Tea Party Fallout: Independents Turned Off, GOP Worried

Always listen to what the police tell you, they are always right! ROFL!! I love how they react when he picks up the second gun!! LOL!

Just a little reminder of history: The Boston Tea Party was not about a tax increase. I'm sure that comes as a shock, not the history you remember. Check the first-person account of George Hewes online as he tells about 1773 when the East India Tea Company got a monopoly on American tea sales, and a tax cut from the government (king). Yes folks, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against a tax cut for the giant corporations while average American citizens were denied the opportunity to make a living. Does that sound like anything you might be facing today?

such a good little liberal....run along and take your flintstone vitamin.

Both parties are pretty much dead. The democratic party still has a lot of supporters left, but they will soon find out that Obama is not serving their interests. Just look at the headlines of today and it is already apparent.

Neither party represents what all of the American people want, which is a government that does not overstep the authority given to it by the people and the constitution.

The only decent politicians left are Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.

Good luck getting one of them elected in 2012....

Slarabee,
i have only been checking this site for a week now and you give the same old crap. your link says "...the fallout has some Republicans nervous." and named are two people that no one has ever heard of. I am still waiting for facts when you disputed my post on your last posting about the Tea Parties.

He is right, do you think that bringing out all of the extremist and putting them front and center, are going to attract people? I haven't been a republican in a long time and seeing the way you all have acted in the last year makes me glad i switched sides.

"I do not have time for you. If you dispute the article's veracity take it up with the author."
Typical, if you post the article i assume you agree with it.......but won't back up.
If you don't have time then don't post the crap anymore

I don't see how Republicans could NOT be worried by what they saw at those tea parties. Polls have been showing for decades now that more and more Americans are rejecting racism, sexism, ethnophobia and other forms of intolerance. Anyone who cares deeply about the Party's future would have to look out across those placards and hope that they were NOT representative of the views of the Party's base. Because if so, the Party's increasing marginalization is inevitable. I find it hard to believe that Republican leadership would allow that to happen. I will be interested to see if they allow a little time to pass so it does not look like they are responding specifically to these events and then come out hard against the most heated rhetoric on display that day.

Just goes to show that there are crazies in the Republican party too.

I actually hope that the Republican party is NOT worried about the display of idiots because I'm betting that when educated people get a snapshot of the beer swilling, confederate flag waving, snake handling religious gun nuts that the Republican party refers to as the "real Americans"..after seeing them on tv the people with reasoning ability will not want to be lumped in with the whack jobs. For those such as cmdinc, paratus clowneater or whatever his name is, here is the kind of evidence that is missing from your rants...follow the link and see for yourselves the difference between education and IQ of red states vs. blue;
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/red-blue-states-summary.htm

watching you people attempting to match wits with slarabee is like watching a guy with a bow and arrow up against an Apache gun ship...no contest

To every Current user:

Please take a moment to check out this story and vote it up:

http://current.com/items/89977089_abduct-yourself.htm

Why is it that Americans care so much about our money- so much so that we take to the streets and waste perfectly good tea - but the most fundamental human tragedies, such as innocent children living every day in fear and bloodshed, goes so unnoticed?

The event in the story is going to be a powerful and possibly history-making occasion.

All it needs is you spreading the word and hopefully getting involved.

thank you.

Eleganza - not evey one of the protesters fit the mold you layed out for an average Joe - there were hundreds of thousands at these protests, and labeling them idiots doesn't really show you in the brightest of spotlights now, does it?
The fact that your ilk is foaming at the mouth and trying to misrepresent this event as something completely different means nothing - this was a protest by Americans, as allowed by yours and my Constitution - and you can go smear yourself all over with shit, bile and vomit and it still won't change the fact that masses are not agreeing with Hussein's handling of this country! So go ahead, engage in name calling, trying to discredit the bloggers here - that is the modus operandi of your ilk - we know your game...

Ganza - what he promissed and what he is delivering are two completely different things. I am not arguing the point of him winning the election - same as you shouldn't argue the point that millions of people do not agree with his approach - and that list is growing. His popularity has fallen since he got up on the throne and I bet if the election happened today - he would not win. Look, can you deny that he is "dirty"? That he is now paying back on the pre-election investment of those who propped him up there? That most of his appointees are involved in corruption of one soft or another? That he is reversing our American foreign policy and bending over in front of our enemies, regardless of the fact that they are tyrants and offer no freedom to their people? Even Clinton didn't do that? New approach you will say. FAILURE and imminent danger - that's what I see. More and more people are waking up to Hussein's true ways - look, even CNN is dropping their pre-election strictly pro-Barrack direction. I am forced to watch them in the gym - and I am happy to see more real-life reporting - with open criticizm and less blind following. Look, I didn't use any 4-letter words. You don't insult me - and I have no reason to do the same...

