"Tea" Party more popular than Repubicans

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl1017

A new Rasmussen poll finds that the tea party movement's popularity is growing, so much so that it garners more support than the Republican party on a generic Congressional ballot. The poll hints that the burgeoning discontent among conservatives within the GOP threatens to splinter the party at a time when the popularity of President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress are waning as we head into an election year.

The tea party movement was conceived out of antipathy for President Obama's economic stimulus plan and cultivated by groups like Freedom Works and conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck. Its guiding principals are centered around opposition to tax increases and the expansion of federal government spending. The movement rose to prominence when it organized highly-publicized protest gatherings across the country on April 15th of this year.

As reported by Talking Points Memo, the respondents to the Rasmussen poll were asked the following question:

"Okay, suppose the Tea Party Movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?"

The response of all those who were polled was Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23% and Republican 18%. Further, the poll found that independents are more inclined to vote for a tea party candidate over Democratic or Republican candidates.

While some Republicans have expressed dismay over the emergence of the tea party movement, others have suggested that the GOP should embrace the group and its issues.

Tea party sympathizers recently proposed a resolution to make the RNC withhold its endorsement and funding unless candidates pass an "ideological purity test." The movement will hold its first national convention this January in Nashville, and Glenn Beck has indicated that he intends to stake out a more activist role in politics going forward by holding seminars across the country to educate conservatives on how to run for office without the support of a major political party.

But the Republican party has yet to determine whether or not they can harness the energy emanating from the right wing without being pulled out of the mainstream. This dilemma was highlighted by the GOP's November loss of a congressional seat it had held since the 1800s, after a tea party-supported candidate pressured the establishment Republican out of the race. That race suggested something rather striking: while the GOP may not be able to win without the support of the tea party movement, they might not be able to win with it running the show either.

Hooray for the fall of the two party system!

Now all we have to do is kick the left wing nuts out of the Democrat party.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Now all we have to do is kick the left wing nuts out of the Democrat party.

No, the counterpart to this would be the leftwing nuts taking over the Democratic party.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
No, the counterpart to this would be the leftwing nuts taking over the Democratic party.

They already did that. 😛

Personally, i'd love it for the GOP to split into multiple parties. Seems like it would decrease their chances of winning much.

I'd love to see the Republicans AND the Democrats, IE the Republicrats, go away.

On the other side, I guarantee you that Social Democrats and/or Democratic Socialists are more popular with liberals than the Democratic Party right now.

Both are reactions to the "inverted totalitarianism" theory proving true except the tea party people are playing right into the hands of the people they're supposedly against.

Too bad american liberals are too scared to form a real liberal party.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Too bad american liberals are too scared to form a real liberal party.

They can and then name it the Epic Fail Party.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Too bad american liberals are too scared to form a real liberal party.

I'm pretty sure that if there was ever a truly representative, reform minded party with popular support behind it in the current culture, the response would be REX 84 (which is what it was intended for anyway and why Oliver North should be executed as a traitor) and creative domestic use of the neutron bomb.

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I'd love to see the Republicans AND the Democrats, IE the Republicrats, go away.

And be replaced with these people?

Originally posted by WickedDynamite
They can and then name it the Epic Fail Party.

😆

And after the Liberal Party epically fails, the tea party should have a Tea Bag party. WEEEEEEEE!

Originally posted by Darth Jello
I'm pretty sure that if there was ever a truly representative, reform minded party with popular support behind it in the current culture, the response would be REX 84 (which is what it was intended for anyway and why Oliver North should be executed as a traitor) and creative domestic use of the neutron bomb.

REX 84, huh?

DRAMMATICS, DRAMMATICS! 😆

(Sorry for the double post. Workin' away, here.)

It was thought up as a way to continue government in cases of mass dissent, especially during wars and police actions.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
It was thought up as a way to continue government in cases of mass dissent, especially during wars and police actions.

I know.

I was continuing a joke that I have with you where you say something that is over-the-top and/or drammatic to make a point.

Republicans split, probably be the more moderate Conservatives with someone like Powell leading them and then those other assholes lead by someone like Limbaugh.

I'd welcome the Rep moderates lead by a Powell-type though, over the current Democratic party, at this point in time.

I think the best idea would be for the republicans and conservative democrats to merge into a central party, and then hyper-conservatives can have the tea party and also a liberal party on the left.

Would give a wider range of options and lead to more actual change in US politics imo.

The Obama administration is tanking and people are realizing Democrats are bigger scumbags then Republicans could ever dream of being.

We could see a REAL Republican party form in the next decade..one can hope.

One certainly could, I can agree with you on that. The current christian-right hijacked one is a joke.

Originally posted by KidRock
The Obama administration is tanking and people are realizing Democrats are bigger scumbags then Republicans could ever dream of being.

We could see a REAL Republican party form in the next decade..one can hope.

You mean like Lincoln-Roosevelt-Eisenhower Republicans? The kind that bust the shit out of businesses, raise taxes, and initiate progressive social policies? Cause that would be a nice change in pace.

Unless you mean Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Those aren't republicans, those are fascists.