Where does the tea party come from? Activist Republicans, study shows.

Seems that, unlike what especially many on the right like to say, which is that the Tea Party consists of many Independents and Democrats, that it is in fact, a spin-off of disgruntled Republicans. Which many, espeically on the Left have been saying for the last 3 years.

In fact, Tea Party supporters were for the most part activist Republicans well before both the financial crisis and before Obama’s election. Campbell and Putnam found that Republican affiliation was actually the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support, and that Tea Party supporters were more likely than other people to have lobbied their public officials before.

Today’s Tea Party supporters are disproportionately white social conservatives, who, Campbell and Putnam say, “had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and still do.” And while Tea Party leaders say their main concern is limiting the size of government, Campbell and Putnam found that the cause that really unites rank-and-file Tea Partiers is a desire for more religion in government. Campbell and Putnam argue that their public devotion—not their ideas about taxes—explains the appeal of figures like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Texas governor Rick Perry to the Tea Party.

Read it and weep: Where Does the Tea Party Come From? | Politeia | Big Think


You're incorrect--the Tea Party movement was spurred on by sky-rocketing Federal Government spending--and the knowledge of what the Federal Government was spending money on.

You can see today--that the new freshman tea party members holds the Republican members feet to the fire along with democrats. The outrage over all the bail-outs and Obamacare was the catapult for the growth in the tea party movement in this country. The tea party movement in this country is disliked by many Rino republicans and Democrats.

Today--tea party membership includes ALL races--and 40% of this group consists of Independents and Democrats. In fact, the tea party is the ONLY bi-partisan group in this country today.

Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Democrats or independents - The Hill's Ballot Box

And here is the color within the tea party.

Response to Olbermann: "People of color" at Tea Parties - YouTube

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My take:

Rick Santelli’s Planted Rant ? | The Big Picture

“How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?

What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that’s because it was.


What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.”

My nomination for tin foil helmet post of the month. :lol:

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Today’s Tea Party supporters are disproportionately white social conservatives, who, Campbell and Putnam say, “had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and still do.” And while Tea Party leaders say their main concern is limiting the size of government, Campbell and Putnam found that the cause that really unites rank-and-file Tea Partiers is a desire for more religion in government. Campbell and Putnam argue that their public devotion—not their ideas about taxes—explains the appeal of figures like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Texas governor Rick Perry to the Tea Party.

Read it and weep: Where Does the Tea Party Come From? | Politeia | Big Think
Yeah, real "big thinking" liberoidals at it again! :rolleyes:

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Ah, the Racist Card Card.
 

The debt is over $14.4 TRILLION. that ".4" Is $400 Billion.


Please explain why you and yours are against cutting spending at all?

the dangers of getting on a high horse is that it's easy to pull you off.

you're worried about $1 Billion when we want to cut trillions.

I swear, the left is full of fucking morons that think money is limitless.

Ummm.....they ran on a platform decrying earmarks/pork. Nice try though. ;)

Thank you for not denying that the left wants to crush the country under unpayable levels of debt.

Your honesty is refreashing.

but

That wasn't the whole platform.
 
The left is so transparently hypocritical. During the eight years that they gave a damn about ending the wars there were protest after protest in which the American flag was burned, Bush was compared to Hitler--all that and over 90% of the people that attended were WHITE. But no one on the right was suggesting that perhaps it was racist because there weren't enough black people there.

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It's like playing where's Waldo.

The left is the one that exploits the issue of race to denigrate and attack their opponents. They are the ones that obsess about it.
 

The debt is over $14.4 TRILLION. that ".4" Is $400 Billion.


Please explain why you and yours are against cutting spending at all?

the dangers of getting on a high horse is that it's easy to pull you off.

you're worried about $1 Billion when we want to cut trillions.

I swear, the left is full of fucking morons that think money is limitless.

Ummm.....they ran on a platform decrying earmarks/pork. Nice try though. ;)

This is why they want to run against Hatch (R) in the primaries. I hope they do because he's the worst kind of Repub, status- quo, country club type and it'll make him miserable :)

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The left is so transparently hypocritical. During the eight years that they gave a damn about ending the wars there were protest after protest in which the American flag was burned, Bush was compared to Hitler--all that and over 90% of the people that attended were WHITE. But no one on the right was suggesting that perhaps it was racist because there weren't enough black people there.

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It's like playing where's Waldo.

The left is the one that exploits the issue of race to denigrate and attack their opponents. They are the ones that obsess about it.

"I see white people"

;)
 
The left is so transparently hypocritical. During the eight years that they gave a damn about ending the wars there were protest after protest in which the American flag was burned, Bush was compared to Hitler--all that and over 90% of the people that attended were WHITE. But no one on the right was suggesting that perhaps it was racist because there weren't enough black people there.

20080904_rnc_protesters_33.jpg


demo18307_wideweb__470x312,0.jpg


antiwar-protests-DC2.jpg


It's like playing where's Waldo.

The left is the one that exploits the issue of race to denigrate and attack their opponents. They are the ones that obsess about it.

"I see white people"

;)
Did you even look at the picture? How about the center picture just left and right of the peace sign. That's what's wrong with the left. They look at something and only see what they want to see.
 
Where were the t-publicans when Bu$h II was continuously putting in huge "emergency supplementals" (off-budget/unpaid-for requests) for Iraq?

