About four in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents classify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party, while 11% are opponents and 48% are neither. This continues to be a significant drop from the Tea Party's high-water mark in November 2010, when 61% of Republicans were supporters of the Tea Party.
I am willing to bet that if the Teabaggers cost the GOP any more sure things this election cycle that the approval rating will land in the single digits.
So what does that mean for the future of the Tea Party?
Will they absorb back into the Republican party and simply learn to play ball with the establishment?
Or will they decide that they are a viable political party on their own and start running candidates of their own in general elections?
Wanna guess which outcome I'm hoping for?
Despite their complaining about them, if Republicans have a choice between voting for an insane teabagger and a Democrat, they will always vote for the teabagger.
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That is simply not true.
DeleteYou know what is public news? David Joachim of the New York Times reports that some 109 projects totaling $2.7 billion in the 2014 budget were made at the request of individual lawmakers.
ReplyDeleteThis does not include the $3 billion for a damn project in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell got for Kentucky to re-open the government their posturing shut down.
That's pork folks, that's earmarked money done without Committee process and vetting. That's the same old chow down at the trough that the Tea Party ostensibly fights under THIS Administration. Hypocrisy. Why don't you jingo-xenephobic misogynists really tell us what you are about?
Four in ten supporting the Tea Party is still way too high.
ReplyDeleteRemember, that's 4 of 10 Repugs and RW "Independents" like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. So six in10 from their potential base are against the Tea Party, or almost 2/3.
DeleteYour point is still valid, even if they enjoy support of only a minority of the minority party (or approx 17-18% of the total electorate), it's too many low-info nutters to ignore.
Actually, the % drop inTea Party base support is higher.
ReplyDeleteIf support levels were 61% in 2010 and 40% today, the percentage the TP has lost of its own supporters is (61%-40%)(61%) = 20%/61% = .3279 = 33%, or just under 1/3 of their supporters lost.
This is called the "Sarah Palin Bandwagon Jumping Effect". Sarah jumped on, andnow others are jumping off faster than they can add to their base. Bless their hearts.
Oh my, can they recycle those three cornered hats?
ReplyDeleteThey make great pirate hats!
DeleteI have a friend in DC who is good friends with John Boehner and they all despise the Tea Party, and Ted Cruz, etc. Interestingly, when I asked this person about Sarah Palin's dark history, this person had no clue about the corruption, the pimping, the fake birth, etc. No clue and I don't think that was a pretense....and this person is VERY well connected in Repub circles in DC...somehow all that is known on the blogs and that has been proven even is not common parlance in DC repub circles...
ReplyDelete7:41 I don't believe your statement. Too many of us have contacted John McCain, et al throughout the recent years regarding Palin and all the things unlawful and illegal she and Todd have done in Alaska.
DeleteSame as to members of the Alaska Legislature!
The Republicans (US Congress and Alaska's Legislature) know all about her/them and that is why she is ignored by them!
Don't forget that she was found to be unethical by the Alaska Legislature!
She brings the 'kiss of death' and they know it!
Just because you friend doesn't know doesn't mean Boehner et al don't. Do you really think that's something they'd admit to?
DeleteTo answer your question, Gryphen: they will simply FUDGE the numbers and claim victory!
ReplyDeleteRemember, the Dems have NOT remedied Diebolt machines - we still have them as well as the other ones ( the optical readers)...
Unfortunately the tea party and the Koch brothers are focusing on smaller local elections so that they can control policy from the bottom and then work their way up. They have an insidious long term strategy.
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Teabaggers becoming a non entity mainly because of the evilness of Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz! They are horrible people and an embarrassment to the USA!
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