 posted on 10/27/2015 5:50:34 AM PDT by randita
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Well, not if the events I speak at are any indication. For three years they have been shrinking. The first events I spoke at in 2010 were over 100 easily---"Liberty Groups." I did one last week in IN . . . 12.

It wasn't "just me." There were other speakers on a day long program. I've spoken to leaders all around the country to try to do film presentations. Half are gone, others tell me their membership is next to nothing.

This DOESN'T MEAN people won't come out and vote, but it does mean that the phenomenon called the Tea Party has nowhere near the consistent influence it had.

14 posted on 10/27/2015 5:53:46 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Organization names come and go, but Ideas are much harder to isolate and kill. It looks like a lot of folks are keeping their powder dry and waiting for the enemy to over commit.


15 posted on 10/27/2015 5:54:21 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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actually the organized TP is dead. Obama killed it.

rather than rise up and yank obama from the whitehouse nothing happened. those that were the TP passively watched as their organizations were destroyed and showed no emotion or strength to oppose.

The DOJ let Lois lerner go free with nary a ripple

Oh yeah? and what do you suggest we do? Rise up and yank oblamea from the white hut? How's that going to work? It's easy to sit at your keyboard typing that the Tea Party is cowardly. What are YOU doing? Are you willing to get arrested? Go to prison? Get beat up by the police? Have your life savings confiscated and your finances ruined? Tell me what we are supposed to actually DO about the government goons letting Lerner off.

16 posted on 10/27/2015 6:02:21 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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The Media and the Marxist Left of this country (but I repeat myself) seem incapable of understanding that there is no Tea Party in the sense of a large organized political party. As victims of a modern American education and therefore only semi-literate they’re probably not familiar with the word “amorphous”. But that’s the one which pops into my head when the term “Tea Party” is mentioned. In this respect it resembles another popular revolutionary movement called the Sons of Liberty. There may have only been a couple dozen “formal” members hunkered down in Boston tavern, but thousands of quiet sympathizers turned out when called with muskets, shot, and powder.


17 posted on 10/27/2015 6:03:07 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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of course.....my record as activist speaks for it’s self.

there should have been tens of thousands marching on the mall giving obama pure hell.

they actually did come one cold March day, in the blowing snow, and scared the democrats to death. It was that outpouring that induced the president to sic the IRS on the TP.

What to do..... what to do?

how about showing up in Washington, on the mall or Pennsylvania ave by the tens of thousands? that would be a start


18 posted on 10/27/2015 6:11:33 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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Let them think we’re dead.


19 posted on 10/27/2015 6:15:11 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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how about showing up in Washington, on the mall or Pennsylvania ave by the tens of thousands? that would be a start

I am dubious of the efficacy of mass marches; when the left does it they get plenty of attention by the media, but when hard-working conservatives rearrange their entire lives for a week or more in order to come to the District of Corruption we hear nary a peep. No, I don't think marching is going to do any good at all; in fact, I think that's exactly what we have seen as the effect of street protests: nothing. Or something negative, e.g. your comment It was that outpouring that induced the president to sic the IRS on the TP.

I believe in direct action, but I just don't think either of us has enunciated exactly what direct action would be effective. And, NSA or other federal snoops, if you are monitoring this: F*u#c^k you!
20 posted on 10/27/2015 6:18:28 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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