Tea Party is finished

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  1. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Silly TEA Partiers. When are they going to learn to take money from unscrupulous currency raiders like George Soros instead of the Koch Brothers?
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  2. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    Well your marginalization of everyone but yourselves will be your undoing, again the article says it all.
     
  3. doombug

    doombug Well-Known Member

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    Another bs propaganda thread....Why do libs feel the need to start so many of these threads....it is clear they have an agenda.
     
  4. zbr6

    zbr6 Banned

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    Well lets be realistic here. Your "overwhelming majority" is actually three groups of people.

    The 1st: Those who cheers as the President diminishes their paycheck and their freedom because being a cool hip liberal is self-gratifying.

    The 2nd: Those who have been diminished into a permanent underclass, conditioned to think living on handouts is a dignified life.

    The 3rd: Those who were duped by liberal media into thinking the government was shut down because "Tea Party terrorist extremist arsonist hostage takers" wanted to kill off cancer-kids and ruin Michelle's garden.

    Nothing can be done about the first two groups, sadly, but if the White House didn't have its own state controlled media monopoly then group 3 wouldn't exist and neither would that majority.
     
  5. Bearack

    Bearack Well-Known Member

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    It's part of the playbook!

    [video=youtube;LUADLM8Ahlg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUADLM8Ahlg[/video]
     
  6. BestViewedWithCable

    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    Im not going anywhere...
     
  7. Lowden Clear

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    I think the Tea Party can decide for ourselves when we are finished trying to save our country. With only a slice of corporate America showing some small dissatisfaction, I wonder what the rest of the pie thinks?

    To the slice it is important to remember that the Tea Party stand taller on the Republican Party platform ideals than most Republicans. who are in elected positions.
     
  8. Lowden Clear

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    They think they are controlling the narrative. According to them the Tea Party died long ago, then we died again. And now we are in our final throws of dying one more time. After that we will die all over again for another reason. And then they'll say there never was a Tea Party; it was just a right wing conspiracy.
     
  9. AtsamattaU

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    Of course, the good ol' days were always better, right? I think most consider the Global Positioning System a success, or at least it's a government program that was well worth the effort. I don't want to go too far down the technology rabbit hole, because we are talking about a social program. But everyone's complaint right now is about the technological aspect - the web interface used for registry into the program. It's silly how some people act like this is the ultimate failure - I've never seen a Congressional inquiry come about so fast. So, from a technology standpoint, we can get this thing working and running, and no one is going to die in the process. Whether the social program itself is a success or failure will take years to evaluate.
     
  10. Bearack

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    [video=youtube;rxZXptGpXng]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxZXptGpXng[/video]
     
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    MolonLabe2009 Banned

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    Meanwhile....

    Democrat on Obamacare: "Dem Party is #&@%$*!"
     
  12. Flintc

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    The tea party has always been a little vague around the edges. Are they for smaller, cheaper government and lower taxes? Yep. Are they for conservative social initiatives like passing state constitutional amendments against same sex marriage and closing down abortion clinics on transparent pretexts? Yep. Are they in favor of running up as much deficit as it takes to enforce this social agenda? Yep. Are they willing to wreck the full faith in credit of the US if that's what it takes to keep the poor uninsured? Yep. Do they believe their religious faith (but nobody else's) should play a significant role in public life? Yep.
     
  13. Smartmouthwoman

    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Sounds like a patient waiting for the Obamacare site to come up!

    The more people who die, the faster the response time.

    Tea Party isn't dead, just sitting quietly by watching Obamacare implode.

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  14. Bearack

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    Well, let me help you out there.... Taxed Enough Already


    Smaller government has always been the platform.
     
  15. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As you may know, a bill that makes major changes to the country's health care system became law in 2010. Based on what you have read or heard about that legislation, do you generally favor or generally oppose it?

    Sept. 27 - 29 2013

    Favor 38%
    Oppose 57%
    No opinion 4%

    Mar 19 - 21 2010

    Favor 39%
    Oppose 59%
    No opinion 2%

    http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/09/30/rel10a.pdf


    We can see somebody's all done.
     
  16. Ex-lib

    Ex-lib Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You don't like the Tea Party.
    I do.
    I don't think you understand the Tea Party.
    I think I do.
    I think you get all of your info about the Tea Party from leftwing sources, who ALSO don't like the Tea Party.
    I don't get my info there. I get some of it from guys like you, and some of it from rightwing sources. The right wing sources are more convincing and believable than guys like you.

    So as I said to begin with, I like the Tea Party.
     
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    so, you've actually purchased your Obama Policy and it is in effect, right?
     
  18. Dollface

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    Then why on earth does the TeaParty run as a third party? Why do they have to ride the coattails of rhino's. I think since a majority of Americans agree with the TeaParty then they would win elections on their own.

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    Then why on earth does the TeaParty run as a third party? Why do they have to ride the coattails of rhino's. I think since a majority of Americans agree with the TeaParty then they would win elections on their own.
     
  19. little voice

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    Tell that to the people whose livelihood depended on government workers and visitors to government facilities
     
  20. Flintc

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    Nominally, yes it has. In practice, the candidates who pounded their bibles hardest tended to defeat those who pounded the budget hardest. I saw one poll a while back (last summer sometime) where tea party fanatics were asked to choose between cutting federal expenditures and legal abortion. It was a slam dunk - eliminating abortion turned out to be the absolute top priority among the tea party loyalists, though of course reducing taxes is high on the list, and at the top for a sizeable minority of that group.

    What makes things difficult is that the core tea party issues overlap, in the sense that nearly all of the members want the same things - quash homosexuality, eliminate abortion, put prayer back in schools, cut taxes, reduce expenditures (except what benefits me, of course), and bring back the golden good old days of our youth.
     
  21. FearandLoathing

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    "Reports of my death are slightly exaggerated" Mark Twain.

    What we are witnessing is not the death of the Tea Party, but likely the birth of a new political spectrum, perhaps the beginning of the long awaited third party.


    Proof of this is the diametrically opposed thinking of its enemies; that the Tea Party is a) an insignificant force to begin with, b) an enemy so powerful that it "shut down" government and must be crushed, c) that it is dead, d) that it is a danger to society, and e) that it has no real platform.

    Obviously none of these things can all be true at the same time.

    But, it is obviously a perceived threat to someone as the resistance is far greater than the threat.
     
  22. little voice

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    And you think the tea party candidates are not Bought and paid for by the koch brothers and the ultraconservative friends
     
  23. Bearack

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    You must be referring to the lefts rendition of selective polls.

    Here is the last Tea Party even I went to. I assure you, there wasn't anything about abortion, homosexuality nor prayers in school.

    View attachment 23310 View attachment 23311

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    But surely your bought and paid for's are better than ours?

    LOL....
     
  24. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ultraconservatives? I could only dream...

    I'll simply be happy they aren't bought and paid for by the same scum that buy and pay for both parties...
     
  25. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    No I have already explained this a few times, you might not have seen nor read my posts, other than my OP.

    The Tea Party's lobbying against the Net Neutrality Act, and most members don't realize the effort and money they spent on it.
     

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