A phony grassroots movement
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"The Tea Party: A phony grassroots movement headed for political oblivion?"
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This week’s primaries were supposed to be a celebration for the so-called Tea
Party, a phony grassroots movement that is really a front for the extreme
right-wing.
Instead, several of the party’s annointed candidates lost to establishment
opponents and some who won — like fringe candidate Sharron Angle in the Nevada
GOP Senate primary — highlight the con job the Tea Party is trying to pull on
American voters.
Notes The Washington Post:
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A new Washington Post-ABC News polls show half of the American electorate now
disapprove of the Tea Party and think of it as too extreme — an 11 point jump in
the group’s negative rating.
Angle’s win in Nevada may well be the beginning of the end of the Tea Party.
Writes Brent Budowsky in The Hill:
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David Corn, writing for Politics Daily, says the more people find out about the
Tea Party and the fringe candidates it backs the more the party loses support.
Says Corn:
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The backlash is inevitable. The Tea Party is not — and never has been — the
“grassroots” movement that is claims. It was born out of a sham grassroots
organization created in the office of a Republican consultant for a millionaire
GOP client and then nurtured into existance by former Republican Congressman
Dick Armey of Texas.
It’s a phony organization, espousing fake idealism, playing on the gullibility
of those who flock to so-called “populist movements.”
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