New poll shows Americans agree Tea Party members are terrorists

Commodore John Kerry and David Astroturf … er … Axelrod tell us that, unlike man-caused-disaster making freedom-fighters of ambiguous religious persuasion, Tea Party types are terrorists.

A recent Rasmussen poll reveals a whopping 29% of Americans agree, while a small group (55%) apparently didn’t hear the question:

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Those Tea Party terrorists scare the hell out of Democrats and the media

Fifty-five percent (55%) of Likely U.S. Voters … say members of the Tea Party are not economic terrorists. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% believe Tea Party members have been terrorists during the budget debates, while another 16% are undecided.

Wait! So by nearly 2-to-1, likely voters DON’T think Tea Party members are terrorists? Strange we didn’t see that in the media….

… 53% of Democrats view Tea Party members as terrorists, 57% of voters not affiliated with either major party disagree, as do 74% of Republicans.

… 60% of those in the Mainstream don’t see members of the Tea Party as economic terrorists. The Political Class is almost evenly divided on the question.

Democrats and the Political Class seem to think along the same lines. What a surprise.

….85% of the Political Class feel the Tea Party has made things worse for the country in terms of the budget debate. Mainstream voters by a 40% to 33% margin tend to think the Tea Party has made things better.

Voters feel more strongly than ever that decreasing government spending is good for the economy and think tax increases of any kind are bad….

Feckless political class types like Kerry and Axelrod are terrified their con game is in jeopardy. Terrorism, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Rasmussen

This post was last modified on August 12, 2011

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  • The Today Show is letting a idiot co-hosted their show SARAH (THE QUITTER) PALIN! What a disgrace

    A member of a anti-American racist group SARAH (THE QUIITER ) PALIN is going to co-hosted The Today Show DISGRACEFUL!!!

    Contract Killers are now a legal Profession because of the Stand Your Ground Law! Republican are working to help Contract Killers

    Child Molester are given a reason to murder their victim because of Stand Your Ground Laws All they have to do is say self defense

    Husband that murder their wives are now able to say self defense because of the Stand Your Ground Law.

    It is now 35 days and Zimmerman has not been charge The law is that Zimmerman must be charge in 175 days OR he goes FREE!

    Zimmerman father and brother are only repeating what Zimmerman told them. THEY NO NOTHING!

    How long must Trayvon Martin family have to wait for justice in AMERICA! Are we just as bad as third world country.

    Republican Governors Stand Your Ground Law is legalizing murder! And going against all American.

    Bill O'Reilly is a pervert that paid off a female instead of going to prison for his crime! Fox News was OK with a pervert working for them

    Bill O'Reilly has the nerve to criticize All Sharpton for calling for justice in the Trayvon Martin case!

    For some reason people get on the Bill O'Reilly show and get scared to put him in his place! A PERVERT CRIMINAL!!!!!!!

    Rush Limbaugh has the nerve to criticize Al Sharpton for calling for justice A DRUG USER is criticizing someone for calling for justice

    Why is it taking this long to arrest a murderer? Zimmerman word can not be the only reason he gets to murder a unarmed child in America!

    If Zimmerman was a black and Trayvon was white Trayvon would be under the prison if not shot by cops

    Paul Ryan is a idiot that is totally full of himself......His budget tax the middle-class and wants senior to die Radical

    • Cheese&Rice, you can't even fake it very well.

      (ps isn't this a cut/paste from huffpo?)

  • Voting any Republican into office is voting against America and Americans! Mitt Romney is against many Americans! He and other Republican want to kick 32 million off healthcare and kill the Healthcare plan. Romney and other Republicans embrace Stand Your Ground Law” That enable American to shoot unarmed children adults and just claim self defense if no one is around. With the signing of Stand Your Ground Law” Republican politician made “Contract Killer a legal profession! Many Republican are working on the same hatred of America and the President as oversea terrorist! The head of the Republican Party Rush Limbaugh stated that he wanted the country and the President to fail! Not one Republican denounce Limbaugh anti-American comments!

