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2010-10-27 Home Front: Politix

What's Next for the Tea Party; Monument or Tombstone?

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-10-27 12:18|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 So sick of this meme....lefty msm trying to frame avg Americans as whackos.

The Tea Party is made up of avg folks who are sick of the crap in DC. They want a return to fiscal sanity and constitutional govt. Pretty reasonable stuff...BTW - this is Middle America talking.

Specter's an ass.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-10-27 13:25|| 2010-10-27 13:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Neither mister, the Tea Party will not just end in a week.

And it is not just Republicans.

And it is not just Middle America.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-27 15:16|| 2010-10-27 15:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Specter does have a point - it is problemsome when the fringes of the parties gain control; that's been true for the Dems for a while and will likely cost the Pubs several House and especially Senate seats next week. Each party fights to identify and capture the one middle voter, so we alternate between one 'extreme' (relative to that middle voter) and the other.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-10-27 15:19|| 2010-10-27 15:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Dear Shannon, if I were you, I'd pray the Mid Terms work Tea Party way. Hint, ballots are not the only pertinent B-word.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-10-27 16:24|| 2010-10-27 16:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't decide who is more frightened of Tea Partiers: career Dem incumbents who realized too late that the TPers had broad, centrist, middle-class appeal, career GOP incumbents who discovered - too late! - that the TP was not their pet pony to ride to the comeback, the political operators of both stripes who see their carefully constructed designs being smashed, or the MSM, who try one unsuccessful narrative after another; They're a flash in the pan, they're poor uneducated racist slobbovians, they don't have any defined plan!
Alas, the only political tombstone that will be etched is that for the political status quo as it existed prior to about mid 2009.
I can really see November from my house. Quite clearly now.

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-10-27 17:18|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-10-27 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the majority of the people have awakened to the dangers of career politicians who say "screw the will of the people." I think they realize the need to keep after the scoundrels and replace them frequently and often.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-27 18:24|| 2010-10-27 18:24|| Front Page Top

#7 will likely cost the Pubs several House and especially Senate seats next week.

Oh really? Which GOP seats is being "TEA party" going to cost them?

I think you are drinking the MSM koolaide to hang any lost House and Senate seats next week. It looks like incumbents even in heavily Democrat areas like Djou in Hawaii and Cao in Louisiana will hold, not lose, their seats.

Look at the TEA Party bringing out much larger numbers of voters in a midterm, which makes the GOP competitive in places where it should not be, and blowing away opposition where it should normally be close.

For example see Florida and Rubio running away with the race in the face of a mainstream moderate Crist, and West Virginia where the Senate race went from Dem blow out to a narrow GOP lead. Look at Chet Edwards here in Texas, multi-term incumbent being beaten by a TEA Party backed candidate.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-10-27 19:07|| 2010-10-27 19:07|| Front Page Top

#8 If the Tea Party wins big I suspect we'll see a number of term limits propositions on ballots in 2012 as well as some talk about a balanced budget amendment (or at least a pledge to support that sort of thing) in 2012.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-10-27 23:31|| 2010-10-27 23:31|| Front Page Top

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