Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.We're surprised to find out that there are "members" of a "Tea Party." Thought it was all unorganized & random, grass-rooty. No? Or by members do they mean the various hucksters, consultants, former Congressweasels & beneficiaries of corporate largesse who've incorporated & then run bus tours & conventions, & their employees? Is there a Tea Party registered as such in any state in the union, even the ones in which the AGs are claiming that Health Care is unconstitutional?
(We ask only because this all occurred as a result of
three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group.No, really? "An education advocacy group." Never identified. What sort of education do they advocate that needs to know what the T.P.s think?)
Look if you care, we aren't bothering.
LATER (The next day, actually): Mr. M. (Not the divine one, Steve M.) bothered.
I'll give them that one out of ten are Democrats; Larouche ran as one after all. But this just goes back to the old "independents make up the reasonable center" myth. I find it perfectly believable that the Republican Party is not far enough to the right for 3 of 10 teaba-ba-ba, tea partiers.
ReplyDeleteLazier Than Sin Ed. Adds:
ReplyDeleteOf course, those identifying themselves as Tea Party Patriots would feel perfectly justified in lying about their registration or anything else to "eff w/ the media & stuff."
Intensive, draining research reveals the Repub-leaning pollsters say 13% of those they interviewed who self-identified as T.P.ers say they're Democrats.
Whatevs. Democrats will let anyone in.
I'd be willing to bet that most of those independents would identify themselves as libertarians. You know, the independents for whom the GOP is not far right enough.
ReplyDeleteAlso Ed. Notes:
ReplyDeleteMembers of the Constitution Party, Perotistas who are still alive, &, we're sure (though we've no evidence or anything) a lot of the "Why vote, it only encourages them" types who were far from cross-burners but suddenly got very nervous about a non-Establishment type in the Oval Office.
Gotta wonder what it's like in the dimensions where H. R. Clinton was nominated & won.