It’s true.
The takeaway? America hates the TEA Party and really desires a guy like, say, Romney or Huntsman, who will recognize the need to raise taxes and not get all bunged up about debt or deficit spending.
Seriously. Political experts say so.
So. Back to your holes, Hobbits. The serious, sober, realistic adults who got us here will take over now. Because you demand it!
Pragmatism.
I could stomach about 15 seconds of Mark Davis, the Dallas-based “conservative” talking head, this morning defending his desire for Perry or Romney over Bachmann or Paul because B&P aren’t “electable” and he’s not a RINO for saying that they’re teh crayzee (even though he personally likes them a lot and only h8rs would question that). It was all about polling and “independent voters” and I just couldn’t take it.
The Republicans totally could have won in 1936 and 1940 because the welfare state wasn’t all that popular — especially not after a decade-long depression. But they wouldn’t run on dismantling the New Deal — they ran by arguing they could run it better. And they lost and lost and lost and lost. If there is no difference between the parties, why vote for the me-too guy?
If all us Republicans were registered Democrat, we’d have this election thing in the bag.
The TEA Party is America. The not-TEA party is the bunch that voted to fundamentally transform America.
I don’t care if I’m unpopular with that bunch. In fact, I’d look at myself suspiciously if I was popular with that bunch.
Americans are demanding Romney, Ella.
Demanding him!
You’re powerless to prevent such momentum. Give in. Sit back and enjoy it. Why, Mark Davis, conservative, has already unbuttoned his pants and popped the lid on the Vaseline jar.
I’m so ashamed of this racist country of ours for not getting behind this good man.
It’s a mist. It can dissipate and reappear in all its perpetual racist glory at any time under different names.
What The Hill’s propaganda bitch Alexander Bolton doesn’t understand is that camp bumblefuck has become so cultish and mean-spirited and denouncey that they’re the antithesis of independent-mindedness.
Aligning yourself with bumble is akin to having “drone” tattooed on your forehead anymore.
The Tea Party has a robust and tasty menu of things what they are indeed for. The debt ceiling debate wasn’t tailor-made for to showcase that… but campaign 2012 is threatening to be exactly that kind of showcase as well as a referendum on bumblefuck’s abysmal record.
Alexander wants to freeze the Tea Party in the amber of a summertime debt ceiling debate what is fast-receding from the political consciousness. It’s just not gonna happen.
“It’s a mist. It can dissipate and reappear in all its perpetual racist glory at any time under different names.”
Yep. That’s why proggs are desperate to characterize it as an identity group(as opposed to what it really is; anyone that desires the government stick to it’s constitutional limits and butt out of our personal lives), so they can go Alinsky on it’s ass.
Approval has coatails.
she looks like my grandma’s teapot
Hell, I knew the Dems would be pushing for Romney or some other squish last year, and said so. Huntsman? Another damned RINO, and not even marginally convincing. McCain, Mk. II…
PS: I am the wind!
Hear me blow. Hard.
Of course those political experts are proclaiming the Tea Party dead. They want it dead and are hoping that if they say it often enough the results they want will come about. The Tea Party threatens their very existence, their incomes, no surprise they proclaim it dead.
What is surprising is that they are doing this now when they have been spending their time previously declaring it irrelevant; no, racist; no, violent; no, extreme; no,…
Proclaiming the death highlights their fear, for if it were truly dead they wouldn’t be saying anything about it because it would be, well, dead. Only historians waste their time talking about dead political movements – when was the last time any political expert seriously mentioned the John Birch Society?
Their fear is palpable, and I for one enjoy it.
Their fear is palpable, and I for one enjoy it.
As do I, though it remains important for us to counter these assertions with consistent statements of our own. Preferably statements that are confident, optimistic, and perhaps a little cheeky, along the lines of “If you think the Tea Party’s dead, you probably also think that the Summer of Recovery is in full swing, and that Obama has Saved Or Created ten million jobs. We’ll see you at the Statehouse on Saturday!”
It’s just a step or two above “I’m rubber; you’re glue,” but sometimes that’s the level you gotta play at.
Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds, Dharma & Greg, and the only CM cast member to tweet political comments), tweeted this:
Debt increase by presidents: Reagan 186%, Bush 54% Clinton 41% Bush II 72% Obama 23%. Source CBO http://t.co/Hj3csMv.
Totally doesn’t sound right, and he doesn’t provide a link. Anyone know otherwise?
the commenter guy at soupsoup says
this strikes me as true my understanding is that Obama racks up debt like a motherfucker
And he’s kept on doing it, year after year. But we need a balanced approach to deficit reduction.
It’s like methadone for appropriators, don’chya know!
Waitaminnit — proggies using distorted numbers to make deceitful political points? That never happens!
I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singin’ words, gonna vent our frustration
If we don’t, gonna blow a fifty amp fuse…
And of course, Reagan had a fully Democrat Congress in charge of the spending.
Which, not uncoincidentally, so did Obama!
Tweet that, motherfucker.
Waitaminnit — Proggies blaming/crediting Presidents for the actions of Congress? That never happens!
Tweet that, motherfucker.
I’ll tweet it, but geez, no need for the names.
dicentra,
This may be of assistance.
I have to side with Jeff on this one Di, though myself, I think I would have gone with “asshole”, in the interests of precision and accuracy.
I mean, I don’t know his mother…
Well! If academic political experts and polls taken by CNN, the NYT, and CBS say so it must be true! I recommend we all lay back, close our eyes, and think of America.
Or not. You’d think by now that all these ever-so-smart people would have figured out that the continual rumors of our demise might be slightly exaggerated, but I suppose hope springs eternal. And the surprise party we’re going to hold for them on election day wouldn’t be any fun if it weren’t a surprise!
I have to side with Jeff on this one Di,
*sigh* I failed to signal my intention accurately.
I knew that Jeff’s epithet was directed at Gibson (whose character beat an unsub to death with his bare hands, so there’s that), but I was feigning that I believed that the epithet was directed at me; the juxtaposition between Jeff’s obvious intent and my misprision would have been intensely funny had I pulled it off.
Yes it would. Really, it would.
I got it, di.
Geez, thanks cranky. Couldn’t leave it as di being the thick one, could ya…
“Academic political experts”
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, teach gym.