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Bachmann plans on traveling to St. Louis this weekend to campaign for Blunt, who has drawn the ire of the conservative Tea Party movement because of his vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the federal bailout of Wall Street firms.
Tea Partiers, who support the anti-tax Purgason, said they were "shocked" that Bachmann would back Blunt, adding "she has been grossly misled if she understands him to be a Missouri Tea Party candidate."
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The Tea Party movement will not support anyone who openly stands with the big spenders in Washington. Whether they are Republican or Democrat doesn't matter. Smaller government, less spending, less national debt, and true representation of the people are the main goals of the tea party movement. It is not truly a party in a political sense.
Personally I feel that the major obstacle to a truly free America are the two political parties that literally consume the people at election time and then ignore them after elections.
Does anyone believe that teabaggers, which is the fringe right wing base of the GOP, actually have a chance in winning over rational voters? It's almost laughable that this lunatic fringe gets the medea's attention on a daily basis. LOL
July 29 2010 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down ReplyWhen PD puts up an article about Michelle or the Tea Party the libs just come on in bunches to attack them. It's just not fair because we have no Coffee Party or One Nation, or whatever the name, to kick around. Like Air America was supposed to compete with Rush Limbaugh the Coffee Party and One Nation was supposed to compete with the Tea Party. Well they lasted about as long as a heat wave at a Global Warming convention in Denmark. It's just not fair.
July 28 2010 at 11:30 PM Report abuse Permalink -3 rate up rate down ReplyThe tea baggers get less and less relevant. Right wingers are going to vote right wing. They aren't winning anyone over but the lunatic fringe that live in bunkers waiting for the next conspiracy.
July 28 2010 at 11:12 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Replyi like lipton thank you.
July 28 2010 at 11:27 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyAs long as you're losing them, we don't have to win them over, and you're losing them big time.
July 29 2010 at 12:23 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyWhat do they call a Tea Partier in Name Only? PINO? TINO? Something else?
July 28 2010 at 10:00 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyYou got it. We say that a Tea Partier in name only is "something else".
July 29 2010 at 12:13 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyIt's starting, the Tea Baggers will eat their own.
July 28 2010 at 7:23 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyThe liberal media keeps falsely insinuating that Bachman heads the Tea Party Movement, wich is a total fabrication. Bachman merely heads the TP Caucus in Congress. She can support whomever she likes in the movement, just as anyone else can.
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