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Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.
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Then why are our elected representatives kissing these peoples' collective ass:
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So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.
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Translated: The Tea Party is nothing more than a buncha bigoted, Jesus freak assholes.
I'm sick and tired of small minorities of morons and ignorants hijacking the national discourse. A tiny percentage can take over a political party and make life miserable for hundreds of millions. The poll results are somewhat pleasing to see but I fear too many of the ignorant and uninformed will think (because we all know about the length of the American attention span) a "tough talking Texan" in the White House is exactly what the country needs right now.
Everybody who worries about more crazy coming to Washington better pray Perry shoots himself in the foot before he wins the primary. And no, I have no faith in the American people to have the common sense to say "we've seen this before".
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As has been noted in many places, the Teabaggers are just the John Birchers with a new name and the same haircuts.
"Then why are our elected representatives kissing these peoples' collective ass?"
Perhaps it's because the "New" Democratic Party that is in office today is run by jellyfish and reich wing kooks instead of anyone with a brain that can realize that these assholes that are in office today are totally controlled by the effing church and corporate monies.
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