TEA Baggers Have Taken Over the Republican Party...

[eyer]

...just a couple of weeks ago, after the debt ceiling was raised, polls indicated that the so-called Tea Party had achieved identity recognition independent of both the Dems and Reps, meaning America now considers the system influenced mostly by 3 parties.

Now, just yesterday, out of a total of 16, 674 votes cast in yesterday's Iowa straw poll, Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann (4,823 votes) beat Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul (4,671 votes) by only 152 votes...

...and their combined vote total represented 57% of all votes cast.

3rd placer former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty received 2,293 votes or 13.57%...

...and promptly withdrew from the nomination process this morning.

Texas Governor Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy only yesterday in South Carolina...

...and still garnered a 6th high total of votes, beating 7th placer former Massachusetts Governor and Rino stalwart Mitt Romney.

The common denominator between Bachmann, Paul, and Perry is that all three are TEA bagger favorites,,,

,,,and Democratic National Committee chair and Democrat Florida Congressman Debbie Wasserman now says the results of the closely-watched Ames Straw Poll in Iowa showed that the tea party movement had taken over the Republican Party," according Eric Dolan of rawstory.com.

"The only winner tonight was the Tea Party," she [Wasserman] said Saturday in a statement.

"All of the Republican candidates have made clear their allegiance to the Tea Party, supporting extreme policies that would hurt the middle class, seniors, and students," Schultz continued.

Unfortunately, though, Wasserman immediately then, and as if totally unconsciously, resorts to her old, habitual Demo vs Rep addiction...

"We're not hearing any new ideas or solutions from Republicans, just the same failed Republican ideas that endangered our economy in the first place. Every single Republican candidate, just like Washington Republicans, is embracing policies that would maintain corporate loopholes and tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, which would force the middle class to bear much of the burden."

"The Ames Straw Poll may be over, but the campaign continues," Schultz said. "As these Republican candidates travel the country, I have no doubt they'll make clear to voters where they stand-on the side of large corporations and the wealthiest Americans, not the middle class, seniors, or students."

Obviously, Wasserman hasn't quite grasped the reading of the TEA leaves yet...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/...tea-party-the-only-winner-in-ames-straw-poll/

 

[RobDownSouth]

We should all give thanks to God that the Tea Party's popularity within the ranks of the Republican party doesn't extend to the general population in America.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Nobody gets the point here.

The TEA people are hated by both Democrats and Republican mud-sticks for different reasons, but it all looks the same in the polling.

The TEA people will decimate establishment GOP candidates in the primaries.

The Democrats will rub their hand and chirp on and on about the two senatorial losers the TEA folks had in 2010.

Uh-oh..... Then, at the general election, everyone will be SHOCKED, shocked, I tell you.....

To see that the TEA people have taken over both houses of Congress.

Oh, the humanity!

* sobs *

Hahahahaha.

 

[unregistered]

 

[miles]

Debbie Wassermanananay Schulzie is a perfect example of a pandering class warfare stooge. Making her the DNC Chair is so typical of Democrats' obsession with sticking a gun in their mouths and pulling the trigger.

Keep it up, guys.

 

[Wrong Element]

And in other breaking news, water is wet.

The Tea Party and the Republican base are the same thing, as I've been saying all along. Their pretense of "a pox on both mainstream parties" has always been just that, a pretense.

 

[rosco rathbone]

And in other breaking news, water is wet.

The Tea Party and the Republican base are the same thing, as I've been saying all along. Their pretense of "a pox on both mainstream parties" has always been just that, a pretense.

I think it's safe to say that the TOP base is alienated from the traditional DC-Wall Street GOP though. The Romney backers. The difference between them and the also-alienated liberal base is that they actually took over their party.

 

[eyer]

I think it's safe to say that the TOP base is alienated from the traditional DC-Wall Street GOP though. The Romney backers. The difference between them and the also-alienated liberal base is that they actually took over their party.

What's left of the Party formerly-known-as Republican is basically now divided mostly between the TEA baggers and the country-club RINOs - and there is no compromise to be had between those two sects.

The RINOs are the next to become extinct...

...unless they convert.

The unfortunate fact for the socialist side is that its alienated have to go so much farther left to compensate for the TEA baggers' already-accomplished move in the complete opposite direction...

