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Recent polling on the ‘Teabagger’ movement has been released and there are two things that are quite evident.
First, the movement is made up primarily of Republicans and people who think Jonah Goldberg is an intellectual.
A Sunday poll — actually three national phone surveys of 1,000 registered voters — found that 17% of all polled, or more than 500, called themselves “part of the Tea Party movement.”
…The Tea Party adherents broke down 28% independent, 17% Democrat and only 57% Republican.
Zell Miller’s got a big family.
Second, the movement is really unpopular with the public as a whole (ironically JUST as popular as “socialism”).
…only 37% of Americans view Teabaggery favorably.
But enough with the statistics, like a good teabagger, allow me to summarize in pictures rather than those commie “words”:
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So she’s got a big bubble gum tattoo on her back and she likes watching fast cars. Is that a crime. I’ve been to Daytona. What’s that make me. Would the Formula One tour be more palatable for the progressives at Gawker.
OK, 102% of teabuggers are teabuggers?
I am a socialist, I have been to numerous Grand Prix races, I drink tea, I find saucer racing boring, I abhor tatoos I must be part of that 2%?
That the 24 car’s pit crew is known as the ‘Rainbow Warriors’ and is sposored by Dupont and Pepsi is ironic somehow.
“It’s a good sample size,” David Winston, polling director of the Winston Group that did the poll for an education advocacy group, told the Ballot Box blog of The Hill newspaper.
You mean the David Winston, who’s been Director of Strategic Information for the Republican National Committee and Senior Fellow for Statistical Policy Analysis at the The Heritage Foundation? Who’s worked for Newt Gingrich? That David Winston?
Pleezdtameecha.
It took me long moments to see what that undulating mass of colored flesh was trying to tell me.
Well that certainly explains the fuzzy math.
The teabaggers believe we will achieve a safe and harmonious society only by joining together in mutual hatred of government.
Chicago Blue Dog No. 1
The David Winston desperately wants us to believe the teabaggers aren’t a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP. Don’t think so, but thanks for playing.
I am sure the same unemployment that created the Baggers is making Socialism more popular. FDR, Hitler, Stalin are the choices when a society loses jobs and homes at these numbers.
The GOP by saying No to everything FDR and Obama for giving up too easy is creating Socialism…talk about unintended consequences:)
Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd and Friedman this morning. When MoDo is really angry about something important she doesn’t quit. Today, in “The Church’s Judas Moment,” she presents her brother’s solemn thoughts on the crisis in the Catholic Church. He’s just as mad as she is, and they agree on very little else. The Moustache of Wisdom asks “Who’s Up For Building Bridges?” He says it takes more than just saying no to thrive in the 21st century.
Here they are.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got toasted Thomas’ English muffins with your favorite jam. I’ve got a horrible case of spring fever. All I really want to do is sit out in the garden and watch things grow, but since I’m addicted to groceries it’s off to work with me. (After I feed the nagging kittehs, of course…) Have a great day.
17% of Republicans view Socialism favorably???? This despite the near constant Fox News use of the word as a word intended to Trigger blind emotional reaction Lizard rage?
Has Fox News over used the word Socialism too much or is their TV ratings audience much smaller than we thought?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/05/socialism-vs-tea-parties/
53% of Dems like Socialism? Can Rahm still expect to win the Dem base by running the party away from his Majority support?
Apparently going Left going Socialist gets the Dems 17% of the GOP’s vote. Any numbers about how many GOPers support Obama now?
Any bets these numbers will only go up as unemployment stays high and people lose their jobs?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/05/socialism-vs-tea-parties/
20% of Conservatives like Socialism as do 39% of Moderates and 64% of Liberals.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/05/socialism-vs-tea-parties/
Good Morning. Remember awhile back they tried to tell us that teabaggers were better educated and more wealthy than most? Did anyone believe that?
OT…I’m still reeling from Lisa’s post on the fake prom. If you’re looking for future teabaggers, you’ll find some in the comments. A couple of HS kids weighed in with their POV. Very sad.
Required viewing for Ms. NASCAR™ With Love Handles :
Very interesting conversation between Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds about the contemporary moment. About 16 minutes.
You have been warned.
No. This has been another installment of short answers…
I’m sure in 20 years at their high school reunion many will be embarrassed.
Jeez — At the very least you could tell us where the brain bleach is! The mere idea was enough to require it. If anyone is foolhardy enough to actually click on that link take one of the Hazmat suits — you’ll need it.
Just who said that the MSM or Karl Rove?
So where is the “movement” of the left? You know boots on the ground. Pushing the envelope, holding the plutocrats accountable. No movement, no progress. The blogs are not a movement. Without a “movement” the people are in the hands of the plutocracy.
2 x OT: I thought that 9/11 was the death of irony. Well, maybe unintentional doesn’t count.
From a breathless article on WikiLeaks at Judy Miller’s alma mater:
Hmm…Stalin is tempting, we could crack a lot of “in Soviet America” jokes without sounding Republican. In Soviet America, houses own you!
FDR wouldn’t be anywhere near as funny, but he’d actually fix things.
I looked at the links and the links of links just how was the poll conducted? There is no mention if they got equal numbers of Liberals, Conservatives and Moderates or if they first measured how many Liberals, Conservatives and Moderates there are in the population?
Imagine a dam filled to bursting and the next rainstorm is coming soon. After all we have not fixed the banks, the hedgefunds etc from playing with Credit Default Swaps, National debt Dubai, Greece, Iceland, Lithuania, Italy, Spain etc could default at any time.
