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The Tea Partiers had a good ol time bashing Obama and the Democrats over the weekend. Queen Sarah was at her snarky best, mockingly asking our President’s supporters 'How's that Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out for Ya?' To be fair, everyone also bashed the Republicans for not being conservative enough.
The Tea party folk said they were against government, taxes, the deficit, health care reform, and just about everything else, but they weren’t too specific about what they were for. About the only things I gathered they were for is tax cuts, revolution, and more freedom. Great platform! Everyone should vote for that.
The problem is that it is easy to criticize but a lot harder to actually do the job. Palin makes a pretty good looking arm chair quarterback, but how fast can she run with shoulder pads on? If she keeps campaigning for the next two years she will learn her lines and she won’t have to look at the notes in the palm of her hand when she talks about what her core values are.
But if Palin does win the primary in 2012 it will be in a Republican Party that has been reformed so it is a lot more radical than it is now. Let’s see what that would look like.
The Research 2000 pollsters asked 2000 self described Republicans what they believed in. See: http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2010/1/31/US/437
This is what the poll found: 63% of Republicans believe Obama is a socialist, 42% believe he was not born in this country, 53% think Sarah Palin would make a better president, 31% think that Obama is a white hating racist and 39% think he should be impeached.
23% of Republicans believe their state should secede from the union, 51% think sex education should not be taught in school, but 77% think the book of Genesis should be used in science class to explain the creation of the world. 34% think that birth control pills are murder and therefore 31% think contraceptives should be outlawed, and 76% think abortion is murder. 67% think that the only way to get into heaven is to be a Christian.
These beliefs are pretty radical but the Tea Partiers think these guys are way too liberal. Maybe they can find today’s equivalent of Attila the Hun as a running mate for Sarah. Cheney might still be around!
Will the American people still believe that Obama is a socialist after seeing him for the hundredth time renouncing anything even remotely close to leftist policies, thereby showing his true pragmatic centrist colors? What happens after his policies have caused the economy to improve as it already is now? What happens if Congress finally passes a health care bill that people actually like, a jobs bill that actually helps, and an energy bill that creates millions of green jobs? How will Sarah’s folksy simplicity work for her then?