...and those true progressives haven't even started that journey yet.

But, the most sad fact for the socialists now is that the TEA baggers have wrested back control of the American constitutional/political process (see direction dictated in the debt ceiling process as evidence)...

...and losing their "democratic vote" leverage, now all the socialists have at their disposal to take the country with them on their destined journey much further left is the tool they've had to so disingenuously conceal all along: the hammer, FORCE.

So...

...we're at the beginning of the end of this round of the debate in this country, the naturally inevitable confrontation between two diametrically opposed political philosophies: socialism vs individual liberty.

Socialists now have to go on an intense, natural (to their political philosophy) offensive to gain any ground what so ever...

...while the champions of individual liberty have the natural duty of keeping home field advantage while relying on their own natural strength: defense of the Constitution.

November 6, 2012 might just shape up to be Yorktown all over again...

 

[miles]

What's left of the Party formerly-known-as Republican is basically now divided mostly between the TEA baggers and the country-club RINOs - and there is no compromise to be had between those two sects.

The RINOs are the next to become extinct...

...unless they convert.

The unfortunate fact for the socialist side is that its alienated have to go so much farther left to compensate for the TEA baggers' already-accomplished move in the complete opposite direction...

...and those true progressives haven't even started that journey yet.

But, the most sad fact for the socialists now is that the TEA baggers have wrested back control of the American constitutional/political process (see direction dictated in the debt ceiling process as evidence)...

...and losing their "democratic vote" leverage, now all the socialists have at their disposal to take the country with them on their destined journey much further left is the tool they've had to so disingenuously conceal all along: the hammer, FORCE.

So...

...we're at the beginning of the end of this round of the debate in this country, the naturally inevitable confrontation between two diametrically opposed political philosophies: socialism vs individual liberty.

Socialists now have to go on an intense, natural (to their political philosophy) offensive to gain any ground what so ever...

...while the champions of individual liberty have the natural duty of keeping home field advantage while relying on their own natural strength: defense of the Constitution.

November 6, 2012 might just shape up to be Yorktown all over again...

Great post.

 

[Beco]

Would America elect another Governor of Texas, President?

Perry said voters should look at Romney’s track record as governor of Massachusetts against his years as governor in Texas. "Mine doesn’t need any propping up. We’ll just let it stand there and let people examine it."

"The fact is this race is going to be about jobs; this is going to be about who can create an environment where people know that they can take care of their families," Perry said in the interview when asked about his record compared with others in the field.

"I happen to think that I'm as qualified, or better qualified, than anyone in the field to not only make that claim, but to lay out that vision and then lay out those principles that have worked well in Texas. We’ve created more jobs than any other state in the nation. As a matter of fact in the last two years, we’ve created almost half of all the jobs created in America."

 

[koalabear]

Perry said voters should look at Romney’s track record as governor of Massachusetts against his years as governor in Texas. "Mine doesn’t need any propping up. We’ll just let it stand there and let people examine it."

"The fact is this race is going to be about jobs; this is going to be about who can create an environment where people know that they can take care of their families," Perry said in the interview when asked about his record compared with others in the field.

"I happen to think that I'm as qualified, or better qualified, than anyone in the field to not only make that claim, but to lay out that vision and then lay out those principles that have worked well in Texas. We’ve created more jobs than any other state in the nation. As a matter of fact in the last two years, we’ve created almost half of all the jobs created in America."

He scares the libs. If he gets elected they have to find jobs.

 

[Beco]

He scares the libs. If he gets elected they have to find jobs.

he is kicking it in Texas, Jesus freak and all....he gets my vote

 

[koalabear]

he is kicking it in Texas, Jesus freak and all....he gets my vote

Yes, but did you hear he ran over an armadillo on the way to church!

 

[Beco]

Meanwhile Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who announced his presidential bid Saturday in South Carolina, continued his swing through New Hampshire before heading to Iowa later today, where he will share a stage with Bachmann.

During an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, Perry took an early swipe at Mitt Romney’s record on jobs as governor of Massachusetts. During Romney’s years in office, Massachusetts ranked near the bottom of the 50 states in job creation – with a percentage increase of about 1%, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.