Monday, February 8, 2010
POLL: Politically Speaking, Populist Isn’t Popular, But Conservative Is
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Forty percent (40%) of U.S. voters view being described politically as a conservative as a positive description. That’s up eight points from last September and even up three from just after the November 2008 election. Sixteen percent (16%) say conservative is a negative description, and 43% put it somewhere in between negative and positive.
In distant second place in terms of popularity is the political description progressive. Twenty-two percent (22%) now view that as a positive description, but that’s a 10-point drop from September and down 18 points from November 2008. For 35%, progressive is a political negative, and 36% place it somewhere in between.
Eighteen percent (18%) of voters say being called a libertarian is a positive, but 31% view it as a negative description. Nearly half (47%) of voters rate it as somewhere in between.
For 14%, being described as a political liberal is a positive, but 39% see it as a negative and 45% think it’s somewhere in between.
Only eight percent (8%) regard populist as a politically positive description. Thirty-six percent (36%) say it’s a negative description, and 49% put it somewhere in between the two.
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Tea Party Movement Produces New Political Organization
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In a bid to advance the tea party movement from holding rallies to holding office, the leaders of the anti-establishment groups announced a new political organization Friday that they say will "endorse, support and elect" conservatives across the country.
Mark Skoda, chairman of The Memphis TEA Party, made the announcement at a news conference in the middle of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
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'Tea party' leaders unveil national strategy for grass-roots organizing
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NASHVILLE -- Leaders of the grass-roots "tea party" movement, meeting here for their first convention, unveiled Friday afternoon a broad national organizing strategy for the 2010 midterm elections.
The strategy outlines a series of broad principles that local tea parties largely embrace: fiscal conservatism and a strict upholding of the Constitution...
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[PAGE ONE of the usual bazillion pages returned on Google in response to "tea party logos" - ALL examples of independent, grass roots organizations from literally all over the country ... Page ONE of a gazillion - you do the math.]
THE POINT: contrary to what the MSM would have you believe {and are actively promoting by not conveying the depth and breath of this movement}, Tea Party supporters aren't a right-wing minority but precisely the opposite: probably the single most diverse political association in the nation, varied and flexible in all things except one...
That it is the Constitution and our strict adherence to its intent when written {including subsequent and future amendments} that is responsible for our past success and best guarantor of same for our children -- it is our rule book which can be changed but not ignored.
Yes there's a smaller-government/less taxes component, as well as other 'issues' statistically likely to right-leaning given that America is a center-right nation. But the critical part of all this isn't what policies result from our messy democracy but that we stay true to how We the People we make those decisions now and in the future and not have them made for us by government.
Power is a net-sum game: every ounce ceded to or taken by the government comes from and is lost by the people - and history teaches us again and again that there is a line crossed after which the people lose the ability to undo what has been done.
The Tea Parties are overwhelmingly comprised of regular working folk who recognize all the above and are intent on stemming our slide away from this nation's founding principles in which they believe, and as such are acting in the grandest tradition of American Patriotism.]
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Sarah Palin Addresses The National Tea Party Convention
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Sarah Palin delivered the keynote speech at Saturday's National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
The former Alaska Governor touched on a number of subjects including how President Barack Obama is doing, the economy, the Christmas Day bomber, and the state of the conservative movement.
As it seems a metaphysical certitude her detractors in the press will tear this speech apart in the coming days, the entire address is embedded below the fold in five parts for your review courtesy our friend The Right Scoop:
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Breitbart to Media at Tea Party Convention: 'It's Not Your Business Model That Sucks...'
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Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart had some harsh words for media members Saturday saying, "It's not your business model that sucks, it's you that sucks."
Addressing the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Breitbart accused the press of
"contempt for the American people."
"In order to create the perception that the minority is the majority and the majority is not just the minority, but a bad, racist, homophobic, all those buzzwords that they learned in the freshman orientation class at Wesleyan, are used as weapons to try to destroy you and intimidate you to not speak up and to speak your mind,"
said Breitbart to an enthusiastic crowd.
"And your days of doing this are over"
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MSNBC: Tea Party Conventioneers Are Racists In White Hoods
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Rachel Maddow on Friday referred to attendees of the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, as white-hooded racists.
Continuing MSNBC's sad tradition, Maddow first attacked one of the convention's speakers:
"The opening speech last night was given by failed presidential candidate, ex-congressman and professional anti-[illegal]-immigrant, Tom Tancredo who started the event off with a bang, a big loud racist bang."
From there, she went after the audience (video embedded below the fold with transcript):
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MSNBC Ad: Tea Party Protesters Who Are ‘Threatened’ by Black President
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An ad for a new Chris Matthews special featured the MSNBC host complaining about tea party protesters:
"For the first time, we have an African American head of state. But, there’s always going to be people who challenge it, who are threatened by it."
