Posted on 12/07/2009 5:44:38 AM PST by TomGuy
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
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Failed analogy, as your own solution -- essentially, to continue rewarding said dog for repeatedly soiling things -- is a hopelessly addled, demonstrably counterintuitive one.
Again: I asked you to "think hard" on the inevitable end result of any political party routinely treating its actual voting base with open, sneering contempt. Until you have done so -- and "you," here, should be read as meaning "the Republican party heirarchy," obviously -- then Obama's malignant brand of socialism/Marxism is guaranteed another four years, come '12.
None of this is rocket science, really.
I care about which ideology rules the roost. If it’s the ideology embraced by the current Republican party (in fact if not rhetoric) then what’s the difference being different if the difference is the same?
However, the poll also shows that splitting off as a third party puts democrats in power. So let’s not get too cocky.
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Yes indeed. Let’s remain wise about this whole matter. Challenge and eject RINOs, force the GOP into the Tea Party’s hands and then run hard against the socialism/communism of Obammy/cReid/PelosLIE.
Until a republican SPEAKS up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401931/posts?page=7#7
They lose my vote.
“For this survey, the respondents were asked to assume that the Tea Party movement organized as a new political party.”
OK- for a minute I thought checking FR every third day wasn’t enough - that someone formed a party while I was asleep.
Interesting that so many respondents latched right onto this concept and it somewhat answers the Dem machine rallying cry that the repub party is going extinct.
Please stop to think about what you just wrote. Do you really believe that all these "Indies and Democrats" that you're so happy about attracting are in the end going to hang in there with the conservatives? These people are not going to be conservative on the social issues and they're going to stray off the reservation just like everyone is doing now.
This is no panacea. People are people. You can realign them into a new group with a new name but you are going to eventually be right back to where we are now.
I want to call my new party The Anti-Democrat Party.
Exactly. Indeed, the "Tea Party" movement doesn't appear to really have any hard and fast core principles either, beyond the general "small government" push.
Somebody posted a political advertisement for a Tea Party candidate on here yesterday, I think it was, some guy named Schiffer running up in OH. I checked it out, and frankly, he looked like some kind of Buchananite, which means I wouldn't support him. He never did get around to really explaining why the Republican he was running against was bad, except for some vague ramblings about how the "establishment" had "hand-picked" him (whether that is really true or not, I don't know, but depending on his ideology, doesn't matter that much).
If the Tea Party movement is going to be hijacked by Buchananites and other wackos, then it doesn't deserve to go anywhere. It needs to be a vehicle for true conservatives, not government-intervention friendly populists.
And I say this as someone who is supportive of the Tea Party movement and has been involved in organising Tea Parties.
From the numbers...seems to me that the GOP needs to join the Tea Party...not the other way around.
Do you want to join my new party? It’s called the Anti-Democrat Party. Everyone who wants to defeat Democrats is welcome to join. We’re against anything the Democrats are for.
49% of Democrats have no opinion on the Tea Party movement one way or another.
.................goodness. They really are brain-dead.
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Ubermeister, Tingly leg, scare-Madcrow, kos kiddies, RATS under-the-earth and all their minions have been telling ‘em that we’re tea-baggers for the past 11 months. Since they’re used to being told what to think by the dead alphabet media and hollyweird, they’re kinda confused.
Your premise is pure BS. My new party is called the Anti-Democrat Party. Want to join?
It’s called the Anti-Democrat Party.
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Which implies that the GOP and the Tea Parties really need to work together, right?
Oh? No Romney, then? No McCain? No Crist? No Steele? No Snowe? No Gingrich?
I think our choice is bad or worse. Hold off as much as we can as long as we can for the next generation while we undo the 40 years of leftist education, or sit home "results be damned" as Eak3 says, and let the looter-train snowball.
This poll shows that a plurality of Americans like what the left is feeding them!!!
Nearly One Third of All Tax Filers Paid No Federal Income Taxes in 2007
About 46.6 Million Filers Were "Nonpayers" Due to Exemptions, Deductions, Credits
Washington, DC, December 4, 2009 -- Nearly one-third of the 143 million federal income tax returns filed in 2007 resulted in no tax payment, according to a Tax Foundation analysis of IRS data. That means the tax filers got back every dollar that had been withheld from their paychecks, and often more. Roughly 46.6 million tax returns, or 32.6 percent, are filed by such "nonpayers," people whose exemptions, deductions and credits wiped out any federal income tax due.
"In about half the cases, additional money was 'refunded' to these tax filers -- meaning they received a check from the government -- similar to welfare spending programs,"
We moved the railroad tracks...YOU are now on the wrong side of the tracks...
You don't demand the majority side with the minority...
IF we lose to the Democrats, it will be the fault of the GOP and those who support it...
While I was (and am) happy to co-sign the posting in question... you should, nonetheless, be PINGing the actual author, don’t you think? ;)
I completely agree except I’m not sure there’s much of an agreement on what a “true conservative” is either... unless it’s someone who uses a lot of exclamation marks, underscores and capital letters on FR. ;-)
That having been said, kudos to all Tea Party members.
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