But in fact the Tea Party is increasingly swimming against the tide of public opinion: among most Americans, even before the furor over the debt limit, its brand was becoming toxic. To embrace the Tea Party carries great political risk for Republicans, but perhaps not for the reason you might think.
Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.
Hmm, the "Tea Party" is 'toxic'. Yet the values and positions that the Tea Party embraces (balance budgets, smaller government, reduced meddling, Obamacare Repeal, hell, Obama Repeal) have never been more popular.
Hint to the sophomores at our School Paper of Record: Thomas Lipton will not be on the ballot. This is a spectacular case of wishful thinking by our elites. The Rookie in Chief and his StuCo cronies will be running against people, not a diffuse, ill defined, demonized concept.
I wonder if they're going to stay on Fantasy Island until it implodes next November?
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