THE TEA PARTY is a non existent media creation fraud and JOKE

[titaniumsalute]

The TEA PARTY doesn't exist. Period. During the 2010 elections the Republicans decided to re-brand themselves as a party of new. A group of people (marketing people) decided they would call themselves "the Tea Party" and stand for "the utmost in fiscal conservatism."

The media, tired of simply talking about Dems and Reps (and occasionally Libertarians) decided to "make" this party into something new. Of course Fox News hosts such as Hannity, Beck, etc. really got behind it the idea and preached the new party as Gospel. However CNN, MSNBC, and others treated this fake party as something real as well. They helped brand this "new" party into something legitimate. The problem is the general, fairly uneducated, public bought into this new party. However it was nothing more than Republicans trying to brand themselves into something new.

The Democrats and most independents stayed home in the 2010 elections letting this so-called "Tea Party" come into power. The Republicans took the House and smacked around the Senate and Governorship pretty hard. Of course this usually happens to the opposite party of President during the mid-term elections. But no, the media still said it was the uprising of this new "Tea Party."

Frankly I believed it for awhile. But very soon after the 2010 elections I started seeing these Tea Party rallies with basically NO ONE in attendance. I have seen photo after photo this year of Tea Party rallies with virtually no one there. I saw some today in DC where there was NO ONE there. The annual Tea Party Convention to be held this year has been canceled. The Tea Party groups are fractioned in general. Today a big Tea Party leader in SC was arrested for selling illegal software. Another Tea Party leader is calling for their own Speaker of the House Boehner to resign.

The bottom line is WE on DU need to tell people the Tea Party does not exist. It is a loose group of Republicans that are trying to re-invent themselves into a new party name to make media waves. They are a joke.

PROBLEM: The people who were elected into the 2010 House as Republicans still believe in this faux party. They really think their constituents are rallying behind them. They are now destroying our country from the inside out by not voting to allow the debt ceiling to increase. I believe many of these assholes will be voted out in 2012 but the damage is done.

OK now hopping off my soap box.

[Skidmore]

1. Ummm, the Koch brothers funded it and Dick Armey deployed these

goobers.

[titaniumsalute]

5. The Kock Brothers funded the marketing of the repuke party

But it is the same Republicans that they have laways been. The only thing is now it is a group of local jackoffs who somehow got elected to Congress who are holding the country hostage to a principle that doesn't even exist.

[TNLib]

19. Yep and those jackoffs have constituents who put them in office and they are just as batty

nt

[movonne]

2. It's the nazi party under a new name....

[RKP5637]

4. Whatever it is, it's clearly un-American and unfit. It's a combination of most

of the Anti-Americans.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. The Tea Party is the Republican Party

And when they do ridiculous shit like letting the country default, the Republicans will point the finger and blame the "Tea Party" even though it's actually them. They want to try and escape blame for this debacle and the media is letting them get away with it.

[RKP5637]

7. As McCain was seemingly starting to do - it's them, those teabaggers. n/t

[titaniumsalute]

8. You are SO CORRECT Cali

I should have probably ended my rant with this...but yes. It is 100% true that the more "stable" Repukes will blame this phantom "tea Party" for screwing the pooch. While it is themselves screwing...themselves.

[Greybnk48]

6. You're correct. It's a myth, a smokescreen for outrageous

behavior.

[CrazyBob]

9. I dissent

The "tea party" is those right wing wackos who thought they owned the GOP till McCain won the nomination in 2008. That is the real beginning of the far-right open revolt in the GOP. It hasn't gotten any better since.

Its real. And its real screwed up.

[titaniumsalute]

10. I appreciate your dissent Crazy...

but i disagree. This is the best marketing campaign EVER. The money bags portion of the right like Koch, Mellon-Scaife, Rove, etc. funded this thing to re-brand the same asshole Republican party. But they know they had Fox News in their pocket and could get the other media to go along.

If it were real people would show up at these hundreds of events they organize. But they are not showing up at all. In addition, the polls recently have clearly shown that the American public have a bad taste in their mouths about this "tea Party." It is the Dems and Independents that have a bad taste.

[CrazyBob]

15. I totally (mostly) agree

There is no way this so-called Tea Party could sustain itself. I think we both understand the astroturf nature of it. No question about that. I agree.

The dissent of a few wackos is totally inflated 10x by all the things you said.

[midnight]

34. It's as real as the fact that money is pumped into it by the right

wing extremists who get the people in their corporations to hold signs and other dirty work.. Think about the motley crew in Florida that affectionately become known as the Brooks Brothers...

[hifiguy]

35. Bingo

As Rachel Maddow once said "the viability of any given kook in any given election is directly proportionate to the amount of money behind the kook."