    Santorum has attack gays blacks children and parent that want their children to go to college. He called women that take contraception immoral! Santorum has called the President stupid a snob a coward weak a socialist and many many more name! Gingrich attack poor children stating that all poor children will grow up to be pimps and prostitute. Ron Paul sign a racist news letter for 10 years...That told how to murder a black male and get away with it!

    All these Republican candidates have a agenda of hate and divide the country and LIE LIE LIE!

  • CLASS WARFARE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TWISTING THE TRUTH

    The Republican Party is twisting the truth about class warfare! The claims by the Republican Tea Party that President Obama is promoting class warfare is down right WRONG! For the last 30 years the income of the 1% has gone up 275% while the 99% income has gone nowhere! Many American are working poor. Some Americans are a paycheck and a month from being homeless! Minorities especially black American are hit the worse in a America of inequality! This has been going on from the beginning establish well before anyone living American today! The lie that President Obama is against corporation is ridiculous! This is the President that save the automobile industry and with the stimulus package saved allot of banks from going under.

    Corporation should be behind President Obama in big numbers. Given the fact that under President Obama CEO's paychecks have been the larges in the history of America! Especially GM facing laid off and shut down. President Obama's stimulus brought the corporation back and today it's number one in the country! Corporate America is doing very well under President Obama deregulation and ALL! The healthcare industry will grow by 91% because of the healthcare bill! The Republicans that are against the healthcare plan are against it only because President Obama got it past! Seven decades of Presidents tried and fail to do what President Obama did! It's funny when G.W. Bush past a prescription plan for senior citizen and didn't pay for it nobody called Bush a socialist! When G.W. Bush sent American to Iraq for NOTHING there were no Tea Party form. They didn't care that American were fighting and dying for NOTHING!

    Class conflict is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests between people of different classes. Class conflict can take many different forms: direct violence, such as wars fought for resources and cheap labor; indirect violence, such as deaths from poverty, starvation or unsafe working conditions; coercion, such as the threat of losing a job or pulling an important investment; or ideology, either intentionally (as with books and articles promoting anti-capitalism) or unintentionally (as with the promotion of consumerism through advertising). The conflict can be open, as with a lockout aimed at destroying a labor union, or hidden, as with an informal slowdown in production protesting low wages or unfair labor practices.

    President Obama is in no way promoting class warfare! Class Warfare has been a part of America from America's beginning! The establish “HAVES” and the establish “HAVE NOTS” was and is the very foundation of America! The majority has always help the majority stay ahead of the minority! By any means necessary! Unfair Uneven discriminatory behavior has always been a part of America! Hatred and dividing the country also has been the American way from the start! Republican are the party that called candidate Obama a socialist Hitler...and not American.....THAT NOT CLASS WARFARE THAT IS LOW CLASS!!

    • Every time you post all we hear is blah blah blah blah.....You know there's all kinds of topics on this site, but you got some kind of butt fetish with this one, and you post when you save your quarters to go to the library once a week....And cutting and pasting is so unintelligent....all you are is a pasty poster...See you next week when you save up your next batch of quarters......blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.....

  • QUESTION REPUBLICAN DON'T GET ASKED

    Gingrich is arrogant and purely nasty and a big fat liar

    Romney is out of touch with the country ...he just don't under stand people that make less then him

    Gingrich thinks he smarter then everybody TOTAL ARROGANT!

    Gingrich surge in number because he yell at a moderator.....That makes Gingrich supporters seriously STUPID!

    How do white Republican think...they rather have a arrogant racist terminated Speaker of the House ,,that to date ….all that worked with Gingrich don't support HIM!

    Gingrich calls for war but when the country asked him he apply for deferments 6 times! This is what white Republican wants for the country!

    Gingrich like all Republican candidates know their base love to blame and attack non-whites! That why each have made racist comments ...Ron Paul sign racist news letters....Hate and divide works for Republicans! Rick Santorum hates every body and will go to war with two to three country immediately if he becomes President Total racist NUT!

    Gingrich as Speaker got welfare reform past....SO WHAT! It's the easiest to attack the poor....Republican agenda is create poverty then attack the impoverish!