Another bank failure is likely another government bailout while unpopular might also be impossible we don’t have the money to save the credit default swap market…the entire planet does not have that kind of money.
How much peek-a-boo accounting do you think is out there?
I’m doubting Lehman was doing anything that other banks were/are not doing.
would that be before or after the Rapture?
For every hysterical person Fox creates they also seem to be creating an equal number of Socialists. After all when was the last time Socialism was this popular in America?
I think its like war coverage Fox cut back on actual war coverage more than any other tv network after they found out war coverage while yes it gets ratings was making the war even more unpopular.
Will Fox make the same mistake twice?
Not this planet maybe but how about the world?
I don’t trust any of the big banks numbers at all with no accurate numbers you can’t even make a guess. Moody’s etc the bond rating agencies they all rated the Banks Home Loan debt as very safe they still have not fixed their problem.
If the experts don’t know we are all guessing.
Let’s hope so. I really liked Coburn’s response to that nonsense question about the HCR bill putting people in jail. Hope to see more of it.
No need to get testy. For my part, I was just wondering if Salvidore Dali might have done the drooping race cars. Then I mused that it was good to see that at least one U.S. industry appears to be prospering, unless these folks are traveling to China for their pelt murals. Finally, it crossed my mind that, with post offices disappearing, at least a new WPA would have some place for artists to practice and perhaps win over teabaggers by subsidizing their tatoos. But you can see that none of my thoughts were particularly negative or critical.
I’m off. Have a good day.
If we get through the Obama Presidency ok without Jesus coming back in other words those kids have a highschool reunion I expect the world to be less hysterical:)
A $600 trillion Dollar market just for Credit Default Swaps?
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/21899
Never mind all the Funny Home Loan Paper the Fed bought from the banks that is going south as home prices stay low and bankruptcies continue.
Then there is National Debt I hear Greece owes more in proportion to its economy than Argentina did. I have no idea how much the other countries owe.
Still just a 1% loss in the Credit Default Swap Market means somebody will want $ 6 Trillion dollars just where do the banks think they can get that kind of money?
Ron Paul and Jane must like horror flicks auditing the Federal Reserve should produce some very scary numbers.
Well Solai does anyone have a better idea why Socialism is suddenly more popular and competing with the Tea Bagger movement despite all the negative press the word gets?
Imagine from an advertisers viewpoint if Socialism got half the good press the Tea Baggers did. Granted the Baggers also get lots of negative press but its not our fault our side isn’t shooting people.
It takes and an entire National Media to sell Capitalism and put down Socialism.
The polling also revealed that the Teabaggers did not believe Lincoln could win the war.
Both teabaggers and fire-eaters are characterized by their oral fixations.
Will NY Teabaggers unite behind this charismatic leader?
Tea Party headliner seeks N.Y. governorship, gains from state leases
Well, he’s got this going for him:
“I don’t look at myself as a leader of the Tea Party movement, I look at myself as a Tea Party movement person.” Not a leader, but a harnesser of the blend of inchoate rage and social networking that has allowed the movement to flourish.
And this:
Paladino talked about the Tea Party movement and how it might play into his run — including whether he would use some of the $10 million he has pledged to his campaign to add a new political party to the ballot.
And his evolving campaign platform has definite tea appeal:
Paladino said he would raise the sales tax on goods from China if the federal government took no actions on tariffs. He would take inner-city children from “dysfunctional homes” — by force, if necessary — to boarding schools so “you can start to condition them to learn.” He would re-assign state troopers to investigate the Legislature, which he says he could do as “the chief law enforcement officer of the State of New York,” working to “intimidate” prosecutors with his bully pulpit if they refuse to prosecute corruption.
And this probably won’t hurt his appeal to his brain-damaged supporters:
…during a Monday morning press conference in Albany, [he brushed] aside skepticism and criticism about a child he fathered out of wedlock, and the apparent conflict between his supposed outsider status and his wired-in history as a political donor whose company has grown largely due to its state leases.
The new generation of Founding Fathers is emerging!
The Banks thought a nationwide down turn in the Housing market was impossible so we got the home loan crisis. Who is to say the Credit default swap market won’t have a 1% payout of the market one day?
Gosh Attaturk
It’s still early in the morning where I’m at. To start the day with that imagery …
Another one of Jesse James’ Gals?
Nice pic. For all liberals who wonder why poor people vote againt their own interests, take a look at the way those who claim to defend their interests feel.
Limousine liberals are never going to be a majority of anything. The reason I come here is because I hate the smug superior attitudes of Rahm, Lieberman, et al, the guys who obviously hate poor people but for some reason decided to be Democrats.
The tea party movement exists because the economy is in the tiolet due to the laissez-faire policies of the Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush era. They have continued under Obama.
Isn’t the goal here to pass single payer health care, to get a real safety net, to ultimately get Nascar-tattoo-wearers to join with us as an unstoppable progressive majority like the Dems had from 1932-1976?
Hate them and they’ll hate you. You know? I realize that “snark” is required these days in blogland, but I get tired of it.
Guessing the vast majority of working class Americans are not looking for pity from any progressive. What is the goal of the movement anyway besides fluffing the President and shadow boxing with Nascar fans.
“Education advocacy group”?? Don’t you mean “fucking shills for the Republicans”?
Teabaggery could never be as bad as socialism.
Right and your side uses guns to get their point across because your ideas are not second rate and you win your arguments with us all the time.