GOP poll: Tea party movement could cost Republicans in 2012

We don't endorse, but I voted for Tom Tancredo.

Nice way to keep from reaching a decision so that voters know where your group stands on the issue. I voted for Tancredo, as well.

I don't really know who or what a "Tea Party" candidate is. But I do know what a "third party" candidate is. The third party candidate has been around for a very, very long time.

So let's talk about the last time a third party candidate won a presidential election. How many can you name? Hmmmm. No too many eh? I wonder why?

I can understand the ideology that makes someone want to vote for that ONE guy or gal that just nails that ONE social, economic or national security issue that you really care about. I really do.

What I can't understand is why you would vote for that person knowing full well all you are really doing is voting for the candidate you LEAST want to elect or reelect. A vote for the third party candidate versus the best viable candidate that is at least somewhat aligned with your ideology is taking a vote away from the viable candidate...which simply favors the candidate you would NEVER vote for because their ideology is completely opposite to yours.

This seems pretty simple to me...yet even in this forum I see people who I'm certain will vote their ideology anyway. I think it's called "cutting your nose off to spite your face". It may "feel" good, but the outcome is the worst possible for you.

I don't get it but I guess we can have this discussion again in the run up to 2016 after President Obama finishes his second term. That is if we have a nation left to vote in.

I think the Tea Partiers on here have already established the Tea Party is NOT a third party but an extension of the Republican Party.

WayneH wrote: I think the Tea Partiers on here have already established the Tea Party is NOT a third party but an extension of the Republican Party.

Perhaps, but if they didn't vote for the Republican Candidate nominated at the Republican National Convention last time then they, essentially, helped elect President Obama.

So given the outcome of the LAST presidential election, you would think that folks would come up with a new strategy. So far all I hear is more of the same. Maybe the voting public IS as stupid as many of our elected officials believe it is.

This is like watching someone's young kids play in traffic. You know it will end very badly but your not sure what to do about it.

How about concerned voters trying to effect change for the better, and the Democratic choices (Odumbo) doesn't offer any hope or change?

HEARTLESS wrote: How about concerned voters trying to effect change for the better, and the Democratic choices (Odumbo) doesn't offer any hope or change?

If so-called "conservatives" vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate nominated at the upcoming Republican National Convention...then they may as well vote for Obama. It's simple math.

I would think the better choice would be to throw in behind the Republican and try your hardest to move that candidate towards your ideology. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush as they say. :thumbsup:

lionshead2010 wrote:

HEARTLESS wrote: How about concerned voters trying to effect change for the better, and the Democratic choices (Odumbo) doesn't offer any hope or change?

If so-called "conservatives" vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate nominated at the upcoming Republican National Convention...then they may as well vote for Obama. It's simple math.

I would think the better choice would be to throw in behind the Republican and try your hardest to move that candidate towards your ideology. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush as they say. :thumbsup:

Are you seeing signs of this? I have not noticed any thoughts or hopes of a tp candidate, except from the left who would relish it.

neptunechimney wrote:

lionshead2010 wrote:

HEARTLESS wrote: How about concerned voters trying to effect change for the better, and the Democratic choices (Odumbo) doesn't offer any hope or change?

If so-called "conservatives" vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate nominated at the upcoming Republican National Convention...then they may as well vote for Obama. It's simple math.

I would think the better choice would be to throw in behind the Republican and try your hardest to move that candidate towards your ideology. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush as they say. :thumbsup:

Are you seeing signs of this? I have not noticed any thoughts or hopes of a tp candidate, except from the left who would relish it.

I see a lot of great candidates who likely don't have a snowballs' chance in hell of winning the Republican nomination forming "battle lines" on ideology that ensures they will draw votes away from a Romney or someone similar.

You are correct Neptune! The "mainstream media" wants to stir up a fervor for the third party folks. It's called divide and conquer. Oldest trick in the book. But many of us conservatives keep falling for the old temptation. I understand an adult's ability to trick a small child more than once...but another adult?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

lionshead2010 wrote: The only question you should have when you go to the polls in 2012 is whether or not you want Obama or ANYONE else running the country for the next four years.

That is the only question YOU will have. There are a few people who have already declared that I would never want to see become president.