America's view on Sarah Palin and the Tea party

I think a few misconceptions need to be cleared up. First let me draw a disinction between the tea party movement and the Tea Party. the tea party movement is a collection of grass roots groups, largely liberty oriented, advocating constitutional government. Despite misinformation to the contrary,it is not new or recent...it actually began under the banner of various liberty groups like ROn Pauls Campaign for liberty...the End the Fed movement, the NH Liberty Alience (and other state Liberty Alience groups) and such. Then we have the Tea Party...which is a bunch of individual establishment Republicans and Republican PACS who are trying to (successfully in some cases) hijack the tea party movement. They see the tea party movement as a threat to their party. They have become just as statist a party as the Democrats are. Sarah Palin is not real tea party material by any stretch of the imagination. She is pretty much just another establishment Republican ho does not represent the views of the majority of the tea party groups and people. The Republican party has already hitched it's wagon to her. but, what saddens me is that she and the republican pary have convinced some of the grass roots groups that she and the Republican party are represenative of the tea party movement's views. The Libertarian party really missed a grand oportunity. They could easliy have used the tea party movement as a vehicle to propel their party in to the main stream and actually gain seats in congress as well as a real shot at the white house in 2012. This is the party that probably more acuratly represents the views of many in the tea party movement.

I think the GOP is more than happy to use Palin to try to bring as many of the independent tea party groups under their wing as they can but once she actually becomes a candidate, instead of playing the coy game she's been playing, I expect that they'll distance themself from her. She is still as extreme as she has always been and someone like that does not win elections. The problem with the far right is that they want to dictate how others should live their lives. Free thinking people, which is what makes up the majority of Americans, will not support this.

I saw that poll too and I also heard there is one that shows Palin's negatives in Alaska are in the mid-fifties. We keep hearing how influential she is but the truth is she's only influential to the far right which isn't the mainstream of America. She and Jim DeMint of SC have gotten a great deal of the credit for the nomination of quite a few tea party candidates instead of establishment Republicans but I certainly don't think the majority of the American people outside of South Carolina share DeMint's demented views. Annie

yeah the Tea party is really just alot of hype and the media is the ones giving them the hype.

Oh well that poll was done by liberal media so it doesn't matter right? If American voters are looking for a change in the way politics are done then why would they elect "Tea Party" members? I will admit I'm not all that familiar with the Tea Party movement because they seem to stand for just about every thing the Republicans stand for except I haven't heard them touting the "Family Values" yet. I am really surprised that 56% are undecided because after I started researching the people running for office on the "Tea Party" ticket, they seem to be really bottom of the barrel picks.

It's also been proven that the polls really don't mean anything. They are not always independently operated and are polled in certain areas to get the pollster's desired result! who cares anyway? I hate taxes but I love my country!