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Originally Posted by Willravel
If you're implying the Tea Party is grassroots, I welcome you to follow their funding all the way back to conservative think tanks and eventually the Koch brothers.
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Here is an example of a grassroots conservative view:
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With the price of gas up 39 cents at the pump in a month and heading higher amid turmoil in much of the Middle East, Americans wonder why the U.S. isn't doing more to exploit its own oil resources.
They favor drilling in territorial waters, 67%-29%, according to a new IBD/TIPP poll. That is up from 61%-30% from last May and 64%-25% when Republicans touted drilling in the 2008 election as oil topped $147 a barrel.
There's also been a solid shift toward drilling in Alaska's Arc tic National Wildlife Refuge, with support at 54%-40%. That's up from 49%-43% last year.
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IBD/TIPP Poll: Americans Back Offshore, ANWR Drilling - Investors.com
On every issue you will see base level support of an issue and you will see trends or patterns. There is a tolerance in the middle and with new information there are shifts at the "grassroots" level that will move the course of political action in this country. For example Democrats were out of touch with the underlying "grass roots" conservative views of the country leading into the 2010 elections. Obama has continued to show he is out of touch and is out of touch on the energy issue. At the "grassroots" level conservative people do not want electric cars and windmills, we want oil. smart politician respond to "grassroots" issues and concerns.
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Or perhaps you're referring to some other grassroots organization on the right with political clout? Please, enlighten me.
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I talk about the general views held by individuals in the country. Only small percentages of people join organizations, very few post on boards or do blogs, very few call talk radio, no one media outlet or personality dominates - mostly we are talking about people who simply try to make the most of their day to day lives.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
ace....more of the same diversionary bullshit.
Huckabee's comments to his political base were not about British colonialism,..he would be an idiot to think his base, or any voters, gives a crap about the subject, being that it is irrelevant to their concerns..... but were to demonize Obama as somehow being influenced by "Un-American" ideals.
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Huckabee insulted Obama, but not in the way you think. Huckabee basically said that Obama is afraid and unwilling to share what he really thinks, that what we get from Obama is the image he wants to project. He threw the Kenyan thing out as a challenge to Obama.
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I dont think ace wants to acknowledge the fact that Palin is paid $1 million by Fox to express her political opinion as opposed to Lady Gaga or Kathy Griffin, who are not and who do not have political ambitions.
Ignorance is bliss.
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Palin is paid by Fox to get viewers.
Lady Gaga gets paid to get viewers.
Kathy Griffin gets paid to get viewers.
When any of the above faulter, they will stop getting paid eventually.
Who is really ignorant?
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Well, Palin, Gaga, and Griffin all have something in common: none of them have ruled out running for president in 2012.
I guess that means they're all potential candidates, and we should follow them in the news with equal consideration.
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Funny. I have not ruled out a run for President either.
I pay attention to Palin because I like her as a person, I like her politics and I like her style. You pay attention because.....? I think the answer is because you fear her for some reason.