Thread: Tea Party or GOP?

"Tea Party more popular than GOP in national poll"
This interesting headline appeared in one of the online news-magazines to which I subscribe. While the Tea Party is not an official party, it very well may become one before long. I wonder how the SRP membership would vote if there were a "head-to-head" election between just the two?

The republican/democratic parties have been a wasteland for too many years now, if the grass root "tea party" could organize I might be up for it. But like all good start ups, it would be a mere matter of seconds before the egos took over and the sell outs would be bought out.

Because center repubs are so embarrassed by the tea partiers that they identify themselves as independants.

What embarrasses them? People who are fed up with the usual BS? BTW, I think its the tea party people who are pushing for the independents.

i agree with a lot of the republicans being to liberal and we need another great one and i mean another "RONALD REAGAN" . he was a true conservative and did not take any crap from any punk third world leaders.
the tea party would be great if they stick with their guns and stay that way and do not get swayed into the trap that liberals are really nice and we need to get along with them (bullcrap, they will eat you alive, just ask george h. bush)

Originally Posted by 59caddy

i agree with a lot of the republicans being to liberal and we need another great one and i mean another "RONALD REAGAN" .

HAHAHAHA, sorry. Mr Economics is just funny to me ) His ground work helped us get where we're at today. I am all for the free market, not the market running freely.

Heres a heads up for those of you who dont know it, Reagan was an actor.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Heres a heads up for those of you who dont know it, Reagan was an actor.

And for the rest of you, he was a die hard Democrat until the breakup of MCA in 1962

Originally Posted by wpfontenot

HAHAHAHA, sorry. Mr Economics is just funny to me ) His ground work helped us get where we're at today. I am all for the free market, not the market running freely.

think what you like, but the facts are that we enjoyed the longest term of growth during peacetime in history...interest rates at or above 20% when he took office and unemployment as great as today...by cutting tax rates we saw the largest jump of revenue come into the feds by far while he was in office..deficit spending went up with both houses controlled by democrats that refused to balance the budget even while controlling the purse strings of the nation(remember a president can only sign into law what has been sent to him by congress) just like under george h. bush, there was supposed to be 2 dollars cut from spending for every dollar of tax increase(we all saw what the democrats being a bunch of liars did to the deficit then and probably going to do again) i'll take the 80's anytime as compared to now. as merle haggard said "back when the country was strong"

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Heres a heads up for those of you who dont know it, Reagan was an actor.

and now look what we have a "community organizer" with no legislative experience at all (yeah, that's what we need)