December 1, 201114 yr Active Members Excerpted from the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/2012-election-tea-party-barney-frank_n_1121475.html?ref=politics 2012 Election: Tea Party Losing Support, Dem Avoids Obama And The Race To Replace Barney Frank .... SURVEY SHOWS TEA PARTY IS LOSING SUPPORT -- IN TEA PARTY DISTRICTS A new Pew Research Center survey finds more Americans now disagree with the Tea Party movement than agree with it -- 27 percent disagree and 20 percent agree. Last year, those numbers were flipped. The poll lends credence to the idea that the Tea Party is hurting the Republican Party. Research shows overall support for the GOP is down in districts represented by Tea Party Caucus members: 48 percent reported having an unfavorable view of the GOP vs. 41 percent who held a favorable view. Interestingly, the loss of support for the Republican Party dropped even further in these conservative districts than in districts not represented by Tea Party members. The research was conducted from Sept. 22 to Oct. 4 and surveyed 345 adults.
December 1, 201114 yr Author Active Members Apparently the entire GOP base may not be crazy. We'll see how accurate that is by how successful they are at purging the Tea Party office holders in the next election. I'm not holding my breath, and frankly, don't care much either way. After watching many formerly less radical GOP office holders rush to embrace the crazies and join to push extreme policies, I have little affinity for any but a very few sitting GOP office holders to remain on the scene. Two in the Senate are Richard Lugar and Lamar Alexander. Lugar because the told the Tea Party to effectively 'kiss his ass', not to mention he is a well-respected expert, on both sides of the isle, as an expert in arms and foreign affairs; and Alexander for getting dumped from Senate Leadership for not being radical enough. There might be one or two more. Probably a couple in the House too but the heard is so large over there it's hard to keep track. One GOP rep, first termer from VA, was on TV this am after giving a speech in the House that "not only must we cut spending but tax revenue is at an historic low and must be increased as part of the solution". Wish I remembered his name. We'll see if he survives the next election, that is if the Tea Party really subsides.
December 2, 201114 yr Author Active Members It only took America three years to get tired of crazy people. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
December 2, 201114 yr Active Members Crazy people are apparently electable from either party. That may be why we indeed need a third party. It is not unconstitutional and throughout much of the history of the USA there were more than two parties and certainly not each of those has survived. Yes, I am a Libertarian at heart. That does not necessarily mean that I completely agree with every thing THIS party has to say but certainly I am not in agreement with much of what the Demos or Repubs have to say either. Best regards, RA1
December 2, 201114 yr Active Members I'm not a US citizen/resident - so my observations regarding the Tea Party is that while I think some (even many) of them are definitely certifiable, the Tea Party represents only one small part of the varying kinds of 'craziness' to be found in pretty much all parts of the US body-politic these days. The only other thing I'd say is that I'd be extremely suspicious and wary of placing any kind of confidence in the conclusions of a poll that sampled fewer than 350 people, especially when that poll purports to present the opinions of voters in certain districts as well as those on a national basis. I've worked in political 'backrooms' for 20 years and if I was given a poll with such limited a sample size, it would almost certainly be headed for the garbage can and not the circulation list... Alan
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