Carter is in the race for governor!? (Decatur: horses, nursing)

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Originally Posted by Cameron H

Oh, sure, but that's a rather different claim from your blanket assertion that the Tea Party "resonates with the American people." Lots of ideologies have grassroots support in America. For example, at 39% favorable, Socialism has considerably more support than the Tea Party.

Democrats, Republicans Diverge on Capitalism, Federal Gov't

One thing I don't get is the Tea Party's reluctance to embrace its role as a radical minority. Why the insistence that they represent "the American people"?

I still fail to see how the Tea Party is 'radical'. Marginalize all you want, but they clearly have traction in this country.
It wouldn't surprise me if the stat regarding socialism is true. It about correlates to the percentage of people here nursing off the government teat.

[Cameron H]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I still fail to see how the Tea Party is 'radical'.

It's outside the mainstream on a number of key issues, from taxes and the safety net to a whole range of social issues. But it's their tactics that really mark them as radicals and costs them support, even among Republicans. When you insist on primary challenges to any representative that doesn't meet your test of ideological purity 100% of the time, even when it results in the election of liberal Democrats, you're a radical. When you shut down the government in a doomed effort to secure policy priorities that you failed to achieve through democratic means, you're a radical. When you threaten to default on the nation's financial obligations if you don't get your way, you're a radical. When your chosen leadership threatens an administration you don't like with "Second Amendment remedies," you're a radical.

And as I suggested, there's nothing particularly wrong with being radical, in my opinion. It's the insistence of the radicals that they're not radicals that's more than a little weird.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaLakeSearch

And if you live outside of Decatur you will realize Obama is not our savior.

Who made that claim?

[wilful]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I still fail to see how the Tea Party is 'radical'. Marginalize all you want, but they clearly have traction in this country.
It wouldn't surprise me if the stat regarding socialism is true. It about correlates to the percentage of people here nursing off the government teat.

Don't agree that the "tea party" has traction as everything I hear and read of late suggests they have turned off both republican moderates and the republican establishment. Witness the recent congressional run off in Alabama (Pensacola area) where the Chamber of Commerce and other more mainstream repubs financed the more moderate republican to thwart the tea party candidate. The moderate won and this looks to be the model going forward that the more mainstream repubs will use to rid the party of the tp-ers.

As a progressive I have no dog in this fight but it will be fun watching the Republican Party devour itself.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by wilful

Don't agree that the "tea party" has traction as everything I hear and read of late suggests they have turned off both republican moderates and the republican establishment. Witness the recent congressional run off in Alabama (Pensacola area) where the Chamber of Commerce and other more mainstream repubs financed the more moderate republican to thwart the tea party candidate. The moderate won and this looks to be the model going forward that the more mainstream repubs will use to rid the party of the tp-ers.

As a progressive I have no dog in this fight but it will be fun watching the Republican Party devour itself.

The "moderate" in Alabama would be lambasted as a right wing Tea Party nut job most everywhere else.

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Originally Posted by Saintmarks

The "moderate" in Alabama would be lambasted as a right wing Tea Party nut job most everywhere else.

Anywhere else? Maybe the Northeast, DC (of course), states where unions dominate, and parts of the west coast. Where else? Of course, the media doesn't acknowledge anywhere else exists.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

Anywhere else? Maybe the Northeast, DC (of course), states where unions dominate, and parts of the west coast. Where else? Of course, the media doesn't acknowledge anywhere else exists.

Just find it funny that lefties have a heart for "moderate" republicans all of a sudden. Watch the same crew demonize this moderate come general election time.

[Lady's Man]

carter raised 1.3 million dollars from 1800 (1500 Georgians) people in just 7 weeks!

AP News: Democrat Carter to report $1.3M in Ga. gov bid

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Originally Posted by Lady's Man

carter raised 1.3 million dollars from 1800 (1500 Georgians) people in just 7 weeks!

AP News: Democrat Carter to report $1.3M in Ga. gov bid

Is that a news article or a mash note?

[GeorgiaLakeSearch]

All I see is Democrats trying to relive the good days.