[The message: disagree with Obama and you're a racist.
Also note that this was an MSNBC ad - bad enough this Matthews idiot is on their payroll, but they evidently think his rants a selling point? Some 'target audience' they got going there...]
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Sarah Palin 'As Big a Celebrity as Princess Di'
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It seems rather serendipitous that the New York Times would publish an amazingly flattering article about Sarah Palin on the same day the East Coast got walloped by a massive snowstorm.
But to see the Gray Lady quote an Alaska editor saying the former governor is "as big a celebrity as Princess Di” gives one the feeling hell really hath frozen over.
Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in tightly, for Mark Leibovich's "Palin, Visible and Vocal, Is Positioned for Variety of Roles" is by no means what conservatives have grown to expect from the Palin-hating media:
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AP Bashes Sarah 'Short On Ideas' Palin With Horrible Photo
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It was a metaphysical certitude the liberal media would bash Sarah Palin's marvelous keynote speech to the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Saturday, but what the Associated Press did is inexcusable.
First, it attached to its Sunday piece a tremendously unflattering photo of the former Alaska governor. [yes, that one >> ]
Then, it ripped her with the very first sentence (emphasis added, h/t NB reader Joe De Angelis):
"Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea party" activists..."
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Sunday's best: Obama & Palin
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First, Obama on:
His overall approach:
Everything we've done over the past year has been not only to right our economy, to break the back of this recession, but also to restore some of the security middle-class families have felt slipping away for over a decade now.
The Republicans:
Some of the steps we took were done without the help of the other party, which made a political decision all too often to jump in the backseat, let us do the driving and then critique whether we were taking the right turns.
On Washington:
Folks are out there working hard every day, trying to meet their responsibilities. But all around them during this last, "lost" decade, what they've seen is a wave of irresponsibility from Wall Street to Washington -- they see a capital city where every day is treated like Election Day, and every act, every comment, every gesture passes through a political filter. They've seen the out sized influence of lobbyists and special interests, who too often hijack the agenda by leveraging campaign money and connections.
On reports that he's prepared to accept defeat on health care:
So just in case there's any confusion out there, let me be clear. I am not going to walk away from health insurance reform.
On national security:
We have begun to leave Iraq to its own people. We've charted a new way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and made good progress in taking the fight to al Qaeda across the globe.
And here's Palin (from her Nashville appearance)
on:
The Obama agenda:
By deceiving the public as to his real agenda, ignoring virtually all his campaign promises, dealing with his cronies and contributors behind closed doors while rewarding their loyalty, and by his profligate spending, President Obama has done more to destroy faith in the future of the United States than any of his predecessors.
Instead of the cynical cereal-box slogan of "Hope and Change," we must promote and understand the indispensable need for "trust and confidence."
The Tea Party movement:
This is about the people, and it's bigger than any one king or queen of a tea party, and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.
On national security:
Treating this like a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risk because that's not how radical Islamic extremists are looking at this. They know we're at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Her own future:
My plan is quite simple. To support those who support the foundation of our country when it comes to the economy. It is free market principles that reward hard work and personal responsibility.
On Obama and recent Democratic election losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey:
When you're 0-3 you'd better stop lecturing and start listening.
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CNN: Tea Partiers are 'Recession-Raging Conservatives'
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In the first in a series titled “Welcome to the Tea Party” Acosta followed his network’s model of focusing on the negative depictions of President Obama at tea party gatherings and painting the protests in a negative light...
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Liberal Hate Speech
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Normally, according to the media elites' rulebook, when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives rant, it is hate speech.
On "Late Night with David Letterman," Sam Donaldson said,
"I think he's [Reagan] going to have to pass three tests. The first is, will he get there, stand in front of the podium, and not drool"
After the audience showed its disapproval, Donaldson responded, "Wait a minute, I don't mean that disrespectfully."
Letterman replied, "Well, I think we all took that as flattery, Sam, we did."
When Whoopi Goldberg drew a distinction between "rape" and "rape-rape," she possible provided an 'explanation' for liberal "rants." They are not "hate-hate" -- simply "hate"...
When Sarah Palin made Rahm Emanuel's expletive-enhanced use of the word "retarded" an embarrassment for him and the president, she forced the left to live up to its own P.C. standards...
Saul Alinsky would be proud.
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'Red Eye' Rips David Shuster Over Fox 'Most Trusted News' Poll
Greg Gutfeld and the gang from "Red Eye" tore David Shuster apart Saturday morning as they imagined how the MSNBCer must have reacted to Tuesday's PPP poll declaring Fox the most trusted name in news.
After discussing some of the numbers, Gutfeld said he felt sad for the other networks,
"especially for the folks at MSNBC like David Shuster." ... "I wonder how he took the news,"
Gutfeld said as the screen morphed into Robot Theater with "Meanwhile At MSNBC..." boldly displayed (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):
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