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AKBastard | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 12:19 |
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Level: 5 CS Original | Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid has a message for Tea Party activists who have upended the political landscape in the past two years: Don't quit your day job. The Nevada Democrat, who prevailed last November in a tough re-election race against Tea Party-backed candidate Sharron Angle, isn't convinced that the movement will be a lasting political force. "The Tea Party will disappear when the economy gets better and the economy's getting better all the time," Reid said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that aired Sunday. "And I wouldn't -- I don't think the Tea Party had the vigor and support that people thought it would. You know, a couple of them won, but most of them lost," he said. Reid says the Tea Party movement emerged because of the country's economic problems, which he described as the worst since the Great Depression. But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested that Reid may be kidding himself. "As someone who came from the Tea Party, I can tell you that the Tea Party is a staying force. It's a force that is critical of both Republicans and Democrats, and wants them to do something about the deficit," Paul told "Fox News Sunday." | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 14:14 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | The Tea Party will go the same way that the Ross Perot mobs did: into obscurity. | |||||
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AKBastard | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 14:21 |
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Level: 5 CS Original | But..but...but...Rand Paul said it wouldn't! | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 14:24 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | Rand Paul is also insane. Think about it: How many people today talk about Ross Perot? How many people talk about Ralph Nader? Pretty much nobody. I don't even know if Ross Perot is still alive or if he's dead. | |||||
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AKBastard | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 14:58 |
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Level: 5 CS Original | So in other words it's just another fly-by-night political fad? Interesting. | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 15:02 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | Third Parties are only successful with a charismatic personality to rally behind. The Teabaggers have no such personality. The Green Party have no such personality any more. This is why they are failures. | |||||
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scitops | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 17:35 |
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Level: 4 CS Original | "The Teabaggers have no such personality" | |||||
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Kaiser Falkner | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 17:37 |
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HAIL HYDRA Level: 6 CS Original | No, she's not charismatic. Or smart. Or competent. | |||||
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