Question for "libertarian" Tea Party supporters

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollPrint.aspx?g=610b53d5-5fd1-4039-b4c7-4ae7aad0efdd&d=0

If the Tea Party is oh so for freedom, then why do those with a favorable opinion of them oppose legalizing marijuana 59-35, while those with an unfavorable opinion support it 65-25?

[Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey]

You know, it's not like you have to back 100% of positions backed by tea partiers to support the tea party movement (or for that matter, any political party or movement).

[SvenssonRS]

Question for "progressive" Democratic Party supporters: why are all the politicians you like no better than George Bush, if not somehow worse?

Also, Red, marijuana is not the most important issue. Don't know if your tiny brain can comprehend that, but it isn't. The important issues are the economy and government intrusion into every other aspect of our lives. Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party. Know who hasn't? Every last one of you people's politicians, save for Kucinich, Feingold, and Sanders. Other than them, every last one supports both. Every. Last. One. But then again, I suppose you don't give the remotest damn. It's all about marijuana. And opebo.

[tpfkaw]

Because that 35% of tea partiers are libertarians, while that 65% of people who dislike tea partiers are not.

[sparkey]

That's a depressing statistic, but not a surprising one. The Tea Party is obviously an alliance of fiscal conservatives. It's mostly conservatives but yes, also includes libertarians and fiscally conservative independents. I think most libertarians are happy with the Tea Party because it is a force to refocus the Republicans toward the things about which libertarians agree with them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Question for "progressive" Democratic Party supporters: why are all the politicians you like no better than George Bush, if not somehow worse?

Also, Red, marijuana is not the most important issue. Don't know if your tiny brain can comprehend that, but it isn't. The important issues are the economy and government intrusion into every other aspect of our lives. Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party. Know who hasn't? Every last one of you people's politicians, save for Kucinich, Feingold, and Sanders. Other than them, every last one supports both. Every. Last. One. But then again, I suppose you don't give the remotest damn. It's all about marijuana. And opebo.

Every last one? Really?

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml

There's 62 Democrats voting nay. Oh and here's the vote on the reauthorization!

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll414.xml

Wow almost 75% of Democrats voting no. And only 14 out of over 200 Republicans doing so.

BTW a majority of House Democrats voted against the Iraq War: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml

And not a majority of Democrats in the Senate, but far more than just Lincoln Chaffee: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

No the Democrats really have done enough to oppose the PATRIOT Act and Iraq War, that is true. But acting as if any Republicans are going to save us from them is downright comical.

[Associate Justice PiT]

That's a depressing statistic, but not a surprising one. The Tea Party is obviously an alliance of fiscal conservatives. It's mostly conservatives but yes, also includes libertarians and fiscally conservative independents. I think most libertarians are happy with the Tea Party because it is a force to refocus the Republicans toward the things about which libertarians agree with them.

     Which would suggest that the Republicans were ever focused on things that they agree with libertarians on, which is rather unlikely.

[sparkey]

     Which would suggest that the Republicans were ever focused on things that they agree with libertarians on, which is rather unlikely.

Well, I didn't mean "refocus" as in, to focus again, I meant it as in, to change focus. You're right that the Republicans are not historically libertarian in focus.

[Phony Moderate]

The majority of them have no problem with the nanny state when it suits their own needs.

[Sewer]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

[Phony Moderate]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

Especially as Michele Bachmann heads the Tea Party Caucus.

[dead0man]

There are still libertarians affiliated with the Tea Party people?

[Earth]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

I wonder where Tea Party members were when the war first started, and the Patriot Act was unveiled. Oh yeah, nowhere.

I can't expect people that eat up populist, reactionary nonsense to be on top of political issues. 

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

I wonder where Tea Party members were when the war first started, and the Patriot Act was unveiled. Oh yeah, nowhere.

I can't expect people that eat up populist, reactionary nonsense to be on top of political issues. 

That's because after 9/11 people all blindly followed the government. The teabaggers are finally catching on to the negative things Bush (and to a lesser extent Obama) did to America.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

The tea party was founded in late 2007 in opposition to war, the PATRIOT Act, and the "war on drugs".

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

The tea party was founded in early 2009 in opposition Barack Obama.

F to the I to the X-E-D!

[Mint]

Know who's been mostly against war and the PATRIOT Act? The Tea Party.

lol

The tea party was founded in late 2007 in opposition to war, the PATRIOT Act, and the "war on drugs".

Nobody cares now that Dick Armey's hijacked it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's funny considering how much Mint used to love the Tea Party and constantly defended it whenever me and the other Democrats were trashing it and calling them the racist Birther idiots they are.