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The Incredible Shrinking Tea Party [But S&P Confirms Tea-Party Agenda!]
Washington Post ^ | August 05, 2011 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 08/05/2011 10:31:54 PM PDT by Steelfish

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To: Crim
The Washington Post better hurry up with these hit pieces while they still have enough money to run the presses. Maybe they can keep warm burning old copy of their fishwrap once they can't pay the power bill?

I remember that article! We recycled a half-baked NYT poll, trying to turn people on the Tea Party. Good times! Oh, well, it sure burned nice. Hey, Dionne, give me a swig of that Mad Dog 20/20. Quit hogging the bottle!

21 posted on 08/05/2011 10:58:20 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: BobP

Everything Barack ‘Jackwagon’ Hussein and his socialists do only grows the party more.


Good point. But I no longer trust most Americans judgement to see them for what they are.


22 posted on 08/05/2011 11:01:27 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Steelfish
The TpCaucus was quite large in Nov. 2010...
BUT......... its been grow BIGGER ever since.. much bigger..

I think "someone" hears the Jaws Theme in their head..
They might need a bigger toilet to throw money into..

23 posted on 08/05/2011 11:06:12 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Saltmeat

“This poll is unadulterated propaganda. Its purpose is to mold opinion and not to reflect opinion about the size of the Tea Party. The only poll that matters to date occurred in Nov. 2010. The next poll that matters will be taken in Nov. 2012.”

The media has been shaping public opinion for many years. Repeat often to mold those little mush sheeples brains.


24 posted on 08/05/2011 11:08:44 PM PDT by doc
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To: Steelfish
"New York Times poll..."

Enough said.

25 posted on 08/05/2011 11:10:26 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath Is Forever.)
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To: Steelfish

MSM needs to get over their demographic agenda of herd mentality.... Voters , conservative voters at least do not need a rally or convention to prosper an exist.

We vote with our time an dollars between elections an make sure we take a few like minded folks to the polls on election day.

We don’t presstitute myths ...we vote.

Stay Safe Steelfish !


26 posted on 08/05/2011 11:15:46 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Steelfish
Wow!
A self-selected total of 91 people!
What a joke.

My poll : Out of a total of 18,412, "Do you consider yourself to be a supporter of the TEA Party philosophy?

Yes - 17,988 - 97.7%

No - 424 - 2.3%

It was a little tight there for a while, but the results speak volumes.

27 posted on 08/05/2011 11:17:20 PM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: Steelfish

The Tea Party is amorphous. There is no recognized leader or spokesman.

But if the “Tea Party” were to have another tax day rally like it did in 2009, there would be a good turnout.

And if the Tea Party had a true representative, a real candidate who wasn’t just using the name of the Tea Party to try to get support from conservatives, there might be more people rallying to the Tea Party banner.

If the Republicans marginalize or alienate the Tea Party (as some such as Col. Allen West have unfortunately done), they may find that there is a third party to contend with.

When the level of frustration gets high enough, when Republicans continue to act like Democrats, and at the same time take support of conservatives for granted (”Where else can they turn?”), the time may come when splitting is the only choice left.

We may have to test the New York Times survey in the real world.


28 posted on 08/05/2011 11:18:53 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Steelfish

The American Revolution
Holy war on behalf of liberty and freedom
To secure our liberty and freedom, the Founding Fathers declared independence and fought the American Revolution based on certain First Principles, including protecting unalienable rights, limited government, and the Social Compact.

Prior to the French and Indian War (1756-1763), the colonists possessed substantial autonomy and individual liberty flourished. Following the conflict, the British Empire strongly challenged that autonomy and liberty, and also resolved that the colonists directly pay taxes into the imperial coffers to help reduce the huge debt incurred in the war.

When the Founding Fathers resisted these taxes on the principle that Parliament did not possess the authority to tax the colonists, Britain attacked and denigrated colonial self-rule, declared colonists subject to any act of Parliament, re-imposed internal taxes, closed colonial ports, dissolved colonial representative assemblies, reorganized colonial governments, evaded the right to a jury trial when enforcing its policies, occupied colonial towns with imperial troops quartered in colonial homes, shot colonists, and declared the colonists in a state of rebellion.

The Founding Fathers understood the Empire’s oppression as a direct challenge to limited government, the Social Compact and unalienable rights. To save their liberty, the Founding Fathers revolted. Founding Father Patrick Henry explained that America rebelled for “the holy cause of liberty”

http://www.americassurvivalguide.com/american-revolution.php

This is where we stand today. Tea Partiers are uniting in the cause of liberty. The liberals wanted war, now they have one. Let’s roll!!


29 posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:28 PM PDT by mardi59 (T)
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To: Steelfish

I believe this because the MSM doesn’t have an agenda and poll numbers are never wrong or skewed.


30 posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:46 PM PDT by tiki
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To: ansel12

Yes indeed, got rid of the sunshine patriots.


31 posted on 08/05/2011 11:28:01 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Steelfish
Astro-turf, fringe, racist, extreme, terrorist, shrinking...

Heavy flak = over target

32 posted on 08/05/2011 11:34:05 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Steelfish
Stipulating the decline to be true for the sake of making a point: that would make the Tea Party 50% larger than one of the Democrat Party's main constituencies.

[The fact that it isn't true makes it even sweeter.]

33 posted on 08/05/2011 11:49:11 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
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To: Steelfish
Think I have discovered a $2 Trillion dollar error in their poll. /sarc.
34 posted on 08/05/2011 11:59:46 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Steelfish

They wish the “Tea Party” is shrinking. It is going to swallow them in 2012.


35 posted on 08/06/2011 12:20:01 AM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary (If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist then so can I.)
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To: Steelfish

Hello Mr. Sargent, did you read that WaPo’s profits were off a full 50% from last year?

I grew up reading and then delivering your Lefty rag when I was 13, when the Graham’s hid their bias better.

You are a mere moron Leftist hack shilling for the Democrats and Obie.


36 posted on 08/06/2011 12:38:32 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: wac3rd

There is no TEA Party. The media has invented the TEA Party as a strawman to attact. TEA (Taxed Enough Already) is a ‘movement’ of people attracted to the idea that government is too big, takes too much of our money, and does not return much value. Ask people if they agree with that and you will find that the TEA Party is very large (look at polling on the debt limit increase) and growing.


37 posted on 08/06/2011 3:04:02 AM PDT by wizwor
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To: Steelfish

These stupid bastards still don’t understand the Tea Party MOVEMENT...we are not an identifiable party—we are the vast majority of Americans that have determined that we are going to take America back...there is no leader, but we will replace RINO’s and liberals..


38 posted on 08/06/2011 3:59:46 AM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: Jim Robinson

Let the left bury their heads in the sand. We will bury them at the polls again!


39 posted on 08/06/2011 4:27:01 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Steelfish

Wishful thinking, Greg. Just wait.


40 posted on 08/06/2011 4:28:34 AM PDT by AdaGray
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