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Don't knock Bachmann, most Democrats will support her nomination as well as some repubs.  There is no question she will absolutely insure Obama's re-election for a second term.    That's why she was embedded in the race.  She has sucked off the public dole for practically her entire career.  First an IRS attorney (sucked  the federal pay and sued taxpayers to get them to pay more), talks conservative yet seeks the power to do what she wants, without telling what she wants, hubby sucks off the taxpayer as well, No, I think she will be a good Tea Toter candidate, except I'm a Republican, not a TEA party member.

Yup just saw it. Don't get hooked up as early these days. Didn't read the paper until a bit ago. I kinda agree with Republican here, Bachman just seems a bit off and well hey, if you don't know where John Wayne was born over John Wayne Gasey nor other historical facts, and refuse to relent over closing tax loopholes for the richest of us as every bit the entitlements they are too, well it seems to me one might not be the right voice for the party. Just as fair to one as to all.

Anybody but that commie-racist U.S. and Western culture hater we have in there now.

What is probably of as much importance in the straw poll results is the fact that just declared candidate Richard Perry edged out long running Mitt Romney!   This seconds the motion that conservative, main stream, old fashioned citizens are doing what they can to re-take our country from the leftist wacko's and big government hogs that are trying to ruin it now.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61332.html

You can call the majority in the Iowa straw poll "the tea party" if you want, but you would be misleading yourself.  I know of no one registered to vote as a member of the "Tea Party".  These are a diverse mix of citizens (mainly voters) that have agreed to support a movement, not a party.  In fact most of them find things wrong with both Republicans and Democrats.  They are trying to rescue our country from the big government politicos.   They are also trying to get people elected that will get our spending under control and significantly reduce our debt.  They believe in our constitution as the supreme law of the land.  Most believe in traditional values (but not all). The tea party wasn't "created" by a group of Republicans.  It sprang up after a rallying cry voiced on network TV.

"CNBC's Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots  movement. While standing on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on  February 19, 2009, he unleashed what can only be called a rant against the Obama  Administration's proposal to help homeowners facing foreclosure refinance their  mortgages.

"Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages?" he asked. "This is  America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that  has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?" He went on to suggest that he  would organize a Chicago Tea Party in July, where capitalists would dump "some  derivative securities into Lake Michigan." The video of his tirade became a  YouTube hit, and thus the movement was born. Within weeks, Tea Party protests  were sprouting up all over the country. The Tea Party name, a clear reference to  the American colonists' dumping of tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes  imposed by King George, stands as an acronym as well: Taxed Enough Already.

Santelli, however, can't claim credit as the sole mastermind of the movement.  Prior to his appearance in Chicago, Keli Carender, a Seattle at-home mother also  known as Liberty Belle, had been using her blog to get the word out about the  populist "Porkulus Protest" she was organizing against President Barack Obama's  proposed $750 billion stimulus package. About 100 people showed up for her event  in mid-February. Similar events inspired by both Santelli and Carender, followed  in quick succession in Denver; Mesa, Ariz.; Tampa, Fla.; and other cities. Tea  Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on  February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities."

Read more: History of the Tea Party Movement — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html#ixzz1V1ddS0Mi