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So who’s winning the Tea Party primary so far?
According to a new NBC/WSJ poll, 53 percent of respondents who said they expect to vote in the GOP presidential primary identified themselves as Tea Party supporters. Their favorite candidate right now: the former Arkansas governor who shot to prominence after winning over conservatives in Iowa in 2008.
Among Tea Party backers, 27 percent said Gov. Mike Huckabee would be their first choice among Republican candidates, with an additional 15 percent calling Huckabee their second choice.
Huckabee, who has sent mixed signals about how interested he may be in a White House run that would cut off a lucrative TV contract, had the support of about a quarter of GOP primary voters overall in the poll.
Presumed presidential candidate Mitt Romney fares less well among Tea Party types, with 14 percent calling the former Massachusetts governor their top choice for the nomination. (It’s worth noting that the same share of Tea Party supporters named former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – who enjoys broad support among conservatives but not always the perception of strong viability as a candidate – as their top choice.) Romney and Palin were the second choice of 17 percent and 19 percent of Tea Party fans, respectively.
Romney was the top choice among GOP primary voters who say they are NOT Tea Party supporters, with 32 percent of those voters saying he’s their preferred nominee.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the top choice of 19 percent of Tea Party backers, with another 8 percent calling him their second choice.
Gingrich, who’s the preferred nominee for about 13 percent of GOP primary voters overall according to the NBC/WSJ poll, unveiled a new website on Thursday that indicates he's planning to explore a presidential run.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who recently delivered the keynote speech at a meeting of the Tea Party Patriots and released a web video praising the movement, was the first or second choice of a combined 15 percent of Tea Party supporters. His overall support among all GOP primary voters was at just 3 percent in the survey.
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Who cares about the Tea Party? This shouldn't be news because no tea party candidate can be taken seriously enough to become president. I welcome any tea party candidate because that just means a landslide win for Obama.
The truth is, if Obama gets re-elected, this country will fall flat on its face before he's out of there.
you better do your homework bud.
Floridamom-You make no sense. Bush gave tax cuts to the rich when he took office. We were in a budget SURPLUS from Clinton. He started 2 wars one of which he and his people have since admitted was for a false reason. The economy dumped before Obama took office. Now that Obama is trying to fix it the Republicans are voting against and preventing any bill he wants. Then they turn around and say he hasnt fixed the economy.
Obama administration has done wonders on the war on terror and if they could get a single bill passed they would turn us around! Get out a little dear, the world hated Bush and Obama is beloved, I know ive been to well over 25 Countries traveling.
So, vote for all Democrats in 2012. I assure you, just give it this shot and in the following 4 years the country will be back to its old glory!
Police and Fire Unions for OBAMA!
Don't forget, Teahadis, House members can be voted out as fast as they were voted in!! I predict World record losses for the GOP in '12. It's become quite evident that they lied their asses off to get re-elected and are now out to destroy America for corporate and the uber-rich gains, and the Teanazis are going to go nuts and destroy the GOP.
The reason a more moderate candidate (on the spectrum of things) like Romney, or a true fiscal conservative like Ron Paul are not being embraced is because of the Evangelicals in the GOP.
I just watched Rick Santorum's interview on CNN. Santorum claims everything is a moral matter (another new buzzword added to "common sense" solutions). Wow, what a chicken crap way to justify removal of Separation of Church and State.
Beware the social conservatives who make policies based on the Bible, from foreign policy to legislating morality. They want Sharia Law to be illegal only because it would be competition for their Christian Republic of America. Also beware Republican recycling of old losers--are they running anyone new?
okay guys, let me explain the political process for you Repubs: you won 63 seats because they were in districts that were favorable to your party; i.e. old white male conservatives. you won seats in hillbilly districts. its a different story when you have to defend an ENTIRE STATE in a Presidential election and the intellegent voters turn out. I am glad you all won 63 house seats; now people will be even more fired up as to why u cannot let a Republican back in the White house because the House of Repubs are actually doing the Democrats dirty work for 2012. offer themselves up as exhibit A as to why Obama will get re-elected. The math and the map doesn't work in the Repubs favor any longer. Most of America isn't hate filled or ignorant
Huckleberry is a joke who stooping to a new low. Bring him on.
The House swings back and forth so much one shouldn't really read too much into it. The Republicans got, as Bush said, "thumped"in the last midterms. Everytime a party gets a big sweep they read too much into it and way over reach. The Tea Party should remember that. Also the short sightedness of the Tea Party will be their undoing in the long term. So the thoughtful thinking center will jerk their leash and get their attention. The American electorate wants a thoughtful thinking adult as President. Especially after that idiot Bush.
Wow all 14 of you on at the same time......hang on the site is tipping to the left. Damn I hope some of the working people in this country get home soon and tip it the right way! Let the name calling begin!!!!!!
