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Will tea parties 'throw bums out' in 2010? [no more RINOs] [85% of Americans agree with Tea Parties]
World Net Daily ^ | 2009-04-25

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2010; bho2009; bho44; conservativeuprising; democratpurge; gopprimary; mccain; pa2010; rinoextinction; rinopurge; specter; teaparty; throwthebumsout; toomey
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To: DennisR
"Sorry, these will not work." Well, damn. Since you have it under control, the rest of us can relax.
21 posted on 04/25/2009 4:46:24 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Danged homonyms!

Now you are anti-homonyms???? How cruel!

22 posted on 04/25/2009 4:49:58 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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To: MadelineZapeezda

“Now you are anti-homonyms???? How cruel!”

I got it from an Auntie.


23 posted on 04/25/2009 5:15:33 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: rabscuttle385
Except for a handful, (McCotter, Pence, Ryan, Bachmann etc) throw them all out....

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.....

24 posted on 04/25/2009 5:19:33 PM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: ezcritter

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.


25 posted on 04/25/2009 5:28:21 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: ezcritter
I will not vote for anyone who is a RINO.

And if the alternative is a LINA (Liberal in Name and Action)?

26 posted on 04/25/2009 5:54:08 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (I don't trust Obama with my country. Do you?)
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To: devane617

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.


27 posted on 04/25/2009 6:57:10 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: rabscuttle385; calcowgirl; dools007; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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.


28 posted on 04/25/2009 7:05:09 PM PDT by sickoflibs (RNC Party Theme : "We may be socialists, but they are Marxists!")
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To: Man50D
"Does this mean 85% of Americans are right wing extremists?"

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.

29 posted on 04/25/2009 7:16:03 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: rabscuttle385

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!!!!!


30 posted on 04/25/2009 7:23:26 PM PDT by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: rabscuttle385
My RINO would still be in office if it weren't for the SCHIPS vote and his selling us out on the TARP vote, first vote was NEA and then he was bought off and the next vote was YEA. Sorry Randy Kuhl, but you did this to yourself. Oh, and you'd better look for a job because we are going to rid the Country of that nice little retirement perk BS you folks enjoy at the Peoples expense.
31 posted on 04/27/2009 7:10:55 AM PDT by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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To: Jeff Gordon

I would rather have a lib any day, they shoot form the front and not stab in the back. Et tu Brutus?


32 posted on 04/27/2009 7:13:10 AM PDT by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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To: Camel Joe
they shoot form the front and not stab in the back

The LINA will, without any doubt, shoot. The RINO may or may not stab.

33 posted on 04/27/2009 11:37:51 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (I don't trust Obama with my country. Do you?)
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To: rabscuttle385

“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!


34 posted on 04/27/2009 11:43:38 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Jeff Gordon

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.


35 posted on 04/27/2009 12:20:58 PM PDT by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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To: ezcritter
I visit the Alaskateaparty.com. Today I saw a picture of Don Young at the Tea Party. NO NO NO I will not attend any rally the caters to Don Young. This person needs to go and take his pig with him./
36 posted on 05/02/2009 6:54:22 PM PDT by BlueMoose
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