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Title: Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement?
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Published: Aug 17, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-08-17 14:35:41 by tom007
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Who Is Really Behind The Tea Party Movement? Grace Wyler | Aug. 17, 2011, 10:49 AM | 3,325 | 64

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If you thought the Tea Party was a product of GOP masterminds or the Great Recession, think again.

In an op-ed in today's New York Times, big-name political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell examine the origins of the Tea Party movement.

Turns out, it is basically just the latest iteration of the Christian Right.

According to Putnam and Campbell, next to being a Republican, the best predictor of a Tea Partier was the desire to see more religion in politics:

"Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government."

As Putnam and Campbell point out, the religious inclination of the movement explains why disapproval of the Tea Party is actually on the rise — even as Americans have grown slightly more fiscally conservative as a whole, they have become more opposed to mixing God and politics.

A recent NYT/CBS poll revealed that 40% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party, compared to just 18% in April 2010. Meanwhile, Tea Party supporters have slipped from 21% to 20% in the same period. The Tea Party ranks lower than Republicans, Democrats, "Muslims," and "atheists." The only group with the same degree of unpopularity is the Christian Right.

This indicates that 2012 GOP presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will have to walk a fine line to win the hearts of the party's all-important evangelical primary voters, while assuring the broader conservative base that their real focus is on shrinking the size and spending of the federal government. DON'T MISS: 10 New Evangelical Powerbrokers Of The Christian Right

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#5. To: tom007 (#0)

Actually it was a bit more sophisticated than this article lets on.

First of all the Tea Party is not synonymous with the (((((SHUDDER!!!!!))))) Christian Right. Somehow I don't think Suzie Quattro qualifies as "Christian Right".

The Tea Party began as a genuine populist movement bordering on a revolt against the stench of business as usual i.e., the raping, without lubrication, of the American People by a small coterie of the well connected.

Just following events as they evolved the Tea Party was a self organizing activity of disparate groups whose only common denominator was disgust and outrage at the actions of a perverse and corrupt government. While they did not all agree on every issue there was unity in their demand to end the corruption.

The elite banksters, and their pet psychs, appear to have regarded such an outpouring as a threat to their power and so they moved to insert their own leadership into the Tea Party by foisting off such controlled assets as Sarah, the tits that walk, Palin, and Glenn, blowjobs for Israel, Dreck into prominence in an attempt to takeover the Tea Party.

While their agents never truly succeeded in taking over they were able to shatter its unity of purpose and break up the Tea Party movement into different camps. Thus they blunted its push and effectiveness. This then allowed for the lamestream Presstitutes to move in and begin with the false labeling characterizing the Tea Party, made up of ordinary Americans upset with government corruption and cronyism, as an (((((DOUBLE SHUDDER!!!!!))))) EXTREMIST group of kooks. The surface appearance is now that it is just another NeoCon operation, but it did not begin that way - it was perverted into it.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-08-17   17:38:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

First of all the Tea Party is not synonymous ........

Debating ignorant TeaParty hating losers is a waste of time.

Let'em do what they always do, which is vote demonRAT then whine.

Flintlock  posted on  2011-08-17   22:16:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Debating ignorant TeaParty hating losers is a waste of time.

I'm not interested in debating them I'm interested in discrediting them.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-08-18   0:00:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#19. To: Original_Intent (#18)

I'm interested in discrediting them.

Cool. Philosophically, I view them as the enemies of freedom. Philosophers have pondered justice vs forgiveness, and a few have found the proper balance between the two.

"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine

Flintlock  posted on  2011-08-18 00:31:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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