"FIVE YEARS AGO, IN 2006, DAVID E. CAMPBELL AND ROBERT D. PUTNAM INTERVIEWED 3,000 AMERICANS and re-interviewed many of the same people again this summer. Their findings indicate what most of us already knew: that Teapartyers were far-right, social conservative Republicans (and still are). Or, as Jon Stewart said: “They’re just moral majorities in a tri-cornered hat.”
[W]e can look at what people told us, long before there was a Tea Party, to predict who would become a Tea Party supporter five years later"…
The Left just can't accept that the majority of TEA Party people are fiscal conservatives. There are social conservatives who are members of the party but the main reason people signed up was to cut spending by both the Left and RINO's.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I can accept that they think that. I just don't think taking us back to the 50s is practical.
I do believe a part of the backlash against Obama started because he was black and lived outside the United States, which reinforced the "He's not one of us" feelings.
SS109 wrote: The Left just can't accept that the majority of TEA Party people are fiscal conservatives. There are social conservatives who are members of the party but the main reason people signed up was to cut spending by both the Left and RINO's.
That may, or may not, be their intended purpose, but the actuality is that if you aren't a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative you are not welcome. If you are running for office as a fiscal conservative, but say you believe in a woman's right to choose......I seriously doubt you would get the teaparty's support.
SS109 wrote: The Left just can't accept that the majority of TEA Party people are fiscal conservatives. There are social conservatives who are members of the party but the main reason people signed up was to cut spending by both the Left and RINO's.
That may, or may not, be their intended purpose, but the actuality is that if you aren't a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative you are not welcome. If you are running for office as a fiscal conservative, but say you believe in a woman's right to choose......I seriously doubt you would get the teaparty's support.
I agree most of the time, but Scott Brown ran as a fiscal conservative and a social moderate and won the Senate in Massachussets thanks to lots of out-of-state TEA Party money. In some states, they are willing to moderate their message to get elected.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: The Left just can't accept that the majority of TEA Party people are fiscal conservatives. There are social conservatives who are members of the party but the main reason people signed up was to cut spending by both the Left and RINO's.
That may, or may not, be their intended purpose, but the actuality is that if you aren't a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative you are not welcome. If you are running for office as a fiscal conservative, but say you believe in a woman's right to choose......I seriously doubt you would get the teaparty's support.
I agree most of the time, but Scott Brown ran as a fiscal conservative and a social moderate and won the Senate in Massachussets thanks to lots of out-of-state TEA Party money. In some states, they are willing to moderate their message to get elected.
That's one way to put it.......I think in some states (blue states) they will say anything to get elected, then ram their conservative agenda, both fiscal and social) down the electorates throat. Wisconsin comes immediately to mind.
Why should they be angry about the truth? 