You started the name calling some time back - what is your point? I have not seen one constructive argument from you, just the typical vitriol. We all appreciate, however, your finesse at proving the point all of us awful lefties try to make...you make the task so much easier, and for that we all thank you. Thanks for trolling...
Tea Party make Huckabee your man. We will win in 2012. OBAMA by a landslide!!!! LOL
OMG!!!! Poor Johnny Boner ( sp intentional) the TEA Party has now come out against the sitting Speaker of The House of Representatives in the 2012 elections. Apparently the TEA Party eats it's own? IS this why they are anti abortion? All of the above comments now need to be revised methinks. This is just too precious at any second I was expecting "Live from New York It's Saturday Night" but nope it is real the beginning of a schism greater than any in history.
Huckabee, The White Trailer Trash Canidate par excellance. If you vote for Huckabee and don't care what "Tea- Bagger" really means, YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK! If you encourage your Presidential Canidates to take the low road and claim that the President of the United States is not a citizen, YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK. If you think a coonhound is a dog trained to chase black folk from the neighborhood, YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK. If you eat Krispy Creme and grits for breakfast and think that Huckabee invented Honey, YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK.
Ron Paul won cpac this year and last year and again you do not see anything about him in the media. He seems to be the only politician that has the balls to tell it like it is. Is this why the establishment (media included) is so afraid of him?
watch them try to twist his comments in the repub 2008 debate (which he still won)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7d_e9lrcZ8
I had a hard time trying stop laughin when PORKY PIG HUCKABEE started to comment About the President didn't play little league base ball. Based on porkys past if he had anything to do with little league baseball it must have been running the concession stand and using the glutton adage 1 for you 2 for me. How did this piece of work ever get to a level where he became a politician. It is understandable A GOP politico and Fox Talker but it ends there. The tea party needs KOOKS so I guess he found a home.
If Huckabee had the blessing of Faux news he would have been "suspended" by Murdoch wouldn't he?
The party is really screwed up right now for a valid person to run than can bring some unity.
I don't know where they got that poll, but I don't know a single person who would vote for Huckabee. The man appears to me to have very little integrity. Why would you vote in another guy like that? We've had plenty thus far that fill that bill.
All the tea party has done is paved the way for Obama in 2012. Really. Sarah Palin? OMG Michelle Bachmann OMG. Are you kidding me. Two stupid women and I mean stupid. If the Republicans would have worked with Obama from the start we would be much further ahead as a country. Now that they have a majority, they announced that Obama wants to work with them. What??? These guys are still mad because they got beat and by a black man. Let's face it, if these people in power do not change, the middle class is screwed. All these jerks care about is who is going to win in 2012. They could care less about any jobs etc. etc. I for one am sick of it. Wake up people. I would think that everyone would be sick of it by now. Now that the Republicans are back in, it should be very obvious what these guys are all about and if you cannot see that... well I feel sorry for you. These rich a$$holes want to take my tax dollars and stuff it in their pockets and not do a thing to earn a salary. It's nice to have some affluent jerks making decisions for people that can barely afford the increase in gas prices. Stop worrying about 2012. wtf and capital WTF.....
EO,
Yea, yea. We've heard that same crap for over 2 years now.
Nov 2008: "The GOP is dead"
April 2009 - Oct 2010: "The Tea Party just consists of 50 or so racists"
How's all that workin' out for you?
Nancy P is a bigger idiot than Palin anf Bachmann combined. Nancy moved more people to the tea party than the teaparty did.
Go back and look at the first few posts. One person says the R's took 63 seats in the House in the recent election; another says the R's took 89 seats. And these guys want to balance the budget?
In all seriousness, to the members of the Tea Party I would like to thank you for bringing to the fore just how your ridiculous and simple approaches to very complex issues has caused a few (and they are getting to be fewer) moderate Republicans to step back and think for a moment. Bumper sticker time is over. Ignorance is bliss but then comes reality.
Bruce,
Republicans TOOK 63 seats FROM Democrats. In addition to that, Republicans took 600+ state legislative seats.
Keep up the good work teabaggers...As Americans wake up and see your party for the lunatic fringe they are, they will be flocking to the democratic candidate. Huck has decided he's a birther, or at least a believer that Obama is a muslim, Palin is just stupid and Newt is immoral. What a group! I love it.
irenermiscione:
YEP ... just what we heard since the Tea Party emerged ... "fringe" ... "50 or so racists at a rally".