awesome pic, the lady with the ignorance sign in one hand and a racial slur across her chest.

hehe igordy, umm you speak of Obama making mistakes, i'm sure he has, and will, in the future, he is after all human. you say that your beloved shrub made mistakes as well, but the magnitude of his mistakes , like say, in handling 9/11, the nearly trillion dollar mistake in Iraq, the colossal mishandling of katrina, far outweigh any "mistakes" like raising taxes. where is the government to get revenue if not through taxes? we're certainly not going to rape another country for oil again, and i dont see corporations giving the government money out of the goodness of their hearts. which would be a greater mistake, more millitary adventurism, or generating revenue through peaceable means?

I hope this brings awareness about the Libertarian Party and others.

yessss... the libertarians. lets just all NOT pay taxes and see where that gets us.

The Republican strategy relies on greed and stupidity. Reps are either trying to keep what they have and get more or their trying to preserver "their way" of life. The problem they are having is greed is on trial now and the last administration used up all the stupid so they have little left to work with. Oddly the few Republicans that show a glimmer of hope of being decent can shine through the dogma and hypocrisy for the moment but there simply aren't enough of them to effect real change.

The whole problem with this entire thing is that people are whining about taxes and now they want to protest for the first time in their lives when, if everyone would just realize, that there are not laws stating that federal taxes have to be paid in the first place. In fact, the supreme court has found federal taxes unconstitutional in the past. The only thing those taxes go towards are paying on the interest of the loans of our money to the privet corporation we call the Federal Reserve. And since the government borrowed the money that we get paid from (which is in turn loaned with interest) we are never going to pay off the national debt. So why should we pay those taxes if it is unconstitutional? If you don't like the taxes, don't pay em.

Your perception of what has happened is your desire of what you want to happen. Those who stand for themselves, and for those who cannot, are not actors, proffessionals, or paid for their beliefs. You must hear their message for what it is-exactly what they say. No interpretation is needed. And ABOVE ALL, where they are from, what they are wearing, how they vote, and what race is of no matter whatsoever. There was no political party agenda or organization. This is grass roots concern for a generation who has no problem spending what they don't have, living on credit, and dying in debt. No family can survive this type of spending. No company can survive this type of operation. What makes our country any different? If our very real forefathers sacrificed their security, fortunes. and lives to give us the oppertunity to build this country to what we have, then is it so much to ask that we only spend what we have-enjoy what we are borrowing from our children- and each make our own way? The human nature to judge on looks ,accent, color, clothes, address, or whatever is a daily challenge to all who humanity, It is not wrong, it is a built in self-defense mechanism. But it is very wrong to give into this self destructive tendency.

I think everyone here is missing the point. I believe that most off the people who use this site instantly write off ANY conservative action as motivated by greed and corruption because they are still upset at Bush and I can understand that.
I went to the Tea Party in Atlanta and I left there ten minutes after Hannity got there because my friend and I didn't want to listen to his crap. Most of the signs and pictures from the protest shown on this site and in most media were individuals. In Atlanta, I saw one sign that could be deemed offensive. One out of nearly 15000. Granted there could be more. But the point is that those signs in no way reflect the majorities opinion.
And finally...the protest wasn't a smear fest of Blacks, Homosexuals, or liberals. At no point did it become a gun rally and at no point was we told to get torches and set the capital ablaze. We were there because we were pissed. Since the income tax was created the percentage it takes from pay checks have nearly doubled. The idea that we should tax the rich more because they make more money is lunacy. Yes it may look good on paper and be a good slogan, the idea is incredibly stupid. Why punish success? If someone goes out, devotes four years to college and busts their asses to get a good job and make a good living, why tax them more? To pay for the bum down the street who sat around high school and picked there nose? That is not my America. If someone could please reply to me why we should tax success, please do because I can simply not grasp the point.
There was several entertaining signs at the rally. One read "How can I pay my taxes while I'm being tea bagged" and another one read "Socialism dosn't work" but there was one sign that I think grasps the point. "If your not outraged, your not paying attention"
I doubt many people on this site began commenting on the Tea Party with out looking into the issues.

Elganza,
Obama won by 7% of the popular vote, not the blow out you have portrayed. My predictions is he has lost:
3% -with his tax cheating appointments (center voters)
1%-continuing wiretapping (hard left)
.5%-closing Gitmo(military)
8%-his spending and deficit (centerest voters)

As soon as the Repubs find a leader (this has to be the right person) they will gain 2% more from the people who voted for Obama in protest.

So in my humble opinion he does not have the majority any more

Man it sure is a good thing that regardless of protest Obama has 3 years 8 months left to work before the GOP will have any chance at the White House again.