Archive for December 17th, 2009
Interesting article from the Washington Examiner. Many people online have been referencing an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll which says the Tea Party movement has a 41-23 percent positive score. However, in the poll 22 percent identify themselves as strong DEMOCRAT versus 12 percent of those who identify as strong Republican. 19 percent identify as strictly independent. So as a result it’s possible that the Tea Party movement is much more popular than this poll indicates.
I guess the next question is -- what is the tea party? There’s no face to it really. Certain people like to take credit for it but it’s really from a combination of people. Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Dick Armey (freedom works) and CNBC’s Rick Santelli when he talked about having a tea party.
So is Rick Santelli the face of the Tea Party!? LOL..
This video alone has over 1 million views… Maybe the movement is simply for individual liberty and free and open markets. Let’s stop there and pretend that foreign policy and social issues don’t matter.
Obama is bringing change.. From Foxnews
The “tea party” movement that gained steam shortly after President Obama took office is seeing a surge in popularity, with a string of candidates and officials willing to take up its cause and a political infrastructure that’s starting to mirror that of an actual political party…
Ron Paul is a white-haired, soft-voiced, 74-year-old doctor who has twice failed in presidential campaigns and is frequently derided by his Republican colleagues as an ideologue from the party’s libertarian fringe.
No one would have been surprised if the Lake Jackson congressman had slipped off the political radar after his 2008 quixotic bid for the presidency, his ambitions for higher office thwarted.
But Paul has refused to go out to the political pasture to live in comfortable irrelevance. As odd as it may seem, he has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal Democrats…
Former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson is a teetotaling triathlete who looks the part of the laid-back Mountain West politician.
But don’t let the jeans and black mock turtleneck he’s sporting on his new website fool you: Johnson is starting to sound like a mad-as-hell populist with an eye cast on 2012 and the building fury aimed at Washington.
Ron Paul, once again on TV. This time on the suspenders show debating health care with Barney Frank.
Update -- there are so many video interviews with Ron Paul lately I have not been able to watch them all! The word is out and it’s pretty simple -- he has to be a big audience draw.
Haha, Chris Matthews suggests a poll is skewed because he doesnt like the results. He suggests that they should have skewed it his way by showing certain signs or something like that. Why don’t you go get yourself a new thrill up your leg, because Obama’s just not cutting it anymore.
On Wednesday, December 16, Congressman Ron Paul appeared on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” to discuss Ben Bernanke’s selection as TIME Magazine’s 2009 “Person of the Year.”