Presidential election observation and poll.

[Jeff Bergquist]

Taxed Enough Already. The TEA Party has brought fiscal policy to the forefront, they were instrumental in winning back the House, and they helped bring the Senate to play this election.
I could see where someone who would be against having a Republican majority in the House would think the TEA Party has damaged this country.

IMO the tea party might have started out with an agenda of fiscal responsibility, But it looks to me like they've been co-opted by every right winger who thought they might be getting drowned out in the republican mainstream.

[Snakeman721]

BOTH parties have been taken over by the extremists.....the religious whack jobs on the right for the Rs and the ultra liberal nut cases on the left for the Ds. The moderates on both sides have been pushed out by all the hostile "take no prisoners" mentality of the extremists from BOTH sides.

[Heffay]

Taxed Enough Already. The TEA Party has brought fiscal policy to the forefront, they were instrumental in winning back the House, and they helped bring the Senate to play this election.
I could see where someone who would be against having a Republican majority in the House would think the TEA Party has damaged this country.

IMO the tea party might have started out with an agenda of fiscal responsibility, But it looks to me like they've been co-opted by every right winger who thought they might be getting drowned out in the republican mainstream.

The Tea party is the conservative equivalent of the Occupy movement.

[infidel]

The TEA Party is pretty simple. Too much taxes. They never lost sight of that platform. It is MSNBC, Mother Jones, Huff Report that want to portray them as moral majority, racists etc.

Anyone against the TEA Party is for a larger government, and higher taxes. Only the left portrays fiscal responsibility as whacked.

[goett047]

They were called the American Taliban on HBO´s "The Newsroom" I might have applauded...

[Heffay]

The TEA Party is pretty simple. Too much taxes. They never lost sight of that platform. It is MSNBC, Mother Jones, Huff Report that want to portray them as moral majority, racists etc.

Anyone against the TEA Party is for a larger government, and higher taxes. Only the left portrays fiscal responsibility as whacked.

No. Most people who are opposed to the Tea party are because they realize what they actually are. You can oppose the Tea party and still be fiscally responsible. False duality, but I'm sure you don't care about that.

[infidel]

Taxed Enough Already. The TEA Party has brought fiscal policy to the forefront, they were instrumental in winning back the House, and they helped bring the Senate to play this election.
I could see where someone who would be against having a Republican majority in the House would think the TEA Party has damaged this country.

IMO the tea party might have started out with an agenda of fiscal responsibility, But it looks to me like they've been co-opted by every right winger who thought they might be getting drowned out in the republican mainstream.

The Tea party is the conservative equivalent of the Occupy movement.

B.S.. The occupy movement wants to take what others have. The TEA Party wants you to do for yourself.

[infidel]

The TEA Party is pretty simple. Too much taxes. They never lost sight of that platform. It is MSNBC, Mother Jones, Huff Report that want to portray them as moral majority, racists etc.

Anyone against the TEA Party is for a larger government, and higher taxes. Only the left portrays fiscal responsibility as whacked.

No. Most people who are opposed to the Tea party are because they realize what they actually are. You can oppose the Tea party and still be fiscally responsible. False duality, but I'm sure you don't care about that.

I don't think you know what they actually are. But I am willing to listen.

[Heffay]

I don't think you know what they actually are. But I am willing to listen.

I understand what you think they represent: Fiscal restraint. Lowering taxes. Balancing budgets.

However, that is not the only litmus test they apply when picking candidates in the primaries.

[infidel]

I don't think you know what they actually are. But I am willing to listen.

I understand what you think they represent: Fiscal restraint. Lowering taxes. Balancing budgets.

However, that is not the only litmus test they apply when picking candidates in the primaries.

I agree with half of what you say here.

[grousemaster]

The TEA Party is pretty simple. Too much taxes. They never lost sight of that platform. It is MSNBC, Mother Jones, Huff Report that want to portray them as moral majority, racists etc.

Anyone against the TEA Party is for a larger government, and higher taxes. Only the left portrays fiscal responsibility as whacked.

No. Most people who are opposed to the Tea party are because they realize what they actually are. You can oppose the Tea party and still be fiscally responsible. False duality, but I'm sure you don't care about that.

Let us know what they actually are, I'd be interested to hear. IF they're the conservative equivalent to "Occupy", can you share with us some arrest statistics, treatment of public grounds, and interactions with peace officers?

[jshuberg]

The Tea party is the conservative equivalent of the Occupy movement.

Except that Tea party people bathe, very few have criminal records, they don't tend to rape people when they get together, and they leave a protest site in the same condition they found it in, rather than trash it. Oh, and they aren't trying to force the government into giving them other peoples money.

Yep, pretty much the same....

[mnmike59]

The Tea party is the conservative equivalent of the Occupy movement.

Except that Tea party people bathe, very few have criminal records, they don't tend to rape people when they get together, and they leave a protest site in the same condition they found it in, rather than trash it. Oh, and they aren't trying to force the government into giving them other peoples money.

Yep, pretty much the same....

Actually, They leave their areas cleaner than they left them. AND they peacefully demonstrate. Huh? Go figure. Great comparison.

I don't care for Romney, But I figure I am voting to rid the country of Obama, who WILL make this country go broke and make the US dollar worthless. Romney will at least prolong the inevitable, Thanks to our fine Entitlement voting public.

[goett047]

Why prolong the inevitable? Why not just deal with it?

[selurcspi]

Well, here's 26 votes for Obama!!!