The NYT poll is interesting.
As scottw pointed out, the movement is supposedly for lower taxes yet, 52% of Tea Party supporters regard the income tax they pay as "Fair".
62% of them support Socialized programs and feel "the benefits from government programs such as Social Security and Medicare worth the costs of those programs."
Not to mention 47% of them feel as though their figurehead, Sarah Palin, would *not* be an effective President.
The above is what I'm talking about when I say that the makeup of the party is detrimental to the foundation of the movement.
And then there's always this:
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“I just feel he’s getting away from what America is,” said Kathy Mayhugh, 67, a retired medical transcriber in Jacksonville. “He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”
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