tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post3676644866355802124..comments2024-03-26T14:01:36.240-05:00Comments on Public Policy Polling: The Tea Party in North CarolinaTom Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06545052616714485196noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-75089702771699218392010-05-17T20:45:12.056-05:002010-05-17T20:45:12.056-05:00If Fox News is part of the Republican Party then M...If Fox News is part of the Republican Party then MSNBC, CNN, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NY Times, Newsweek, Time, and Washington Post must be just Democratic communications arms.<br /><br />Can you please provide me the names of the Republican operatives who organized these tea parties? How many people have you talked to at the tea party events? Or is it just what they tell you on MSNBC? I've talked to hundreds of people.<br /><br />I've been to several California rallies and I've found that some people affiliated with various Republican organizations do attend. A few have even spoken at the events. How horrible! They should be blacklisted and excluded. You know, the way that unions are excluded from any Democratic rally.<br /><br />Your comments about the rallies shows an ignorance with anyone who is not a Democrat. They were concerned with big government for most of the Bush administration. That's why they didn't show up to vote for congressional Republicans in 2006 and 2008. They made noise. No one reported it.<br /><br />Conservatives don't usually do protest rallies. The nature of conservatism is contrary to protests. The only reason they started is because Rick Santelli's remark caught fire.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928675187803337574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-43224371195934281252010-05-17T19:56:26.535-05:002010-05-17T19:56:26.535-05:00Typical liberal/progressive anti-Tea Party drivel ...Typical liberal/progressive anti-Tea Party drivel from Anon.<br /><br />Just came back from the Tea Party Summit (which was infiltrated by some young socialist spies btw) - no Repub ops that I saw.<br /><br />But of course liberal Kool-Aid drinking, propaganda spewing liberals will never admit the truth - that the Tea Party is causing a real change in politics today, and is a force to be reckoned with.<br /><br />Too bad weak-minded socialists just need Big Daddy to sit in the Oval Office, telling them what to do, instead of being able to think for themselves, have initiative, and get a real non-government, non-ACORN job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-60376797951192066642010-05-17T15:49:31.314-05:002010-05-17T15:49:31.314-05:00"The tea party is depicted in the media as a ..."The tea party is depicted in the media as a bunch of racist, xenophobic, violent, extremists."<br /><br />Isn't the media supposed to be objective?<br /><br />"The tea party isn't a subset of the Republican Party. It's separate from it."<br /><br />Yeah, just about as separate as Fox News is. I don't know a single Tea Partier who isn't a rabid Republican. It's a small sample, but their rallies are all organized, at least in NC, by Republican operatives. It's a joke. If they were serious-minded, genuine citizens concerned with government bloating, they would have started their rallies long ago, before a black Democrat came into office.<br /><br />"Considering that their goal is small government wouldn't you expect a high percentage to be Republicans?"<br /><br />No, I'd expect them to be true libertarians and anarchists. But since their goals are disingenuous and phony, of course they're largely Republican.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-38314768275430123382010-05-17T14:40:24.768-05:002010-05-17T14:40:24.768-05:00The tea party is depicted in the media as a bunch ...The tea party is depicted in the media as a bunch of racist, xenophobic, violent, extremists. Would you want to be a member of that group? That's why more people agree with their ideas than want to be part of the group. Their goal is influence ideas, not to be a large group.<br /><br />The tea party isn't a subset of the Republican Party. It's separate from it. Considering that their goal is small government wouldn't you expect a high percentage to be Republicans? When people say that it's not a subset of the Republican Party they are saying that the tea parties are first about certain goals, not being Republican.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928675187803337574noreply@blogger.com