    Republican create poor then criticize the poor for being poor. Create the need for more American need for food stamps . Then criticize American on food stamps!

    Republican G.W. Bush was losing 750,000 a month JOBS …..President Obama stop that! And not JOBS are coming back

    Brain Williams didn't asked Santorum why he said he didn't want to give black people other people's money...Then lie and say he said Blah

    2010 the Republican retook the house and the country stop working.....Total the FACT! President Obama CAN NOT BE BLAME FOR THE COUNTRY NOT WORKING

    Republican voter should not be allowed to vote ...Given the fact they elect the worse President in America's history G.W. Bush

    Republican question why nobody on Wall Street not prosecute …..BECAUSE REPUBLICAN MADE IT LEGAL

    Deregulation under Republican G.W. Bush create the mess America is in! Bush sold the American citizen out! Just like Romney would DO!

    Gingrich was back to being arrogant and evasive in the debates.....just LIE LIE LIE!

    Ron Paul looked like a very old weak ridicules sounding politician.....PLEASE DROP OUT!!!

    Rand Paul thinks like his father THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW! Too extreme too racist! He needs to lose his seat!

    Who are the idiot voter for these Republican candidates AND WHY WHY WHY! They are damaging the country!

    Romney is a liar! He said not to do NOTHING to help people losing their homes! Let rich people buy them up....Now he said help them.....LIE LIE LIE!

    The so call moral value Santorum marry a woman that may had a abortion and was not marry to her 20 year older lover!

    Rick Santorum wife not all that morally better then everybody.....Nor is Santorum.....even those he hates on a level like the 1900

    Santorum Hate gays hate UN-marry minorities blacks......many counties ready to start a war and return to Iraq ones he becomes President!

    Gingrich and Santorum hated each other while working in Congress together.....Nobody liked Gingrich because of his arrogant racist disrespectful view

    The Republican agenda is hate and divide the country....their supporter are for the same and WAR WAR WAR

    Watch the way the media and the Republicans LIE! The Republican and the liberal media call President Obama Healthcare plan Obamacare! THERE IS NOT SUCH THING! Republican like Newt Gingrich LIE about the liberal media favoring President Obama …...BIGGEST LIE! The first black President has gotten no breaks from the liberal or right wing media! They demonize Senator Obama's Pastor said Senator Obama associate with terrorist TOTAL LIE! The liberal media has been just as bad as the right wing media toward President Obama! The media lies about the stimulus package and about the accomplishment of President Obama

    Sarah Palin the quitter criticize the bully Chris Christie for criticizing the racist arrogant Newt Gingrich! ALL THREE ARE IDIOT!

    Gingrich took money from Fannie Mae and Romney has stock in Fannie Mae both are hypocrites for criticizing Fannie Mae!

    • In other news, Tyrone doesn't like *any* Republican candidates for president. Oddly enough, that's because he doesn't like Republicans.

      This is because he is in what we call "stupid" -- it's not denial, as he would have to acknowledge certain nasty facts about the political party he loves but hates his guts and does everything possible to keep him down. Since he is unable to even *think* about that, it can't be denial.

    • So, where is the question?

      For once I see you didn't copy and paste, because the grammer is so atrocious that no self respecting blogger would post it!

  • I'M A AMERICAN NOT A LIAR AND WILL NOT SAY THAT AMERICA IS THE GREATEST

    There are very good moral principals that are written into the “Constitution”. There are bills that were past like the “Civil Right Bill” that is very good on paper! There are “welfare program” in place for Americans that fall on hard times. There is now a “Healthcare Plan” that 32 uninsured American now have a opportunity to receive because of President Obama. There is a military that is strong and able to protect America. This is the “problem”! When Republican Tea Party lays claim to American exceptionalism! That is when Christian should part from the lie of American Exceptionlism! American exceptionalism refers to the theory that the United States is qualitatively different from other countries. In this view, America's exceptionalism stems from its emergence from a revolution, becoming "the first new nation," and developing a uniquely American ideology, based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire.

