Posted on 08/17/2011 5:21:18 AM PDT by upchuck
The rising profiles of Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are giving the White House a new opening: linking the entire GOP field to the tea party, whose popularity has recently sagged.
If the strategy works, it could cause guilt-by-association problems even for non-tea-party Republicans like Mitt Romney.
That might be a lot to ask, however. Unflattering comparisons are a well-worn campaign tactic, and many Americans have only a hazy notion of the tea party movement. Still, President Barack Obama's top aides are giving it a go.
Republican candidates must decide whether to "swear allegiance to the tea party" or work with Democrats to create jobs, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. After last week's GOP debate in Iowa, Obama campaign guru David Axelrod claimed the presidential contenders were "pledging allegiance to the tea party."
And a new video by the Democratic National Committee says Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are "embracing extreme tea party policies."
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This is an easy one to diffuse...IF the republicans define the tea party as it truly is. What’s so wrong with wanting smaller and more efficient government that doesn’t waste our money?? The WH is desperate..Obama reminds me of Napoleon in Animal Farm who kept blaming “Snowball” for everything as Napoleon drank and partied and lived like a king!
Fortunately,the Dems have forgotten the lessons of the Tea Party Miracle of Nov 2010—unfortunately,so has the GOP.
Now that is so true.
Harding actually wasn’t a bad President, overblown corruption issues not withstanding. At least he was a better one than every one of his successors except for Coolidge and Reagan.
“We”, Conservatives and Christian Conservatives particulatly, are the enemies of this State. The ministryof Propganda, a/k/a the main stream media is going to relentlessly, freousically, and viciously going to attack us from this point in time to election day. After election day? They will begin a campaign for our imprisonmebt or execution.
I guess the Tea Party’s populariy is sagging ,because the Media says it is.
They will find out in 2012 what is sagging
Odd how the media deemed it appropriate to give rick Perry top billing in this article... Did he come in second in Iowa or 3rd?
Sometimes you feel like your choices are being sculpted...
The GOP refused to learn the lesson to start with. It's business as usual for them crony capitalism with the taxpayer getting it in the shorts. The debt ceiling deal is an example of how worthless the GOP is - Socialist lite as opposed to the democrats who are hard core socialists.
They don’t have a clue who/what the Tea Party is or what it stands for. By attacking it, they guarantee that the Tea Party mindset will grow stronger and more determined - refined through fire. The Tea Party will also improve its messaging.
Tea Party sympathizers are in it for the benefit of country and not the benefit of themselves. That concept is foreign to liberals.
Exactly right. Just like they found out in 2010. They actually think it's some sort of party. They fail to grasp that the Tea Party is THE PEOPLE and nothing is going to stop us from voting obama out in 2012.
Fox&Friends had a guest panel (3 persons I had never seen on TV before) to discuss Perry’s drastic double-digit polling over Romney.
All 3 panelist/commentators discounted Perry. They basically said he was not viable and only had the high numbers because he was the new face in the race.
[It caused me to ponder — who is FoxNews’s candidate? Oh yeah, Romney.]
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