2/2: Support for Tea Party Grows
Posted by Editor on February 2, 2010 · 6 Comments
Pew Research Center Study–59 percent of Conservatives identify with the Tea Party Movement:
Washington’s frenzied embrace of all things populist in recent weeks notwithstanding, it is far too early to say how much of an impact the Tea Party movement will have on elections this year. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found just 49% expressing either a positive or negative opinion about the Tea Party movement. Similarly, the Field Poll found only about half of California voters expressing a general view of the movement.
But a number of public opinion trends suggest that the movement is likely to attract supporters as it becomes better known. These include: a surge in anti-incumbent sentiment, growing public concerns about big government and the budget deficit, and real anger at Wall Street and the big banks. Most importantly, these sentiments have increased markedly among political independents, who are most likely to be attracted to third party movements.
Is there not a tea party person who reads this website who is willing to publicly reject Tancredo’s suggestion to deny American citizens their constitutional right to vote under the 15th amendment? I’d admire your courage for standing up for the Constitution and the values it embodies. As it stands, I question your dedication to the values our country represents and the Constitution.
Other historical figures have blamed the ills of their country and the world on ethnic minorities, many of whom President Obama is compared to with supreme irony, and began their program of change by denying those minorities their rights. Isn’t it strange to any of you, that a tea party spokesman proposes denying Constitutional rights to a segment of the American citizens (non-English speakers) and all the self-proclaimed patriots are silent?
You can be a tea party member and reject racism. Closing your eyes to that element of your movement doesn’t help your cause. There is racism everywhere, but tea partiers, please reject at least that part of you platform.
I see the Tea Party movement as a Union of Americans that would like to America stay on the path that was set by our founding fathers. “We the People in order to form a more perfect union” etc…. This wonderful group of Americans want to preserve for ourselves and future generations of Americans the American Dream of Freedom and Prosperity. I don’t see the Tea party as a political party, but more as a movement to endorse candidates from any party that wants to see America stay the land of the Free and to be governed by the People for the people. I think this union of tea party Americans is the best Union created.
Tea Party purity:
BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America — you don’t take the name Barack to identify with America.
TANCREDO (speaking at the Tea Party Convention): And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word “vote,” or say it in English [voted].
The Founding Fathers, being recent immigrants, as all were at some point in family history, would not approve.
I have to agree there some a real movement there. I wish the Democrats had that now. But the tea party movement will fail because they have no goals except opposition to whatever President Obama suggests and they have no leader. It’s a movement based solely on vague ideological beliefs (cut taxes! follow the Constitution!) without any specific proposals to rally around. You can win an election because everyone is angry at the status quo and the incumbent. But you can’t win a second election that way.
I for one, don’t want a second election, I want ‘Term Limits’: then we will look at re-elections.
I agree.