    This observation can be traced to Alexis de Tocqueville, the first writer to describe the United States as "exceptional" in 1831 and 1840. Historian Gordon Wood has argued, "Our beliefs in liberty, equality, constitutionalism, and the well-being of ordinary people came out of the Revolutionary era. So too did our idea that we Americans are a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty and democracy! This belief of American exceptionlism is a insult to minority and to the past and present history of America! Lets take American “Constitution” it was written while men and women were enslave and being beating and murder and treated less then human! Did that evil make America exceptional to other country? Fast forward to the days of “Jim Crow” did that evil make America exceptional to other country?

    The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed American college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The America guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance! Did this make America exceptional to other country!
    The Waco siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 50 days later on April 19. The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located 9 miles (14 km) east-northeast of Waco, Texas. On February 28, shortly after the attempt to the warrant, an intense gun battle erupted, lasting nearly 2 hours. In this armed exchange, four agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. Upon the ATF's failure to execute the search warrant, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The siege ended 50 days later when a second assault on the compound was made and a fire destroyed the compound. 76 people many just a day old (24 of them British nationals) died in the fire, including more than 20 children, two pregnant women, and the sect leader David Koresh. Did this make America exceptional to other country!
    Bottom line “we” American have a record a past of American on American violent and pure hatred! So far the “Constitution” nor the :Civil Right Bill' has been able to STOP the evil! There is know American exceptionalism! There is the gift of the earth from GOD to all mankind! Man all over the earth has disrespect the gift. American have done horrible things to Americans in America!

  • MILITARY DEFERMENT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP AND PRESIDENT WANTOBE

    Just about all the go to war Republican candidates fight don't talk”””go go go to war Republican candidates. Most have request military deferment or just never even thought about going into the service! Dick Cheney got something like 5 deferment. Newt Gingrich 10 deferments and yet both talk war war war! Then it's Mitt Romney the so-call front Republican this month. He got a deferment and he also has 5 healthy sons NONE OF THEM SERVE! The Republicans that did go into the service. Serve in non-combat postion. Former President G.W. Bush military service was so obvious a father plan to position his son for political future. Donald Trump got a medical deferment from the military draft.”

    When asked about his reason for not serving Trump stated".”Well, I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number,” Trump replied. “I was sitting at college, watching. I was going to the Wharton School of Finance. And I was watching as they did the draft numbers and I got a very, very high number and those numbers [they] never got up to.” Trump is like many white rich men of the past deferment deferment deferment! Unlike black American that serve in the military during the most racial hatred of times. My father serve in the Korean War and told story of being shot at by white men serving next to him. He told story of coward white men shooting themselves to get out of war and still got rewards and promotion.

    The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent, a proportion that subsequently declined. Volunteers and draftees included many frustrated blacks whose impatience with the war and the delays in racial progress in America led to race riots on a number of ships and military bases, beginning in 1968, and the services' response in creating interracial councils and racial sensitivity . . . .
    The participation of Americans of African descent in the U.S. military has a long and distinguished history. But although African Americans have participated in all American wars, they have sometimes faced almost as bitter a hostility from their fellow Americans as from the enemy. Nevertheless, particularly since the 1970s, the U.S. military has made a serious effort at racial integration, and while much remains to be done, the military has achieved a of success in this area that surpasses most civilian institutions. Now the Republican candidates will never state those facts about blacks in the military. Rather they want to talk about blacks and welfare food stamp and black....When the know both have always been dominate by white people! More whites receive both welfare and food stamps then any other race of Americans!

  • THE COUNTRY HAS NEVER BEEN RECEIVE IN WORSE CONDITION

    First it was the attack by terrorist on 9/11 under Republican President G.W. Bush ...the Republican administration response was to start a war in Iraq . That had nothing to do with 9/11.....Bush help Bin Laden family get out of America for their safety....Then the Republicans attack Afghanistan ...Both wars the Bush administration forgot to purchase armor for the troops! The Bush administration ran up the debt after receiving a surplus …...Then a prescription plan for senior citizen....NOTHING PAID FOR!!! Bush left office facing a recession ...never catching Bin Laden nor did the Bush administration look for him.

