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Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

I'm of similar sentiment that the Tea Party had promise but it got hijacked by the GOP and its celebrities.

Republican =/= Libertarian

At least we know there is some spirit of vigilance against government in this nation, even if it hasn't been properly organized yet. It's a start.
 
I'm of similar sentiment that the Tea Party had promise but it got hijacked by the GOP and its celebrities.

How can the GOP hijack the GOP?
 
The Tea Party has become too emeshed with the Republican Party. When it started it was grass roots and popular response to the healthcare legislation, bailouts and threatened taxation that would be needed to pay for it all. It's been taken over by splinter groups and mainstream conservative groups, demonized by the media, and become unfocused. The entrenched two party system just wasn't going to allow another group to gain too much power.
 
I never understood working class Republicans. Why vote for a leader whose stated platform is to take everything you have and give it to his friends? As opposed to Democrats, whose platform is to take some of what you have, if you don't have a lot, and more if you do, and give it to those who have nothing, and help them contribute to the generally stuff-getting process for everyone.



Wait... How do republicans take from the poor and give to the rich. specifically please....
 
Wait... How do republicans take from the poor and give to the rich. specifically please....

Look no further than the GOP hero Reagan, who cut taxes on the wealthiest in half and raised taxes on the middle class. You can't get any more specific than that.
 
Yeah this ONE RALLY was clearly a make it or break it moment........clearly Freedom Jamboree was the deciding factor for the entire future of the Tea party......its all over....the sleeping giant just went back to bed.



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Just keep talking......2012 is sweet and getting sweeter........
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Its funny how the right-wingers like to use that map of the United States....what they don't tell you is that 80% of the PEOPLE of this country live in the blue colored areas. Most of the red flyover areas are sparsley populated.
 
Look no further than the GOP hero Reagan, who cut taxes on the wealthiest in half and raised taxes on the middle class. You can't get any more specific than that.



Can you be specific, what rate was the rich taxed at, and what rate was the middle class taxed at? When did this happen? :lamo
 
Close, but not quite. According to recent polling, the republican candidate that would beat Obama would be "any of the above." But thanks for playing!

Exactly! I predicted a while back that all the republican's have to do is not **** it up. 2012 will be about Obama's "record", and it ain't a good one. If the republican's or an independant can stay on topic, they will win. I also emailed Santorum, and Gov Perry a few weeks ago and showed them the way to campaign. Stay completely away from personal politics, and I mentioned that their campaign adds should be about highlighting what is exceptional about all American's, our accomplishments, our courage, and our convictions. There's ample documentary evidence to support an entire series of ads that could display this truth. Much like Reagan did in his first run against Carter. If anyone remembers, MOST of his ads were little short stories about how exceptional we all are, and how we could be that way again. Although pundents don't talk about those days, I believe that it was this campaign philosophy that got him elected. The Obama challenger doesn't need to attack Obama, everyone that cares enough to vote will know his record.. It's a losing strategy, IMO. A winning strat is the one I defined..


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-laughs- hey I heard all this before .. .the tea party was nothing to worry about .. they were broadcasting that over every liberal media they could find in 2009 and 2010 …... so let them think it's nothing again .. under- estimating a group of people … in this case again … is a good thing.
 
Its funny how the right-wingers like to use that map of the United States....what they don't tell you is that 80% of the PEOPLE of this country live in the blue colored areas. Most of the red flyover areas are sparsley populated.

When that Kenyan Turd gets flushed in 2012.......come back and tell us more about it........
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By opposing a progressive tax structure



Wait so, by rich people being taxed at the same rate as poor people, it's taking poor people money and giving it to the rich?


Really?


This is your argument?

Really? :lamo
 
Also, there are the massive cuts to education, strengthening the barrier blocking social mobility. And the constant moves to privatize... everything. Allowing the wealthy to own and control everyone's finances, their health, the housing industry, the food industry, the entertainment industry. All of it. Massive deregulation takes control from the many and hands it to the few. Oh, and opposing any steps towards ensuring a living wage.

Seriously, do you not know that these things happen?
 
Tell us again how the Tea Party is dying off.......when Obama gets his ass tossed to the curb in 2012
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Hum, OK. I think what I wrote in a previous post is coming. A year ago, I met two Tea Baggers at a demonstration who were using Medicare, liked it very much, did not want it messed with or made into a government run program! I spent some time disabusing them of what they had been authoritatively informed of prior to the demonstration. It takes a few years for the general public to become informed in sufficient detail to vote rationally.
 
The Tea Party has become too emeshed with the Republican Party. When it started it was grass roots and popular response to the healthcare legislation, bailouts and threatened taxation that would be needed to pay for it all. It's been taken over by splinter groups and mainstream conservative groups, demonized by the media, and become unfocused. The entrenched two party system just wasn't going to allow another group to gain too much power.

How can the tea "party" not be too embedded with the republican party when they are republicans? If the Tea party was truly an actual party then they would have actually formed their own party not be republicans pretending to not be republicans even though they still carry the big R next to their name.
 
How can the tea "party" not be too embedded with the republican party when they are republicans? If the Tea party was truly an actual party then they would have actually formed their own party not be republicans pretending to not be republicans even though they still carry the big R next to their name.

I have to agree.
 
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