Come Nov 2012, Rasmussen and other pollsters will learn that being a candidate that supports the Tea Party values will lead them to an overwhelming victory.Not if a bad economy is the main issue.
People have been conditioned for a century to look to the federal government when times get tough. As the economy enters its next downleg, people fear the loss of those government checks and Dignity Cards, things that I refer to as "free government cheese". As believers in small government, the Tea Party is now starting to be viewed as a potential barrier separating worried Americans from their free government cheese.
It was one thing to oppose Obamacare, which is still unpopular. It's quite another to oppose, or put limits upon, the social safety net, which is now viewed as an entitlement and a necessity.
This is why the Tea Party has suddenly become unpopular.
People have been conditioned for a century to look to the federal government when times get tough..........It was one thing to oppose Obamacare, which is still unpopular. It's quite another to oppose, or put limits upon, the social safety net, which is now viewed as an entitlement and a necessity. ........This is why the Tea Party has suddenly become unpopular.
I disagree, the ideals of those of us who align ourselves with the Tea Party movement have not changed our ideology, nor have we succumbed to the fear that we will starve and die without the federal government to support us.
Even when I talk to Democrats who dislike the Tea Party, they do so because of the lies, not because of our desire to reduce the government. Ask any liberal, and you will learn that 50% of them believe SS will not be there for them when they retire. over 70% of all Americans did not want the debt ceiling raised, they wanted cuts, not more spending.
So no, you are wrong, the reason they dislike the Tea Party is not because of our desire to reign in a government that is out of control. It is because of the lies the MSM has perpetuated about us.
Come next year the left will be so demoralized they will not even vote. That is why Obama wants to start a race war to accuse the Republicans during the primary that they are racists. Sadly for them, it will not work. When all is said and done, unless Obama uses executive order to cancel elections because of the unrest and race war he started, he and the Democrats will be defeated in the largest historical landslide ever. I expect us to have over 60 Senators and a super majority in the House when it is over.
Along with the SC ruling next July that Obamacare is unconstitutional, the left is finished. If Clarence Thomas gets to write the decision, them a lot of New Deal and Great Society programs could be finished also, because Thomas is against using the commerce clause for the purpose of enacting unconstitutional laws.
Just my two cents for what it is worth.