New polls make tea party leaders ask: Are we in trouble?

[Dulcinea]

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Wednesday shows the tea party movement at a high point of unpopularity. The survey found 47 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the small-government, anti-tax movement – a 21-point rise in unfavorability since January 2010. Other polls, including one by the Washington Post, show similar results.

Most of the newly negative attitudes seem to have come from those who had either never heard of the tea party or had no opinion of it, 15 months ago. The tea party’s favorability is at 32 percent, down from 38 percent last November but roughly the same as in January 2010.

Before opponents of the tea party start celebrating, they should note that those unfavorability numbers are now on a par with those of both the Democratic and Republican parties, according to CNN.

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But ultimately, Phillips concludes, the tea party isn’t over, because it can’t be. “In the next few months, we will see a revival of the conservative movement,” he writes. “We must. The thought of four more years of an un-American president is simply too much.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0330/New-polls-make-tea-party-leaders-ask-Are-we-in-trouble

[Skittles]

1. I am truly hoping

that decent Americans are waking up to the fact that these teabagging bastards blame the wrong people for their woes

[polichick]

3. Me too.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Bingo......I also hope

that now that people are seeing what the teabag candidates really believe in, and are instituting, they will be appalled. Many are learning the hard way.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. Gotta love the teabaggers. Hope they keep it up for Obama's sake.

[polichick]

2. "an un-American president" - such incredible ignorance!

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Where was Bush in this outrage teabaggers? You voted the liar in.

[vademocrat]

6. You mean the more people know about you TPers, the less they like you?

Imagine that...

Personally, I find these polls refreshing - they give me hope.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Thus far, in 4 months....we lost 675 000 jobs thru their collective action

The Bag Governors have cut more jobs than they thought...In the meantime ..Their efforts made the millioniars buy more Islands somewhere.

[Gman]

8. There's the 30% again

It recurs over and over and over.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Boehner is asking the very same thing.

His caucus is in schism right now, and the ignoratti Teabagger freshmen who don't understand how government works are giving him fits.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. "The thought of four more years of an un-American president is simply too much."

Translation: Get that black guy out of office!

[yellowcanine]

14. Yeah well, welcome to the club dirtbag. If we could survive 2 Bush terms you can survive 2 Obama

terms. And how is that teabagger stuff working out for you?

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Well, tea hee hee.

Still makes me smile to remember Rachel Maddow's verbal dismemberment of Tim Phillips. Strictly verbal though it was, I remember thinking that anyone dealing with him should wear rubber gloves, his skankitude is that large.


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[Keith Bee]

13. In trouble?

You mean, like, pregnant? Hey! I was nowhere in the area!