Posted on 04/25/2009 3:39:35 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Polls show bailout madness serious threat to GOP incumbents.
BY DREW ZAHN
Crowds have long protested Congress with rally cries of "Throw the bums out," and if recent polls tabulating tea party furor over government spending translate to votes in 2010, angry Americans may make good on their mantra.
Polls released by Rasmussen Reports this week demonstrate that – at least within the Republican Party – sitting incumbents who vote for increased government, taxes and federal bailouts risk voter backlash in the next election.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., for example, is one of only three Republicans in Congress to vote for President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan. According to a Rasmussen poll released this morning, the 28-year senator now trails his 2004 GOP primary rival Pat Toomey in the polls by 21 points: 51 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans say they'd vote for Toomey in a 2010 primary, while just 30 percent would support Specter.
A separate Rasmussen poll demonstrated that 58 percent of Specter's Republican constituents cited his support of the stimulus package as reason for their waning support.
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Now you are anti-homonyms???? How cruel!
“Now you are anti-homonyms???? How cruel!”
I got it from an Auntie.
Give me 435 like Katrina Pierson, she has got more common sense than the whole dod gamb bunch of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV6bNpNU4ls
The problem is the GOP is to blind to ask for a clean slate.
If they did it tomorrow they would have majorities that would make your head spin.
Beam me up Scotty, No intelligent life left in the RNC building.....
With due respect, there’s no way 85% of people agree with the Tea Parties. At best, we have a SMALL minority — maybe 51%-49% — but we have NO political representation in Washington where it counts. With the exception of a FEW men and women (like Senator Jim DeMint), the majority HAVE no voice up there at all.
We certainly didn’t have a majority back in November — not that it would have made much difference. And we needn’t think that Washington, et. al. will be happy to see us get involved and try to change things. They’ll fight us tooth and toenail — I believe they will quite literally stop at nothing if it comes to that.
Even a majority of good men, if they have no voice, cannot defeat a determined minority with shrill voices and Federal Government support.
And if the alternative is a LINA (Liberal in Name and Action)?
Okay, tell me how these things have worked in the past. Not being a wiseguy, but an objective assessment shows that we are in the situation we are in in spite of these things.
I am with you. He was a big wasteful spender in the 1980s with dems, I remember a book called Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money 1992 and Spector was at top of list. Bush saved Spector 2004 to have a RINO to support his spending.
Gee, I hope so. If by "right wing extremists," you mean those of us who are pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-Constitution, pro-limited government, and pro-lower taxes, yes, I hope so.
WE NEED TO GET THE RINO’S OUT IN THE PRIMARIES
PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY
NO ONE VOTES IN OFF-YEAR PRIMARIES!!
IN MY DISTRICT THERE WERE 32 PEOPLE ALL DAY in 2006.
Your vote is worth 1000 times more than it is in a general election.
AND!!!
REPUBLICAN TURNOUT IS THE DECIDING FACTOR!
HISTORICAL DEMOCRAP TURNOUT IS *CONSTANT* SO ELECTIONS RISE AND FALL WITH REPUBLICAN TURNOUT
WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE LIBERATARIAN AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES SUPPORT THE SAME CANDIDATES WHEREVER POSSIBLE THIS ELECTION.
I THINK PALIN WILL WIN IN A LANDLIDE IN 2012 IF SHE IS ON THE REPUBLICAN AND LIBERTARIAN TICKETS!!!!!
I would rather have a lib any day, they shoot form the front and not stab in the back. Et tu Brutus?
The LINA will, without any doubt, shoot. The RINO may or may not stab.
“When factoring in the divide between Mainstream and Political Class respondents, however, Rasmussen discovered that a whopping 85 percent of Mainstream Americans – regardless of political party affiliation – agree with the common tea party protest that the government has too much power and too much money. “
Take that Garofalo!
Which allows a Conservative to unseat that LINA, in a district with any possibility of going R, a RINO on the other hand will placate the lefties to get invited to the right parties as Specter does.
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