Link to original article. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/tea-party-opposed-by-half-of-americans/2012/01/03/gIQAsUVm5P_blog.html)

"Fully half of Americans oppose the tea party political movement, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, and “strong” opponents outnumber strong supporters by a 2 to 1 margin. Four in 10 adults continue to back the movement, but an ideological split between more and less committed tea party supporters also threatens prospects of a unified front in 2012.

Through most of 2011, the public split about evenly between supporters and opponents of the tea party movement, but the latest poll shows a 10-point edge for tea party opponents. Polls have estimated tea party support to be between 12 to 48 percent in the past year, much depending on the wording of questions. The wide-ranging estimates also may reflect a movement with a small but tight-knit core of supporters along with a larger and more diverse group of general sympathizers."

Yeah cause Washington Post is the standard bearer for conservatives across this great nation. :killingme

Gee, imagine that. Seeing that about half of alleged US earners pay no US tax at all, how can this be a problem?

Is intentionally distorted by idiots like NHboy ...
*The Tea Party wants to restore the original powers of the Constitution...(Oh, so you think a Black is 3/5ths of a person! Racist!!)
*The Tea Party wants to reign in this horrible debt, and cut wasteful social spending (Oh, so let seniors eat dog food!)
*The Tea Party wants to stop laws being created by Justices (So all the affirmative action rulings get overthrown!--Racist!)
*The Tea Party wants to restore more authority to the states, slashing interfering bureaucracies (Putting thousands of Federal workers out of work: attacking the unions!!)
*The Tea Party wants to Audit the Fed (um, I don't know what that means but its probably racist)
*The Tea Party has very little in common with Occupy Wall Street (Yeah, you just want to stomp on the little guy you astro turf pawns of big corporations)


So, ...that is how our message is being distorted by the MSM and their socialist/Marxist commentators. That is the message our radical professors are hammering into young skulls full of mush. That is the distortion we have come to expect from utter idiots who can do little but cut & paste.

Anthropology lesson idiot: Those with physical wealth, connections, and superior intellect will ALWAYS find ways to stay on top...if not: You've got the Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot all over again: and 50+ years of misery.
Your lesson is over idiot.

Keep believing that B/S, most tea party members are normal people with jobs and you'll see another ground swell come the 2012 elections when Obama is swept out to sea!!! :dye:

Keep believing that B/S, most tea party members are normal people with jobs and you'll see another ground swell come the 2012 elections when Obama is swept out to sea!!! :dye:

Ried (the Red) publicly claimed the tea party has dissolved due to the good economic news...oh? And where did that fantasy come from?
Nancy (the daft) has been dismissive of millions of us since the beginning. Just because we don't march every weekend doesn't mean we are gone...we are mere counting down 294 days till the kenyan is tossed>> then maybe some real change can take place.

Only half? :confused:

The Tea Party (the last straggly remnants of it) should trumpet this article loudly and proudly.

so, over half the country wants to pay more in taxes?
Or, is it that half the country does not pay now and these people want to keep it that way.

Im pretty much to the point that Im not really interested in paying into any program that supports people that never worked and never plan to. Honestly, what good are they in a society?
Sure, it will be considered cold hearted to let them starve, but the end product of it will be a much more stable economy, and lower taxes.

The TEA party has no compelling message right now. The unifying, motivating theme was opposition to Obamacare and, hopefully, the courts will throw it out this summer. However, since then, the TEA party has not said "Oh, and by the way, here is what we should do about crippling health care costs; more competition."

You only go so far being against something. At some point, you have to be for something and, I think it is fair to say, if not obvious, that the TEA party is for the status quo not only in healthcare but, worse, on Wall Street, how we got to TARP, why, and what to do fix Too Big To Fail. OWS handed them the issue and the moment but, the TEA party punted on first down preferring to point and laugh at the hippies rather than seize the issue.

I think it's a damn shame given how hard it is for a given issue to capture enough public attention to get something constructive done.

So, the TEA party seems to be a One Hit Wonder at this juncture and, if Obamacare gets tossed, that's a definite plus they deserve larger credit for.

However, now what? There is plenty more that needs fixing including health care and Too Big To Fail.

Housing
Energy
The Wars
Immigration

So, of that 50% who, supposedly 'oppose depending on how it's worded', a good chunk of that may well be disapproval because there doesn't seem to be much of an answer from them as to 'Now what?'


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Yeah cause Washington Post is the standard bearer for conservatives across this great nation. :killingme

:yay:

"I totally agree with you"~ Bann

The TEA party has no compelling message right now. The unifying, motivating theme was opposition to Obamacare and, hopefully, the courts will throw it out this summer. However, since then, the TEA party has not said "Oh, and by the way, here is what we should do about crippling health care costs; more competition."

You only go so far being against something. At some point, you have to be for something and, I think it is fair to say, if not obvious, that the TEA party is for the status quo not only in healthcare but, worse, on Wall Street, how we got to TARP, why, and what to do fix Too Big To Fail. OWS handed them the issue and the moment but, the TEA party punted on first down preferring to point and laugh at the hippies rather than seize the issue.

I think it's a damn shame given how hard it is for a given issue to capture enough public attention to get something constructive done.

So, the TEA party seems to be a One Hit Wonder at this juncture and, if Obamacare gets tossed, that's a definite plus they deserve larger credit for.

However, now what? There is plenty more that needs fixing including health care and Too Big To Fail.

Housing
Energy
The Wars
Immigration

So, of that 50% who, supposedly 'oppose depending on how it's worded', a good chunk of that may well be disapproval because there doesn't seem to be much of an answer from them as to 'Now what?'


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They could throw a smoke bomb over the White House fence . :coffee:

a lot of folks consider the tea party to be a cult of raidcal crazy people.

a lot of folks consider the tea party to be a cult of raidcal crazy people. Yeah, those tea party people protesting in the parks and streets over nothing, beating people up, robbing them, crapping in the parks, etc. etc. Oh, wait, those are the Occupy anything idiots. :doh:

a lot of folks consider the tea party to be a cult of raidcal crazy people.

A lot of people think Obama is the head of a crazy, radical cult. If you look at who he is and how he got here, the abject lack of any remotely credible resume for the biggest job in the world, it makes perfect sense.

His is a faith based operation. That's all any supporter ever had to go on with him. That and sloganeering and esoteric, unqualified things like his intelligence and what he is actually about. All faith.

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The TEA party is opposed to certain things, namely, the increased socialization of medicine. That is not the stuff of cults.

I'd have slightly more faith in the survey if it included a few categories like "really don't care either way". They actually DID that with the Occupy crowd, because a lot of people still hadn't heard about it (I occasionally run into someone who has no idea what I'm referring to when I mention it), had no idea what their issue is (as if anyone really does) or really cares at all.

When you trim it down to who actually gives a crap, it amounts to a tempest in a teapot regarding support or opposition.

Don't know what to say but, my healthcare was always good and affordable to me. I fail to see the problem here.
Im with the Tea Party on this one, you cant keep raising taxes to force some people to pay for others.
Every time the government comes up with some new scheme to give social benefits, the reduce the need for personal responsibility in the country. Every time personal responsibility is reduced, more social programs have to be created to make up for it.

Time to let people stand on their own and get their hands out of my pocket.

Most in the tea party have jobs and homes, thus don't have to stand around mindlessly beating drums babbling about how to spend other peoples money like the OWS morons... :coffee: