On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:45:24 +0000 (UTC), BeamMeUpScotty
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ThenDestro...@blackhole.nebulax.com> wrote:
>Tea Party people less popular than many other hated minority
>groups
>
>They may want "their country" back, but their country doesn't
>really want them
Hey Scotty, did some leftist SOB hijack
your userID?
:-)
>There is a shadowy group of malcontents in America today,
>plotting a grand takeover of our political institutions in
>order to completely remake the country according to their
>wishes. Despite the fact the members of this group are a small
>minority of the population, and an unpopular one at that, they
>seek to infiltrate the courts and the government at every
>level, in order to replace our long-standing system of law with
>their own extremist, undemocratic religious code. These true
>believers are especially dangerous because they think they?e
>doing God? work, and you ignore them, or play down the threat
>they pose to America, at your own risk. This tiny band of
>fanatics is largely distrusted and despised by regular
>Americans, but a terrified media coddles them and pretends
>they?e harmless. I am speaking, of course, of the Tea Parties,
>a group now officially less popular among Americans than
>Muslims.
>
>Professors David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam have a column
>in today? New York Times explaining that the Tea Party
>movement is made up largely of ultra-religious
>ultra-conservative Republican partisans (shocker?), and now
>that America has caught on to this fact, the Tea Party people
>are much less popular than other groups who largely seek to
>mind their own business:
>
> Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing.
> In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that
> 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it,
> 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not
> heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters
> have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more
> than doubled, to 40 percent.
>
> Of course, politicians of all stripes are not faring well
> among the public these days. But in data we have recently
> collected, the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23
> other groups we asked about ?lower than both Republicans
> and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned
> groups like ?theists?and ?uslims.?Interestingly, one
> group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian
> Right.
>
>So it turns out that going around in funny hats screaming at
>people for a few years is not a great way to endear yourself to
>the American public, unless you?e Joe Pantoliano.
>
>Better luck with next election cycle? rebranding campaign that
>fools everyone in the political press for a year or so,
>ultra-conservative Republicans!