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Does Tea Party Obscure a New 'Silent Majority'?
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Posted on 04/01/2010 6:15:15 AM PDT by LottieDah

WASHINGTON (March 31) -- Do Democrats need a new "silent majority" to speak up and save them from electoral ruin in November? Does such a group even exist? And, if it does, will the tea party movement prove to be the right-wing mirror of the leftist anti-war movement of the 1960s?

These are not idle questions for President Barack Obama, who has seen little bounce from his party's victory in passing health care reform legislation.

"The good news for Democrats, after health care passed, was that Democratic intensity levels went up," party strategist James Carville told reporters Wednesday. The bad news, he said, was that they don't nearly approach the enthusiasm levels among Republicans riled up and angry over what they see as deficit-ridden big government. If that continues until November, he said, "that doesn't bode well for Democrats" and their current edge in Congress.

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1 posted on 04/01/2010 6:15:15 AM PDT by LottieDah
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To: LottieDah

What would this “democRat silent majority” be in favor of?
More fascism?


2 posted on 04/01/2010 6:16:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: LottieDah

Leftists are not typically silent.


3 posted on 04/01/2010 6:18:55 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: LottieDah

http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/does-tea-party-obscure-a-new-silent-majority/19420261


4 posted on 04/01/2010 6:20:00 AM PDT by RedMDer (0 = one D Ten T : Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: keats5

So true...leftists speak out loud and often. It takes tons of napkins to wipe the b.s. off their lips!


5 posted on 04/01/2010 6:20:18 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: LottieDah
The good news for Democrats, after health care passed, was that Democratic intensity levels went up," party strategist James Carville told reporters Wednesday. The bad news, he said, was that they don't nearly approach the enthusiasm levels among Republicans riled up and angry over what they see as deficit-ridden big government.

LOL!

As if one must be a Republican to be concerned with the runaway spending in this administration--even before Abucare! Anyone who can add and subtract should have looked at the numbers and be worried sick by now.

Carville is trying to make this out to be a partisan issue at the grass roots level, too, but that is not the case. Any Democrat with a lick of sense (not necessarily mutually exclusive parameters) should be opposed to the Healthcare measure, too. Any Democrat who does not want their party to be the harbinger of the Fourth Reich should be concerned with the usurpations of power, the workarounds to the Constitutional processes, and the raw power/money grab going on in D.C.

But then, the Democrats I grew up around were lovers of America, and were far to the Right of the bunch in foggy bottom today.

6 posted on 04/01/2010 6:31:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LottieDah

Tea Partiers ARE the silent majority.


7 posted on 04/01/2010 6:36:10 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: LottieDah
"The bad news, he said, was that they don't nearly approach the enthusiasm levels among Republicans riled up and angry over what they see as deficit-ridden big government"

And how does Carville see this fiasco if not as deficit-ridden BIG government? When they nationalize the auto companies, many banks, and now health care, and then spend an extra 1.5T to $2t each year more than they take in, the defining feature of this national socialist government has to be its deficit-ridden nature.

8 posted on 04/01/2010 6:36:31 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: LottieDah

They knew this, and forced it down our throats anyway.

Let the taking of the Hill, tsunami, commence.


9 posted on 04/01/2010 6:36:43 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Freddd

Obama talked of the sea levels rising.

But does he see the Tsunami that’s coming????


10 posted on 04/01/2010 6:37:35 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Spok

“Tea Partiers ARE the silent majority.”

My friend, they WERE the silent majority.

:-)


11 posted on 04/01/2010 6:43:09 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What is a slave, but someone robbed of his labor to sustain the idle?)
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To: Freddd

Atlantis.


12 posted on 04/01/2010 6:44:04 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What is a slave, but someone robbed of his labor to sustain the idle?)
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To: Psalm 144
"“Tea Partiers ARE the silent majority.”
My friend, they WERE the silent majority.
"

CORRECTION: They ARE the majority and they WERE silent.

There - the ultimate fix - Grin.

13 posted on 04/01/2010 6:52:02 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: LottieDah

Think about it ... this is why “Left” talk radio doesn’t work. What is there to be “for”? If there would be a “silent majority” ... it would be because they fell asleep!


14 posted on 04/01/2010 7:02:01 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
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To: LottieDah

which is all you need to know about why AOLTIMEWARNERCNN is in the dumper


15 posted on 04/01/2010 7:06:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LottieDah
the small bump in democratic enthusiasm won't last, after the high of the needed “win” wears off... reality will set back in ... hm... ok... we passed HCR... but I still don't have a job, and the bank is still about to kick me out of my house... wth am I so happy about?
16 posted on 04/01/2010 7:08:51 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Spok

“Tea Partiers ARE the silent majority”

Exactly,

And for every one of them at an event, there are thousands more.


17 posted on 04/01/2010 7:20:53 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: LottieDah
AOL
18 posted on 04/01/2010 10:29:45 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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