Most Americans Believe the GOP Needs to Listen to the Tea Party, Poll Finds

not being forced to buy health insurance is simular to a warrenty on a new car.
when both are young, except for a recall or cronic illness, everything is great
then when the transmission fall out after a few miles and the dealer tells you that you dont have a warrenty and it will cost you 3,500 to fix it. only then do
you see the error of your ways. the same with health care when you fall on your
behind and break a hip and the hospital tells you it will cost 80,000 to fix and
no insurance but you expect me to pay for it...wake up you aint superman and you
will get sick and need health care.

it all depends on how any question is asked, of course when you use the word somewhat in any poll question you will get an overwelming response on affirmative. heres my prediction on tea party they will have political sucess until the cuts in government is made as cuts set in you will find fractures in party every body wants government to be cut until it cuts part of government they specifically use or want. here is my prediction if the cuts are attempted this will be the begining of the end of tea party. and it will not be a factor in politics by the 2014 ellections

I did no see the focus of the TEA Party and why it was fighting in Washington DC. TEA Party stands for Taxed Enough Already. Well, President Obama cut tax for low and middle income earners under $250,000. As I looked at TEA Party people, none of those angry women and men earned more than $250,000 a year. Still these morons picketed against President Obama. That lost me completely. Second, President Obama passed health care law forcing insurers to accept people with pre-existing conditions-Sarah's daughter has down-syndrome a pre-existing condition unacceptable with insurers; Obama forced insurers to pay benefits of insureds if they stayed long in hospitals, they lost their jobs and therefore unable to pay premiums and if they had kids in colleges. Still these dummies picketed and actually spat at Black lawmakers. Obama passed laws to combat corruption at WallStreet and in Banks. Still these people howled. I got confused as what TEA Partiers were after. My conclusion was that these people were racists encouraged by FoxNews. However, TEA Partiers succeeded as a racist group. Many people they campaigned for, most whom Republicans, won elections. What has happened after the election?. TEA party leaders want a role in crafting Republican agenda. Some TEA Party leaders have applied for jobs with Republicans they supported. Republicans have distanced themselves. Now there is a war between Republicans and TEA Party leaders. Republicans, led by Cry-Baby Boehner and McConnell, don't want to involve TEA Partiers. You saw that after President Obama State of the Union. Republicans gave their response and TEA Party officials gave her version. There is a war between GOP and TEA Partiers. But I see TEA Partiers have lost everything. I warned them before the elections. I told them to be careful with Republicans. They did not listen to me. Now they are in black-hole-they cannot get out. I have one suggestion for TEA Partiers-Wake up and JOIN TEAMOBAMA. You will be saved.

The constitution lives. The FEDERAL government cannot tell you to buy health insurance, snowblowers, broccoli or other stuff you don't want. If the states want to change health care in their state or the insurance companies that come into their state is one thing for the FEDERAL government to force you to buy anything even TEA is unconstitutional. Freedom lives.

As usual, what should have been the headline and lead paragraph in this story
is instead relegated to the very last sentence. The real headline here is that
71% of those surveyed are either agains the Tea Party or are in neither camp or have no opinion. That number would be even higher if people realized that the
seed money for the tea party came from the reactionary Koch brothers and channeled through front groups like the so-called Americans For Prosperity.
Yet another salient point is what's going to happen when the tea party rank and file, mostly average folks, realize they been duped by the Establishment,
just like the so-called religious right figured out much too late that they had
been exploited by the Bush administration.

As usual, what should have been the headline and lead paragraph in this story
is instead relegated to the very last sentence. The real headline here is that
71% of those surveyed are either agains the Tea Party or are in neither camp or have no opinion. That number would be even higher if people realized that the
seed money for the tea party came from the reactionary Koch brothers and channeled through front groups like the so-called Americans For Prosperity.
Yet another salient point is what's going to happen when the tea party rank and file, mostly average folks, realize they been duped by the Establishment,
just like the so-called religious right figured out much too late that they had
been exploited by the Bush administration.

Yes, If the Republican Party does not give in to or pander to the Tea Party, it may cease to exist. The Republican politicians deemed "Unconstitutional" -reminds me of the term Counter-revolutionary- will be expelled from the party and then we'll have more than two parties controlling our government. If the Tea party finally becomes a majority party, then we'll have no taxes and no government at all! A return to the Wild West, at last. Hurrah!

First off, credit where credit is due. The Tea Party came out of thin air via local GOP voters who felt betrayed by their elected leaders - Democrats and Republicans. I saw a good man who was an unknown state senator here in Massachusetts suddenly with crowds from nowhere enthusiastically supporting him while Tea Party members in my town hall made their presence and opinions well known. The exact opposite of cancerous political apathy. Senator Brown, a good, intelligent man I personally met before Kennedy's death at a Mill Pond Tea Party rally) was easily elected to complete the late Senator Ted Kennedy's US Senate term. A year later they they had grown to a force recognized on the national and local scene as they swept a wave of GOP candidates with conservative views into office in 2010 (Except in Massachusetts where not one statewide or federal position was won by GOP candidates. Zero.) They deserve to be honored for that achievement. With power, however, comes responsibility. As the people of Egypt will quickly learn once they overthrow their president (tyrant?) of 30 years. So where are their plans for job creation, deficit reduction, seeing all Americans have health care, a foreign policy of quick and long term successes, immigration reform, alternative energy and on and on? Quite frankly, they have none except to eliminate every last Democrat and Liberal Independent voter. I sincerely hope the Tea Party GOP can show me answers to all these concerns via pragmatic legislation and be able to get it passed into law with positive outcomes. But till that date, they asked for the chance to be in a position of power after all, I withhold my judgment of them and what their true agenda really is.

Robert Schledwitz

Newburyport, MA

I believe we'd be better served if the LIBERALS listened to the Tea Party!

Love us or hate us, we are a force to be reckoned with. (See Nov. 2) And those in Washington who STILL don't get it? Your next. You know who we are. Our framers called us, "We the People."