[Curmudgeoness]

11. It is a marketing ploy, but it also does have a lot of followers.

I know several people who are wingnuts and have the same views as the "tea party" are spouting. And they vote, and they are constantly calling their reps and writing LTTEs (LsTTE?). They do exist, but I wish you were right.

[titaniumsalute]

12. But it is the SAME people who would be wingnuts anyway

Are you saying these people would be any different than the right-wing Republicans? It is the same group of people now saying the words "tea Party" all the time. Same people, same twisted logic.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. Yes, it is the same people, but they have found a motivation

to yell and scream now. These are the extreme far right-wings. I find it really unfortunate that the whole Rep party is actually moving towards these nuts. But they are.

Their ideas are now being seriously considered, and that was never the case prior to the emergence of "the tea party". They are emboldened now and they feel the power.

[TNLib]

20. and those extreme wingnuts elected representation in Congress

Unfortunately this is democracy in action but the citizenry has become so fucking stupid that they would elect complete psychos to office.

[Curmudgeoness]

22. We need a wingnut left wing movement to get the system back to center.

Although center isn't where I would like to see it, but hell, I think right now it would feel good.

[Urban Prairie]

14. Browsed dozens of Tea Party groups online located throughout MI

None had more than a dozen members or so who had signed up and joined, since some had mistakenly or intentionally registered their names more than once, there were some members who had signed up 6 or more times for the very same group, (whose "creators" had yet to edit their membership roll..lol!!) and there were also about a half dozen, who signed up for and joined many groups, including one woman whose name showed up on every single group's name in the state as a member. Doing that of course artificially inflates their actual teabagger numbers, although I am sure that there are more than a few in my state who consider themselves to be teabaggers, but haven't "officially" joined any group online as yet.

[titaniumsalute]

26. This helps back your point

Here's a Tea Party rally today in full swing...all media and no people.

[Urban Prairie]

29. Its a fraud and a farce being perpetrated upon voters and the public in general

Just like when Republicans make speeches using the word "American" or the plural "Americans" making it appear that the vast majority of US citizens are in agreement with what they claim, while in reality, it represents what most of their ignorant rightwing are led to believe. I resent the fact that they are deliberately ignoring and excluding the opposition, of whom they want to "take their country back" from. Conservatives also are fond of using the word "Americans" or variations of the word in their astroturfed groups and movements, such as "Americans For Prosperity" or "Americans For Tax Reform" or "Americans For Limited Government"...ect...

[Lint Head]

16. Our GOP friends need to be told

their party is doomed if they do not get rid of the tea party faction. After they have damaged the country enough people will demand prosecutions.

[TNLib]

17. There are plenty of Tea party people were I live

It's popularity is regional but they do exist. After default and our economy sinks I imagine tea party will be a bad word. But the GOP will come up with some other crazy scheme to get there whacko base motivated.

[deacon]

18. Boehner is experiencing just how real they are at the moment. n/t

[titaniumsalute]

24. is he feeling the Tea Party member wrath

of is he feeling a few nuts in Congress plus extreme media pressure to tow the Tea party line?

[TNLib]

27. I find it doubtful that he is experience teabagger pressure from his constituents

it's probably the opposite from his constituents. But his problem is the psychos in congress that won't follow him.

[LLStarks]

21. Randi and Thom were all over this today. nt

[better days ahead]

23. That such a tiny group has so much influence reveals how corrupt the system is in the U.S. today

long time lurker, first time poster.

just had to chime in on this topic.

[mod mom]

25. Come on...give them a break. They need an excuse for when they steal elections.

People hear about all the coverage but fail to look at the details:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/27/999633/-Photo-of-todays-DC-rally-shows-Tea-Partys-awesome-grassroots-support-?via=siderecent

[tnlefty]

28. I've been screeching for years that it's the average southern

republican, only louder, on steroids, and the foot soldiers for what elected repukes wouldn't dare do, or wouldn't dare behave.

I'm sorry that it has spread to other states.

[Blue Owl]

30. It's just like an actual studio television set

Looks all real and fancy on screen, but when you look behind the scenes it's just a bunch of flimsy plywood and a few 2x4's holding everything together in some faceless warehouse.

Show me an event where their attendance came ANYWHERE NEAR Obama's inaugeration crowd, the Madison protests crowds, etc.

Those that do hitch their wagon to that bullshit are a small, extreme fringe that represent a very, very small portion of the population.

[titaniumsalute]

31. Beautiful analogy

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Someone should tell my tea party neighbor that. He clearly believes and loves Michele Bachman for

Pres. :crazy:

[midnight]

33. True.... Same thing about ALCIDA.... A manufactured boogy man....

All the while they rob us blind... while we are distracted....