How'd Nov 2010 work out for you with 63 House seats GONE... right along with 600+ state legislative seats GONE ... primarily by those who align themselves w/"Tea Partiers"
Just a Reminder - Before he was nominated AKA Obama Signed Resolution Describing Him As Ineligible
Obama Signed Resolution Describing Him As Ineligible
Yet the Obots still argue that Obama is eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
On April 10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a 'natural born Citizen,' as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for president. Sen. McCaskill knew Obama was not a U.S. Citizen, that’s why she introduced this bill -- dressing it up to look like it was in Sen. John McCain's cause.
It was during the bill's hearing that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement:
"Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen," said Leahy. "I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate."
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
"My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen," Chertoff replied.
"That is mine, too," said Leahy.
What's interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a "natural born" citizen is the child of American citizen parents.
Parents -- that's two. That's BOTH parents.
Every time the words, "citizen" and "parent," are used by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, "citizens" and "parents," is used. The plural case is the operative case.
It is Sen. Leahy's opinion -- his own recorded words, in a formal Senate Resolution and on his U. S. Senate website -- that Barack Obama is not a "natural born" citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief, regardless of his birthplace.
Obama had one American parent --singular -- his mother. His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain.
Obama, himself, "at birth," was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain -- he says so on his own campaign website. This fact introduces the concept of "divided loyalties," -- the reason the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place -- a fact that further underlines Obama's ineligibility.
The source of this information is Sen. Leahy's own website. The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself; the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec. Chertoff's testimony.
The plural word "parents" is used four times. When used to identify the parents, the word "citizens" is used five times. That's nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the eligibility requirement. There is NO PLACE in any of these four documents where the singular case of "parent" or "citizen" is used.
The real purpose of this bill was to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the requirements of being a "natural born citizen" by the Democratic Party leadership -- paving the way for an Obama run.
Both Leahy and Chertoff avoid addressing the "in the US mainland" (jus solis) element of the eligibility requirement and focus solely on parentage (jus sanguinis) in making their arguments and by doing so bring focus to the fundamental reason Obama is not qualified. He had one American parent and one foreign parent. Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen -- no matter where he was born.
Obama is a co-signer of this resolution. So, I guess he too agrees that one needs two American parents to be eligible for POTUS -- except he doesn't care -- after all, he's the Obamamessiah. Rules don't apply to him.
Birthers aren’t crazy. They’re winning.
No bud..you are crazy (or just stupid)
WAIT, guess you could be both eh bud?
Per the14th Amendment jurisdiction as related to birth is:
(SOIL)+(MOM)+(DAD) = BABY CITIZENSHIP
Thus:
(USA)+(USA)+(ALIEN) = US NATIVE BORN DUAL CITIZEN
(USA)+(ALIEN)+(USA) = US NATIVE BORN DUAL CITIZEN
(USA)+(ALIEN)+(ALIEN) = US BORN ALIEN
(FOREIGN)+(USA)+(ALIEN) = FOREIGN BORN US DUAL CITIZEN
(FOREIGN)+(ALIEN)+(USA) = FOREIGN BORN US DUAL CITIZEN
(FOREIGN)+(ALIEN)+(ALIEN) = ALIEN
Defined by Natural Law
(USA)+(USA)+(USA) = US NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Since each parent contributes equally their blood to the child,
then each parent confers equally their rights to the child.
A more appropriate poll would be what percentage of the public cares what the tea party thinks
i now can see why Huck is no longer a minister in the church, he's an embarrasment to the calling with the lies he's telling. Jesus takes a dim view of one who intentionaly lies to tear one down so that he might gain from it. i had at one time respect for him but now i see him for what he really is. one who is willing to destroy others for their own personal gain. shame on you huckelberry!!!!!!!
Tea Party is a fading fad. The Kornballs have a cult of Kornballs following them. There's no teeth with this movement. All about no government, no system, no health care, no reasonable plan. Take us back to the 1800"s. Worst of all, they all seem to be cousins. Talk about sideways thinking. You people take the cake. Good luck with that tea party thing.
When are people going to wake up and realize that this movement to the right is killing our Country. Lets give 100million in tax breaks to the uber rich then go after the hardest working Americans in the Unions in Wisconsin and Ohio. If you think thats the end of it, be ware they are gonna try this crap all over the Country and the right wont be happy until we all work for walmart and slave for healthcare costs.
Doesn't matter which teabagger freak is leading, the American middle class is going to lose with any of them
One day maybe we can just vote for Exxon or Bank of America and just leave the middle man out.
"Are" Please educate yourself. Obama has surrounded him self with more of Corp America than even Bush did. The more the left is caught in it's lies the more people move to the teaparty. I am not a fan of the far left anymore than the far right.
Independent and working for the repeal of Obama and that mess of a health care bill. We were promised change in 2008, We screamed change in 2010. We will finish the change in 2012.
hey MSNBC, do the Koch bros pay you to fluff for the Teabaggers multiple times every day ?