    Then President Obama become President and pays the trillion dollar bills left by the Bush administration. Gets the stimulus package of $789 billion dollars past and stop the recession saves the auto industry. Saves over a million teacher firefighter and police officers jobs. Gives 90% of Americans a tax break.,,,,,,,,Even after all the Obama's administration has done ....The right wing Republican Tea Party join the oversea terrorist. To attack the President of the United States and the country!

    Republican Tea Party lying rhetoric has blame the Obama administration for everything the Bush administration did to the country. Anything negative from day one of President Obama Presidency right winger have tried to associate with President Obama. The Republican Tea Party demonize the stimulus package lying that it did nothing! Demonize the healthcare plan that gave 32 million American the opportunity to receive healthcare! If President Obama travel as President to another state or country. The right winger complain that he is using too much fuel ! If he goes on vacation it to long and at the wrong time and claims are made that the President is doing nothing!

    Fox News has a agenda of hate and divide and attack and blame President Obama for anything and everything wrong in America! Fox News is the worse of the worse when it come to fair and balance! The truth is President inherit worse then any other President before him. NOT ANOTHER PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM RECEIVE THE COUNTRY IN WORSE CONDITION!

  • HOW IS MITT ROMNEY IN THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT WITH HIS HORRIBLE RECORD AS GOVERNOR

    It is unbelievable that Mitt Romney is even in the race for President. Given his horrible record as Governor. Governor Romney rank 47 out of 50 in job creation as Governor of Boston Mass. At a time when the country is looking to create more jobs Romney has a proven record of failure in job creation! Then it's his religion (Mormon) a religion that teaches racism and discrimination Romney sat in a racist church over 45 years! His religion also believe in magic underwear that Romney's religion believe gives him special powers! The media keeps telling the public how great Romney is doing in these Republican Debates.....NOT IN MY OPINION!

    Romney is a flip flopper! He has been for and against just about everything!Around the mid-point of Romney’s term as Governor, according to Massachusetts political experts, Romney realized he might not win re-election and began to focus on raising his national profile in preparation for a presidential run. While Romney had run to the center in liberal Massachusetts, he would need to tack right to win a national Republican primary. That meant two things: traveling the country to crack jokes for conservative audiences at Massachusetts’ expense, and flip-flopping to take conservative stances on hot-button issues from abortion to climate change. That, in turn, led to policy decisions on the environment and that may have damaged the Bay State’s economy.

    “In the last few years of his term Romney was out of the state more than he was in the state,” says Bayles. “When he was running for president, the last two years of his governorship, part of his campaign rhetoric was to dump on Massachusetts. He made a conscious decision not to run for governor again and he left office with fairly lousy approval numbers.” Romney was traveling out of state for part or all of more than 200 days in his last year in office, and jokes about liberal Massachusetts were part of his stand-up routine on the stump. This was precisely the opposite of what Romney promised to do when running for office. At that time he said he would use his business experience and salesmanship to talk Massachusetts up to investors from around the country.

    Bottom line either the Republican voters are brain dead or just plain stupid! Or they care more about Republican hate and divide and negative commitment to attacking President Obama. There is no way they care about the country if they support a proven failure like Mitt Romney! Or a New Gingrich who lies just as much as Romney. Gingrich criticize Fannie Mae telling the public how horrible the institution is. Then turn around and takes $300,000 from Fannie Mae! Then it's the totally idiot Herman Cain this nut doesn't know half of what he talks about! Yet there are still idiot Republicans that support this IDIOT! Republican voters are either very stupid or THEY JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT AMERICA AND AMERICANS!!!!!

    • Well, Tyrone, no shit. I'm no fan of Mitt, and can't figure out how come he has *any* support. However, the media loves him, because he's as acceptable to them as Barry. Therefore, given that Barry will lose the election, he's the one the lib media has picked to replace your dear leader. Seems they really don't love Barry so much after all. You should treat him with more respect, magic underwear and all.

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