The Tea Party was gradually assembled over the last 5yrs or so. We weren't very large when bush was in office but those of us that were around were no backers of bush. It's just like the TEA PARTY in Congress, They have been there for 6 months and everyone wants to know why they haven't accomplished everything they want. Give it time. We're much bigger now that when bush was in office, and we'll be much larger after obama too.
 
The left is so transparently hypocritical. During the eight years that they gave a damn about ending the wars there were protest after protest in which the American flag was burned, Bush was compared to Hitler--all that and over 90% of the people that attended were WHITE. But no one on the right was suggesting that perhaps it was racist because there weren't enough black people there.

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demo18307_wideweb__470x312,0.jpg


antiwar-protests-DC2.jpg


It's like playing where's Waldo.

The left is the one that exploits the issue of race to denigrate and attack their opponents. They are the ones that obsess about it.

"I see white people"

;)
Did you even look at the picture? How about the center picture just left and right of the peace sign. That's what's wrong with the left. They look at something and only see what they want to see.

The black shape?

It looks like a woman in a burqa.

Beyond that, I have no other guess as to who or what it could be.
 
Did you even look at the picture? How about the center picture just left and right of the peace sign. That's what's wrong with the left. They look at something and only see what they want to see.

The black shape?

It looks like a woman in a burqa.

Beyond that, I have no other guess as to who or what it could be.
As I said "See just what you want to see".

Jesus Christ, that isn't damned point. Even if you did find Waldo in those pictures the fact is that the overwhelming majority of people that attended those anti-war rallies were white. MSNBC has said countless times that the lack of black people at Tea Party events is indicative of racism, and it is so laughably demonstrated to be such ignorant logic.
 
The black shape?

It looks like a woman in a burqa.

Beyond that, I have no other guess as to who or what it could be.
As I said "See just what you want to see".

Jesus Christ, that isn't damned point. Even if you did find Waldo in those pictures the fact is that the overwhelming majority of people that attended those anti-war rallies were white. MSNBC has said countless times that the lack of black people at Tea Party events is indicative of racism, and it is so laughably demonstrated to be such ignorant logic.

Thanks.

I don't know what cutter was blithering on about. Out of those pics there's only one person that could be black, but you would have to assume that black hair, meant black person.

And the smallness of the IQ needed to assume that.....
 
Seems that, unlike what especially many on the right like to say, which is that the Tea Party consists of many Independents and Democrats, that it is in fact, a spin-off of disgruntled Republicans. Which many, espeically on the Left have been saying for the last 3 years.

In fact, Tea Party supporters were for the most part activist Republicans well before both the financial crisis and before Obama’s election. Campbell and Putnam found that Republican affiliation was actually the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support, and that Tea Party supporters were more likely than other people to have lobbied their public officials before.

Today’s Tea Party supporters are disproportionately white social conservatives, who, Campbell and Putnam say, “had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and still do.” And while Tea Party leaders say their main concern is limiting the size of government, Campbell and Putnam found that the cause that really unites rank-and-file Tea Partiers is a desire for more religion in government. Campbell and Putnam argue that their public devotion—not their ideas about taxes—explains the appeal of figures like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Texas governor Rick Perry to the Tea Party.

Read it and weep: Where Does the Tea Party Come From? | Politeia | Big Think

Did you actually read this before you posted it? You really want to associate yourself with this guy? You would think that if you are a professor, like this guy is albeit at the University of San Francisco, that you could at least put together a short essay without using logical fallacies. It's not even worthy of his students let alone someone that's supposed to be teaching them. He creates a staw-boogeyman and then proceeds to knock it down. It's so trite regurgitated, it's pathetic. Additionally, he provides nothing, no statistics or studies to backup his opinion of the evil religious boogeyman, just his ass talking.

If this is your idea of intellect and someone whom we should pay attention to, you are sadly mistaken. This guy shouldn't even be listened to at the corner bar let alone in serious political dialogue.
 
Seems that, unlike what especially many on the right like to say, which is that the Tea Party consists of many Independents and Democrats, that it is in fact, a spin-off of disgruntled Republicans. Which many, espeically on the Left have been saying for the last 3 years.

In fact, Tea Party supporters were for the most part activist Republicans well before both the financial crisis and before Obama’s election. Campbell and Putnam found that Republican affiliation was actually the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support, and that Tea Party supporters were more likely than other people to have lobbied their public officials before.

Today’s Tea Party supporters are disproportionately white social conservatives, who, Campbell and Putnam say, “had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and still do.” And while Tea Party leaders say their main concern is limiting the size of government, Campbell and Putnam found that the cause that really unites rank-and-file Tea Partiers is a desire for more religion in government. Campbell and Putnam argue that their public devotion—not their ideas about taxes—explains the appeal of figures like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Texas governor Rick Perry to the Tea Party.

Read it and weep: Where Does the Tea Party Come From? | Politeia | Big Think


Good article thanks








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Anybody see this? :eek: :D

Anti-earmark Tea Party Caucus takes $1 billion in earmarks | Exclusives - Yahoo! News
"It's disturbing to see the Tea Party Caucus requested that much in earmarks. This is their time to put up or shut up, to be blunt," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste. "There's going to be a huge backlash if they continue to request earmarks."

Thank you. Excellent information.

THE PROBLEM with this ARTICLE---:cuckoo::cuckoo: The "supposed" earmarks were for 2010--and the new freshman tea party members didn't take their seats until January 2011---:lol::lol: Therefore these earmarks were submitted by DEMOCRATS who controlled the house at that time.

Nice try--LIBTARDS.
 
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