What a great country! No where else in the world would such a dream (nightmare?) be possible!
Posted on 06/27/2011 1:21:57 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Who is the Tea Party candidate for president?
If a gathering of about 100 Tea Party leaders in Washington on Monday gives any indication, it’s Representative Michele Bachmann (who just announced her candidacy), with Representative Ron Paul and Gov. Rick Perry vying for a close second (and probably edging her out on fervency of support).
Leaders from Tea Party groups in about 40 states gathered in the Washington offices of FreedomWorks, the libertarian advocacy group that cultivated the Tea Party movement.
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A (completely unscientific) voice-vote straw poll of the (possibly unrepresentative) group, conducted by reporters, found almost no support and even a few groans for Sarah Palin; loud boos drowning out a handful of cheers for Mitt Romney; nays for Jon M. Huntsman Jr.; and support but dismissals that “he can’t win” for Herman Cain.
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On a voice-vote run-off (equally unscientific) among the apparent top three contenders, Mrs. Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, seemed to do best among women in the room, while Mr. Perry did best among men, and Mr. Paul, also of Texas, did best among younger people in the room.
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Loretta Malander, a Tea Party activist from Oak Hill, Va., praised Mrs. Bachmann much the way supporters of Ms. Palin described her in 2008: “She’s one of us,” she said.”We can connect and relate with her in the way we were raised, our values. We feel like she understands Middle America. She’s not one of those elites who look down on us.”
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I don't want our tent any bigger than this.
Ouch! That’ll leave a mark :-))))))
My reasonable post elicited a personal attack from you?
I just posted three recent polls to you and none of them were straw polls.
/insert comment about blondes here
IMO, the current choice of Rep candidates really stinks.
That is LOL funny.
The one dealt with lily-livers, the other with real livers.
Example please?
I well remember when the Tea Party picked up momentum. I told My wife, the day they let politicians get close, the pols will deviously start working to subvert the Party for their own ends.
Name calling and trying to personalize this? How about just staying focused and trying to stay on track.
What a great country! No where else in the world would such a dream (nightmare?) be possible!
A (completely unscientific) voice-vote straw poll of the (possibly unrepresentative) group, conducted by reporters
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conducted by reporters
sober?
Consider the source.
I’m not name calling, nor am I personalizing anything. I’d have to care what you thought before I went about personalizing it. As it stands, I find you amusing, but not particular important.
No. That's what I call Ron Paul.
Eeh, well, that’s pretty bad, but not unforgivable.
NYT stuck on stupid.
How you can say that when your posts to me show the opposite is baffling, but I notice that you keep evading the part about defending your original post about straw polling and Palin, and you keep ignoring the calls for proving your claim.
good points.
She announced in Waterloo, her home town. Said it was the home town of John Wayne. Wayne was born in Iowa. But the John Wayne who was in Waterloo was John Wayne Gacy.
Ouch.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2726296/posts?page=26#26
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